Technical Project Lead role, developing products from concept through production.• Design for human factors to improve product performance to meet customer needs. Produced rapid prototype haptic grips to resolve all issues to customer satisfaction.• Resolved all maintainability and manufacturability issues to meet customer schedule. Interface with customers, suppliers and manufacturing to understand all aspects of part use, tooling and manufacture.• Established geometric dimensioning to resolve customer and manufacturing issues.

Developed and tested requirements for multiple weapon systems and launch vehicles. Requirements development, management and test execution required extensive customer interaction, project management and negotiation skills.• Integrated with partner divisions for training, requirements development and proposal writing. Wrote 3 winning proposals bringing in new business.• Negotiated and decomposed requirements, developed specifications to flow down into achievable, understandable and producible subsystems.• Evaluated electronics, software, mechanical survivability and guidance systems through testing to successfully shepherd five products to production.

• Medtronic - Project management focused on resolving component and process issues in a product line.• Third Wave Systems - Project management, people management and customer interface focused on resolving process issues.

Created high performance, cross-functional teams and integrated division level project planning to eliminate duplication of effort, balance resource scheduling and divide long term goals over multiple projects. Responsible for technical, cost and schedule performance throughout the product life cycle.• Designed innovative device programmers that met reliability standards exceeding previous products and achieved high customer acceptance. Project manager for a 10-person team with a $500K budget. Led team through a major technical problem at the end of the project that prevented a product stock out and allowed the sales force to continue developing new accounts. Awarded 4 patents for technical achievement that dramatically enhanced customer satisfaction by resolving human factors issues.• Redesigned an implantable drug pump, and streamlined manufacturing process flow. Lead-time reduction 33%, inventory down $750K and scrap reduced 60%.• Led a project with a 7-person $300K project with significant technical problems. Discovered root cause of high voltage test failures and managed the path to technical resolution quickly.ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEHONEYWELL/ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS, INC. - Principal Development EngineerTechnical engineering lead for cross-discipline teams. Responsible for project cost/schedule/performance management. Provided systems integration, detailed product design and tolerance analysis for precision mechanical components and assemblies, human factors design and subcontractor interfaces.GENERAL DYNAMICS, CONVAIR DIVISION - EngineerProvided structural and test analysis, using MSC/NASTRAN FEA.