Leadership: Manage, onboard and train contractors and engineers in supplier engineering. Manage assignments, resource model, workload and provide feedback through regular 1:1s. Revamped supplier engineering curriculum and onboarding process. Instrumental in globalization of supplier engineering organization and developing and implementing category team strategies across the network. Member of the Arden Hills Engineering Essentials Mentor Team and instructor for “Problem Solving for Practitioners” course.Technical Management: Led cross-functional team to rapidly implement short-term corrective action and install efficient long-term solutions in response to failed devices (CAPA). Aligned multi-site team towards optimal solution, and coordinated efforts between suppliers, quality engineering, manufacturing, design and regulatory affairs. Subject matter expert in qualifying components (from concept to production readiness) and managing supplier changes. New Product Development: Supported multiple product launches by managing requirements development and component qualifications across seven different commodities in support of next generation devices while ensuring compliance with the Boston Scientific Quality System.Operational Excellence: Conceived and implemented novel supplier and design changes. Obtained cross-site implementation support to realize cost savings, increase manufacturing yields and improve quality. Subject matter expert for injection molded plastics, stamped metals, spooled wire, coils/cables, formed wire, springs, stylets/mandrels, and literature/labelling.

Leadership: Led four-person team responsible for executing sensor calibration task. Trained and mentored junior engineers. Oversaw transition of systems from development to operations.Project Management: Created and implemented innovative techniques for the critical path task, which reduced timelines resulting in a 40% schedule and resource savings. Received multiple customer recognition awards for this innovation.Customer Lead: Lead Systems Integrator of multi-contractor group determining optimum calibration methods for future initializations. Led weekly cross-functional meetings acting as customer liaison. Managed product quality assurance testing and validated customer’s performance requirements were being met.Communication & Writing: Authored multiple final reports, technical memorandums and algorithm description documents. Continuously selected as representative to brief results to government seniors on efficiencies gained and innovations.

Leadership: Project lead for integrating new airborne sensor data. Wrote project and test plan, allocating resources and personnel (MS Project). Support DOD and Intelligence Community programs. Subject matter expert in electro-optical sensor calibration.Modeling & Analysis: Modeled system performance in presence of various constraints and sources of error. Built custom tools in MATLAB and MS Excel. Designed and conducted a thermometry study to develop an optimal remote sensing algorithm. Presented results to customer’s chief scientist and received performance award.Algorithm Development: Developed and tested processing algorithms for mitigating customer hardware problems. Authored technical memorandum detailing solutions. Conceived novel methods to improve efficiency of image quality and utility testing. Tested for accuracy and interoperability of products and support data.

Systems Integration: Created and managed system requirements matrix for GPS System Design Review. Managed GPS requirements database in DOORS tool: Created database structure and developed traceability reports for Engineering Review Boards and Configuration Control Boards.Database Management: Trained several team members to use requirements database / DOORS tool. Implemented Configuration Management (CM) control and organizational structure into requirements database.

Materials Science & Engineering: Designed experiments to determine microstructure, property and performance relationships in high temperature metal alloys. Processed refractory metal alloys using powder metallurgical techniques. Enhanced mechanical properties of Molybdenum alloys by altering microstructure during processing.