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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Leading large, complex industrial projects and engineering teams throughout North America and Europe for a $6.7B global industrial automation and information technology company with 23K employees worldwide and customers across 100 countries. Responsible for guiding full project and product lifecycle, driving team performance, process improvements, certification, risk management, cost savings, product quality, seamless delivery, and client retention. • Directing a 75-member team of engineers and project managers and coordinating teams throughout North America on development and delivery of projects, orchestrating multi-year project schedules, budgets, risk and issue analysis from inception to completion• Successfully led agile teams with 40+ members using SAFe and a release train with migration to Agile, reducing allowed schedule overruns • Provided critical information to lead certification activities across the globe, including projects requiring functional safety (IEC 61580) certifications, living and working internationally at company and customer facilities throughout the UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy • Devised and implemented a plan to address challenges with achieving regulatory certification requirements for teams across the globe, achieving full certification goals in half the scheduled time (5 months vs. 12 months) • Guided projects and programs to support the Process Safety Business, living in England (2017 – 2018) to achieve the business goal of releasing a product family and closing a facility• Drove a technical investigation on a suite of products to service a key industrial segment, resulting in a sizable company investment to launch 100+ new products to the expanded portfolio • Created new tools and processes to transition Agile Release Train (ART) with engineering teams across four distinct campuses and 12 time zones to remote Program Increment (PI) planning

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Guided strategic planning and project teams, focused on improving product development processes, efficiencies, resource planning, and implementing new guidelines for work processes and standardization. Led problem-solving for customized client needs and managed teams across several sites and countries, ensuring quality execution and prompt completion. Estimated projects and programs for the annual operating plan and long-term road mapping. • Managed multi-site campus program across six time zones to identify potential products (customer and technical) allowing the company to serve the marketplace better. This investigation drove multiple large investment programs and new product initiatives• Directed project teams of five to 60 people including hardware, software, and firmware developers and other disciplines on multi-year projects, overseeing entire project lifecycles from vision to completion, with responsibility for budgets, risk, and issue analysis• Led teams to identify next-generation Process Safety Instrumented System product requirements, development parameters, and estimates • Supported supplier agreement and SOW creation and negotiations for contract labor, software licensing, and materials, leading to a $300K reduction in annual costs• Created new processes and training to support new requirements in the IEC 61508, reducing future certification times by 3-6 months, living and working internationally at company and customer facilities• Met a critical customer need that was initially missed and required product assessments to the IEC61508 standard, reducing the previous promise of 9 months down to 3 months, and in the process created a loyal customer • Developed and delivered status reports and recommendations to executive suite on issues and needs

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Directed engineering personnel, activities, and technical direction overseeing teams of hardware, software, and firmware developers across the globe overseeing budget and schedule creation, identifying risks, issues, requirements, and serving as cross-function leader orchestrating the creation of product requirements across firmware development teams. • Partnered with internal and external vendors to address product quality, requirements, issues, and cost reductions• Pivotal role in developing market analysis for HMI products, conducting customer interviews to influence designs and address quality issues• Improved product quality and customer satisfaction exceeding company goals by 2x• Collaborated in developing supplier agreements and SOW creation, playing a significant role in negotiations for contract labor, software licensing, and materials

Served as Team Leader for project management, sales support, control system design and commissioning, firmware engineering, and electronic design for a global company specializing in hydraulic pumps, valves, and control systems with $100M+ in sales and 1000+ employees worldwide. Initiated and orchestrated multi-year project schedules, budgets, and risk and issue analysis from inception to completion.• Relocated to Italy, leading a global team of firmware and control engineers in the design and development of a forging machine• Collaborated with the German office, designing and commissioning a control for a Whelan press (industrial controls); the control design reduced system cost by $5K• Sales support (customer requirements, project definition, and quotation) for industrial controls (Accelerated Die Cushions and Flying Sheers)• Led technical conversion of single-board computer system’s with RTOS to PC’s using real-time control systems• Created HMI systems for embedded systems and PCs• Contributed to building supplier agreements and SOW creation, and negotiations for labor contracts, software licensing, and materials that totaled in excess of $1M annually

Msem, Master Of Science - Engineering Management

Bseet - Bachelor Of Science - Electrical Engineering Technology