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Cleveland, Oh, Us

Cylinder and Accumulator Division

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Cylinder Division

Racine, Wi, Us

• Administering and facilitating global product strategy, including research, product, and process development planning and execution. Responsible for $50 million SG&A budget (2018-present).• Overseeing a group of over 250 engineers and technicians in North America, India, Europe, and South America providing technical support to research, product development, and application engineering in the areas of simulation, testing, materials and chemical analysis, prototype sample building, and tooling.• Guiding a group of engineers in North America and Europe evaluating Technology Drivers to identify new product opportunities. Overseeing timely completion of product development projects relating to these new opportunities, including vehicle electrification, advanced combustion, waste heat recovery, alternative refrigerants, indoor air quality, and data center cooling.• Providing regular updates to Modine Board of Directors Technology Committee on key R&D initiatives, activities, and metrics (KPIs)

Racine, Wi, Us

• Managed a group of engineers in North America and India to support global research, product development, and application engineering projects with computer simulations in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, durability, and thermal-hydraulic prediction of components, modules, and systems.• Led a group of engineers in North America providing experimental testing to support global research, product development, and application engineering projects.

Racine, Wi, Us

• Directed a group of engineers and designers (50-70) to design heat exchangers for OEM applications ($250-$500 million in annual revenue) for off-highway machines, commercial vehicles, and automobiles. Activities included pursuit of new business through response to customer RFQs, launch of front-end cooling module, components, and systems using Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), and maintenance of post-launch programs through continuous improvement activities. Facilitated product pursuit and launch activities through coordination of cross-functional teams of application engineers, manufacturing engineers, financial analysts and sales staff.

Racine, Wi, Us

• Established a global Push Technology strategy, coordinating efforts in the Americas, Europe, and Asia in conjunction with Global Product Line Groups and Executive Management. Projects included vehicular waste heat recovery, plug-in hybrid battery thermal management, and idle off cooling technology development.• Globalized Virtual Technology Group to create critical mass of simulation skills. Environment allows sharing of best practices, minimizing SG&A costs, and creating better communication between simulation and product development engineers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. • Established an internal, low-cost country CFD/FEA simulation group in India.

Racine, Wi, Us

• Participated in the creation of technology roadmaps for key product platforms.• Organized and co-located Virtual Technology Group to internally provide CAE tools in the areas of CFD, FEA, 1D thermal management, and durability prediction.• Designed technology demonstrators to show heat transfer and system integration innovation in key areas such as fuel cell APU / CO2 heat pump idle off systems.

Racine, Wi, Us

• Managed a group of engineers, designers, and technicians, designing and developing advanced thermal management equipment• Designed and developed components for electronics cooling devices for Thermacore, including condensers for ThermaBus, heat exchanger and cold plate for liquid pumped loop, and heat sinks for Pentium 4 chips

Racine, Wi, Us

• Program manager for vehicular and stationary fuel cell programs. Managed timely development and delivery of fuel cell heat exchangers to customers.• Designed a high-performance, compact cooling system using a radial fan as an alternative design to conventional cooling systems for vehicular applications. • Designed a heat recovery system for a 30 kW micro-turbine used in combined heating and power (CHP) applications for commercial distributed generation (DG).

Racine, Wi, Us

• Participated in university engineering consortia, including: Electrohydrodynamic and Refrigerant Alternatives Consortia (Univ. of Maryland), Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (Univ. of Illinois), Herrick Lab Partners Program (Purdue Univ.).

Racine, Wi, Us

• Designed high pressure gas cooler, evaporator, and suction line heat exchanger for CO2 air conditioning (potential replacement for R-134a). • Developed bubble heat exchanger based on Battelle patent to improve performance and corrosion resistance of secondary heat exchangers in high efficiency furnaces.

Racine, Wi, Us

• Developed data analysis methods and test procedures for obtaining microchannel condensing heat transfer and pressure drop data at Argonne National Laboratory. Generated extensive database and incorporated data in Modine heat exchanger internal design codes for various tube passage shapes and diameters.

• Organized and coordinated activities for Modine relating to microchannel condenser joint venture ($40-$50 million in annual revenue) with Nippon Light Metal, including board meeting preparation, strategic planning, technology transfer, operations review, and financial oversight.

Joint venture between Modine Manufacturing Company and Nippon Light Metal.

Champaign, Il, Us

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC)• Developed and maintained data base of heat transfer and pressure drop data for alternative refrigerants (e.g. R-134a and R-32/R-125), refrigerant-oil mixtures, zeotropic refrigerants, and heat exchanger enhancements (e.g. micro-fins).• Consulted with industrial advisory board members to translate research results to product design and development.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Performed various engineering related activities for the Nuclear Safeguards and Licensing Division

Chicago, Il, Us

• Performed various engineering related activities for the Project Management Division

Chicago, Il, Us

• Performed various engineering related activities for the Mechanical Design and Drafting Division.

Mba

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering