Michael Crocker Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

As the CNS Traffics and Surveillance Director of Engineering, reporting to the Sr. Director of the CNS Product line, I have spearheaded Leadership Effectiveness, Enhancing Competitive Intelligence, Operational Excellence, and Employee Experience within the Electronic Systems CNS organization, enabling a world-class global planning and execution MOS across a vast portfolio of Traffic and Surveillance products with Systems, Software, Hardware, RF, & Mechanical content. I have partnered with world class engineering and business leaders to implement product strategies, define technology roadmaps, develop program schedules and milestones, and drive improvements in engineering quality and productivity. Traffic and Surveillance product line has several major NPIs in the STRAP timeframe serving the ATR, BGA and D&S markets. Primary responsibilities include:• Develop the Traffic and Surveillance Burning Platform, spearhead Employee Engagement, lead Project Execution, Gold Business Enterprise Strategy partnership, and Product Line Operations• Productivity innovations leader, enabling optimum coordination within the global CNS Product Lines as well as reaching to internal ES organizations and stakeholders• Spearhead the CNS NPD Transformation for Speed and 50% cycle time/cost acceleration innovations global deployment, deploy Agile methodologies • Drive speed and affordability for all NPIs/SRDs/Obsolescence programs• Meet HMR, EAC, UPC and ensure Flawless Launch and product ownership from AT TRL 4-6 through IPDS Phase C and in-service support• Resources Management: Census, UR reqs, Regular reqs, Subs, POs against business demand• TRR/MRR/GSF planning and execution • Build a world-class global Traffic and Surveillance Systems, Software, Hardware, RF, & Mechanical workforce that creates competitive advantage by recruiting, developing, and retaining top talent

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Lead and develop a talented engineering team of senior professionals and managers responsible for the development of test solutions and qualification test procedures for Honeywell's Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Avionics products. Leverage my technical experience and skills to guide my team in the investigation and resolution of challenging technical problems. Use my leadership skills to motivate teams that are designing new or modifying existing test products, parts and processes. By collaborating with customers and broader worldwide engineering teams (Olathe, KS; Redmond, WA; Shanghai, China; Brno, Czech; Bangalore, India), work to balance team workload and drive exceptional team performance with high impact for the business.* Drive commonality in test solution equipment across the Honeywell Aerospace business unit to achieve significant cost saving. Achieved $1.1M in cost saving in first six months of 2018.* Demonstrated leadership experience in overseeing entry to senior level professionals.* Proven history of leading teams to successfully deliver test solutions and procedures used in the development, qualification, manufacture and repair of various avionic products. Delivered two major programs with all project milestones completed on time and at ~10% under budget.* Extensive collaborative work with partners enabling teams to exceed expectations on work delivery and timelines.* Develop detailed cost and schedule estimates for complete program test solutions and qualification testing in support of new product development.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Coordinated the specification, development and qualification of test solutions for Aerospace Unit, including Design Verification, Manufacturing and Repair test products. Managed and coordinated numerous projects across multiple teams in various locations (Olathe, KS; Redmond, WA; Shanghai, China; Brno, Czech; Bangalore, India).* Managed internal development groups and outsourced suppliers in the development of testing solutions for Honeywell Products* Formulated technical specifications and SOWs with input from Design Engineering, Product Management and Procurement for use in RFP activities with strategic vendors. * Developed detailed cost and schedule estimates for complete project test solutions for the development, manufacture and repair of Avionic products.* Implemented Earned Value Measurement techniques to track project performance.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Coordinated the development and qualification of OEM RF subassembly products for Wireless Business Unit, including RF filters, amplifiers, TTLNAs, antennas, RF Heads, and various other RF products. Managed and coordinated numerous projects across multiple teams in various locations (Columbus, OH; Murray Hill, NJ; Shanghai, China; Stuttgart, Germany).• Served as Technical Project Lead for several complex RF hardware features which were delivered on time while achieving high levels of quality. Hardware features are in-service across 3 major North American Wireless Service providers. • Formulated technical specifications and SOWs with input from Product Management and Procurement for use in RFP activities with strategic vendors. Allowed Product Management flexibility in bringing needed product to market quickly without consuming internal development resources.• Integrated, tested, and qualified third party subassembly software into main software qualification testing cycle, enabling internal software resources to be reallocated to other higher priority projects.• Managed yearly cost reduction programs for all RF OEM products. Achieved $30M in annual savings for 4 years.• Lead team to transfer Bell Laboratories’ Intellectual Property to Alcatel-Lucent strategic supplier base. New technologies are in production at suppliers and have achieved both weight and size reductions for products.• Coordinated resolution of factory and customer related quality problems including creation of Failure Mode Analysis reports. Resulted in keeping all products within quality specifications.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Managed sustaining engineering and cost reduction activities for GSM base station equipment. Directed and managed team members in multiple international locations (China, India, Germany, and USA).• Organized several quality improvement efforts, increasing GSM hardware quality from customer perspective. Worked closely with Quality organization, maintaining all hardware within return rate specifications.• Collaborated with Manufacturing organization to optimize factory production yields. Resulted in lower rework costs and higher manufacturing capacity.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Managed sustaining engineering and cost reduction activities for AMPS, TDMA, and CDMA wireless base stations.• Initiated coordinated effort between Purchasing and Engineering to provide technical leverage during vendor negotiations that resulted in lower material cost.• Worked with Manufacturing organization, optimizing factory production yields.

Murray Hill, Nj, Us

Led digital / firmware team tasked with redesigning linear high power RF amplifiers for AT&T wireless base station platform.• Specified, designed, and tested several digital circuit boards used in cellular broadband linear amplifiers. Resulted in manufacturing yield improvements, higher reliability, and reduced costs.• Specified, designed, and tested real time embedded firmware that controlled cellular broadband linear amplifier. Allowed for improved customer operation, ease of both software and hardware upgrades, and significant improvements in fail detection, isolation, and reporting.• Architected entire digital and embedded firmware system for paralleled RF feedforward amplifier. Improved RF performance at lower cost and allowed for service repairs in field that greatly reduced warranty costs.

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