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Reston, Virginia, US

Reston, Virginia, US

San Diego, CA, US

Houston, Texas, US

Schenectady, NY, US

Led a global staff of Sales Engineers to prepare proposals with scope ranging from gas turbine delivery to turnkey power plants. Assured that the company and customers are provided the best technical sales support and expertise. Developed technical proposals and led negotiations with EPC partners and subcontractors. Delivered innovative and creative.

Schenectady, NY, US

Led global team of proposal managers responsible for developing the technical proposal to build simple cycle power plants. Typical proposal to commercial operation date in less than 12 months.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Managed 25+ member Global Proposal Team made up of Applications and Proposal Engineers.
• Responsible for balance of plant equipment integrations for the proposed plant configuration while focusing on a technical approach to support winning bid strategy.
• Recognized for achieving growth of business revenues from $150M to $1.1B in addition to providing technical support to enable $1B in CM by increasing unit sales from 6 to 55 in emerging markets such as Africa, Middle.
• Major Deal Closures: 2017 – APR ($270M), 2016- Argentina ($600M) 860MW, 2015-PLN ($620M) 600MW/SEC ($212M) 275MW, 2014 - Egypt ($1B) 1GW, 2013 Angola/Libya ($235M)
• Oversaw the development of 40+ proposals per year.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Led the long-term product planning, managed complex issues and contributed to the overall business strategy for the LM6000 Aeroderivative product.
• Served as the product cost owner responsible for cost competitiveness and competitor benchmarking.
• Managed “should costing” team that delivered $11.7M in direct material productivity.
• Provided program leadership for $4M New Product Introduction tollgate process.
• Facilitated Product Change Board to ensure product lifecycle cost containment, saving $2MM.
• Directed the development of a Multi-Generation product plan while serving as the facilitator to the customer conference and responsible for implementation of improvements

Schenectady, NY, US

• Cultivated key operations metrics for Engineering organization and adapted the metrics based on customer, industry and organizational needs.
• Developed and maintained rigor to ensure accurately metric reporting and compliance globally.
• Identified gaps in current metrics and implemented necessary processes to eliminate.
• Launched metrics digital portal to allow for historic trending and key stakeholders view of performance against metrics.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Developed and controlled the schedule via Miscrosoft Project for Engineering and supply chain deliverables associated with 3 Tennessee Valley Association units.
• Led weekly production meeting with global supply chain team, including plant manager.
• Managed global supply chain budget for tooling and capacity investment.
• Traveled to sources to achieve delivery, cost and quality objectives and relationship building.
• Provided program leadership on spare part order pull ins on two major turbine platforms with the customer in mind.
• Ensured manufacturing operational strategy was linked with overall business strategy with respect to delivery and configuration.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Supervised 70+ hourly machinist and assemblers in gas turbine operation.
• Stressed Safety & Quality to Machining operators and team, which resulted in 0 Recordable injuries and $238K in scrap versus a plan of $312M.
• Led a 9-member team and provided input into the development and implementation of the Productivity Tracker Tool with the tool allowing daily/shift output data to be analyzed for outliers (part shortage, operator.

Chicago, IL, US

• Responsible for overseeing testing operation of traction motors, alternators, and grid blowers prior to assembly on locomotives.
• Daily task of managing 15 GE hourly employees and providing direction for 3 off-shift exempt front-line supervisors.
• Established schedule for alternator commercial testing to level load testing capacity.
• Led Action Workout to facilitate LEAN line in alternator area slated to enhanced material presentation for controllers and internal suppliers to manage inventory.
• Led subteam during multiple Kaizen and 5S events to stream line alternator and traction motor assembly.

Chicago, IL, US

• Obtained Six sigma blackbelt certification. Reduced rework of traction motor armatures from 13% to 1% by installing a diamond turn lathe. Utilized minitab to analyze all project data.
• Led procure/ implement effort for diamond turn lathe slated to reduced commutator run out rate from14% to 0% and save $321K.
• Headed collaboration with supplier and SQE to identify and resolve cracked copper bar issues.
• Led cross-functional team to drive Defective parts per unit reduction from 9.2% to 0 in the kapton covered wire manufacturing process, resulting in $110K scrap costs avoidance.
• Visited supplier site with SQE and QTA to help identify corrective actions.
• Resolved kapton bond wire issue that shut down wire production for five days. By utilizing chemicalknowledge in the creation of test, interacting with suppliers, and interpretating CRD test results.

Boston, MA, US

• Supported the kapton covered wire manufacturing team in creating cost justification for equipment repairs upgrades.
• Participated in effort to obtain one size wire from supplier to reduce the number of parts purchased. The near net size wire was used to make five different high volume parts.
• Worked with union stewards and members to implement fixtures to streamline manual input.
• Assisted in procuring various large pieces of equipment.

Boston, MA, US

• Supported the kapton covered wire manufacturing team in creating cost justification for equipment repairs upgrades.
• Participated in effort to obtain one size wire from supplier to reduce the number of parts purchased. The near net size wire was used to make five different high volume parts.
• Worked with union stewards and members to implement fixtures to streamline manual input.
• Assisted in procuring various large pieces of equipment.

Master’S, Engineering Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering