Compression and Braking Group.

Chassis Steering Group.

Staff Project Engineer, Technical Center, Warren 1997-2009Served as the Global Corporate Interior Product and Process Engineering Center Steering Wheel Manager with responsibility for steering wheel specifications, processes, designs, styling and the product at all vehicle engineering centers worldwide.• Led steering wheel technical support for product engineering, purchasing and design ensuring high quality and on-time delivery.• Designed common components and supported all activities from sourcing through launch in the assembly plant.• Established a family portfolio of steering wheel diameters and number of spokes from luxury to sport, increasing customer satisfaction. • Reduced the global families of steering wheels by 65%.• Evaluated component cost structure of design, materials, manufacturing processes, assembly and shipping ensuring correct pricing.• Developed strategies, processes and timing plans that surpassed ever decreasing vehicle development plan timing requirements.• Taught steering wheel fundamentals to new release engineers in Europe and Korea.• Created best practices which enabled a standard level of knowledge in the steering wheel release community.• Appropriated investment for new families of steering wheels and budgeted these funds over the life of the programs.• Issued statements of requirements to purchasing and the suppliers ensuring the sourcing of all steering wheels worldwide.• Developed new suppliers around the world, which provided high quality product to the US assembly plants.• Contributed to multi-million dollar cost saving processes, in supplier designs and plants.• Benchmarked competitors which kept the strategic plan and knowledge base current.• Achieved Six Sigma Green Belt ( DFSS ) Certification.Michigan Professional Engineer License Number 6201027703

Senior Project Engineer, Detroit and Flint 1979-1997Divisional system engineer responsible for the product development and release of driver airbags, steering wheels, steering columns, seatbelts and shifters.• Selected and served on the newly formed Corporate Interior Product and Process Engineering Center which globalized steering wheel assemblies.• Spearheaded safety process standardization for all driver airbags, steering wheels, steering columns and shifters in North America as the Lead Subject Matter Expert.• Released and launched the first Driver Airbags in the 1990 Cadillac / Buick / Oldsmobile vehicles.• Served as Service Engineer for HVAC and body computers ensuring resolution of field issues, reducing warranty costs.• Managed an Emission Test Facility as the Supervisor for 29 hourly and salary employees on three shifts.

Project Engineer, Detroit 1977-1979Lead emission system development engineer responsible for emission control hardware and software.• Created and implemented the first digital computer to operate engine controls on a production vehicle.• Achieved 1980 Cadillac Eldorado / Seville digital throttle body injection system EPA certification.

CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Troy, MI(formerly Bendix Electronics and Engine Controls System Group)Leading system partner for the automotive industry in the development of innovative technologies for powertrain.Customer Application Group Senior Product Engineer responsible for developing demonstration vehicles incorporating digital computer control of fuel and spark systems.

Chevrolet Engineering Center, Warren, Michigan Experimental Engineer July 74 - April 76Certified the L-13 Vega base package with the EPA, as an Emission Development Engineer.Co-op Student August 69 - July 74Spent time in Drafting, Engineering Build Shops, Engineering Test Laboratory, Detroit Axle Manufacturing Plant, Lordstown Assembly Plant and Milford Proving Grounds.