Kenneth Ryan Email & Phone Number

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Area: Michigan Assembly Plant, Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) • Oversaw a product engineering team with several dotted-line engineers to execute improvement actions for three major sub-systems; coached and educated teams on Structured Problem-Solving (SPS) continuous improvement and failure mode analysis (FMA) activities.• Managed product development of components to vehicle applications maintaining vehicle content, development, and tooling costs, ensuring FMVSS compliance, and… Show more Area: Michigan Assembly Plant, Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) • Oversaw a product engineering team with several dotted-line engineers to execute improvement actions for three major sub-systems; coached and educated teams on Structured Problem-Solving (SPS) continuous improvement and failure mode analysis (FMA) activities.• Managed product development of components to vehicle applications maintaining vehicle content, development, and tooling costs, ensuring FMVSS compliance, and collaborating with other entities within Ford such as the studio, risk, and quality teams, purchasing, test planners and engineers. • Led cross-functional coordination with engineering teams for Ford of Australia, Mexico, Europe, and South America in the product development lifecycle to execute quality improvement and cost changes.• Facilitated key stakeholder relationships, strategic planning, and reporting up to the highest levels of Ford to ensure alignment on program status, address roadblocks, and achieve launch plan objectives.• Championed improvements through issue characterization, diagnostics, and root cause analyses (RCAs) that transformed alongside implementing several new controls and standardizing processes. Show less

Greater Chicago Area

Area: Product Development Center • Owned product and production tooling costs and oversaw the development milestones.• Managed a cross-functional team focused on development for body systems including managing costs for product piece price, engineering, development, and testing (ED&T), and product and process tooling to maintain timing, cost, and support launch plans.• Owned core development functions including cross-functional coordination, surface change requests (SCRs)… Show more Area: Product Development Center • Owned product and production tooling costs and oversaw the development milestones.• Managed a cross-functional team focused on development for body systems including managing costs for product piece price, engineering, development, and testing (ED&T), and product and process tooling to maintain timing, cost, and support launch plans.• Owned core development functions including cross-functional coordination, surface change requests (SCRs), failure mode analysis (FMA), bill of material (BOM) weight, quote, packages, and device transmittals (DTs) for communications to electrical systems analysis, EMC testing, and issue resolution. • Prepared Program Status updates for weekly Director level Engineering Management Meetings. Show less

Area: Kentucky Truck Plant • Led development team, partnering with vehicle operations and plant teams for a large program to conduct root cause analysis (RCA), execute improvement actions, and resolve launch issues. • Directed a Six Sigma Blackbelt project and coached Structured Problem-Solving (SPS) to integrate design and process changes, eliminate current roadblocks, and anticipate future challenges.• Owned all launch-related costs and maintained a keen eye on program milestones… Show more Area: Kentucky Truck Plant • Led development team, partnering with vehicle operations and plant teams for a large program to conduct root cause analysis (RCA), execute improvement actions, and resolve launch issues. • Directed a Six Sigma Blackbelt project and coached Structured Problem-Solving (SPS) to integrate design and process changes, eliminate current roadblocks, and anticipate future challenges.• Owned all launch-related costs and maintained a keen eye on program milestones for cost control. Show less

Area: Product Development Center • Oversaw development of new closure system latches and was selected to sit on the Joint Ford-GM business development team to catalyze cross-organizational synergies.• Drove new mechanism development that resulted in significant cost savings over a five-year span.

Area: Product Development Center & Chicago Assembly Plant • Effectively managed the body exterior systems team from prototype build through Job-1 launch of the new programs consisting of coaching and performing Structured Problem-Solving (SPS) to remediate core issues identified during testing for the Final Engineering Completion. • Secured buy-in to align talent and capabilities of the team to program requirements, adeptly leading a large team that delivered successful launches of… Show more Area: Product Development Center & Chicago Assembly Plant • Effectively managed the body exterior systems team from prototype build through Job-1 launch of the new programs consisting of coaching and performing Structured Problem-Solving (SPS) to remediate core issues identified during testing for the Final Engineering Completion. • Secured buy-in to align talent and capabilities of the team to program requirements, adeptly leading a large team that delivered successful launches of vehicles.• Oversaw and controlled all aspects of program costs, tooling changes, and change control with team. Show less

Area: Chicago Assembly Plant, Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) • Directed efforts of an eight-person product engineering team with dotted-line influence of engineers to execute improvement actions on exterior systems.• Coached and mentored team members on Structured Problem-Solving (SPS) disciplines to enable continuous improvement and employ failure mode analysis (FMA).• Guided product change management, process updates, and review and sign-off on repair standards.

Area: Ford of Russia JV W. Sollers, Moscow/Yelabuga/Naberezhnye Chelny• Provided high-level leadership across the full program management lifecycle to successfully launch five vehicles.• Adeptly analyzed and optimized resources, costs, people, and capacity while overseeing timelines and program milestones to achieve on-time go-to-market (GTM) release without disruption.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering