Director, Fa Engineering
CurrentProvide leadership and day-to-day management of 35 engineers and supervisors in 4 teams. Directly manage the Product Management team and manage 4 supervisors responsible for the Application Engineering team, Solutions Engineering team and Engineering Support.Utilize the Solutions Engineering team to develop software and hardware products and custom applications for MTB and other customers using Scrum based development technique. Provide direction to product management team to set price for CNC system parts and drive development requests back to FANUC Corporation. Provide engineering support to FANUC MTB and End-User customers by using the field Application Engineering team. Promote new products with customer visits, tradeshow, marketing and providing technical assistance to customers. Worked with DoC, DoD and DoS regarding export control issues as Chairman of the Materials Processing Equipment Technical Advisory Committee for several years Develop training programs for the engineering staff and sales team on new FANUC development. Work directly with FANUC Japan and the sales staff on commercial and technical issues relating to FANUC CNC system sales.