• Developed technical proposal and engineering execution plan for a $2.5B advanced safety program.• Established cross discipline matrixed team of 300 people to develop and deliver forward facing camera, surround radar and central compute module along with software simulation models and 20 vehicle feature algorithms.• Identified opportunities and created statement of work for services business worth $1.5M annually.• Customer Engineering lead for all existing and future commercial vehicle infotainment, safety and connectivity products in the North America market.• Lead the award of $100M domain controller hardware and base software for off-highway vehicles.• Point of contact for all engineering escalation topics from internal and external customers.• Engineering and Program Management leader, defined products for newly formed joint venture.• Lead the development of three projects with 125 advanced safety and wireless connectivity engineers.• Negotiated and established technical, commercial, and legal contracts to govern all aspects of the awarded projects totaling $60M.• Championed roadmap and strategic alignment workshops between parent company and joint venture.• Campus lead at MIT for recruitment and company foundation initiatives.• Responsible for engineering department consisting of 75 embedded, cloud and mobile application software engineers in wireless connectivity & cloud-based data analytics.• Mentored team leaders and managers to strengthen overall engineering organization and hire next generation talent.• Technical product definition and development lead for next generation wireless data logging platform.• Established annual budgets, negotiated targets, and maintained compliance.• Campus lead at University of Michigan for collaborative research projects.

• Coordinated global business pursuits and execution of 3-5 concurrent advanced development projects in infotainment and wireless connectivity.• Lead a team of 60 hardware and software engineers across 4 locations in USA, Mexico, and India.• Global technical lead for advanced development projects containing wireless communication technology including V2X, LTE, 5G, WiFi and Bluetooth.• Supported major collaboration with universities and directly sponsored research projects.• Oversaw technical responses to US Government (NHTSA, DoT and FCC) requests for information.• Nominated to the global leadership development program. Developed strategic and personal leadership skills along with top 50 candidates during 18 month program across three countries.

• Managed a $1.2B global infotainment project consisting of six hardware designs launching across nine vehicle platforms within a two-year timeline.• Established and lead a matrixed team of 200 engineers in 9 technical centers within 6 countries. • Lead the product definition phase and aligned multiple key technology partners.• Consistently communicated with the customer regarding all technical aspects of the project.• Reduced overall bill of material cost by 12% and outside engineering expense by $6 million.• Formed the advanced infotainment systems engineering team. Recruited and hired a team of 10 systems engineers to support new business pursuit.• Executed a multi-million-dollar advanced development project in collaboration with major OEM.• Coordinated user clinics for market feedback on the concept vehicles.• Developed a technical quotation proposal resulting in award of a $1.2B global radio project.• Managed development of an infotainment concept vehicle for the Consumer Electronics Show.• Globally recognized award recipient of the Delphi DJA medal for extraordinary accomplishment.

• Built a team of 20 active safety systems engineers and vehicle validation engineers.• Oversaw a fleet of development and customer owned vehicles.• Developed system modeling and hardware in the loop test bench for virtual regression testing.

• Managed forward-facing camera program through a rapid 14-month development and launch.• First launch of a newly designed product at the company’s new manufacturing facility in China.• Established logistics and distribution plan for products made in China at the facility in Mexico.• Reduced overall capital expense budget by 10% prior to production launch.• Tracked and demonstrated process compliance at internal and external (ISO/TS) audits.

• On-site point of contact for all issues related to the design and integration of a LIDAR based adaptive cruise control system.• Supported vehicle builds at all levels. Direct point of contact for OEM assembly plant.

• Design and development of electronic modules used to control automatic running boards, power lift gates, power windows and transfer cases.• Facilitated multiple build to print contracts. Served as release engineer and program manager.