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Arden Hills, Mn

Managed constant influx of sustaining requests, from many different sources, sometimes involving many different products with relative priorities ever changing. Supervised 3 or 4 full-time employees and 2 contractors. • Monitored all end-of-life parts and last-time buys of components, ensuring no "line down” occurrences in manufacturing. • Kept multiple projects moving while keeping resources focused on top priority projects and prepared, providing updates in status and priority update meetings.• Prioritized tasks of the team to handle multiple projects (cost out, end of life of components, customer requests, and field issues) assigned to the team at any given time, enabling members to meet program deadlines with high quality. • Lead projects that saved in excess of $4M in product cost out.• Led a team to find a resolution to an end of life component issue, with a potential risk to sales of over $16M. Drove the team to validated replacement displays, worked with compliance team to secure the necessary regulatory approvals and then released the new displays into production on or before promise dates.

Arden Hills, Mn

Led design, testing, and release to manufacturing of new Residential security control panels which achieved over 1M panels sold. • Guided team of up to 14 hardware, mechanical, and firmware engineers to design complex wireless Security systems for residential and light commercial applications, meeting target deliverable's for cost while maintaining quality and reliability. • Created environment to allow risk taking for technical challenges, enabling team to grow in both product support knowledge and leadership.• Provided proactive coaching to the team, improving overall performance.• Prioritized the tasks of the team to handle the multiple projects assigned to the team at any given time, enabling members to meet program deadlines with high quality.

Arden Hills, Mn

Embedded firmware architect and designer for security panels. Chief architect and designer of the firmware for a several security panels that each had over 1M units sold and one was part of the “Innovation Timeline” for General Electric (GE). • Wrote firmware for several Alarm System Control Panels sold in the USA, each having $5-10M in annual sales.• Modified a version of Alarm Panel firmware for a major European customer so they could continue to sell the product ($4M in sales). Guided the project through the approval agencies in Europe and through internal reviews.• Received 2 Management Awards for Customer Focus and Expertise for providing excellence in meeting external customer needs, result in new sales of $36K/month.