External Supplier Manager• Work directly with Purchasing and external vendors to create Statement of Work; experience with Time and Material and Fixed Price.• Create Purchase Orders; Review and approve external invoices• Estimate, review and submit yearly, multi-million-dollar external resource budgets; as many as 7 concurrent vendors, 60+ contractors• Weekly meetings with each vendor to ensure consistent progress, early identification of risks/issues and necessary mitigation steps.Lean Agile Leader• Responsible for the development, performance evaluation and career growth of 20+ internal employees.• Hiring manager for the Telematics Platform team in the US.Manage Telematics Platform Project Manager• Create, review and maintain platform schedules for multiple, concurrent product deliverables. Primary responsibilities including risk identification and management, feature identification and planning, resource estimation and management, customer quote support, Change Control Board member, cost center budget, defect prediction and management, integration of core platform components. • Deliver presentations and reports to internal Quality organization, BU R&D Head, Division Head, internal and external customers.• Collaborate with global teams across many different functional areas and disciplines: hardware, other software entities, business, purchasing, finance and other business units. • Monitor platform compliance to the defined software processes and tools for the business unit.• Telematics Platform led the way in converting the Interior BU to the Agile development process (Q1 2017).

Software Engineering Program ManagerManage software feature development schedule for team of 44 engineers. 2006 to 2007• Interface with other Program Managers, Hardware and Software teams to maintain development schedule.• Drive automated testing framework to reduce feature testing overhead. Manage development of PCB to emulate cellular phone accessories to increase test coverage.• Generate and analyze estimated vs. actual development resource profiles and recommend adjustments based on program priorities.Software Engineering Section Manager 2004 to 2006Managed software development team of 6 engineers; 2G and 3G GSM technology low level drivers.• Review and maintain software delivery schedules and commitments based on dynamically defined priorities. Track record of delivering on time and with quality. • Member of Change Control Board responsible for reviewing and assigning software Change Requests.• Responsible for hiring, coaching, promoting and performance rating of direct reports. Senior Software Engineer 1996 to 2004Design, implement and test software for use in TDMA and analog based technology cellular phones. UNIX development environment; Clearcase Configuration Management; C and Assembly languages. Debugging tools: Logic Analyzer, Oscilloscope. • Key member of software development/integration team responsible for initial platform bring up.• Interface with hardware design team and outside vendors to prototype new display technologies.• Designed and implemented Over-the-Air programming on TDMA technology cellular phone.• Designed and implemented Subsidy Lock on analog cellular phone.• Mentor to junior engineers.

Software development for wireless data communications and supporting applications.• Designed and implemented transaction simulator to test TCP/IP based switch.• Designed memory queue for TCP/IP based switch.