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Camarillo, California, Us

Oxnard, Ca, Us

SEED is a disruptor in the cosmetics industry, offering high-quality products at a value price point, under the ColourPop, Fourth Ray, and SOL Brands.• Lead package design, including engineering, plastic injection molding tool room, decoration, qualification.• Drove operational cost savings through Lean, Continuous Improvement, automation implementation, and capital projects.

Oxnard, Ca, Us

• Drove the entire Product Development operation for the SEED enterprise of over 100 people including program management, sourcing, research and development, engineering, regulatory, quality control.• Launched new products on a weekly basis, across multiple brands and channels, with over 1,900 SKU’s in 2022. Managed time, cost, quality, and customer reviews.• Lead the team that swept 14 top spots, and 44 total spots, on Temptalia’s Top 100 for 2022, more than any other cosmetics brand.• Launched more than 200 SKU’s into over 1,800 Target retail stores across the United States in 2022 and 2023 adding an additional revenue stream in the tens of millions.

Oxnard, Ca, Us

• Drove over $1 million in cost savings through Lean and automation implementation within first year of employment.• Lead customer Fulfillment operations through the busiest holiday season optimizing delivery while saving cost.• Managed mechanical maintenance of all equipment campus-wide.

Berkeley, California, Us

Bellwether provides innovative, ventless, all-electric coffee roasters, disrupting the traditional coffee roaster industry.• Lead technical coffee roaster development, including systems, electrical, firmware, and mechanical.• Managed the multi-million-dollar Engineering budget for a venture-backed start-up.• Expanded team through talent acquisition and by developing capabilities, including project management and design reviews.• Deployed JIRA software to track task and design issues for rapid problem resolution.

Hartford, Wi, Us

Broan-NuTone is a leading provider of home ventilation products, including kitchen range hoods and bath fans.• Served as Chief Engineer for company’s largest $290 million household ventilation product line.• Lead transformational changes in strategy, talent, culture, product development, and systems integration.• Retooled and expanded a team of 10 Engineers, Designers, and Analysts to 23 with increased efficiency and product throughput.• Transformed New Product Development, NPD, process resulting in three-fold velocity increase of product launches with higher quality standards.• Led innovation strategy, product road mapping, and budgeting processes on the order of tens of millions.• Lead deployment of Agile Product Lifecycle Management, PLM, software resulting in operational savings and increased speed to market.

eSolar developed plant-scale Concentrated Solar Power, CSP, solutions.• Lead core mechanical and test team, including contractors and vendors.• Built and managed budget for multi-million-dollar endeavor in fast-paced, start-up environment.• Lead the team that delivered all-new, fifth-generation heliostat with 50% fewer components for improved reliability, while meeting design-to-cost, DTC, targets and performance, balanced with acceptable technical risk.• Lead the team with responsibility for Solidworks CAD models, drawings, and Bills of Materials, BOM. All product data was tracked through Agile Product Lifecycle Management, PLM, software. Built the database from the ground up.• Responsible for ANSYS Finite Element Analysis, FEA, and model-matching to test data.• Qualified and launched all-new Asia supply chain. Authored Quality Systems documents and Standard Operating Procedures, SOP’s. Established supplier quality, Advanced Product Quality Planning, APQP, Production Part Approval Processes, PPAP.• Specified new assembly equipment for contract manufacture, including automation. Designed for Manufacturability, DFM. Applied Lean and Six Sigma tools to daily production management.• Implemented efficient system of requirements management and qualification plans using Design Validation, Planning and Reporting, DVPR, methodology, and using Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, FMEA, and Critical Design Reviews.• Created qualification and test procedures, lead test execution, and managed off-site test facilities. Created and implemented a process and system around test failure reporting and resolution within Agile.

Kohler, Wisconsin, Us

Kohler Power Systems ranks among the top in the world in global revenues for engine-powered electrical generator manufacture.• Managed a team of 20 engineers, designers, analysts, responsible for all products in Industrial, Residential, Marine, and Mobile markets. Platforms included diesel, gaseous, and gasoline fueled from 5 to 3,250kWe. Hands-on engine application experience – vibration, cooling, control systems, airflow, exhaust, fabricated metal enclosures, and plastics.• Developed five-year product portfolio and strategy with Marketing. Served as Engineering lead on Platform Team governing portfolio management worth $3 million to $5 million in continuous pipeline, $13 million annually.• Managed group responsible for Sales Engineered Specials through product customization.• Responsible for overseeing third party codes and standards team. Examples: Underwriters Laboratories, Lloyds.• Graduate of Kohler Leadership Forum 2010, offered to nominees only.• Served as interim head of Project Management Office, PMO, coordinating all product development.• Co-lead two major New Product Introduction, NPI, process overhauls. Taught NPI classes to 140 people in US and Asia.• Lead Business Process Redesigns for Change Management and Preproduction Release and Build in 2007, 2009, and 2010. Applied Lean and Six Sigma tools and actively managed these projects. Received formal company recognition for significant improvements to process metrics.

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

Mercury Marine is a world leader in outboard and stern drive marine propulsion.• Prepared research and development organization for successful ISO 9001:2000 registration. Successfully lead organization through surveillance audit as the internal audit team leader.• Project managed Six Sigma activities resulting in $320,000 in cost savings.• Trained in M4 Leadership Development and M4 Finance.

Master Of Science, Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering