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Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Novi, Michigan, Us

Novi, Michigan, Us

Lead Systems Engineering, Program Management, Validation and FUSA for awarded HV ESS. Technical lead with customers and internally, managing cross-functional, corporate level program and design reviews for execute decision making. Lead PMO for process development and also new/advanced architectures for new business development.

Customer engineering and program management responsibilities for Japan OEMs (Japan and NA offices) for Car Audio, Infotainment and Connected Services. Responsible for execution of programs to customer milestones from program inception through launch, leading matrixed global engineering and cross functional support teams. Significant quoting and new business development focus leading several customer RFQs. • Led team through challenging and complex COVID-19 mitigation plans ensuring no missed customer deliverables.

Lead global engineering for all acoustic systems and components including SW, HW, ME, Systems, Transducer, Acoustic and Customer engineering for all products shipped to US and Japanese OEM Customers. Internal and external located in US, MX, India, Japan and China. Support quoting and new business development.• Delivered largest historical re-organization of car audio engineering, transitioning to best cost country locations consolidated under new global engineering organization with no disruption to ongoing and new customer projects.• Improved engineering quality on customer deliverables by ~15% in one year.• Key contributor in new business award with new major Japanese OEM for branded audio.

Managed global team of internal and external Mechanical Design Engineers and CAD Designers for all products shipped to US and Japanese OEM Customers. Support quoting and new business development.• Improved internal efficiencies to consistently deliver lower than budget.• Grew Mexico and India teams from 2 to 32+ effective employees in less than 2 years due to increased business.• Instrumental contributor to RFI, quoting and award for Cadillac; leading team through design and validation. • Led team of global peers to develop and implement global mechanical product development process.• Focused improvement for speaker and amplifier best practices for design of plastics, castings, stampings, DFM. • Delivered procurement and implementation of engineering CAD, CAE and PLM/PDM tools.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Managed Mechanical and Amplifier Design/Project Engineers and CAD Designers for all products shipped.• Led design engineering for all transducers and bassboxes and amplifier ECU project management.• Prepared functional input for new business quote/proposals with achievable cost and investment targets.

Novi, Michigan, Us

Engineering Director (25+ employees) responsible for the High and Low Voltage ESS Mechanical and Electrical Design and Core Pack Engineering. • Successfully aligned parallel teams to one function (at peak 32 employees) after reorganization, improving operational efficiency and unifying best practices and lessons learned.• Directed resource allocation and forecasting for departmental production and new business development projects according to customer timing/deliverables and budget requirements. • Co-developed and implemented Engineering Deliverables process to ensure product quality and robustness throughout product development stages.• Lead development of product innovations focusing on design for manufacturing (DFM), design for serviceability (DFS), cost reductions and cross-program utilization/implementation.

Novi, Michigan, Us

Engineering Manager (15+ employees) responsible for EV/PHEV RESS Mechanical and Electrical Design and BMS System Integration.• Built a highly productive team from only 2 employees to peak 23 cross-functional engineers and designers.• Instrumental contributor for the award of both development and production contracts for the Chevy Spark BEV ESS. • Lead engineering team through concept-to-production design and successful PPAP of highly compressed Fisker Karma battery pack (~16 months), company’s first high volume program.• Managed core engineering team in creation of core ESS DVP and DFMEA to support acquisition and customer programs improving efficiency and adding to corporate knowledge base.• Lead team through the production design and release of Gen1 Battery Management System electronic assemblies.• Partnered with purchasing organization to identify and source contract manufacturing supplier for high volume production of PCB and assembly of Battery Management System components.• Lead statement of requirements creation, supplier sourcing competition and selection for Manual Service Disconnect with large Tier 2 supplier which is now used industry wide on several major OEM battery packs.• Lead team through the development of ISO26262 based Functional Safety Goals and Hazard Analysis.• Utilized skills in talent acquisition to double the size of the battery module team in 4 months and recover schedule for deliverables.

Novi, Michigan, Us

Design and Release on the Battery Control Module, Current Sense Module, Monitor and Balance Board and Electrical Distribution Sub-assembly.• Engineered mechanicals for the Battery Control Module (BCM) and Current Sense Module (CSM) foundation components of battery management system.• Design engineered electrical distribution module in Pro/E according to pack requirements and BMS functions.• Procured prototype parts and performed prototype builds for initial validation and A-sample customer packs.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Started in Ford College Graduate rotation program, then was the design and release engineer for industry-first integrated trailer brake controller (TBC) on the 2005 SuperDuty. Worked as TBC Core engineer from 2005-2008. Worked as Design and Release engineer for Econoline ABS in 2006. Worked as Trailer Sway Control (TSC) Core engineer from 2006-2008 and Roll Stability Control (RSC) Algorithm engineer from 2007-2008.Trailer Sway Control (TSC) SME and Roll Stability Control (TM) Algorithm Engineer:• Managed multiple programs as corporate single point of contact for TSC system design and implementation.• Authored TSC performance specification including programming Matlab auto-run script for supplier acquired data.• Led supplier through industry first application of TSC with Trailer Brake Controller (TBC) Intervention specification.• Worked with Automotive Safety Office and Office of General Council to develop strategy for TSC implementation. • Performed study for enhanced passive wheel lift algorithm for RSC, building Matlab model and base code with verification. • Learned three data acquisition systems for different suppliers and performed various algorithm module validation.Integrated Trailer Brake Controller (TBC) Core Design and System Engineer:• Design and Release engineer for industry first technology on 2005 Super Duty managing all ME/HW/SW design.• Lead first time OEM supplier through compressed program timing to production in 27 months.• Developed initial technical requirements, creating DV and PV plans and authoring HW/SW interface specs.• Created Matlab Simulink/Stateflow based executable functional specification for requirements specification.

Msme, Engineering

Msme, Engineering

Bsme, Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering