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Columbus, Oh, Us

Columbus, Oh, Us

Dublin, Ohio, Us

Responsible for the introduction of laser peening to customer parts through the application of laser-peening services or the sale of turn-key equipment.◆ Managed development, qualification and PPAP of customer parts including tooling design, process development, documentation and testing ensuring quality metrics met ISO/AS9100 and customer standards with a 90% success rate.◆ Designed turnkey laser-peening systems using standard products and custom components when necessary.◆ Worked with large OEMs to identify failure points and treatment plans.◆ Collected and organized requirements to supply to the rest of the project team.◆ Provided market insight to the rest of the Engineering organization to steer product development.◆ Supported sales team with the creation of quotes and supporting technical documents driving a closing rate better than 60% on sales of over $8.5M.

Dublin, Ohio, Us

Lead a team of 5 electrical and automation engineers in support of the development of laser peening equipment.◆ Applied Agile principles to electrical and automation projects to improve development velocity.◆ Performed design reviews to ensure electrical schematics, robot software and other documentation was thoroughly designed and able to meet UL, CE and ATEX requirements.◆ Acted as the Project Lead Engineer for a large multiyear nuclear project worth over $15M.◆ Provided technical support and oversight to the Operations team during product assembly and testing.◆ Conceived, proposed, and managed new product developments to further LSP Technologies’ penetration into the laser peening market.◆ Developed and tested patented safety sensors to determine when a fiber-optic cable carrying high-energy laser pulses fails catastrophically.

Dublin, Ohio, Us

Lead a team of 7 software engineers developing the operating code, database, and graphical user interfaces for the entire laser-peening system product line. ◆ Implemented Agile development practices to improve team productivity.◆ Transitioned team from Visual Source Safe to Git and Visual Studio Team Services (Azure Dev-Ops) to better manage multiple developers and protect source code.◆ Performed code reviews and testing to ensure deployment readiness.◆ Mentored 2 new developers in tool use and best practices.◆ Trained new employees in equipment operation and safety procedures.◆ Developed bug-tracking system to capture and address issues found during testing or across the globally deployed fleet.

Dublin, Ohio, Us

Responsible for a multidisciplinary team of 12 engineers, project managers and technicians developing new laser peening and laser bond inspection equipment.◆ Implemented Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) tools to provide configuration control and security for critical design documents and source code.◆ Developed and managed project plans, schedules, and work breakdowns to ensure systems were delivered on time, withing scope and on budget with a better than 80% success rate at first acceptance.◆ Created proposals for new commercial and government contracts including SBIRs totaling over $25M.◆ Provided installation and after-market support for a global fleet of laser-based systems.◆ Lead the creation of new system architectures including mechanical, electrical, communication, and software.◆ Awarded several patents for developed products.

Dublin, Ohio, Us

Developed new controls systems for commercial laser peening and laser bond inspection equipment while still supporting legacy systems.◆ Created a reusable library of object-oriented software modules that significantly decreased the time and labor costs with new system implementations from months to weeks.◆ Implemented use of Visual Source Safe to protect all source code including C, C#, GUI and PLC.◆ Developed software for multiple platforms including Windows Embedded, Windows, web, PLC (Phoenix Contact, Allan Bradley and Beckhoff), pic, Wonderware, LabVIEW/CVI.◆ Developed and custom printed circuit boards using Mentor Graphics, Eagle and Express PCB and then validated the design for manufacturing using ViewMate for DRC/DFM.◆ Created engineering and production test plans to support operations.

Towson, Maryland, Us

Managed a team of 5 full-time engineers as well as Co-ops responsible for the creation of the electrical hardware and software for drawn-arc welding and self-piercing riveting equipment primarily for the automotive industry.◆ Implemented global systems and processes for control and protection of source code.◆ Implemented new processes to ensure products were shipped with the correct version of software installed as well as maintained in the field.◆ Established global project management for the more effective development of new global products.◆ Coordinated development between offices in the United States, Germany and Japan. ◆ Recruited and trained new talent to be effective members of the team.◆ Mentored co-op students in software and embedded design so that they not only received a better education, but also were productive members of the team.◆ Implemented no-cost incentives to improve team morale, productivity, and cohesion.

Towson, Maryland, Us

Developed custom embedded hardware and software for drawn-arc welding and self-piercing riveting equipment primarily for the automotive industry.◆ Developed multi-lingual graphical user interfaces (GUI) for welding equipment, which is currently deployed globally.◆ Developed multiple interface devices to communicate between the different assembly systems and industrial controllers on such control networks as EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, U60 and Modbus.◆ Provided integration and application support to customers including electrical and safety wiring as well as control logic.◆ Worked with manufacturing, quality, and overseas engineering teams to ensure that systems shipped on time and were fully functional.◆ Aided the service department by providing training, manuals, and phone support.◆ Provided field support, when required, across the United States, Germany, Canada, and Mexico.◆ Received patent for automatic configuration of drawn-arc welding system (US 7,084,371 B2).