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Provided technical oversight over systems-, technology-, design-, reliability- and process development-related activities, detailing program plans with work breakdown structures factoring task interdependencies. Led, communicated, and matured trade studies driving alignment across organizational and functional boundaries. Developed architectures in the lifecycle, functional-, physical-, process, and documentation- domains applicable to ICD, IPG-, and INS systems. Planned and led recurring technical reviews of requirements, design capability, integration, verification, and transfer. Raised requirements maturity by 40% going into solution definition phase by generating operational concepts and leading recurring requirement reviews in the concept phase, cost at risk $50M - $600M. Resolved released product corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) related to processing damage by rewriting product requirements, systematically mapping design to process interactions, and facilitating trade-off alignment between customer, system design, and process owners. Harmonized requirements and technical risk across levels, tying lifecycle stress conditions with requirements, design characterization and reliability growth plans, cost at risk $50M - $600M. Averaged 21% development time reduction, and 60% schedule variability reduction across the ICD-, IPG- and INS product portfolio.Enabled manufacturability optimizations resulting in up to 25% manufacturing yield uptick via the deployment of analytical methods for requirements allocation.

Contributed to the site-wide deployment of the systems engineering function. Gathered and translated stakeholder needs into system requirements. Defined product requirements, from higher system levels decomposition, allocation to translation into manufacturable system designs, resulting in comprehensive trace from product requirement to verification evidence and process controls. Planned, executed, or delegated integration efforts using DSM tools and identified risks. Balanced stakeholder needs with technology, design, reliability, and manufacturability objectives. Raised requirements maturity by 35% entering development, and lowered requirement changes to 5% during development.Enabled early requirements and design risk analysis baseline by developing and leveraging standardized functional architectures by product across multiple projects. Consistently Enabled 18-24 months development cycle with ~15M development cost savings in compliant product reuse across ICD-, IPG-, and INS systems. Averaged 40% verification cost reduction through implementation of other verification methods than DVT such as design trace, design capability, and analysis. Authored verification by analysis reports in some instances. Kept and followed through action registers keyed by product requirements and communicated gap closure activities in synch with hardware integration milestones.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for enterprise-wide product development initiative focusing on innovation, predictive reliability, product performance, cost, and manufacturability at a vertically integrated supplier of energy components. Built relationships and influence to institutionalize new business processes and practices in technology, development, reliability, and manufacturing functions. Accountable for metrics associated with site maturity, development portfolio effectiveness, and black-/greenbelt certifications. Predicted the benefit of the proposed PDP integration strategy through Bayesian belief networks at $1.3M NRE and 12-month development time reduction per project. Demonstrated $2.1M annual NRE/LBM cost saving through targeted design maturity assessments and technical reviews. Led concept-, DFx workshops and worked with process owners to identify pilot line process controls for a clinical trial device that resulted in PMA according to schedule. Exceeded FY training objectives by teaching 24 DFSS modules inter-site. Raised site maturity score 0.61 vs the corporate average of 0.40 on a 5-point scale during tenure.Coached 18 candidates to certification.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed and validated processes involved in the manufacturing of connector modules for a new family of ICDs. Accountable for process risk from feasibility to release into manufacturing while trusting other process owners to delegate work.Procured $2M worth of capital equipment and tooling.Met roll-up throughput yields (RTY) of first shot assembly 95.2%, second shot assembly 97.6% during the first 20 months of launch.Demonstrated >2.0 process capability and implemented SPC before process validation for all key performance indicators (KPIs). Saved $680K annual LBM from the original plan applying lean manufacturing in first and second shot assembly areas. Delivered assembly line with scalable capacity following lean manufacturing principles (U-shape).

Greater Detroit Area

Greater Detroit Area