David Jeffery Email & Phone Number

Allentown, Pa, Us

United States

Delivered new products and services that resulted in profitable business through cross-functional, project team leadership and communication to company executives; responsible for the most critical projects in the company. Owned and improved a phase gate development process.• Drove numerous cost-cutting project teams providing annual savings of over one million dollars to the business. These projects also improved quality.• Successfully expanded the medical grade refrigerator product line by leading a cross-functional team to develop a new 45 cu. ft. refrigerator and new production cell.• Led the project team that delivered a waterborne pathogen filtration system for hospital ice machines, including the coordination of supplier development. • Improved engineering change order process through simplification and the implementation of process flow software, Workfront.

Shippensburg, Pa

Represented engineering on cross-functional project teams working with Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, and Marketing. Brought to market multi-million dollar corporate projects on grader and paver products by planning, leading, and coordinating engineering design and testing. Led all engineering groups to achieve project targets.• Improved engineering team’s design delivery time, and quality through application of agile principles and visual management.• Reduced 2 months development time by securing early manufacturing inputs through collaboration with Manufacturing team, successfully building 5 grader prototypes with production tools and resources, first ever done in Shippensburg.• Improved new product start-up by reducing quality issues by 25% through coordination with Manufacturing and Purchasing, using cross-functional product design change reviews.• Enhanced engineering development quality and lead time, using expanded digital mock-up assembly tools.• Expanded grader engineering team’s capability, newly formed at Shippensburg, by bringing additional experts to the team.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Managed multi-site group of 13 engineers, union designers, and contractors to develop electro-pneumatic vehicle brake systems. Led cross-functional development teams including members from Manufacturing, Purchasing, and suppliers. Negotiated project deliverables and dates with corporate project managers.• Improved heavy duty diesel truck emissions through a seventeen week, in-plant assignment, working directly with Manufacturing on new product introduction.• Delivered product development engineering with 97% on-time performance in 2009 and 100% in 2010.• Exceeded expectations by releasing solutions to customer problems under 10-week target.• Expanded customer offering by jointly developing and patenting a system to remotely operate breaks on a towed vehicle “Front Towing Glad Hands”.• Leveraged the company’s global organization, best practices, expertise, and shared designs by traveling frequently to France and Sweden.• Increased engineering quality by developing and conducting brake system technical training for 30 engineers and designers.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Led a department of 46 engineers and designers to provide new product designs in steering, front axle, front and rear suspensions, transmission controls, brake systems, wheels, brakes, and hubs. Developed and accountable for $2.5 M annual budget.• Achieved economies of scale by developing vehicles based on global product platform with shared parts.• Replaced full product line with new products while meeting emissions standards (never been done before).• Achieved $990K annualized savings by delivering and championing value analysis (cost-cutting) projects, including boardroom presentations.• Defended and represented company by testifying in product liability law suits

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Developed steering, rear suspension, and air brake system and component designs for current and new products. Responsible for new development, field and manufacturing problem resolution, and product cost reductions.● Shortened development time and increased quality by directly supervising union designers (the first selected for this position).● Strengthened the company’s position in the refuse market by developing and patenting an electro - pneumatic parking system. US patent holder “Fail Safe Work Brake System”.● Significantly improved product performance by developing Anti-lock Brake Systems (ABS) in accordance with government standards.