Responsible for regulatory approval of small gasoline engines for exhaust and evaporative emissions, and for safety certification of chainsaws.• Prepared and filed all regular reports and running change reports to US EPA and California ARB on small engine families, including quarterly PLT reports and semiannual AB&T reports. Filed annual certification applications. Reported monthly engine sales for Small Volume exemptions and for emission credit tracking.• Analyzed and reported to… Show more Responsible for regulatory approval of small gasoline engines for exhaust and evaporative emissions, and for safety certification of chainsaws.• Prepared and filed all regular reports and running change reports to US EPA and California ARB on small engine families, including quarterly PLT reports and semiannual AB&T reports. Filed annual certification applications. Reported monthly engine sales for Small Volume exemptions and for emission credit tracking.• Analyzed and reported to management the status and trend of emission credit program, a key strategic planning element. Recommended product line revisions to maintain compliance and to maximize use of earned emission credits to Shindaiwa’s benefit.• Initiated and coordinated project for UL Listing for Safety of new chainsaw line.• Represented Shindaiwa at technical and standards committees in the US (ANSI/OPEI, SAE), Canada (CSA) and Europe (Euromot). Show less

Responsible for worldwide regulatory compliance of Cubic products; representing Cubic in standards bodies (APTA, INCITS/ISO); facilitating patent prosecutions and strategization.• Uncovered and corrected numerous regulatory compliance lapses; updated and expanded standards library; added compliance reviews to process flow for new development.• Created approaches for compliance to R&TTE, EMC, LVD, Automotive, RoHS and WEEE Directives for new business in Europe.• Chaired public… Show more Responsible for worldwide regulatory compliance of Cubic products; representing Cubic in standards bodies (APTA, INCITS/ISO); facilitating patent prosecutions and strategization.• Uncovered and corrected numerous regulatory compliance lapses; updated and expanded standards library; added compliance reviews to process flow for new development.• Created approaches for compliance to R&TTE, EMC, LVD, Automotive, RoHS and WEEE Directives for new business in Europe.• Chaired public transit standards group (Smart Card Fare Media Work Group, in the American Public Transit Association's Universal Transit Farecard Standards program); represented Cubic at INCITS meetings (US body for ISO standards on ID cards, e.g., transit cards, credit cards, etc.).• Organized Cubic's patent portfolio; formed/chaired IP Review Committee as venue for making business decisions on IP matters; revived and revised patent awards program.• Identified significant prior art to an issuing patent, and averted a potentially disastrous plan to aggressively enforce this patent that would not have withstood a validity challenge. Show less

Dir of Eng: Compliance, Sustaining and Components Eng and Tech Pool.• Revised European approvals under R&TTE Directive, and before that under EMC Directive.• Maintained stability within my departments with flexible responses to new corporate cultures.Ass't Dir of Eng: Compliance, Sustaining and Components Eng.• Chaired SIA Motion Detector Standards Comm through extensive revisions to become SIA's first American Nat'l Standard; presented with SIA Standards Achievement… Show more Dir of Eng: Compliance, Sustaining and Components Eng and Tech Pool.• Revised European approvals under R&TTE Directive, and before that under EMC Directive.• Maintained stability within my departments with flexible responses to new corporate cultures.Ass't Dir of Eng: Compliance, Sustaining and Components Eng.• Chaired SIA Motion Detector Standards Comm through extensive revisions to become SIA's first American Nat'l Standard; presented with SIA Standards Achievement Award.Dir of Int'l Compliance: Ran team of compliance specialists for global product approvals .• Researched regulatory req'ts for N America, Europe and Australia. Created and executed compliance plans for FCC, UL, IC, AFNOR, IMQ, ANPI, etc. to their standards and to EU Directives.Product Support Mgr: Sustaining, Test Eng, and Doc Control, and reg'ty compliance.• Chaired the CCB, creating reputation for accuracy, completeness and adherence to high documentation standards.• On own initiative, expanded small company network into a company-wide intranet with cabling, HTML classes and web page design.Sustaining Engineer: Addressed field failures and factory yield problems, and product approvals in N America.• Automated field failure data system, reducing report generation time from three weeks to four hours. Learned database program to implement it, and eliminated a full-time clerk position while increasing timeliness of the reports.Production/QA Mgr: US production.• Requested position to better address ongoing production problems that had occupied most of my time as Eng Tech.• Initiated a field failure data system to identify systematic problems in design and manufacturing, enabling corrective actions that decreased field failure rates and increased customer satisfaction.Engineering Tech: Supported Eng and Prod• Refined component selection/sorting and assembly procedures to improve yield and reliability of microwave transceiver assemblies. Show less