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United States

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Operational and Engineering management of manufacturing engineering and production teams (40 techs and engineers) which focused on CT, PET and SPECT medical imaging system’s replacement parts. Responsible for the detailed development of the electronic test and repair patterns to insure operational capability of electrical PCBAs, subassemblies and x-ray system components. Responsible for technical team development and staffing. Worked extensively with an external contract manufacturer for skilled technical labor to augment Philips’ technical resources.

Norwalk, Ohio, United States

Functional and project management of the engineering team involved with the development of advanced mining and blasting equipment. Responsible for the NPI management of electrical, mechanical, software, and verification engineers through the product creation process. Managed requirement collection, design cycle, field testing and manufacturing release for 3 new products. Invented/developed intellectual property for new blasting system consisting of wireless base stations that had clocks synchronized to micro-second level.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Operational management of manufacturing engineering and production teams which focus on MR, CT, PET and SPECT Imaging Systems. Responsibilities include production resource planning, AOP budgets for $47 million in sales, facility management, strategic business planning, regulatory compliance support (ISO13485 & ISO9001) and continuous improvement programs using Lean techniques and Value Stream mapping. Awarded top ratings for operational excellence and employee engagement.

Cleveland, Ohio

Engineering functional and project management of technical teams involved with the development of advanced medical imaging scanners. Responsible for the management of electrical, mechanical, software, and verification engineers through the product creation process (Tollgate). Involved with all aspects of product creation including directing and contributing to activities such as product requirement specifications, design documents, design reviews, vendor management, budgetary planning and tracking, scheduling of resources for projects, risk management of projects, and verification of deliverables of projects. Responsible for technical reviews to ensure key requirement and goals of research and development cycle are met. Responsible for research and analysis of new technologies applicable for product design. Responsible for managing sustaining activities of electrical products due to part obsolesce. Responsible for synchronizing engineering activities and deliverables with other business functional areas (marketing, purchasing, manufacturing). Responsible for reporting projects’ status on bi-weekly bases at VP level.Key Accomplishments Include:• Functionally managed and grew electrical and software team from 4 people to over 24 people. Through careful hiring, coaching, training and leadership activities team was groomed to insure that work products were of a high quality and timelines were consistently met. • Successfully lead multiple concurrent NPI projects with time lines ranging from weeks to 24 months and project headcount and equipment budgets totaling $20MM. • Awarded management awards for my efforts at completing business critical projects on time.• Successfully lead development of multiple CT/PET medical scanner development projects. Directed system, electrical, mechanical, software and manufacturing teams from the marketing concept stage through production lots.

Beachwood, Ohio, United States

Responsible for defining capital equipment needed for chemical manufacturing plants. Worked closely with research chemists and chemical engineers in order to define specific equipment and controls needed to enable the business to move chemical products from the lab to the production floor. Worked with manufacturing personnel to commission new production equipment and to train staff on its usage, repair and operation. Responsible for defining the electronic process control hardware and software used in production plants across the US. Duties included acting as technical liaison between R&D and production facilities, developing custom sensor techniques for the production equipment, and developing production process control and monitoring systems using 'C', embedded microcontrollers, and PLCs. Developed custom optical scanning system for quality control of extrusion lines. Optical scanning system removed primary quality defect, the system was so successful it was applied to all 10 production lines. Responsible for defining the hardware and software required for tire production test equipment and quality related data collection equipment. Duties included designing both the hardware and software required for tire uniformity computer simulators, as well as field related R&D on high-speed tire uniformity machines.

Mba With A Focus In Technology Management

Bset, Electrical And Electronics Engineering