Kathy Downie, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Niles, Illinois, United States

Performs the role of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) business process owner by researching opportunities and potential solutions to propose and directly influence PLM Roadmap. Ensure the release of product design data as well as all change requests to product data.

Mchenry IL

Perform process value assessment and crafted a roadmap for the appropriate Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy to enable global engineering collaboration and sharing of product artifacts across all Medela manufacturing locations. Business Leader for the development of the Global Business Blueprint for an SAP ERP System.

Wood Dale, IL

• Created and sustained Program Management Office to support completion of projects. Led and coached project teams and enabled continuous improvement of project results across global R&D centers.
• Led transformational initiative to globalize Videojet’s project management processes, tools, and standards, achieving consistent implementation across entire portfolio of technologies in all global R&D centers.
• Drove efficiency and significant cost savings by transforming project life-cycle from initiation through monitoring and control for delivery improvement from 0% to 60% projects completed on time.

Glenview, IL

• Built and managed electronics research team, building key capabilities, to adapt technologies from other industries to fulfill company strategic vision, focusing on wireless, video and sensing technologies. Accelerated.
• Created and established wireless architecture for industrial manufacturing systems by managing hardware and software development and writing 5 patent disclosures documenting all innovative aspects of architecture.
• Created an optical method to track and measure displacement between two markers, replacing clip-on strain gages, enabling first to the industry, Instron Video Extensometer product development and launch.
• Led key strategic innovation program for automotive segment, concluding that current strategies avoided disruption from industry trends.
• Accelerated company growth by developing annual electronics technology summit, leveraging hardware and software synergies across businesses and industries.
• Spearheaded hardware and software development of 802.15.4 tag design and prototype for cattle temperature monitoring system, allowing improved analysis of wireless range and network performance.

Schaumburg, IL

• Director, Business Partnerships and Program Management, 2005 – 2010Motorola ResearchManaged global, cross-functional, highly matrixed team of 33 researchers in Illinois, California, India, and Singapore. Drove.
• Expanded public safety multimedia plan to broaden focus beyond Video Analytics Center (VAC), including mobile media solutions, reaching targets in Asia-Pacific and North America markets.
• Received “Golden Gate” Award for leading the development of a new multimedia platform, Video Analytics Center (VAC), which was a video management system with analytics to allow media convergence for improved.
• Installed VAC permanently in future experience laboratory with demonstrations, inspiring police departments to use analytics, reducing time to search archived video, depict events, and find potential suspects.
• Created and implemented 1st comprehensive cross-laboratories portfolio management process, serving as key contributor to portfolio description, project prioritization, and evaluation criteria.
• Championed project alignment between research organization and businesses, improving prioritization of projects for public safety, networks, and enterprise mobility.

Deer Park, IL

• Architected and managed schedule, scope, resources, and quality of product and system releases of local vehicle telemetry and asset visibility solutions, for IoT emerging technologies start-up business.
• Contributed to visionary framework architecture for highly distributed automated asset information systems, supporting solutions, such as vehicle fleet automation and protecting development with 5 patents.
• Applied correct amount of structure and process required for start-up business in overseeing AVS visibility management system platform development project, driving engineering and business teams to meet committed.

Libertyville, IL

• Managed 3rd-generation (3G) mobile phone camera and multimedia encoding, and global positioning system development teams, as well as worldwide multi-functional team.
• Negotiated system requirements rollout through customer briefings, allowing development to meet demo milestones and delivery goals per contract and secured 100% of all product development funds.
• Directed transfer of camera technology, MPEG4 algorithms, and silicon from research to development, launching 1st 3G mobile phone with camera and AGPS technology in company history.
• Reduced costs by leading 10-member team in selecting China camera factory to leverage improved camera technology.
• Managed ramping-up of complete imager supply chain with 6 international companies in 3 countries, increasing production standards within 6 months to meet Six Sigma quality, as well as delivery demand

Libertyville, IL

Managed the engineering development, prototyping, quality assurance, and factory introduction of Motorola’s first dual band GSM smart phone featuring advanced capabilities.

Arlington Heights, IL

• Managed a subscriber hardware development program for a cable telephony system.
• Directed the program prototyping, evaluation, quality assurance, and factory introduction.
• Technical challenges included design of a flexible platform to meet overall product power, cost, size, and manufacturing goals.
• Successfully implemented a short cycle time product evolution through parallel prototype and ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) development platforms.

Arlington Heights, IL

• Managed advanced planning for the first CDMA Cellular Base Station product line.
• Created schedules, resource plans, project contract book, project management plan, and change control process, resulting in moving organization’s planning horizon from 1 month to one year. Personally presented plans.
• Developed division wide product and release planning process by facilitating and integrating new product hardware/software architecture and product specifications processes with hardware/software schedule models.

Abbott Park, IL

• Selected as member of Information Technology and Architecture team to develop new processes and system requirements.
• Defined architecture to encompass all future designs from small doctor office to large reference laboratory equipment by utilizing distributed processing, fault tolerance, built in test architecture definitions, and.
• Defined system requirements, definition and feasibility for $1 Million information system project to define and facilitate new Product Development Process, resulting in bridging Chicago/Dallas project teams through.
• Analyzed present network architectures vs. desired office network architectures, which resulted in recommendations and proposals of new architecture for pilot baselines and future rollouts.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Education record

Honorably discharged from US Army