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Dividing my time between award-winning hobby baking, singing in choirs and adventure traveling with my wife.

Providing engineering consulting services including embedded system design, product development, embedded software and project management.

Arden Hills, MN

• Led a team of 16 engineers and owned all Sustaining and Value Engineering activities in support of hundreds of legacy security product SKUs. Managed talent recruitment, employee development and engagement. Provided.
• Assembled a self-sufficient development team that delivered 30 sustaining and value engineering projects annually.
• Successfully lobbied to take over development of a new touchscreen product, delivering it in 6 months. The project became the template for best practice in a streamlined product delivery process.
• Improved status reporting to upper management through regularly scheduled meetings and a project dashboard that summarized our 30+ projects, including charts that highlighted main areas of effort.

• Reporting to the Director of Engineering, led a team of 7 embedded software and 3 mechanical/CAD engineers and provided support for new product and sustaining engineering development. Managed talent recruitment.
• Facilitated cross-functional discussions when development efforts hit roadblocks.
• Championed opportunities for team members to have direct contact with customers.
• Took over management of Document Control and Software Engineering teams (additional 5 employees) in 2013.

Arden Hills MN

• Assumed engineering site leadership as a stretch assignment for 16 months during a series of concurrent management turnovers. Provided key input into our annual intrusion product planning process. Provided a steady.
• Managed a multi-million dollar budget and maintained spending at or below target levels.
• Managed a 54 member engineering team and maintained 93% headcount retention despite management uncertainty.
• Maintained solid employee engagement survey results.
• Worked closely with other engineering leaders on annual product planning and to drive process uniformity across the global engineering organization.
• Acted as Product Safety Officer for US Intrusion products, driving corrective action and leadership communications.

Project Manager for new product development efforts, working with global, cross-functional teams. Scoped work, created/maintained schedules and tracked spending against plan. Was responsible for creating and delivering all project review presentations.

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