Eric Doty Email & Phone Number

Auburn Hills, MI

Responsible for leading highly complex vehicle safety investigations.

Chelsea Proving Grounds

• Responsible to invent, develop, and lead a brand new group that identifies and quantifies how FCA vehicles age a various stages of customer usage.
• Translate ideas into feasible workstreams that generate meaningful, actionable results.
• Manage budgets, a 20+ vehicle fleet, supervise engineers and lead cross-functional teams.
• Purchase fleets of customer-used and key competitor vehicles to assess them for quality and reliability gaps and other areas for improvement.
• Build… Show more Responsible to invent, develop, and lead a brand new group that identifies and quantifies how FCA vehicles age a various stages of customer usage.
• Build grass-roots relationships with key commercial fleet managers and use their vehicles as a predictor of retail customer reliability concerns.

Auburn Hills, MI

• Responsible for integrating all phases of durability science including road loads data acquisition, road test simulation, CAE analysis, and full-vehicle proving grounds durability and corrosion testing.
• Streamlined FCA’s durability science activity by planning and executing all durability science workstreams for multiple model years simultaneously.
• Implemented process improvements that enhanced communications between vehicle programs and proving grounds which increased durability… Show more Responsible for integrating all phases of durability science including.
• Implemented process improvements that enhanced communications between vehicle programs and proving grounds which increased durability vehicle uptime by 20%.
• Analyzed upcoming model year changes to develop robust validation plans that cut the number of prototype durability test vehicles by 30%.
• Implemented recovery countermeasures for unusual or difficult vehicle durability issues.

• Optimized prototype vehicle test plans and fleet expenses.
• Managed and established vehicle attribute targets to assure customer satisfaction.
• Lead vehicle fuel economy, durability, and performance attribute teams to on time, on target delivery.
• Coordinated and led vehicle program milestone reviews.
• Leveraged existing corporate resources to reduce department travel expenses.
• Authored in-plant auditing procedures and trained engineering staff to ensure regulatory… Show more

• Implemented new technologies including an Exhaust Gas Recirculation system cleaning routine that reduced warranty by 20% year-over-year.
• Led a task force that reduced cranking system warranty by 50% year-over-year.
• Developed a fuel system test to duplicate field incidents that was used to avoid litigation.
• Created technical specifications for all parts listed above.
• Performed production trials and resolved production issues at assembly plants.
• Led ongoing warranty and cost… Show more

• Published and executed detailed validation plans.
• Led interface with engine dynamometer labs and vehicle proving grounds.
• Recommended design changes to improve hardware reliability.
• Performed statistical analysis using warranty data to justify component ande system design changes.
• Created and correlated hardware key life tests.
• Managed the development of DFMEAs.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

BS, Mechanical Engineering

Aas, Industrial Automation

AS, Industrial Automation

Education record