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Greenville, South Carolina Area

Leading the identification, development and implementation of the Onshore Wind Quality Assurance Reliability strategy for GE Renewable Energy products involving the entire product life-cycle, including Design for Reliability and relevant business processes. I partner closely with Business Leaders, Product Managers, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Projects & Services and component/systems engineers to identify and manage asset reliability risks impacting performance targets and customer commitments.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Set commodity make/buy strategy for industrial gas and steam turbine hardware and assemblies.Formulated and provided should costs, cost targets and basis of industrial gas and steam turbine hardware to align business targets to contribution margin goals.Created value propositions for engineering features to drive customer value into gas turbine components. Set key turbo-machinery commodity strategy by optimizing global demand forecasts with supply chain capacity… Show more Set commodity make/buy strategy for industrial gas and steam turbine hardware and assemblies.Formulated and provided should costs, cost targets and basis of industrial gas and steam turbine hardware to align business targets to contribution margin goals.Created value propositions for engineering features to drive customer value into gas turbine components. Set key turbo-machinery commodity strategy by optimizing global demand forecasts with supply chain capacity, fulfillment, cost, risk. Show less

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Set strategy, budget requirements and direction for the cradle to grave design and development of compressor related turbo-machinery hardware aligned to new industrial gas turbine product offerings.Managed the design engineering responsibilities and risk assessments of direct and indirect multinational engineers in the field of rotating turbo-machinery, specifically compressor airfoil design.Led the successful completion of product tollgates, technical reviews and drawing… Show more Set strategy, budget requirements and direction for the cradle to grave design and development of compressor related turbo-machinery hardware aligned to new industrial gas turbine product offerings.Managed the design engineering responsibilities and risk assessments of direct and indirect multinational engineers in the field of rotating turbo-machinery, specifically compressor airfoil design.Led the successful completion of product tollgates, technical reviews and drawing releases in support of engineering design activities related to the new product design of "first of its kind" gas turbine products.Provided technical customer presentations in direct support of industrial gas turbine product offerings and sales.Completed pipeline formation and talent evaluation for a team of multinational engineers, including providing career growth plans, training and other development opportunities. Show less

Greenville, South Carolina

Led enterprise business efforts to measurably lean and improve design rigor within the product creation (product development) process. Areas of focus include (but are not limited to) Product Design for Reliability, Technical Review, Design Practices and Engineering Design documentation.Served as the GE Energy Chief Engineers Office and Quality Representative for the Continuous Improvement and Root Cause Analysis Board to drive process improvements to customer issue resolution and design… Show more Led enterprise business efforts to measurably lean and improve design rigor within the product creation (product development) process. Areas of focus include (but are not limited to) Product Design for Reliability, Technical Review, Design Practices and Engineering Design documentation.Served as the GE Energy Chief Engineers Office and Quality Representative for the Continuous Improvement and Root Cause Analysis Board to drive process improvements to customer issue resolution and design improvements to product deficiencies.Led multi-sub business design synergies to utilize standard solutions for product challenges, customer issues and timeliness improvement. Sub-businesses include Steam Turbine, Generator, Nuclear, Motors, Oil & Gas, and Gas Turbine. Sponsored Black Belts and Green Belts within the design engineering organization to Lean DMAIC and Lean Design for Six Sigma (DMADOV) certification. Show less

Greenville, South Carolina

Driving increased rigor to the New Product Design tollgate process.Reducing cycle time and improvement rigor of Supplier Qualification process.Mentoring design engineers through Six Sigma Green Belt Certification.

Greenville, South Carolina

Accelerated Career Development Program Graduate (2 years, 3 rotational assignments of increasing responsibility)Created more than a dozen stages of compressor airfoil designs, analyses and drawings and led concept design through the review and validation phases of the tollgate process.On-site validation test captain of rotating compressor to assess design robustness and validity of assumptions.Created multiple new product designs of internally cooled and uncooled… Show more Accelerated Career Development Program Graduate (2 years, 3 rotational assignments of increasing responsibility)Created more than a dozen stages of compressor airfoil designs, analyses and drawings and led concept design through the review and validation phases of the tollgate process.On-site validation test captain of rotating compressor to assess design robustness and validity of assumptions.Created multiple new product designs of internally cooled and uncooled rotating turbine airfoils (buckets) by leading concept though detailed designs, technical reviews and full scale validation.Led methods development of the turbine bucket design process to both simplify the design process, reduce cycle time and grow technical ability of the engineering team. Show less

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

Thesis: Structural Reliability of Large Caliber Hybrid Ceramic Steel Gun Barrels (US Army Research Lab Grant) Graduate Research in Rapid.

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

Undergraduate Research in Rapid Prototyping (including 3D printing)