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Decatur, Ga, Us

Lehi, Ut, Us

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Operated in corporate incubation of first-to-market access control platform consisting of security cameras, locks, garage door openers, pet doors, and touchless delivery control with advanced AI. Created 5-year strategy and pillars of purpose to the platform; developed key pillars to succeed, product breadth required, and software integrations for market disrupting innovation.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Manage $130M industrial special applications lighting vertical with sales falling into various markets including heavy manufacturing, infrastructure, food processing and vandal resistant areas with IoT enabled and integrated devices. Turned vertical around from falling 8% to growing 6% within 12 months in a market that saw a 2% decline across the industry. Launched 4 new products in 16 months with $25M in sales. Increased gross profit of vertical by 9.8% over 16 months using VAVE cost-out efforts. Rolled out new lean-tools as well as pricing models that increase gross margin on certain products by 15%.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Designed, lead, managed and implemented multiple multi-million dollar per month projects including CDS, IBG, and Vantage LED. Projects included new and emerging technology and averaged 20% underbudget. Lead teams of up to 3 engineers in successful launch of product while training new team members. Managed all aspects of project including design, manufacturability, supply chain assistance, and implementation through factory. Paved new process standards in BOM Generation and Lean process to improve business system efficiencies. BOM Generation macro designed saved on average 10 hours of engineering work for simple systems

Quincy, Illinois, Us

Designed, coordinated, purchased, setup and operated a $1,500,000 research and development lab for the HighSpeed Quantima & Revolution product lines. Lab includes specialized "bay style" test areas based on compressor size with individual testing equipment and a fully controlled water cooling loop. Successfully led six Root Cause Analysis teams for design & production defects of major components of the Quantima HighSpeed Compressor Motor. Projects included: low corona protection of random wound stator, excessive temperature rise of random wound motor, low strength blast weld for copper/steel motor rotor, low cycle life NRV, instantaneous failures of high strength impellers, faulty design of impeller bolt connection, and overheating of motor connection terminals. Projected savings of over $4.5 million over the next 3 years based on average defect rates of $1.5 million per year on these projects. Successfully designed and implemented a random wound stator crown forming tool which reduced stator to stator variation in volumetric cooling air flow by 95%, allowing higher efficiency of the stator and rotor.

Quincy, Illinois, Us

Automation and Controls Solutions Engineer Co-opWorked heavily in front end user interface for automation control of HVAC systems in many large build-outs including Home Depot Headquarters, Sanctuary Park Office Park, 1075 Peachtree Office Building, and Chik-fil-a Headquarters.

Moline, Il, Us

Worked with a team of 5 on the X200 Tractor. Tasks included: creating proper wheel models in Pro/E, designing a replacement rockshaft for the newly released backhoe, and constructing 12 prototype tractors for testing.Additionally worked on the concept design for the 2012 model X40 Tractor.Disassembled, categorized, documented, and recorded a competitors tractor for use in comparison testing and market feature analysis

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering