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VOXX AUTOMOTIVE CORPORATION | Auburn Hills, MI | 2005 - 2020 Senior OEM Program Manager - General Motors AccountProgram management strategist and visionary serving as key Technology Leader for Rear Seat Entertainment System and Remote Keyless Entry Keypad. Extensive and cross-functional experience in project/program planning, evaluation, documentation, strategy execution, stakeholder communication, and reporting. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for developing program/project policies, plans, and procedures. Ensure strict alignment with all applicable policies, practices, and compliance standards. > Delivered high-level strategic project planning and negotiated a $3.7M+ award in obsolescence claims.> Championed successful strategies to oversee, lead, and direct all the project management team to achieve aggressive goals. Led the team through the award, development, validation, and release of the company’s first all CAN based remote start system, all-new technology rear-seat entertainment system currently in GM vehicles, and RF Remote Keyless Entry Keypad (RKE) available on GM vehicles.> Regained $1M in monthly revenue after a short void instead of a permanent loss by devising, proposing, and achieving buy-in to a technical solution to increase compatibility.> Leveraged technical subject matter expertise to serve as a Technical expert in rear seat infotainment and RF device vehicle integration. Ensured the highest level of accuracy and detail while performing all vehicle fit ups and programming, alleviating the need to add new local company resources.> Entrepreneurial savvy with strong business acumen, meticulous in formulating and maintaining project budgets, highly accurate monthly sales forecasts and yearly budgets creating efficiency for purchasing in order requirements, inventory control, and reduced obsolescence.> Skilled in utilizing Vehicle Spy, DPS, and GM TIS2WEB CAN tools to program vehicle BCM's for remote start and RKE.

VOXX HIRSCHMANN CORPORATION | Troy, MI | 2001-2005Senior OEM Program Manager – Kia, Ford, Mazda, and Nissan AccountsDeveloped optimization strategies to successfully negotiate customer contracts and quotations for new vehicle security and new remote start project awards with diverse OEM customers.> Won $5M+ project which was highly scrutinized during quotation by proving customer’s Cost Engineer missed critical/necessary component costs.> Led multiple Technology “firsts” including Nissan usage of remote start and Kia introduction of Remote Keyless Entry (RKE).> Demonstrated authoritative knowledge and experience necessary to deliver on high-value projects resulting in high margins with OEM customer base ranging from 35%-55%> Conceptualized, created, and deployed efficient and effective strategies to lead the team in the development, validation and release of new vehicle security and remote start program to match vehicle release schedule.> Managed a wide range of functions, including developing integration strategy, designed custom wire harnesses and performed all validation installations.> Dynamic and strategic in solving absent tachometer signal issue by proposing “crank averaging” for remote start system.> Saved the company thousands of dollars per claim review by auditing and negotiating warranty claims.