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Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Delivered to market multiple innovative natural gas and electricity meters and updates to existing meters by creating and executing overall program plans with responsibility for requirements definition, schedule.
• Led multinational core teams with up to 20 representatives from various functional areas including product management, engineering (hardware, firmware and software), quality, and supply chain to define, develop.
• Facilitated weekly program core team meetings
• Effectively communicated current state of programs to senior management team on a regular basis and highlighted potential issues, conflicts, and risk mitigation plans

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Developed overall project plan for the expansion of Lenovo's OEM business model
• Worked across multiple functions to define project work streams with each having individual plans and established owners

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Introduced to market eight ThinkPad laptop, convertible laptop and mobile workstation products by defining and managing complex project plans from product concept through launch with overall responsibility for cost.
• Led cross-functional and multinational project teams with up to 25 representatives from various disciplines to define, develop, qualify, and launch products
• Presented project plans and current status to executive management team at checkpoint reviews
• Communicated regular status updates to new product introduction management team

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Managed hardware certifications by Independent Software Vendors (ISV) for Lenovo ThinkStation workstation and ThinkPad mobile workstation products
• Developed and communicated overall strategy for ISV certifications, created ISV certification plans including schedule and budget for workstation products, and reported on progress throughout certification process
• Provided web development team with information on ISV certifications and ISV-certified software drivers for product support websites and ensured those sites are properly maintained with updated information
• Served as liaison for establishing and expanding technical relationships with ISV representatives in the workstation community and provided technical support to ISV teams during certification process

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Led team of special bid engineers who executed requests for customer-specific models across the Think-brand product line with the utmost speed, efficiency, and accuracy to meet the expectations of Lenovo's relationship.

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Led team of ten special bid engineers who executed requests for customer-specific ThinkPad notebook models worldwide with the utmost speed, efficiency, and accuracy to meet the expectations of Lenovo's relationship.
• Supported technical transitions on special bid notebook models including new products and changes to hardware building blocks
• Monitored errors made by the team and coached team members to improve performance

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Managed deployment of configure-to-order (CTO) Internet sites for ThinkStation S10 and D10 professional workstations
• Worked with marketing, development, and planning teams to document technical specifications and establish requirements for configuration sites
• Provided documentation to web development teams and worked with teams to schedule projects, answer questions, and resolve defects
• Led testing effort to ensure overall quality, technical accuracy of all available product combinations, and satisfaction of product teams
• Delivered custom Lenovo workstation models based on customer requirements as defined by sales representatives in custom model fact sheets

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Led team of special bid engineers who executed requests for customer-specific ThinkCentre desktop configurations worldwide
• Provided technical engineering advice based on knowledge from previous development experience
• Monitored errors made by team members, implemented corrective actions to improve performance, and reported measured results on productivity and error rates to management on a monthly basis

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

• Member of system development team which developed the Lenovo ThinkCentre E51 and E50 and Lenovo 3000 J105 and J100 desktop computers
• Created and maintained system functional specification document used by entire team including outside vendors
• Resolved or assigned dispositions to system defects while working with various teams including components (motherboards, optical drives, hard drives), device drivers, and BIOS in order to reduce defects in the field
• Wrote service tips for defects deemed limitations in order to inform service representatives of known issues
• Thoroughly reviewed system publications including user guides, quick references, and hardware maintenance manuals and reported technical errors to the information development team for revision

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

• Executed requests for custom ThinkCentre desktop models based on customer requirements as defined in custom model fact sheets submitted by sales representatives to assure customer satisfaction.
• Supported technical transitions on custom desktop models including new machine types and changes to building blocks such as processors, memory and optical drives
• Worked with global cross-functional teams including sales, engineering, manufacturing and the Image Technology Center (ITC) to resolve outstanding issues related to custom desktop models, including customer-specific.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

• Executed requests for custom ThinkCentre desktop models based on customer requirements as defined in custom model fact sheets submitted by sales representatives to assure customer satisfaction.
• Supported technical transitions on custom desktop models including new machine types and changes to building blocks such as processors, memory and optical drives
• Worked with global cross-functional teams including sales, engineering, manufacturing and the Image Technology Center (ITC) to resolve outstanding issues related to custom desktop models, including customer-specific.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

• Member of team tasked with reducing cycle time for custom IBM ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCentre desktop models from request submittal to customer order, resulting in significant efficiency gains, reduction in.
• Implemented solutions that reduced customer order changes and issues from monthly average of 105% to 55% and reduced custom model turn-around time (from submission to available for order) from an average of eight days.
• Increased the efficiency of the sales team by improving the tools, education, and information used when requesting custom models

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

• Developed IBM ThinkCentre S50 and A50 and IBM NetVista M42 Slim, A40, and A20 desktop computer systems as member of system development team
• Compiled and maintained spreadsheet containing part number information, and spreadsheet used by web development team and manufacturing containing information for assembling ThinkCentre S50 and A50 systems
• Resolved, tracked and assigned dispositions to system defects while working with various groups including components motherboards, video cards, optical drives, hard drives, power supplies, modems), device drivers.
• Wrote tips for defects deemed limitations to inform field service representatives of known issues
• Thoroughly reviewed system publications including user guides, quick references, and hardware maintenance manuals and reported technical errors to the information development team for revision

Burr Ridge, Illinois, United States

Designed and constructed simulator of Application Control System (ACS) covering four planter platforms with multiple variations

Burr Ridge, Illinois, United States

- Programmed four screens in C for graphical user interface of in-cab displays with touch screens for Advance Farming System (AFS) used in harvesting and planting applications- Designed, developed, and managed database for tracking changes to software, hardware, and requirements in multiple projects

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEEWorked as a student assistant on the Reconfigurable Vision Machine (RVM) Project at the Robotics Institute.

High School