Manager responsible for leading a team of 30 salaried personnel, comprised of operations engineers, electrical system engineers, mechanical system engineers, planners, schedulers, and master work permit issuing officials, who safely operate and maintain the Propulsion Wind Tunnels (PWT) and Von Karman Facility (VKF) plant systems that deliver conditioned air, high pressure air, and exhauster support to multiple test facilities. Select contributions include:• Provide leadership to team - including recognition, promotions, training, job assignments, leading safety, ensure compliance with policies/procedures, and pursue continuous process improvement• Recommend, justify, and advocate investment programs for the Flight Systems Plant Assets based on projected customer requirements and health of assets• Review plant maintenance and investment projects to proactively resolve cost, schedule, and technical issues related to project implementation.• Demonstrate ability to understand and aggressively react to relative work priorities within the team, branch, and company in meeting skills management and budget challenges

Project manager responsible for managing multi-year investment projects in the Flight Systems business areas to cost and schedule, while ensuring all technical requirements were met. Oversaw all aspects of technical, cost, and schedule performance for executing the project from concept to close-out. Select contributions include:• Developed project plans to detail project scope, deliverables, resource requirements, staffing plan, outage requirements, risk assessment (technical, cost, schedule), and schedule in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations. • Provided leadership to the project team in all project phases to ensure effective team development and performance. • Calculated cost and schedule variances and estimate-to-complete. Analyzed significant variances and planned actions to correct variances. • Prepared and coordinated project change management.

Staff level manager responsible for prioritizing and directing the project work and tasks for a team of 9 manufacturing engineers responsible for increasing product quality, improving process flow, and reducing costs while maintaining or improving safety in all of the assembly, warehouse, offline, and paint departments in a 487,000 sq. ft. Class 8 truck assembly plant with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications.Selected contributions include:• Planned and co-managed an $11M expansion project that increased plant capacity 25% and efficiency 13%, with an ROI of 110%. Project completed on time and under budget.• Championed the manufacturing engineering team to complete Six Sigma projects averaging 31% of the plant’s goal, resulting in $2.9M total combined annual savings• Led two High Impact Kaizen Event (HIKE) teams that improved efficiency, quality, and material flow, resulting in $610K annual savings

Prioritized and directed the project work and tasks for a team of 3 manufacturing engineers responsible for increasing product quality, improving process flow, and reducing costs while maintaining or improving safety in all of the cab side assembly departments.Selected contributions include:• Project manager for model changeover to a new cab and sleeper interior and dimensionally stable cab and sleeper structure, resulting in annual labor savings of $1.3M (-2.26 truck/hrs)• Championed the cab side manufacturing engineering team to complete Six Sigma projects averaging 25% of the plant’s goal, resulting in $1.1M total combined annual savings• Led two High Impact Kaizen Event (HIKE) teams that improved efficiency, quality, and material flow, resulting in $656K annual savings

• Project manager for a Class 7 model build relocation from a Mexican facility to a start-up facility in Washington state. Project required 6 months of travel.• Project manager for a start-up Class 8 Day Cab build in a Canadian facility• Completed 18 Kaizen and Six Sigma projects resulting in a total savings of $1.1M• Proposed, bid, justified, and implemented capital budget projects by demonstrating ROI• Designed tooling, templates, and assembly fixtures to enhance facility operations• Developed process documentation and control plans to improve efficiency and quality• Performed time and work content studies to determine manpower for build rate changes• Rearranged production areas and material flow to maximize utilization of facilities and personnel• Maintained and modified facility layout drawings utilizing AutoCAD• Assessed medical restrictions of assembly operators to determine potential job placement• Facilitated training of assembly operators

• Interpreted sales orders and/or drawings to prepare engineering releases such as assembly sheets, bills of material, and CAD frame layouts• Maintained and customized bills of material and CAD frame layouts as required due to design changes, engineering change notices, and customer request changes

Graduate Research Assistant, Test Operations DepartmentDepartment of Energy Coal Fired Flow Facility (CFFF)• Operated the CFFF as third shift test engineer during 300+ on-line hour tests• Created facility reports of calibration histories and system parameter equations• Performed annual and pre/post-test calibrations of various facility equipment

Arnold Engineering Development Center - Arnold AFB, TNAero Propulsion Systems Test Facility (ASTF) C1 Project Management Section•Ensured instrumentation readiness for turbine engine testing