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United States

Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States

Andover, Massachusetts

• Manage cross-functional teams including Engineering, Quality, Marketing, Supply chain, and Regulatory for new product development and sustaining engineering activities.• Define and manage project timelines throughout entire product lifecycle. • Coordinate regulatory activities related to state-of-the-art compliance and country registrations.• Lead efforts towards EU MDR compliance for multiple product families.• Develop and maintain project documentation including System Requirements, Risk Management Files, and Validation Test Plans. • Lead the implementation of best practices across entire PMO.• Provide periodic reviews with senior management & key stakeholders to assure proper direction of the assigned projects• Central point of contact for handling issues and making decisions regarding the product design throughout the product lifecycle.• Manage product Design history files.• Coordinate all Verification and Validation activities for assigned product families to assure compliance with regulatory standards and applicable test plans. • Mentor junior level project managers.

Wilmington, Massachusetts

• Manage cross-functional teams including Mechanical, Controls, Software Engineering, Sales, and Product Management in the design, development and implementation of complex automated robotic systems. • Manage software design process involving 3rd party contractors, vendors, and internal software design teams. • Lead development of Process Flow Diagrams, FMEAs, and Control Plans. • Development of system level test plans. • Coordinate onsite activities to ensure on-time installation, commissioning, and testing of new systems. • Develop and maintain detailed project schedules to manage new projects from concept through final acceptance. • Primary customer contact for during project execution to define scope, functional/performance specifications, description of operations and project schedule. • Lead the process for deployment of Lessons Learned to customer sites, resulting in improved system performance, stability and operational excellence.• Work as part of the Product Management group as a leader in driving company initiatives and prioritizing the company backlog to meet the customer’s needs.• Program Manager for vendor integration of a large scale, multi-million-dollar Goods-to-Person (e-commerce) automated cell. • Assist the Product Management team in the development of agile development process for both hardware and software development activities. • Executive-level communication of program status.

• Develop system requirements for both internal and external built automation systems.• Lead engineering projects to implement a fully automated assembly/inspection cells for high volume automotive applications. • PLC and Machine Vision Programming for automated systems (Allen-Bradley, Cognex, Keyence) • Oversee project timelines and budgets to ensure requirements are met.• Lead cross-function teams to implement new systems/processes for continuous improvement.• Work with customers as the primary technical contact to identify project requirements, feasibility, develop new applications and resolve technical issues.• Travel to customer sites to present technical presentation on products and technology.• Work with suppliers to ensure their processes are capable.• Develop and maintain Master PFMEAs for key processes and implement “Lessons Learned”.• Lead the start-up, debug and validation of new automated equipment.• Technical Lead on engineering projects to transfer manufacturing operations from US to Mexico and Europe.• Utilize six sigma statistical tools for process development and optimization.• Create process documentation for equipment and manufacturing operations.• Lead NPI activities utilizing APQP and Design for Six Sigma methodologies.• Lead process engineering activities for day-to-day manufacturing operations.• Mentor Co-op students in Six Sigma structured projects for process improvements and new product development.• Design of prototype, test and assembly equipment. (Keycreator, AutoCAD Inventor)• Manage the software development process for in-house manufacturing software systems.• Developed applications using C# to create custom applications for use in both production and testing.• Implement automated machine vision systems for inspection in high volume manufacturing operations.

Woburn, Massachusetts

Woburn, Massachusetts

Ms, Computer Systems Engineering

Bs, Computer Engineering