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California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Designed and executed wheel product portfolio map and technology strategy
• Built a high functioning team of talented individuals, including recruiting, interviewing, training, budgeting, and KPI/goal planning
• Established baseline Vitality Index for the Styled Wheels segment and planned new product development activities to restore health to the product portfolio
• Identified VOC for the market segment, including direct interaction with our customers to identify the unspoken wants of the market
• Established engineering and design standards for wheel product line
• Worked directly with wheel and automotive accessory suppliers, both domestic and international, on product development and launch, including approving tooling development GO releases, first article submissions, PPAP.

• Managed Asia based engineering design team, drove the team to complete a 3500 part, detail drawing, and assembly CAD database in under four months
• Engaged in travel to China based supplier and lead team to immediately remedy manufacturing issues at supplier

Applied leadership skills to develop and implement a corporate technology strategy, including finding, developing, and applying new technologies into the existing product line. Also managed company liability exposure by identifying and analyzing trends for products returned from the field. Through analysis and research, validated product development and.

Provided in-depth technical and research support to engineering team as the key problem solving resource. Integrated redundant design and development processes generated by company's M&A activity. Rendered engineering, product development, and design support to international automotive part supply base. Additionally, monitored and documented return.

Promoted to R & D Engineer to develop a computer-based casting thermal simulation package. Utilized said package to validate mold design configurations for a 45% reduction in casting cycle times, aiding in doubling foundry output for products where implemented. Additionally, software was used to identify troublesome parts early in the design process and.

Led in the implementation of an FEA computer based structural analysis system to reduce engineering design validation cycles from a typical three pass redesign approach to a single pass process. This system helped cut engineering development times in half.

Created statistical confidence level charts to predict probability of parts passing industry standard fatigue and durability tests from FEA stress levels. Implemented an FEA based program to optimize the natural frequency of a part through automated iterations that reduced the analysis turnaround time by 40%.