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Occupational Description: Facilitate and lead engineering teams for cost metrics, quality improvement, and customer satisfaction. Offering approaches to team challenges. Work as an Innovator with actionable and real world skills, including very manageable and efficient techniques, designed to create and promote specific innovation results.Product Engineer with a Kaizen value mindset of being a creator, inventor & innovator, with global operations execution and market competitive experience. Also an understanding of operating profit, various cash flows, product quality, and market demand & delivery. Familiar with the design & development efforts of OEMs, including industry quality requirements, and corporate testing in a high volume vehicle company.Fluid in scope and schedule management, by way of understanding the complexity in business models and pipelines. Identify and use value streams to boost productivity and results. Making effective and easy ways to adapt goals sequentially, monitor and then show incremental progressions for improvement and aligned objectives. Aware of best ways to introduce and ignite corporate innovation, and to move those efforts forward in the right direction at the right time.Technology interests include: HEVs, energy storage, electric vehicle safety, (automated vehicles) & cybersecurity frameworks, drive-by-wire, active safety, lightweight (plus multi) materials, and emerging electronics. Guest speaker in the Univ. of Mich-CoE Automotive Engineering Seminar Series (since Nov. '99).