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Aurora, Il, Us

Aurora, Il, Us

Aurora, Illinois, United States

• Managed the maintenance of 150+ legacy products, led the development of 10+ new products and architected the next generation of products using a global multi-functional team to deliver $85M in revenue and 65% ROI. At key project milestones, collaborated with stakeholders to communicate and mitigate risk. • Led technology planning workshops with commercial and engineering teams to define the next autonomous truck architecture to create a broad enterprise solution which will reduce cost and installation times by 50%.• Generated scope and budget to launch and maintain 9 product development projects• Trained and mentored a team of 4 project engineers while leading 10 full time design engineers and 5 contract engineers.

Aurora, Illinois, United States

• Recruited to launch and deploy Caterpillar’s next generation of telematics hardware and software across entire product line of mining trucks that successfully increased data traffic capacity by 20x. • Delivered factory ready and aftermarket telematics solutions for each mining truck model with formal status updates presented to technical and commercial leaders to generate $3M in revenue at 60% ROI. • Led discussions with customer leadership to continuously improve requirements for the next update and provide status of on-going issues resulting in 3 new critical requirements which were communicated to stakeholders and expedited for implementation.• Spearheaded the software issue resolution effort where shortly after launch, 100+ software issues were reduced by 70% in 3 months and only included non-critical issues. • Coordinated with customers to identify and prioritize resolution of issues that interfered with their operations which resulted in exceeding the uptime targets.• Managed the integration of new on-board features with off-board systems for data parsing and processing which introduced multiple new key performance indicators for a customer 5% productivity improvement.

Aurora, Il

• Transformed a machine’s hydraulic architecture by benchmarking performance, quality and cost against competitors to realize a 28% system cost reduction while improving performance by 10% and quality by reducing the number of parts by 37%.• Negotiated a major system change vs. legacy that received overwhelming customer approval. The key to success was understanding stakeholder’s perceived risk, clearly communicating mitigation strategies as well as close collaboration with designers, analysts and test engineers. • Created and managed the system’s multi-generational product plan (MGPP) and research budget for high-risk technology projects that significantly improved failure prognostics and diagnostics.• Led a team of 11 engineers to develop a lower cost, higher quality system while meeting performance requirements.

Aurora Il

• Executed software development to be 50% under budget and 6 months early on Caterpillar’s first ever diesel electric mining wheel loader for 25% lower fuel consumption and equal productivity. Operators have stated that it is the smoothest and best controlled machine they had ever used.• Mediated the relationship between software and machine groups from a toxic situation by using active listening, proactive engagement and teamwork that built a culture of trust and collaboration. • 11 patents granted in remote machine control and on-board machine control strategies.

Aurora

• Organized and led performance and risk discussions with product leadership and multi-functional teams which led to a 4% machine productivity improvement with a 3% reduction in fuel consumption.

• Won Phase 1 of the US’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 project by leading the design and integration of a 19 degree of freedom prosthetic hand

Various Canadian Locations

• Operations officer. Supported annual brigade level training exercises with communications equipment and personnel (100), while at the unit level, developed and executed platoon level training plans.

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Valedictorian | Vice President of Student Society of Mechanical Engineers

Masters Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Design & Development of a Computer Controlled Lower Extremity Prosthetic Limb

Dip.Tme, Technology Management And Entrepreneurship