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Marlborough, Ma

Program Manager for Air Purifiers and Fans in the Home Environment Group. In charge of managing and delivering multiple products simultaneously across the new product development lifecycle. Managed market leading air purification worldwide product developments including Honeywell and Febreze products with multiple sku counts and Bluetooth App development. Supported more than 30 legacy products through product improvements and manufacturing issues. Extensive work with Asia engineering teams and China suppliers. Provided electrical engineering expertise and informal mentoring to team, including technical study groups and program management productivity sessions.

Framingham, Ma

Program Manager for the Consumer Electronics Division (Noise Reduction Technology Group), focus on custom headsets.• Kicked off and managed a program to refurbish & provide over 2,500 headsets to the NFL. Lead team to design custom painted headsets for 3 initiatives, procured, produced and fielded those headsets. Lead the team to provide support for headsets for a year of service.• Initiated and managed program to design a new headset, and adapted program through multiple organizational changes to meet the needs of the customer while still delivering within the company's means. Supported the engineering design and test of our customer's intercom system.• Certifications in Bose Management training as well as Yellow Belt for Six Sigma • Supervisor for the Custom Headsets Group

Waltham, Ma

Program Management: Managed several customer funded R&D programs over 200K in value from concept development to contract award, through delivery. Focus on Robot Controllers and Hazmat Robot systems. Managed diverse engineering teams to deliver hardware and software systems on time and on budget.Proposals: Lead and participated in several proposal and bid efforts including large delivery orders, add-on software tasks, upgrade kits, new vehicle efforts.Systems Engineering: Lead Systems Engineer on a Large Scale Autonomous & Teleoperated Vehicle program. Lead a team of 14 develop system and subsystem requirements and work through architecture design and application to electrical & mechanical design.DOORS: Initiated the use of DOORs within the robotics systems group, trained 14 engineers and was the adminstrator for the DOORs system.

Cambridge Ma

Systems Engineering: Systems Task Lead in the Special Programs group. Worked with sponsors to develop customer requirements & CONOPS. Developed System Requirements, System Architectures, System Documentation and User Manuals. Worked on Sensor technologies, Security and Encryption requirements and design including Type 2 encryption.DOORS: Implemented DOORs within the Special Programs group so that the entire engineering team was using it across the life cycle from customer requirements down to detailed verification of requirements. Demonstrated the flowdown and linking capabilities to our customers. Robotics: Proposal work for DARPA Microcrawler Robots, NSF Soft Robotic SuitEmployee Activities Committee Co-Chair, Yoga & Gourmet Club Leader

Rochester, Ny

Systems Engineering: Worked with custom system design, proposals, hardware design, Military Standard testing, and manufacturing of systems. VHF, HF, USDOD UHF & multiband radio experience, network design, power supply design & test, requirements development & outsourcing, proposal & program development. CMMI Certification Team.Project Engineering: Budget & schedule management, Technical lead on nine projects, Outsourcing & supplier management. Largest internal project managed, 10 people, 600K. Software application productization and Power supply/charger development and outsourcing. Wrote requirements specifications & performed validation testing.Advanced Networking Team: Extensive network validation testing, Customer system design & debug, Requirements development, Software application research & testing Situational awareness expertise, Radio networking expertise

Windsor Locks, Ct

Space Suit Test Engineering: Worked on developmental hardware, test designs, developmental tests, procedures, troubleshooting, and designed and modified tools and test boxes. Integrated with the engineering design team to develop test strategies.Space Station Project Engineering: Developed an electrical parts list for all of the Orbital Replacement Units. Created presentations and research books.

Bs, Electrical Engineering, 3.3

Activities and Societies: Varsity Ski Team, FIRST Robotics Team, SWE, Outing Club, Honors Program, Newspaper Delivery, 2007 Reunion.

(Ms) Electrical Engineering, Robotic Intelligence, 3.6

All coursework completed part-time towards a Masters in Electrical Engineering, focus in Robotic Intelligence including studies.