Greg Dance Email & Phone Number

Independence, MO, US

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

S&P Global Engineering Solutions became Accuris in May 2023 as a result of a completed divestiture.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Software development for EDA applications including embedded applications and interfaces from external applications.Corporate Library configuration, installation, setup and management of software and databases.Exhaustive and comprehensive Printed Circuit Board design and manufacturing consultation services with emphasis on high density products such as.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Focal point for all things technical when it comes to delivering services to customers and removing technical hurdles in the pre-sales environment. Extensive involvement with integrating IHS semantic search products with a customer's databases and document systems. Regularly going head to head with IBM Watson and Google Search Appliance and.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Responsible to help North American Sales team overcome any and all technical hurdles during pre-sales period and to follow-up with the customer in the post sales period to ensure customer satisfaction with the deployment.

Lenexa, KS

I worked for you each day by developing the electronic and mechanical hardware used to dynamically control traffic signals. We utilized adaptive technology to dynamically adjust traffic signals rather than simply hard coding in the light timing. We were the fastest growing company in the Kansas City metro area in 2011 and were listed on the Inc. 500.

• Responsible for post sales implementation and project management of Customer Success Programs and custom Statements of Work (SOW’s) for Invention Machine's Goldfire Innovator and Goldfire Insight products. Assisted in.
• Identified potential expansion sales opportunities and worked with existing customers to ensure the continuation of revenue from software maintenance renewal.
• Analyzed/recommend client hardware configurations, installed software, delivered and developed multi-day training courses, mentored individuals and project team members on research projects and innovation initiatives
• Deployment activities included integration with 3rd party applications and business systems as well as software development to support the integration and automation
• Produced webinars and white papers for knowledge transfer to customers, internal consultants and support staff
• Trained customers in TRIZ, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), FMEA and semantic based research.

• Researched and implemented a design change reduced the cost of each product by $0.34-$0.48.
• Personally drove process changes to move product volumes from 5K to 100K a month.
• Established standard processes in engineering on a company wide basis following a merger.
• Developed processes and authored automation software to integrate the electrical engineering tools into the corporate Product Data Management (PDM) system.
• Integrated RoHS compliance requirements into the engineering libraries
• Established supplier relationships in China and Taiwan to expand our ability to respond to rapid increases in customer orders.

One of the original engineering team members in San Diego and an investor in privately held AirPrime.Selected all the software applications for engineering to use in the design of schematics and PCB layout.Established the processes and automation used to integrate engineering data to other departments.Designed GSM and CDMA products for laptop PC cards.

• A member of the design team which created the first commercially available cell phone with web browsing capability.
• Responsible for New Product Introduction, NPI, of PCB assemblies within the factory.
• Trained and advised the staff at the newly constructed, state of the art, surface mount assembly factory in the assembly of intricate, small form factor PCB assemblies.
• Traveled to Taiwan to create strategic partnerships with suppliers to handle growing volumes
• Established Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) thermal simulation into the standard product design process.
• Personally completed new product designs as necessary to ensure product schedules were met.

• Corporate trainer for international and domestic customers- I created the course curriculum and tutorials used to train both potential and existing customers. While the hands-on training courses required only 25% of my.
• Worked directly with sales organization to ensure customer success during evaluation periods and thus generate referrals which helped to secure future sales.
• Traveled internationally to customer sites to support sales efforts.
• Authored white papers and presented seminars at technical conferences/trade shows.
• Coordinated technical support of customer problems with the software engineering team.
• Wrote software enhancements and online documentation for new customers.

• I created automated scripts and training which reduced the average design time for the entire design staff by 82% over a 2.5 year period.
• Customized and maintained the engineering applications for schematic capture, corporate libraries and PCB processes across 3 locations in WA, KS and FL.
• Established a database and provided an automated process for populating the database. This was then used to measure workload over the 3 corporate sites. This identified areas for productivity improvement in project.
• Created courses on the Cadence Specctra autorouter and Mentor Graphics Board Stationtools at the above 3 locations and in NJ.
• Automated the creation of assembly drawings and the entire parts supplier quotation process.
• Created a web-based solution for Document Control

Ba, Physics, Computer Science And Mathematics Majors

Activities and Societies: President Society of Physics Students, Competitive Bicycle Road Racing, Time Trials

Online Pmi/Pmp Program, Project Management

Selected courses from the PMP online program.