A Product Development & Design professional with experience in aviation, automotive, defense and consumer electronics. Expertise includes Embedded Software Validation and Verification, Technical Design Reviews, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), UX (User Experience), UI (User Interface, User Interaction & User Insight), Customer-facing hardware & software, Systems Engineering, and Automotive Components & Final Assembly Plant Manufacturing.Specialties: * Software Development [Waterfall & Agile]* Software validation & verification* UX (User Experience), UI (User Interface, User Interactions & User Insights)* Software release readiness reviews for ship authorizations - (New Product Introduction - Software for popular Motorola Razr phone)* CAN (Controller-area network)* Hardware & software testing* Configuration Management (Bitbucket, ClearCASE, PVCS)* Defect/bug tracking & management (Atlassian JIRA & Confluence, ClearDDTS, ClearQuest)* Software metrics and KPIs* Inspections (Peer reviews)* Risk analysis (Analyzed and triage software issues)* Technical Design Reviews* Systems and Control EngineeringNotable Products, Designs & Customer/User Experiences:* Authored and released Ford & Lincoln SYNC (center-stack touchscreen) UI specifications for features and Apps that received the Ford Global Innovation & Technical Award.- Authored the Ford Pro Power Onboard UI specification [Exportable bi-directional power and mobile generator](Pro Power Onboard is available on the latest Ford F150. Ford Pro Power Onboard named a TIME Best Invention of 2021.)- Authored the SYNC 3.2 & 4A UI specifications to support Electrified Vehicles features.(SYNC® 4A is in the Ford Mustang Mach-E and SYNC® 4A is in the F150 Lighting Truck).Consumer Report found the Mach-E’s center touchscreen easier to use than the Tesla’s interface. Mach-E was Consumer Report Best BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) of 2022.- Authored the Ford Zone Lighting UI specification (Zone Lighting is in the latest Ford F150)* Researched and proposed smartphone technology for vehicle key fob (Product Strategy, UX & High-Level Functionality for Phone As A Key). Phone As A Key is available on the new Ford and Lincoln vehicles.* Researched and proposed to improve the Electric Vehicle estimated distance to empty (eDTE) algorithm that more accurately predicts how much range drivers have using past driving behavior, weather forecasts and crowdsourced data from other electric vehicles (Mach-E use Intelligent Range System cloud-connected capabilities).