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Berkley, MI, US

Michigan, United States

Leading a team of engineers working on the overall integration of HWIO, Ethernet IO, and Basic Software for GM's future vehicle electrical architecture.

*Defined, designed, and developed the Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) competency of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to align strategy and execution of the global electrification, controls, software, and electronics software portfolio.* Collaborated with key leaders to determine strategic themes to drive the composition of the software portfolio.*.

Warren, MI

• Direct and coordinate the business management functions for the Product Cybersecurity department. Provide support to the Chief Product Cybersecurity Officer and function in day-to-day business operations..
• Represent and reinforce the Chief Product Cybersecurity Officer’s technical and organizational direction
• Support planning, development and execution of the Chief Product Cybersecurity Officer’s business plan, key strategies & initiatives
• Identify and lead special projects in alignment with department goals to continuously improve the execution of product cybersecurity
• Act as the single point of contact to finance and the liaison between Purchasing and Product Cybersecurity. Manage the department's budget and track spending and purchase orders.
• Create and deliver presentations to senior leaders providing updates on projects and initiatives impacting the cybersecurity of General Motors' products

Responsible for establishing, maintaining, refining, and communicating business and technical processes for all Product Cybersecurity teams - core vehicle, connected services, vehicle cybersecurity testing, autonomous vehicles, and risk analytics.Executed projects while ensuring appropriate requirements are gathered, suitable milestones are selected, and.

United States

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Greater Detroit Area

• Responsible for managing a team of ten individuals to lead and oversee build, and implementation of the systems that support the operating rooms and anesthesia services. Received the Henry Ford Health System (HFHS).
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical individuals and teams to ensure critical business and technical processes are supported by strategic initiatives that drive business objectives.
• Translate organizational needs into design requirements to improve financials, processes, and safety.
• Facilitate meetings and crucial conversations between senior management, cross functional teams, and/or vendors to resolve difficult, sensitive, or political issues that prevent the advancement of system delivery.
• Ensure appropriate project requirements are gathered, appropriate milestones are selected, and risk mitigation strategies are put into place to ensure efficient and timely project completion.
• Created several best practices for intake, system development, and testing to spread across other system teams.

Greater Detroit Area

• Responsible for the surgical information systems and hardware supporting the operating rooms at Henry Ford Hospital. Information systems included clinical documentation, RFID equipment tracking, tissue tracking, and.
• Utilized Crystal Reports and email delivery software to provided data and reports to clinicians and executives
• Created monthly Excel report dashboards for surgical leadership to review case volume, room turnaround times, and operating room utilization.
• Improved interface design to increase reliability and improve timing of surgical record import into the legal medical record

Greater Detroit Area

• Process Improvement Engineer for Henry Ford Hospital Department of Surgical Services.
• Collaborated with Surgeons and Anesthesiologists to develop a patient risk stratification model to determine the appropriate level of pre-surgical optimization
• Lead several process improvement efforts to improve surgical scheduling and pre-admission testing processes
• Taught Lean process improvement classes to multi-disciplinary groups including nurses, surgeons, and anesthesiologists

Greater Detroit Area

• Internal consultant performing various performance and process improvements. Projects include workload studies, space analysis, and Lean, Six Sigma implementation. Much of my work focused on hospital patient throughput.
• Analyzed outpatient MRI scheduling processes and software design to reduce “waiting to schedule” work-in-progress by 80% while decreasing scheduling turnaround time by four days
• Created a simulation to study Labor and Delivery workflows to determine bottlenecks and provided recommendations for improving throughput
• Worked with VP of Business Development to perform ad-hoc data analysis and “what-if” scenario simulation to determine appropriate hospital bed allocation, specialty unit relocation, and staffing levels
• Maintained a database of new patient business and provided reports per department to determine new growth areas
• Presented locally and nationally on the topic of Lean in Healthcare. Groups included American Medical Technologists National Organization, Detroit Chapter of American Society for Quality, Detroit Chapter of Institute.

Bse, Industrial And Operations Engineering

Master’S Degree, Information Technology - Cybersecurity