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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 ongoing analysis of labor hour reporting for the entire engineering department to help manage resource allocation optimally. • 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, employee development and engagement. Actively managed resource allocation to meet ever-changing project needs. • 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, calming influence to the engineering team during a time of uncertainty. • 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. • Successfully lobbied to secure a prominent development role for our team on the top development project in our business. • After completing the stretch assignment, worked closely with the new Engineering Director to insure a smooth transition.

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.

Bee, Electronics Engineering

Ba, Theater Arts