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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Auburn Hills, Mi

Farmington Hills, Mi

Provide support and guidance to design engineering teams in 140 projects for overall achievement of $15 M annual cost reductions. Liaison between engineering teams and executive management for planning, status reporting and issue resolution. Improved reconciliation tools to increase accuracy in status reporting. Developed forecasting tools to visualize value engineering potential to business.

Leading process improvement team to implement portfolio management methodology with the goal of maximizing value and improving resource alignment to strategy. Providing analytical support to Army decision makers on all phases of the life cycle for military and ground vehicle systems.

Created strategic portfolio pricing levels/frameworks, executed pricing attainment activities, generated annual profit improvements, and established pricing for new products/services in expanding portfolio. Designed powerful software model to properly segment complex product portfolio and highlight profit improvement opportunities by segment. Created and deployed innovative, reliable, confident global Request for Quote system into global regions that enabled increased customer service and stronger global strategy deployment.--Delivered game-changing profit improvements of $100K, $1.7M, and $2.5M in 2007, 2008, and 2009 on annual sales of $1B for Eaton businesses in NAFTA, South America, and Europe.--Remotely managed pricing implementation for team of 20 highly-capable business and sales individuals in global regions.--Managed RFQ process that included ~$300M sales opportunities and response times < 4 wks on complex, cross-regional sales opportunities and < 5 days on the majority of all opportunities.

Developed and managed risk-mitigating financial model for hybrid business, balancing value, cost, and risk factors throughout entire production value stream from supplier through OEM to final consumer. Created business-critical financial and marketing tools. Led seven-member product launch team to integrate break-through / disruptive hybrid technology into complicated mainstream business processes.--Established and negotiated complex pricing strategies for high-growth global hybrid business with four OEM accounts, achieving $2.5M sales in 2004, $8.0M sales in 2005, and increasing sales every year since.--Significantly increased management's confidence in the risky yet high-potential new business, enabling a >100% project budget increase and ~$1.25M pre-production contract.

Led four-member engineering team to design and develop innovative 1.5kW hydraulic parallel hybrid powertrain system for heavy duty commercial vehicles. Quantified annual vehicle fuel savings and revenue increase opportunity to enable fleet return-on-investment.--Presented 3-year ROI value to four NAFTA OEM accounts and one national truck fleet, demonstrating ~$4k annual cost savings per customer vehicle.--Secured OEM commercialization partnership offer for ~$5M incremental annual business.

Improved operations performance and reduced inventory requirements at manufacturing plant using Six Sigma and Lean operational excellence methods.--Reduced inventory (DOH) level from 100 days to 10 days on eight critical items, saving $200k annually.--Led 10-member operation footprint reduction 5-day event resulting in improved material flow and 20% footprint reduction.--Trained 20 plant personnel in Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing techniques.

Managed design, development, and reliability demonstration activities for new products.--Coordinated activities for seven-member development team to launch industry-first wet-clutch automated transmission technology for medium duty commercial vehicles, providing the end user with 13% operating cost savings.--Developed innovative gear life test strategies for new multi-speed, heavy duty manual transmission products, reducing product development time by 20%.--Designed precision data measurement and analysis methods for air-actuated, heavy duty manual transmission gear shifts, enabling 50% faster shifts in critical conditions.--Conducted optimization Designs of Experiments to enhance shift performance for new heavy duty manual transmission family.

Managed new product design engineering and Tier One customer support activities for structural automotive body components.--Managed new products for 15 vehicle programs with Chrysler, General Motors, and Transplants.--Engineered unique sub-assemblies that demonstrated 20% strength improvement over competition.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Organizational Development

Bs, Mechanical Engineering