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Avon Lake, Ohio, United States

Product Group Director - Brake Control, Redundancy★ Serves as Product Line Director and Engineering Director, overseeing innovation in brake controls and redundancies for autonomous vehicles.★ Collaborates with quality executives, engineers, safety leaders, sales team leads, and members of the global Board.★ Developed the North America strategy to support the testing of driverless systems, securing buy-in from the OEM and autonomy partner. Worked with Quality and Safety stakeholders to enable controlled testing with in-car drivers on public roads and truly driver-less testing on a closed course.★ Serves as Meta Product Owner for a team of 8 direct reports and 13 indirect reports through an Agile Scrum-at-Scale transformation.☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT BENDIX COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS LLCBendix Commercial Vehicle Systems is a leading provider of commercial vehicle braking and safety systems in North America.

Elyria, Ohio, United States

Product Manager - Brake Control, Redundancy★ Managed three first-generation joint development agreements for redundant brake control systems.★ Responsible for developing responses to RFPs and RFIs, and engaged with business and technical personnel within client companies.★ Credited with establishing a prototype manufacturing function for redundant braking systems in North America, and secured two OEM contracts to develop the second generation of redundant brake controls★ Developed two customer prototype braking systems and organized demonstrations at test tracks.

Elyria, Ohio, United States

Engineering Supervisor, Hardware Platform Group★ Developed the North American Electronic Park Brake system for air-braked trucks, serving as electrical engineering Systems Architect and Lead Hardware Engineer. Managed six direct reports and seven indirect reports.★ Created early hardware prototypes in partnership with global Manufacturing, Mechanical, and Software teams.★ Gathered insight into the perspectives of drivers, fleets, OEMs, vehicle inspectors, and service centers.★ Coached teams in India while fostering collaboration between colleagues in India and Germany through in-person workshops.★ Applied knowledge of heavy vehicle testing standards in North America and ISO 26262 design considerations to navigate product development from hardware and software prototypes to commercialization.★ Created a concept for the parking brake switch that avoided infringing on competitor designs, with zero impact to cost, quality, and capability.★ Recipient of the 2019 Heavy Duty Trucking Award for advancements in electronic parking brakes.

Elyria, Ohio, United States

Electrical Engineer, Electronic Controls★ As a member of the Electronics Hardware Platform Group, worked on an ABS system, digital foot brake module, and Driver Assist features before transitioning to the development and testing of an electronic parking brake system in 2015.★ For two years, served as the Lead Hardware Engineer for the North America Electronic Park Brake System. Designed a PCBA whose mechatronic packaging would fit into the dashboard space occupied by legacy park brake controls.★ From 2013 to 2015, served as the North America Lead Hardware Engineer on EC80 generation of brake control.★ From 2010 to 2013, served as a Product Engineer for Active Sensors, addressing and remediating field application issues for mounting bracket vibration and interference to inertial sense elements.★ From 2007 to 2010, served as Product Engineer for Brake Control Modulators. Improved the durability of brake modulators used in trucks with automated cruise control.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering