Geoff B. Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

Frankfurt, Hessen, De

Responsible for business growth and overseeing projects covering system architecture, functional safety, and cybersecurity. Mentoring and guiding team members, providing opportunities for their professional development, and fostering an environment that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and innovation. My focus has also been on aligning project goals with client needs and industry standards, all while building strong relationships to ensure project success and client satisfaction.

Business owner for body control modules and CAN/ethernet gateways business in North America. Responsible for project acquisition, funding, and staffing. Lead the preparation of technical offers for product development to meet customer requirements. Lead the estimation of project costs. Present technical and commercial offers to customers. Review and approve engineering readiness levels during complete product lifecycle. Address customer escalations effectively.Responsible for performance management, training, and development of mechanical, electrical, software, systems, functional safety, and cybersecurity engineers.

Responsible for converting blood, sweat, and tears into high-availability lateral and longitudinal motion control systems for automated and autonomous vehicles using dSpace rapid prototyping controllers, build-up and operation of SIL simulation environment and custom test vehicles. Introduced lean/agile concepts to the joint venture where it improves our communication and our work.Developed pure pursuit algorithm in python, ported to Simulink, and tuned it for several light vehicles and people-mover applications.Applied model predictive controller (MPC) to realtime lateral vehicle control using dSpace microautobox.Applied qpOASES optimization library to realtime MPC controller in simulated Cortex M embedded target.

Hanover, De

• Designed and documented functional, logical, and technical architectures of automated and autonomous vehicles using SysML behavior and composition diagrams.• Led the concept, design, implementation, and validation phases of a fail-operational brake system for a large-scale autonomous vehicle and search engine company.• Supported functional safety analysis of AVs following internal processes based on ISO 26262, 21448, and STPA.

Hanover, De

As a Sr. Engineering Supervisor at Continental, I led a team to improve NVH development capabilities by acquiring cutting-edge tools, such as 3D laser vibrometer, within budget constraints. By integrating CAE and dynamometer testing, we reduced development time and enhanced efficiency in noise countermeasure development.

Hanover, De

Responsible for coordinating a global team writing, testing, and releasing embedded software for automobiles and light trucks of Japanese and domestic customers.

Hanover, De

Supervise and support career development of up to 17 engineers and technicians.Increase the productivity of the development teams by introducing and standardizing the use of Matlab, Simulink, CarSim, and other software-in-loop (SIL) simulation tools in the development process.Develop the integrated control of electronic stability control (ESC) with an AWD torque vectoring powertrain to work together to enhance vehicle handling and safety..Improve the quality of the delivered products by initiating the use of an open-issues database based on open source tool: Bugzilla.

Us

Software algorithm development, tuning, and testing of Continental's first Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system engineered in North America on Toyota Sequoia. Developed and applied the first Roll Stability Control (RSC) system on Volvo and Ford Motor Corp. vehicles.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Software algorithm development, tuning, and testing of Ford's first Electronic Stability Control system, IVD / AdvanceTrak, applied to Lincoln LS and Jaguar S-Type.

Designed, developed, tested, and provided technical and sales support for PC based vehicle dynamics simulation software and data acquisition system hardware and software for automobile/motorcycle racing.

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

Self Driving Car Nanodegree, Non-Degree Seeking, Statistics And Artificial Intelligence

Post-Grad Studies In Control Systems Design

Post-Grad Studies - Master Of Science Engineering Management, Engineering/Industrial Management