Kaitlyn Bailey Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

-Oversaw five teams, comprising approximately 50 members from hardware engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing, during the new product development process, each focusing on unique critical subsystems-Tracked and escalated program risks and issues via JIRA to ensure stakeholders had necessary information to make informed decisions--Facilitated stakeholder meetings to track and identify mitigation plans for program risks--Collaborated with stakeholder teams by managing program issues including development of interim and permanent corrective actions--Drove stakeholders to decisions, captured and communicated critical program decisions impacting various functional teams-Leveraged Smartsheet to define right-to-left schedules for subsystem design progress and procurement activities, highlighting milestone dependencies and identifying the critical path for different phases of new product validation-Led daily cross-functional stand-up and weekly review meetings to address and prioritize build issues, procurement updates, design changes and progress, and blockers and constraints-Managed the as-built subsystem BOMs and Plan for Every Part ensuring comprehensive tracking of design, procurement, and rework activities for each line item-Routinely communicated program updates on leadership directives, progress against deliverables, program direction changes, and other relevant information to various levels of management and staff

San Francisco Bay Area

-Implemented Arena PLM as a company-wide project lifecycle management tool and performed user acceptance testing for the initial Arena launch and its integration with Netsuite and XPLM-Introduced the Engineering Change Request and Change Order processes, developed training materials, conducted user trainings, and maintained the ECR/ECO templates to align attributes with customer needs and business metrics-Facilitated Change Control Board meetings covering Change Request presentations, discussions driving cross-functional implementation alignment, and status updates on work completed for upcoming Change Orders-Audited and authored Engineering Change Orders to document detailed information on the reason for change, technical change explanation, downstream implementation actions, and associated benefits and risks-Completed comparisons between CAD, Arena, and NetSuite BOMs to identify, communicate, and resolve discrepancies between part revisions, quantities, units of measure, procurement types, and more-Meticulously reviewed Arena Item/BOM attributes, files, and sourcing inputs to ensure accurate data flow to NPI and sustaining hardware and software engineering, supply chain, quality, NPI, manufacturing, and field services teams

-Collaborated with various teams to gather information on their current processes to suggest improvements and provide Visio workflows-Developed and maintained Sharepoint lists and document libraries for the transmission engineering department-Facilitated bi-weekly drafting meetings with contractors to update open ticket statuses and determine work blockers-Implemented new design and documentation processes to establish new georeferenced drafting project objectives

-Reviewed and provided feedback on work submitted by outside contractors for compliance with quality guidelines-Wrote training documentation for expectations on 2D drawing creation and provided associated trainings-Documented impacts due to engineering changes via project lifecycle management process

San Diego, California

-Created and updated mounting designs, hardware documentation, and cabling plan for an airborne multi-band RF communication pod-Addressed hardware issues via troubleshooting of subsystems and prototyped solutions with additive manufacturing-Fabricated and manufactured a counterbalance pod with respect to communication pod’s center of gravity-Matured the configuration management process and product development procedures to enhance reliability

Huntsville, Alabama

-Designed custom parts for mobile military applications using analysis such as tolerance stack-up and utilized understanding of ASME Y14.5 to produce reliable drawings-Acted as hardware design team liaison: Assisted production team to improve processes, maintain delivery schedule, and evaluate manufacturing issues for potential design rework-Acted as vendor point-of-contact: Discussed design modifications to better accommodate part manufacturing methods and communicated changes with global supply chain and project management

Clinton, Tn

-Managed entirety of modification and design project for accessories on new EOD unmanned ground robot chassis and manipulator platform-Determined project requirements, researched market competition, and presented conceptual design of mechanical arm camera extender to stakeholders-Integrated custom designs to upgrade mobile communication units focused on packaging optimization and establishing an Ingress Protection rating of IP-67