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Galway, Ie

TE Connectivity (formerly Tyco Electronics) is a $14bn global company that designs and manufactures products that connect power, signals and data inside the devices all around us. In recent years TE had restructured its business from a local and regional, product-based organisation to a global, market-focussed organisation. This reorganisation took several years and presented many challenges. As in any large scale re-organisation, some segments fared well and others faced some difficulties. I was hired as part of a turnaround team to re-establish the Rail and Mass Transportation business and accelerate sustainable growth.• Halted staff turnover and organised the engineering staff into focussed and effective teams • Stabilised the design, manufacture and maintenance of the flagship product and re-launched it to the market( resulting in the company winning a new $4m order)• Created a targeted recruitment campaign, training and development program to rebuild the necessary expertise and specialist skills: Hired 7 specialist engineers in 12months • Re-introduced phase gate project control system and increased New Product Introduction effectiveness 200%• Started a number of technology partnerships with industry leading customers and specialist technology partners to accelerate New Product Development

Manufacturing and Distribution of Air Movers and Thermal Management Systems into the Telecommunication, Data Communications, Automotive and Military Markets.Responsibilities*Start up of new UK Limited Company as subsidiary of a USA parent company *Business development of major OEM accounts *Overall Responsibility for Design, Development, New Product Introduction and Manufacture of all customised productAchievements*Established the company and identified key early opportunities within target OEM customers *Produced successful technical proposals, negotiated entry to customer's preferred suppliers list and obtained first $100,000 value Purchase Order*Managed delivery with zero defects and 100% satisfaction including; product design, selection of key suppliers and manufacturing.

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Manufacturing and Distribution of Air Movers and Thermal Management Systems into the Telecommunication, Data Communications, Automotive and Military Markets.ResponsibilitiesResponsible for all engineering activity on COMAIR ROTON sites (USA, China, Mexico & UK)Drive major product diversification strategy and champion four key new product initiatives Deliver design competence in "Next level up" in supply chain (Cooling Assemblies)Major project feasibility study, risk assessment, ROI calculation and business planning Lead emergency recovery of major customer contract($4m pa) with intractable quality issues Create an inter-departmental project culture and implement effective design risk management Interim General Manager, Comair Rotron Europe, incl. P&L responsibility for $12m (6 months).AchievementsWorking closely with the CEO. Redesigned organisation's new business evaluation process, applied it to the global project list, reprioritised 40 business-case-tested projectsRestructured global engineering organisation to increase alignment with above Using this method, delivered 96 previously stalled designs to operations team in 3 months Met Product Diversification Goals, delivered 3 entirely new product ranges in 6 monthsDesigned, qualified and began shipments of largest known cooling assembly opportunity $9m Analysed, then through collaboration with Operations team, executed 300% improvement in defect rate on critical line Rescued $4m project from enforced handover to customer by working with QA & Ops teams to eradicate failure modes.

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Manufacturing and Distribution of Air Movers and Thermal Management Systems into the Telecommunication, Data Communications, Automotive and Military Markets.Responsibilities•Start up of UK company funded with $1milion US venture capital•Recruitment and creation of European Engineering Department •Responsible for all Engineering activity; Applications Engineering, New Product Design, New Product Introduction and Cost Reduction Engineering•Also responsible for all Engineering in Comair Rotron China, a new $10m site •Coordination of Engineering work between Comair Rotron Sites in USA, Mexico, China •Top level customer interface and program planning on high value/strategic projects •Technical Lead, emerging technology, market trends, technical risk analysis •ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14000 introduction•International secondments as necessary - from 3 days to 3 months duration•Business Systems creation, maintenance and expansion(2000-04)Achievements•Successfully founded UK company as part of four man senior management team•Achieved profit in second year and met/exceeded business plan in years three and four •Met plan for $11m turn in year five with approx $2m EBIDTA (Projects form $7m turn) •Created a competent, credible and motivated UK based engineering team•Reformed USA Application Engineering department to improve prototype success rate•Achieved successful product transfer of $3m contract from Mexico to China – on plan•Secondment to Company Headquarters as acting VP of Engineering -Successfully managed the closure of USA East Coast facility, maintained its commitments and deliverables -Built relationships with East Coast customers and delivered on all outstanding engineering projects•Attained ISO9001: 2000 Edition within 12months of company set up (one of the first in UK)•Created and maintained reliable IT system, and business information systems

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2 year assignment to increase Sales Experience) Built relationships within customers' engineering, purchasing & strategy teams in six nationsIdentified opportunities within customers organisation, and key drivers for success in eachIdentified opportunity to speed up development time and reduce costs to customer by standardising parts, to allow nine cooling system designs to share common components Sold the concept then performed systematic delivery of each project to build the Account.Created sales revenue from 0 to $3.5m in 2 years with this customer with significant EBITDA Managed entire process from quotation through to production and all customer related issuesEfforts recognised with Supplier Award for Comair Rotron group (1st for Comair in 7 years

Manufacturing and Distribution of Thermal Management Systems into the Telecommunication, Data Communications and Industrial Markets (heat exchanger and air conditioning systems).ResponsibilitiesResponsible for the commercial and technical integrity of all projects, timelines & deliverablesISO 9001 Practice Champion - guide the company towards practices in line with standard ISO 14000 Leader - plan and execute an environmental compliance program Raising customer awareness of companies abilities and technologies through exhibitions, presentations and specific written papers/reportsAchievementsIntroduced seven new custom products to production($3m sales revenue) in 2 yearsInstigated a restructure of company to re-orient from Product Focus Company (catalogue sales only) to customer focus Project oriented company to facilitate Project based business.Organised and presented exhibition to 100+ industry experts in Stockholm, Sweden to promote new integrated enclosure and thermal management technologyProduced successful technical and commercial proposal to win $30m custom product Personally selected by Ericsson to Lead entire Base Station design project, a first for APWAchieved ISO 9001 accreditation for the APW site via ISO audit of my projects First APW site to achieve ISO 14000 on back of environmental impact/

Diploma In Management, Business

Certificate In Management, Business

Mechanical And Production Engineering