Eric Edstrom Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

► As Senior Director of Program Management, I was the leader of the Senior Staff for Enterprise and Infrastructure Sector engineering team developing Server, Storage, Telecom, and Networking JDM and ODM products. ✔ The leadership of a global program management office in a dispersed organization in North America and Asia that ensures on time, on budget and in scope program execution. ✔ Oversight, tracking and reporting to executive management on the status of 15-20 programs with budgets ranging from $500K to $3M.✔ Resource and project planning and management tools are developed to manage and forecast resources, materials, and budgets for a $20M design organization; this cut quarterly planning process time by 50%.✔ Common tools for PMO were implemented including MS Project templates and SharePoint sites with a common structure to consolidate all program related data into a single repository; this reduced RFQ schedule generation by 50% and ensured everyone in the organization can easily access needed program data.✔ Active leadership of recovery or tiger teams for critical proposals and programs; this included recruitment as a tactical program manager to recover a set of programs that fell behind. ✔ Leadership of deep dive analysis of all aspects that included design, product validation, manufacturing, supply chain, and others for an at-risk program and created comprehensive recovery plan to get to product launch as quickly as possible; this through critical path analysis reduced delay by 40%.✔ Oversight of the PMO RFQ proposal responses and verification of schedules, resources, BOM, manufacturing, NRE costs, and SOW; accurate RFQ responses has the benefit of ensuring profitability for the project and a schedule that can be achieved.✔ Site management for the Colorado Springs office that includes responsibility for site budget, staffing, IT, lease, and others.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

► As Senior Design Manager, I had the leadership of the planning, staffing, budgeting, scheduling, sustaining, and quality control; the primary interface for customers, senior management, suppliers, and manufacturing facilities. The following are important notes of achievement and success:✔ The effective growth of the US team from 12 to 30 in 24 months that provided oversight, increased design quality and decreased schedules on projects previously done in Shanghai; this successfully decreased design cycles from as many as 6 to 2.✔ Resource planning and operations responsibility for a local staff of 30 ME, EE, and SW engineers with a $6M budget. ✔ Strategic Management that included Long-Term Planning (12-36 month), Phase Gate development process, detailed resource planning, technology trends/R&D projects, and the increase of margins.✔ Led RFQ proposal response leadership that included technical proposals, schedule creation, and BOM creation. ✔ Tiger team RFQ leadership that developed technical and product cost response to a must-win quote in 1 week instead of the typical 3 and resulted in an effective program win.✔ Site Quality initiative leadership for the purpose of obtaining ISO 9001 certification for engineering to increase design quality and repeatability; all needed processes were developed, and certification was obtained within 12 months.✔ Notable recruitment to drop in and lead a dispersed US ME team of 20 engineers across 3 sites to reduce attrition, standardize processes, increase quote accuracy and increase team’s performance and ability to meet commitments in medical, industrial, and defense projects; this reduced attrition 90% within 3 months and created processes to hit 90% of project metrics like schedule, scope, and cost within 6 months.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

► As Senior Program & Product Manager, I led the implementation of concurrent new product development efforts within the business unit for Storage Systems; the primary interface for customers, senior management, suppliers and manufacturing facilities that included the following:✔ Leadership of developing and managing RFQ’s, SOW’s, business cases/ROI’s, program schedules, program budgets, resource plans, forecasts, and production builds with updates presented to Senior Management.✔ BOM and manufacturing cost models were created to determine division and corporate margins and ensure profitability.✔ Vigilant management of all aspects of new product development through phase gate process.✔ Effort direction of a globally dispersed mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software, firmware, test and manufacturing team that ensured product deliverables are met on time and on budget.✔ Collaborative partnerships with the internal Sales and Marketing teams to develop the collateral, processes, and procedures that defined company sales, manufacturing, delivery, and support of current and future products/services.✔ Manufacturing hard tooling definition, quoting, and fabrication for plastic injection molds, die cast molds, and sheet metal was managed.✔ International environmental, regulatory and safety requirements for products were defined and managed.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

► As an Engineering Manager, I provided leadership to a team that developed scalable Enterprise Storage System solutions through the integration of modular components.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

► In the role of Senior Mechanical Engineer, I led the mechanical development of electronic enclosures and accessories from concept to production which led to the following distinctions:✔ I received Design Patent US-D492315-S: Storage Rack Door for rack door design that integrated the industrial design of two product lines.✔ I also received Design Patent and Utility Patents for a tape drive carrier design that utilized state of the art conductive composite material.

Greater Denver Area

► In the role of Principal Mechanical Engineer –Principal mechanical engineer for high-tech start-up company that developed wireless smart sensor products for the sports performance measurement industry.✔ Received two Patents for a wireless sensor system.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

►As a Mechanical Product Development Engineer, I led the initiative on the mechanical development of the Vision™ Air Handler HVAC product from concept to volume production. I also performed the following:✔Developed Air Handler HVAC product family from concept to production. ✔Defined product requirements through competitor analysis and focus groups.✔Designed large gauge sheet metal structures and vibration isolation systems utilizing Finite Element ✔Analysis. Led experimental modal analysis, vibration testing, and rotating machinery balancing.✔Managed product performance testing program.✔Managed mechanical engineering interface with European software development team by writing specifications, developing prototype user interfaces, testing beta code, and tracking and reporting ✔progress to senior management.✔Supported software introduction into North American, European and Asian sales and manufacturing.

Greater Denver Area

► As a Mechanical Engineer, I conducted structural dynamic analysis of the Titan IV family of heavy launch vehicles including mechanical flight loads prediction and payload integration. Secret security clearance (expired).

Mba, Finance, Mis

International Business Exchange Program, Summer 1997 Université Jean Moulin Lyon III - Lyon, France

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Mechanical Engineering