Chad Hoffmann Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Responsible for all research, software, biology, hardware, testing, and NPD functions at Carterra. Leading a team of exceptional staff in developing new products used in drug discovery, particularly in the monoclonal antibody therapy area of research.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

As Program Director Chad lead the development of pipeline products for market launch from the research feasibility stage, through development, verification and validation, and productization to manufacturing. These efforts included leading the mechanical, electrical, and firmware/software teams and sundry ancillary resources.

Marcy-L'Étoile, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fr

Recruited and developed first class engineering personnel in the effort of optimizing products by reducing cost and simplifying for mass production, designing for manufacturability, and streamlined product launch. Essentially reducing waste before its realization in manufacturing while creating more robust and reliable products. Improve and codify engineering processes for faster and higher quality development cycles. Creates technology development roadmaps and determines team milestones. Secured and managed capital investments and resource allocation. Lead the adoption of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool for the company. Provide discipline, reviews, goal setting, and processes for the group.

Marcy-L'Étoile, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fr

Product commercialization, strategy, risk management, and leading all engineering aspects of new product research and development. With over 1.2 billion in annual sales and over 2,300 employees, BioFire Diagnostics is the global leader in the rapid identification of infectious disease with symptom-driven testing.Achieved all major metrics for leading the product development of the company’s next-generation molecular diagnostics device, including almost 4x speed increase, ~1/3 cost reduction, and miniaturization of the previous product (>80% reduction in volume). Furthermore, improved modularity for service, testing, and reliability of the device. These efforts include leading the mechanical, electrical, and firmware teams of approximately 25 direct reports and sundry ancillary resources. Reports directly to the chief executive level on a weekly basis.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed and coordinated multi-million dollar developments in communication hardware for various Department of Defense agencies. These projects ranged from customer specific projects to product lines used by various customers. As a project manager and Large Systems Team Lead provided mentorship, both technically and personally; functionally responsible for 9 engineers, involving year-end reviews, compensation, scheduling, project resource allocation, and corrective actions.• Designed and delivered hardware under budget. Aligned project production with accelerated schedule to deliver products ahead of original schedule through the use of Earned Value Management• Conducted formal and informal program management reviews to internal and external customers; assessing requested change impacts to technical details, cost, and schedule• Designed electrical hardware to withstand extreme environments using advanced techniques involving thermal CFD, structural random vibration and shock FEA, and GD&T tolerance analyses• Responsible for full budget planning and cost management for multiple million dollar programs, which involved workforce planning and determining new technical system investment (such as analysis software)• Developed bid and proposal processes for the mechanical engineering department that lands $40+ million per year contracts• Directed product line developments to capture small form factor SATCOM market employing advanced electrical and mechanical techniques to outperform current market offerings; converting R&D efforts to product lines

Arlington, Va, Us

Brought on board to assist in integrating environmental and security systems into Minute Man III missile silos. Drove installation modifications from integrating vendor designs, documenting the system, and ultimately field installment.• Developed basis of estimates (BOE) for acquiring new business and created statements of work for coordinating vendor efforts and integrating the system.• Prepared documentation to account for vendor changes and defined mechanical & environmental requirements of the system.• Troubleshot design and fabrication issues for low rate and full rate production efforts and products.• On-site interface for installation teams implementing the site modifications - essentially a quick response liaison.

Midvale, Utah, Us

Managed all manufacturing aspects of the flagship product that produced 1/3 of the company’s revenue. This included updating the design, testing for regulatory compliance, documenting changes and defending against FDA inspection. Manufacturing improvements required assembly process, shop floor planning, assembler training, and machine modification and qualification.• Designed experiments for product and equipment qualifications that were then used in documenting regulatory compliance. Defense of this compliance was expected in conjunction with annual and surprise corporate audits.• Involved with the product development team in defining product specifications. Conducted vendor selection for upgrading various manufacturing product capital equipment. Trained staff on the use of selected equipment.

Analyzed geographic data for reports and presentations. This data was used for resource allocation decisions at the division level. GIS software tools were used to determine land use and in turn the amount of water those lands were using.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Mbatm, Technology Commercialization

Mechanical Engineering