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Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Full product life-cycle ownership & profitability for CNH's global Large & Compact tractor platformsDevelop, grow and lead a global product development team to sustainably lead the industryIn collaboration with the Brands, define long-term product strategies and execute by launching innovative, customer value creating solutions across tractor, implements &.

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West Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States

Led Aftermarket (Parts and Service) and Integrated Solutions for True North Equipment

Fargo, North Dakota, United States

• Senior Executive leader with full profit & loss responsibility for John Deere Electronic Solutions. Led product development and delivery of electronic solutions for John Deere and OEM customers with direct.
• Led transformation of leadership team’s performance through creating a culture of transparency and increased level of accountability, resulting in higher engagement and operating efficiency that directly impacted.
• Achieved step-function improvement in quality results
• Drove for integration, from being a John Deere “side business” into the core of the company

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

• Product responsibility for John Deere Large Tractors globally. Led team of 10 managers responsible for US, Brazil, Russia engineering of large tractors for global customers. Responsible for both new development and.
• Owned engineering responsibility of largest tractor development program in John Deere’s history
• Led product changes resulting in the product line achieving distinctive product quality results, driving a noticeable improvement in customer experience
• Spearheaded unprecedented collaboration among tractor families through major new organizational structures with goals of better leveraging global resources to drive product commonality and scalability into vehicles and.

Moline, Illinois, United States

• Lead role in developing product strategies for multiple products, especially a joint vehicle/engine strategy for an award-winning new product. Drove collaboration among teams in US, Germany and France.
• Led global teams to develop and deliver an unprecedented investment and new product introduction
• With courage and resilience, challenged the mentality “it can’t be done” and “don’t have enough resources to do that.” Built alignment and trust with my direct team that they can take risks in order to accomplish big.
• Delivered on many new products with limited resources and budget, took courage, exceptional team work and resilience
• Fully engaged in all parts of the business to identify options for increasing profitability

Silvis, Illinois, United States

• Led engine integration for worldwide combines to meet global emission standards. Also led full product development for combines, sugar harvesters and cotton pickers for the Asian markets.
• Directly responsible for engineering teams in the US leading engine integration into worldwide harvesting solutions
• Led India engineering team responsible for product delivery of combines, sugar and cotton pickers
• Pursued big growth opportunities to aid in the mechanization of harvesting for the Asian markets, including a new manufacturing factory in India. Required courage and knowledge of established markets to extrapolate and.

Binhai, Tianjin, China

• Tasked to develop talent and grow an organizational structure to support and grow the China portfolio. Set up organizational structures to leverage common engineering resources for Tractors, Crop Harvesting, John Deere.
• Member of John Deere’s China leadership team and intimately involved in setting product and business strategies
• Responsible for development and testing of new tractor products and continuous improvement of current vehicles for both John Deere and a joint venture
• Led teams across 4 design centers and 4 factories and continually molded John Deere’s core values into the operations
• Designed and constructed a new PV&V lab with foresight to accommodate future company growth to allow leverage of resources across product lines and divisions

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

• Program Manager for 7030 MW Series Tractor. Managed a cross-functional team to deliver a new tractor and drivetrain design, supply base and local manufacturing. Drove a step-function improvement in working with our.
• Managed cross-functional activities to gain project approval and successfully execute new product programs for a global tractor platform
• Direct managerial responsibility for cross functional team including Manufacturing, Marketing, Supply Management, Logistics and Customer Support and provided work direction for Global Engineering and Cost Management
• Successfully developed and maintained solid working relationships with local and global project and factory leadership

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

Owned the development and maintenance of John Deere’s 5-year product plan for Large Row Crop and 4WD tractor business through collaboration with worldwide Product Marketing, Market Planning, Engineering, Product Line Management Teams and Business Units. Coordinated the collection of pertinent product and market data, provided analysis to justify future.

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

Project leader for John Deere Active Seat from concept to production. Coordinated development across multiple engineering functions and strategic suppliers, managed activities within Engineering, Supply Management, Manufacturing and Marketing throughout the product delivery process. This feature is enjoying a production life of 20+ years.

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

* Manufacturing Process Engineer, 4-Wheel Drive Business Unit* Engineer, Applied Mechanics and Design Analysis* Design Engineer, 4-Wheel Drive* Engineer, Load Histories* Student Engineer, Summer Design Intern

Global 2030 Program

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Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering