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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Greater Milwaukee Area

Troy, MI

Lead cross-functional teams to develop, design and launch products meeting customer requirements in fast paced, non-automotive environments. Developed and maintained strong relationships with customer purchasing, engineering and quality to ensure ongoing sales and fast resolution of problems. Created new business opportunities based on “Business Case.

St. Michael, MN

Coordinated new product launch activities for Woodbridge while assisting customer with development of new products ensuring manufacturing needs are being met. Manage customers by functioning as engineering, design and business support for new product development opportunities within a diversified product portfolio. Ensured key voice of customer aspects.

Plymouth, MN

Developed all soft good materials related to the mattress and comfort layers including foam, textiles and high loft non-wovens. Managed designers creating all drawings and specifications as well as testing and prototype line operations for all new product releases. Drove higher quality into finished mattresses through collaboration with suppliers and.

Managed engineering/manufacturing group for sheet metal fabrication specializing in power generation fuel storage tanks. Led improvements in manufacturing area reducing congestion by streamlining build area into a flow through assembly line operation reducing downtime between jobs. Helped drive improvements into engineering change release system ensuring.

Managed plant tooling departments. Oversight of product development support/design/sourcing through tooling managers in plants. Coordinate between corporate product management and plants to ensure requirements were met for product launch. Managed efficiencies of plant tooling operations at a high level for variation reduction, conformity to corporate.