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Learning from the veterans in the 3Mgives Regular Crew at Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity every shift!

Maplewood, Mn

Driving product and process development and implementing technology advancements in precision and clean coating of web-based products.

Bayport, Mn

Project management for new product development, line extensions, and quality improvement programs of leading window product line, including defining and allocating resources, justifying business cases, requesting and managing capital, and creating and managing timelines. • Delivered new tilting lock configuration on an accelerated timeline to meet key customer request by shortening original development timeline 30%. • Consolidated multiple separate projects into a single team to improve key customer safety feature which was delivered on time with limited team resources.

Oakdale, Mn

Managed team that provided QA support and qualifications of new media and suppliers. Provided Level 2 Technical Support for existing and in-development Consumer Storage products in addition to discontinued audio products under multiple brands. • Developed process for use by software QA team, providing repeatable QA results for unique mobile device apps during development process. • Coached team with no previous software QA experience to qualify 2 apps in time to match hardware availability. • Approved quality and reliability metrics and testing results for all newly developed mobile storage software and hardware products before public launch, resulting in a 33% increase in revenue from 2014 to 2015 for the product sector.

Oakdale, Mn

PROJECT MANAGER - Development and commercialization of entire Imation and Memorex branded External Hard Disk Drive (EHDD) product lines. • Coordinated vendor consolidation across EHDD line to improve manufacturing flexibility and reduce certification costs 60% and above and compliance costs 25%; Resulted in the launch of 4 product lines each with multiple capacities with significantly lower cost structure. • Drove agreement on customer requirements and software definition between development and business teams for consumer-grade encrypting hard drive, allowing Imation to enter a new business field. • Coordinated software development and Beta testing with newly acquired software team resulting in on-time launch of combined software-hardware system.PROJECT MANAGER - Development and commercialization of Consumer Video and Audio products. • Chosen as the first Project Manager on the Consumer Electronics Business Team for audio and video products. • Implemented a disciplined product commercialization process for audio and video products produced under the Memorex and TDK brands, resulting in the identification of crucial missed steps and dependencies in the old process that delayed previous launches. • Developed and commercialized a new connected Blu-ray player, providing on-time delivery to key retail partner for Fall 2010 reset.

Oakdale, Mn

Project Manager for development and commercialization of company’s first EHDD products. Led a cross-functional team, including R&D, Purchasing, Business Development, Packaging, and Asian manufacturing partner. • Reduced qualification time by approximately 4 weeks by performing on-site manufacturing qualifications with Asian partners for the first 2 products introduced.

Oakdale, Mn

Project manager for multiple exploratory coated media and hard goods development projects. • Led product development and manufacturing teams which successfully commercialized the first enterprise-level removable hard disk drive solution. This team won the 2006 Minnesota Tekne Innovation Award for the Imation Ulysses Product. • Motivated team of creative individual scientists to complete an exploratory data storage development project with overseas external partner, improving relationship with partner and demonstrating a significant technology advancement. Project generated 18 patent applications from the joint development team. • Qualified and completed wet checkout of new solvent-coater, implementing world-class coating process for dual layer magnetic media.

Woodbury, Mn

Team leader for coating and scale-up team that ran Laboratory Development Coater and provided manufacturing scale-up of solution preparation and coating. • Supplied materials to equipment development teams by scaling up multi-layer organic photo receptor coatings used in digital imaging products. • Specified, installed, and checked out new laboratory coater for digital imaging products, including dispersion preparation, and solution delivery equipment, providing robust platform to test new formulations and process improvements.

Maplewood, Mn And Camarillo, Ca

Lab Development Engineer in 3M Maplewood lab and Process Engineer in 3M Camarillo manufacturing plant. Extensive experience with handling and coating of thin films (26 to 18-gauge). • Experience in magnetic dispersion formulation and compounding in both pilot and production scales. • Coordinated and ran all media product scale-up experiments. • Facilitated plant-laboratory communications, resulting in better understanding of manufacturing process by laboratory requestors during one year Process Engineering assignment in Camarillo manufacturing plant

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering/Polymer Science

B.S., Chemical Engineering