Daniel Gerding Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, Louisiana

• Field Engineering leader for the Americas – acted as customer-facing representative for catastrophic failures and major quality concerns for wind turbine blades in operation• Led on-site and remote inspections of blade failures at customer sites (gathered evidence and coordinated service teams in order to aid investigation into causes of failure and to develop fleet mitigation strategies, provided customers with technical reports/presentations regarding investigation findings and potential determination of fault, provided internal communication related to catastrophic failures to all levels of the organization including C-Suite/management team)• Led and participated in Root Cause Analysis (8D RCA) investigations into blade failures and major customer quality concerns• Reviewed, approved, and drove accountability to manufacturing facilities for Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs)• Owner of Acceptance Criteria for blades in operation (delivered technical support/problem solving and provided official technical statements to customers regarding a wide array of customer concerns, provided guidance to internal and external customers regarding interpretation and application of Acceptance Criteria regarding whether customer findings were warrantable and recommended the appropriate response, coordinated with internal design and manufacturing teams to update criteria based on latest technical knowledge and testing)• Worked with customers up-front to establish requirements and warranty guidelines for specific projects/wind farms• Drove Continuous Improvement projects to establish and revamp internal processes related to Product Warranty, Service, Global Quality, and Field Engineering• Provided data analysis and monthly reporting for warranty claims and catastrophic failures to upper management• Interfaced with internal design and manufacturing teams to leverage customer feedback/lessons learned to identify and improve upon new projects

Cincinnati, Oh / Durham, Nc

• Served as on-site engineering design liaison to production assembly for launch of NPI engine program• Spearheaded an initiative to revolutionize the engineering drawing creation and manufacturing consumption processes into a Model Based Definition environment, working with several outside vendors to capitalize on Digital Manufacturing opportunities• Led a global team in the advancement of an automated CAD tool used in the design and drawing creation of sheet metal brackets, providing process cycle time savings of 30% for ~125 regular users and ~1200 new drawings per year• Simplified and standardized design requirements and engineering note sets for jet engine Externals hardware across the organization• Drove the establishment of new Standards and processes in CAD and Product Definition• Served as a core member of the Modeling Design Board and focal in the fields of GD&T, engineering drawing definition, and general mechanical design• Headed the CAD design of numerous jet engine components through multiple new product development cycles (focused on Externals/Configuration hardware)• Mentored a team of new engineers to initiate, develop, and execute a digitization project resulting in First-Time-Yield improvements of ~18%

Cincinnati, Oh

Cincinnati, Oh

• Led Six Sigma Green Belt project to reduce Change-in-Design cycle time, gathering and interpreting data to drive business decisions• Participated as a key member of the “Software Action Request” team to identify, prioritize, and drive implementation of software and process enhancements• Developed and maintained metrics, communicating these with upper management on a regular basisCollaborated with internal organizations, as well as external customers and the FAA, to facilitate the development and processing of design changes in compliance with Federal regulations• Provided informal training and mentoring to peers in relation to company Standards and FAA certification requirements for the management of hardware configurations• Managed technical data to ensure clarity and accuracy for downstream users

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

B.S., Mechanical Engineering