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Sedalia, Mo, Us

Kennesaw, Georgia, Us

Contract Assist in writing FEED and bid specification for a cogen plant.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Provided technical assistance to sales, customers, consultants, and developers to promote GE technology during project definition phase. Performed cycle and equipment comparisons to establish optimum technical and economical configuration for project.• Responded to technical questions from existing and prospective customers related to product applicability and capability resulting in collaborating relations that held customer engagement and influenced equipment purchase.• Collaborated with customers to identify needs and developed complex integrated solutions that maximized utilization of company's family of products while meeting client’s technical constraints and financial goals.• Calculated optimum design point and presented financial advantages and disadvantages to leadership that enabled a detailed feasibility analysis of proposals based on project location.• Interfaced and collaborated with internal and external subject matter experts to evaluate nonstandard solutions which ensured successful development of design and execution details prior to order.• Provided training to new regional customer application engineers that enhanced their ability to more effectively support their local sales team.• Supported proposal development by interpreting complex specifications to create design for infrastructure projects that consistently resulted in obtaining and retaining key customers.• Created and maintained documentation on proposal documents and technical information including pricing and configurations that created a data repository for sales and customer service.• Supported marketing teams by evaluating profitability of performance improvements and NPI concepts that enabled customization of equipment to customer needs.• Assisted IT team by reviewing software program features and functionality to ensure that output was correct, complete and valuable.

Worked directly with customers and sales team to develop technical solutions. Championed introduction of new hydrogen leak detection technology solutions in the market.• Provided technical support to Regional Sales managers to identify and capture opportunities for increased business at existing customers which achieved $100 million in orders yearly.• Collaborated with factory subject matter experts to support proposal and execution phases which resulted in the submission of proposals capturing a high percentage of proposed business.• Maintained communications with customers to keep them up to date in projects’ progress which resulted in strong customer relations.• Produced customized maintenance summary books that educated customers on OEM recommended future maintenance based on past experiences.• Provided competitive product, commercial, and market feedback to the company maintaining insight on competitor offerings and job wins.

Assist manufacturing personnel of new facility setup, startup and process qualification of wind turbine blades. • Specified required equipment needed to perform material testing ensuring a quality product was manufactured.• Supported sourcing organization in material selection, supplier approval and material qualification which ensured equipment manufacturing compliant with project specifications and materials were properly qualified.• Led manufacturing team through initial blade manufacturing process creating first GE blade manufacturing location in the US.

• Engineering support for generator manufacturing, enabling shipment of 140 generators in single year.• Developed engineering plan to transfer generator manufacturing to new plant. • Evaluated new processes to ensure long term product reliability. • Developed and implemented design changes using six sigma to reduce cost and improve manufacturability. • Provided support to field service engineers, including onsite inspections, customer meetings and troubleshooting.

• Performed and analyzed mechanical testing of non-metallic materials used in generators.• Responsible for electrical testing of insulation materials for generators, including resistance, high potential testing, and voltage endurance. • Updated and created new material specification representing new technics and requirements. • Managed vendor and material qualification.• Principle engineer in charge of approving non-metallic materials for outsourced generators. • Assist manufacturing with issues during generator assembly.

• Responsible for characterizing mechanical properties of insulation material.• Participated on Insulating Technology Team. • Promoted internationalization of working group.• Coauthored several technical papers, internal and external.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Material Design

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering