Derrick Ryan Email & Phone Number

Accomplished Product Engineering Director with a proven track record of engineering leadership in design, and manufacture of mechanical vehicle controls for the automotive industry.•Extensive experience in creating long and short term competitive product strategies that sustained leadership in the automotive market.•Technical expert in design and development of mechanical cable control systems, and components (metal, plastic, zinc and rubber) for automotive applications.•Highly experienced in plant operations, and manufacturing processes; wire forming, wire coiling, wire stranding, plastic extrusion, plastic injection, rubber molding, ultrasonic welding, die casting, cold heading extrusion, metal stamping, swaging, crimping, machining, lubrication systems, assembly, and packaging.•Resourceful in deploying the practical use of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), and virtual validation methods, strengthening the knowledge bank for product design and manufacturing best practices. Reducing development time to market and costs. Adept in leading, building and developing talented engineering teams that work extremely well in global, cross functional environments working with all disciplines to accomplish project objectives.•Excellent communication and problem resolution skills, innovative and resourceful in leveraging teams diverse backgrounds in quality, manufacturing, design, warranty and reliability engineering. Tactically disciplined in use of root cause analysis tools (DFMEA, Lesson Learned, Ishikawa, 5-why, 8D, DMAIC

Listed skills include Spanish and Automotive.

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  Western University

  Mechanical Engineering