Cody Dawson Email & Phone Number

Nedre Vats, No

Leading cross-functional teams to build and develop the latest technologies in the warehouse automation industry.

Nedre Vats, No

Collaborating with clients, partners, executives, developers, suppliers, and other stakeholders to define, lead, and execute projects.Determining and overseeing consistent testing, evaluation, and troubleshooting of products in all stages of completion.Supporting both customer sold execution as well as product roadmap development.

• Conducted feasibility analysis of local municipalities to convert organic waste handling to anaerobic digestion.• Reviewed and evaluated existing operations to determine and execute cost effective renewable initiatives.• Learned, explored, and evaluated new renewable technologies for implementation of organics waste management, reducing overall carbon footprint of waste processing.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Promoted to build and manage a team of design engineers with growth over 125% in less than a year.• Provided mentoring, coaching, career planning, and performance evaluations for 21 designers - 12 direct reports; 5 global matrixed; 2 co-ops; and 2 contractors.• Generated department resource planning, hiring, and onboarding strategy for new engineers.• Created automation tools, templates, and reports for senior leadership.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Led hardware/software new product introductions (NPI) of material handling systems through requirements gathering, planning, prototyping, and product launch with global cross-functional teams.• Oversaw research and development portfolio of $11MM of three con-current complex global programs including deployment to customer sites.International Enablement:• Executed $8.5MM global development effort with 50 cross functional team members to create designs, set-up manufacturers and suppliers, build and validate new ERP instance, and led overall implementation to be sold and execute globally.• Partnered with senior leadership to develop program roadmap for successful new market entry.• Worked collaboratively with existing customers to define market needs and customer uses.Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS):• Led $2.5MM autonomous robotics program of 20 hardware, software, and controls engineers to develop robotics portfolio.• Developed go-forward product offering building the roadmap and scope for next generation offering.• Executed multiple staged releases for ASRS released at 6 commercial customers.• Collaborated with hardware/software product management to ensure concurrent timing of releases.• Regularly provided funding requests, status updates, and program road map to senior leadership.Print-and-Apply System:• Drove a global cross-functional team through three project lifecycles to design and execute customer requirements generating three-year revenue over $75MM.• Worked in tandem with customers and external vendors to create technical requirements.• Responsible to execute product deployment to over 30 customer sites across the globe.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

High School Diploma