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Arlington, MA, US

Advancing Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) vehicle safety research, development, test, and evaluation. Improving vehicle safety technology to reduce injuries and fatalities on our nation’s roadways.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Develop and implement an automated vehicle regulatory strategy for compliance with federal and international motor vehicle safety standards. Regulatory strategy is a top-level company OKR, critical to launching the.
• Lead the vehicle safety regulatory compliance team to interpret, develop, and implement novel solutions in partnership with the design, engineering, and safety functions.
• Create and execute stakeholder management strategy with federal and international regulatory agencies and standards bodies.
• Stand up an agile corporate compliance function through collaboration with Engineering, Product, Cybersecurity, IT, and Safety teams.

Cambridge, MA

• Led an award-winning team of 26 with an annual budget of $10M+ analyzing and solving transportation challenges to advance innovative technology planning, development, and deployment.
• Developed new business and innovative, entrepreneurial approaches for the Automated Driving Systems Demonstration Grants, Infrastructure Electrification Grants, Smart City Challenge and Inclusive Design Challenge.
• Created policy strategy for innovative transportation technology including vehicle automation, next-generation wireless communication, data systems, and artificial intelligence.
• Generated rollout and launch plans for new policies, initiatives, and projects, including targeted stakeholder engagement campaigns, listening sessions, public release materials, and launch day run of show procedures.
• Engaged public speaker at national conferences, expert facilitator, and strategic communicator with government and transportation industry experts.

Cambridge, MA

• Led a multidisciplinary team developing strategy, policy, benefits, and international research management for automated vehicles. Partnered with the Intelligent Transportation System Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) and.
• Led policy analysis on critical topics including automated vehicle standards compliance through the review of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) as well.
• Collaborated with international organizations for information exchange to identify business opportunities. Utilized international partnerships with EU and Japan to foster coordination and knowledge exchange of common.

Cambridge, MA

• Led a team of 8 developing all internet and intranet communication materials for stakeholders.
• Identified critical information needs, communication opportunities, and strategic goals as a member of the Volpe Center Senior Management team.
• Led creation and distribution of Volpe communications as well as web-content and social media channels.

Cambridge, MA

• Managed an agile scrum-based, 50-person team of software developers, subject matter experts, and analysts developing and implementing the Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT); Software, designed as the.
• Led product owners, schedule maintenance, deliverables, finances, project planning, and overall team coordination with customer and all contractor groups.
• Conducted outreach activities, including leading training sessions, to increase AEDT software visibility and community engagement.

Cambridge, MA

• Delivered thought leadership and expert advice to create new safety benefits methodologies for advanced vehicle crash avoidance technologies.
• Generated a range of new techniques to estimate crash avoidance system effectiveness using modeling and simulation techniques.
• Constructed system characterization test protocols to evaluate system performance.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Developed in cab solutions including a re-engineered pedal carrier unit to reduce cost, weight, and assembly time.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Civil Engineering

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