Paul Pendleton Email & Phone Number

• Member of Regional Executive committee, reporting directly to Regional Operations Managing Director for North America, and PG Director in France.
• Ensured compliance of Valeo Project Management Standards for business acquisition, project development, and current production (in-series) projects.
• Responsible for generating all North America business cases for RFIs, RFQs for new business, including “new players” (West Coast Startups) to achieve expected KPIs (Gross Margin, IRR, etc)
• Managed a team of project & senior project managers with customer portfolio including Nissan, BMW, Daimler, Subaru, Stellantis / Fiat Chrysler (FCA), & Honda
• Driving project management excellence through development phase reviews.
• Hiring Staff to support function resources

Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States

• Responsible for managing all current Nissan North America projects totaling over 80M USD annual order intake.
• Supported, and secured “must win” business award of the next generation Nissan Pathfinder & Infiniti QX60 consisting of over 350MUSD of order intake, over 7 years.
• Prepared, and presented several business case assessments for new business opportunities with Nissan, Subaru, and Daimler customers.
• Responsible for maintaining, and reporting on Key Performance Indicators such as gross margin, development payback, IRR, and red project/red launch metrics.
• Authored and submitted several customer quotes for design changes, VAVE cost reductions, as well as supplier resourcing activities.
• Experience in implementing a structured approach to project management from New Business Acquisition through SOP, using specific milestone entry & exit criteria.

Auburn Hills, MI

Livonia, MI

• Responsible for leading several Ford HVAC programs
• Worked onsite at GM to support simple and complex switch programs
• Successfully led cross functional teams to ensure on time internal and external customer deliverables.
• Responsible for maintaining specific profitability targets on multiple programs at any given time.
• Maintained excellent customer relationships with Ford, and GM.
• Worked daily with colleagues, and customers overseas.

Livonia MI

• Control Modules and Electronic Control Panels.Worked in electronic electrical systems engineering (EESE) on the remote climate control module for various Ford programs.
• TRW customer liaison for Ford Motor Company
• Responsible for working with purchasing, quality, and other disciplines to ensure part deliveries to the customer plants are on time.
• Helped support PPAP documentation completion.
• Hosted and facilitated multiple technical design reviews for the electronic control panels.
• Assisted with tracking and communicating open issues and technical action items to various disciplines.

• Processed engineering drawing, and model changes for a major combat vehicle.
• Worked with Unigraphics NX, Teamcenter software, and Windchill IDE to process new and existing changes.
• Authored training manuals for the change writing process, and helped train new change writers.
• Worked on updating an existing document to help streamline the change writing process.

• Worked as a project manager for a government funded reliability project involving the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
• Prepared Basis of Estimates (BOEs), schedules, and Earned Value
• Worked as a Project Lead for Engineering Support in Production. Working on corrective action to fix a bracket that is failing due to extensive vibration located in the rear sponson area of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
• Instructed designers and other multidisciplinary teams to help devise feasible solutions to various failure investigations, as well as on new business projects.
• Completed tolerance stack-ups to verify space claims.
• Completed multiple failure analysis investigations focused on obtaining the root cause of a failure, and then proposed corrective action to fix the problem.

• Thermoformed energy absorber parts and analyzed them for optimal cycle times.
• Utilized CatiaV5 to create part prints.
• Also worked with Excel, Word, IGEScad and some AutoCad.
• Utilized quasi-static loading via an instron machine to develop Force Vs Displacement curves to establish energy targets and capability of parts.
• Shop floor experience to build and cast tools used for thermoforming.