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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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