Technical Project Leader for new Industrial EV motor or vehicle level controllers. responsible for project boundaries and phase gates, along with system engineering definition of product and regulatory functional safety requirements of hardware and software.

-Product level technical leader responsible as Principal System Engineer, engineering manager over internal engineering team, Technical Project Manager (TPM) technical core team leader, plus Program Manager technical lead over external OEM/JDM joint development partner’s engineering teams. - Technical Lead for new platform first launch of urinalysis platform OEM/JDM jointly developed diagnostic instruments with feature definition and design integrity ownership of hardware and software.- Partnered with product management and field sales to define Voice of Customer (VOC) requirements, then translated into actionable engineering specifications through system level validation.- Drove hardware design improvements for ease of use, reliability and shipping robustness.- Software Lead - Full life cycle: Customer needs, SW specifications, ad hoc and formal testing to release.

- Consulting Clients: Johnson & Johnson, Edwards Lifesciences, Flextronics Medical, confidential startup.- Program Management & technical leadership for drug delivery global development team across 6 sites- Established product concept requirements & industrial design, then tested with Market Research.- Led feasibility technical demonstration from specifications to working prototypes for large focus study.- Product System Engineering: system error budgets, motor control algorithms, power budget optimization.- Manufacturing Engineering: Independent review of Test Equipment and Assembly Procedures.- Test Equipment Engineering: Replaced optical calibration equipment, including specification, development, design verification & process validation from root cause to equipment installation.- Sustaining Engineering: Resolved product, component & manufacturing quality issues, by technical analysis leading to development & implementation of corrective actions with design verification & line qualification. Included establishment of CTQ's, validation of test methods, and process improvement.- Quality Engineering: Customer complaint deep dive failure analysis using statistical trending and failure forensics to achieve root cause insights for existing & new product field reliability improvement.- Reliability Engineering: Real world versus predicted reliability analysis recommendation study.- Patents: 4 design patents, filed 3 utility invention disclosures: mechanism, electrical circuit & optics.

- Started new flooring business with 2 partners. Implemented business startup, administrative, sales, marketing, project estimating and project management functions, including opening a retail location. - Specialize is individualized customer service, product application guidance and project management.- Provided sales and installation of carpet, hardwood, laminate, vinyl, tile and specialty flooring products.- Built new business up to $1 million annual sales in 3rd year, with profitability from first month.- Program management of To-The-Trade E-commerce website with extensive account database & reports

- Hands on technical manager to define, direct, and review work of direct reports and team members.- Engineering manager responsible for people, budgets, processes and project deliverables.- Build up core competencies by mentoring, staffing, process improvement, effective tools and training.- Change agent integrating the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Departments together into a unified 20-person functional organization for medical instrument hardware product development.- Electrical Engineering responsibility for PCBA design & layout, component selection and qualification, EMC and safety certification, FPGA and ASIC design, power system and sensors through verification testing.- Mechanical engineering responsibility for custom mechanical part design of molded plastic and formed metal parts, electro-mechanical interfaces, then supplier capability qualification to first article.- Launched 2 blood glucose meters, developed new measurement platform and provided product support.- Partnered with Manufacturing Engineering to achieve product design enabled supplier process capability and testability, and that Design for Manufacturability (DFM) was achieved.- Devised a LEAN white box design verification process allowing earlier evaluation with fewer units. - Drove optimal use of Six-Sigma principles, analysis, modeling, experimental evaluation and user testing. - Cross Functional Team Leader delivering 150 research glucose meters from design and tooling, through manufacturing and qualification in 6 months with FDA GMP design and manufacturing documentation. along with complete product, algorithm, and manufacturing tool software requirements.- Established project tracking, prioritization and status reporting systems.- Recruited 5 new senior engineers into organization in first year, and mentored group leads.- Directed best application of design tools such as CAD, FEA, LabView, P-Spice & Or-CAD.

- Responsible for startup of Minolta branded Ethernet Networked Color Laser Printer product line engineering development and project management activities. - Established relationship and delivery requirements with new strategic development partner.- Structured a global development team involving three corporations at 7 sites over three continents.- Defined site procedures within start-up nature of Minolta’s first development center outside of Japan. - Led recruiting approach for site and built new development department up to 5 members in first year.

- Leader of multi-disciplined printer development project teams of up to 40 engineers including hardware, firmware, application software and quality functions achieving close cooperation and risk mitigation.- Directly led software bug review meetings, and drove high criticality issues to closure.- Managed 7 engineering direct reports responsible for controller electronics, ASIC and mechanical industrial design / product design delivery. Ensured adequate design margin was achieved.- Led 2 network laser printer projects to successful on-time launch, under budget with superior field product quality. Received Division VP’s “Apple Leverage Award” for best re-use of Apple technology in a new product introduction.- Effective vendor management of external Japanese printer mechanism development partner, domestic firmware partners, and contract manufacturer to achieve quality on-time delivery.

- Directed internal cross-functional technical team from concept to successful introduction of 3 models of the Apple LaserWriter Select product line. - Brought up Fuji Xerox as a new printer mechanism development partner, forging a working relationship that allowed greater collaboration to achieve faster product development. - Optimized resolution enhancement image quality through image processing and experimentation. - Finalized PCBA EMI layout, components & enclosure and assisted in ASIC verification.- Achieved 15dBA noise reduction using sound intensity and modal analysis techniques.- Invented ink jet printer subsystem designs in the areas of image quality improvement and paper handling (3 printer mechanism patent disclosures filed, 2 issued).