Michael Stiyer Email & Phone Number

Bingham Farms, Mi

Bingham Farms, Mi

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Directed 40+ salaried and hourly employees, charged with full vehicle crash testing for global programs. Accountable for worker & facility safety, productivity metrics, continuous efficiency improvements, planning and yearly spending on $10M operational and $3M capital investment budgets, ISO 17025 compliance, test procedure development, facility accreditation for various internal engineering and regulatory safety requirements, and ensuring program testing plans are executed to support engineering • Developed in-house capability for dynamic rollover sensor development testing with $100K investment resulting in an annual savings of $400K in outsourced testing and $500K in prototype costs • Improved dummy instrumentation test quality by 50% with quality action initiatives and a rigorous quality process focused on every step in the crash test process• Implemented innovative tow cable / drive shuttle monitoring permissive integrated into emergency abort system that eliminated faulty vehicle releases resulting in lost prototype cost savings of at least $500K/year• Devised a facility and test equipment investment strategy to in-source high voltage battery destructive testing at a 50% cost reduction from initial cost estimates by optimizing placement of test sites through a combination of repurposing existing facilities and land contracts for new facility construction sites.

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Led overall facility and test equipment health of the Body and Chassis Durability testing building including new capital investments, maintenance and repair scheduling and managing strategic brake testing contract with LINK. Supervised engineering and operations of wheel durability, tire performance & durability testing, and brake dynamometer NVH testing facilities• Negotiated 5-year lease of MSC 4-wheel environmental brake NVH dynamometer in-lieu of $15M investment in a new facility and partnered with MSC to install a new pre-soak environmental chamber directly attached to existing dyno chamber that increased test throughput by 25%• Led $2M capital installation of new Tire Rolling Resistance MTS equipment. Organized work between Ford trades, outside contractors, and MTS installers. A 200% increase in test capacity was critical in meeting the throughput requirements of new program tire development• Implemented $1M capital installation of MAST table for high voltage battery durability testing. Designed facility with unique safety cage that included gas detection, thermal imaging, and a water deluge system for fire protection from potential thermal runaway events

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Specialized in development of new test methodologies to simulate complex component-level events that occur during full vehicle crashes • Designed and constructed innovative dynamic sled on sled frontal angular fixture to simulate frontal angular crash on a reverse acceleration sled (3 patents) US PATENTS - 7,610,792 Sled Buck Testing System; 7,836,749 Sled Buck Testing System; 8,196,447 Sled Buck Testing System• Directed development of unique sled child seat load and tension measuring instrumentation and test methodology development in conjunction with safety research team. US PATENT - 8,235,463 Child Seat Tethering System

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Responsible for managing test queues, test setup fixture designs, data collection, post-test data analysis, and equipment troubleshooting for Interior Head Impact, Component Safety Testing, Pedestrian Impact, Environment Chamber Airbag Deployment, Dummy OOP, and Servo-hydraulic reverse acceleration sled testing facilities• Collaborated with program safety engineers on innovative side impact airbag design to protect front seat occupants in the IIHS side impact test event US PATENT EP1741604: A Side Airbag Apparatus for a Vehicle• Designed and built innovative Pedestrian Impact launcher fixture to enable utilization of existing Interior Head Impact test facility to conduct all modes of pedestrian impact testing with minimal equipment investment cost • VEV Achievement Awards: Side Impact Simulation on the VIA Sled, IHI Air Bearing Transporter Implementation, Dynamic Deformation Side Impact Simulation on Deceleration Sled, Pedestrian Impact Testing Capability Development, Developing an Improved Verification Method to Prove-Out Door Retention During Crash Testing, Hot/Cold Airbag Test Management Software Development

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

FCG Rotations: Safety Laboratories Test Engineer, D186 Fuel System D&R, 1999 F150 Chassis Launch Team, Customer Correlation Test Engineer, 2000 Explorer SportTrac NVH Development

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Researched and developed calibration method for the Laser Induced Fluorescence technique of measuring thin oil films in S.I. engines by using capacitance gauges in tandem with fiber optics • Authored technical paper on LIF technique of measuring thin oil films that was selected to appear in SAE TRANSACTIONS - JOURNAL OF FUELS & LUBRICANTS 1997

Lacrosse, Wisconsin, United States

• Researched and developed a control algorithm to optimize the energy consumption of a chiller/cooling tower combination - US PATENT 5,600,960: Near Optimization of Cooling Tower Condenser Water• Developed and coded a PLC program for a fully automated Glycol Recovery Tank that was utilized to recycle the glycol/water solution used in testing chiller systems.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate grader for research advisor: Heat TransferMasters degree research assistant in the Engine Research.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, 3.52

Activities and Societies: Honors: Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, Pi Tau Sigma ME Honor Society Deans List seven of eight semesters ME.