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Barrie, Ontario, CA

Agawam, MA, US

• Leading provider of innovative engine control products
• Created an effective AS9100 Engineering New Product Development process. Implemented numerous program management tools that documented engineering development, built up company knowledge database, and progressed.
• Jump started and refocused ten new product development projects to near production readiness.
• Worked with Mechanical and Electrical engineering teams to optimize existing engineering tools for faster and more thorough documentation readiness.
• Led the development of electromagnetic modeling optimization scripts that elevated new product performance and minimized product cost. Used these tools to analyze legacy products and optimize product dimensional.

Thomaston, CT, US

• Producer / Supplier of electric motors, generators and controls for critical Naval and commercial applications.
• Restructured engineering team culture to focus on mentorship, standardization, and documenting engineering processes in order to increase efficiency and on time delivery.
• Reduced Past Due motor deliveries by 60% in five months and 85% within the following year.
• Managed process to eliminate recurring problems across Planning, Purchasing, Manufacturing Engineering, Documentation Group, Customer Service, Program Management, Winding, Final Assembly and Test.
• Increased engineering capabilities and minimized bottlenecks by creating clear roles and responsibilities and eliminating single sourced functions via cross training.
• Standardized key motor component documentation to insure consistent MIL spec motor performance.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Design and build professional audio systems to the business, concert hall and portable markets.
• Led engineering and manufacturing teams in China and Czech Republic on various surface, in-ceiling, pendant and phased array speakers. Relentlessly ensured products maintained high-end brand quality.
• Engineering problem solver on amplifiers, portable speakers and accessories to achieve product launch.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Design and build custom automotive speaker systems, as Tier 1 supplier for automotive industry.
• Create and maintain project schedules, Siemens NX CAD models and automotive production documentation in the development of six or more, fast-paced programs, at once.
• Organize and capture critical technical information and project risks in Concept Design Reviews and prove design readiness to kick off production tooling through Design Reviews and design checklists.
• Coordinate builds of acoustic samples, Proto, Pilot and Production builds of woofers and bass boxes for GM, Nissan, Mazda, Audi and Renault automotive customers. Serve as project lead to regional engineering offices.

Reno, NV, US

• Designed and built -80 C and -20C biomedical storage libraries for the storage of compounds and biosamples for drug development and biomedical research.
• Mentored junior engineers to improve product reliability in design and assembly to medical standards.
• Designed and built, intricate -20C and -80C freezer automation to pick individual tubes/racks from multiple style SBS labware racks. Coordinated with patent attorneys, securing company intellectual property

Ayer, Massachusetts, US

• Designed and built 5,000 - 50,000+HP superconducting electric motors and synchronous condensers
• Chief Engineer and Lead Mechanical Engineer on 12MVAR and 8MVAR, 1800 RPM, superconducting, synchronous condensers.
• Provided daily project leadership to twenty person, multidisciplined, engineering team to achieve function, schedule and project cost goals.
• Achieved on-schedule and on-budget performance.
• Successfully field tested 8MVAR unit in excess of 10 million +/- full load reversing cycles in one year.
• Received 2006 IEEE ACE Award, 2005 R&D 100 Award and 2003 Platts Global Energy award.

San Jose, California, US

• Produced tape cartridge data storage libraries.
• Leadership in the design and testing of new libraries. Units were built in Germany, requiring weekly video conferences for continuous production of 5000 units/year.
• Coordinated external resources of Industrial designers, rapid prototyping houses, and production injection molders to beat competition to market.

• Designed and built custom high-speed wafer handling systems for the semiconductor industry.
• Designed three axis, Class 1 clean room, wafer handling robots, with +/- 0.001 inches repeatability. These robots offered precise handling of wafers, long reach and set a new bar for industry stiffness.
• Created the layout of a custom high speed wafer handling system with a three-axis robot, smif pods and prealigner. The system also included a six-axis robot and reticle storage boxes.

• Produced automatic and semi-automatic screen printers for the surface mount industry (SMT).
• Leadership in the engineering and organization of MPM’s new automatic and semi-automatic printers.
• Designed a linear motor driven, vision gantry inspection subsystem that made MPM the industry leader.
• Reduced assembly ramp-up times by 50% with supplier qualifications and long-term partnerships to provide solutions to previously impossible design challenges.
• Drove the production line startup of multiple, over 3000-part, technology intensive products. This included documentation, training and setup of the assembly lines.

• Designed and built custom and standard machine tools primarily for the automotive industry.
• Doubled the speed limits of current, large capacity, 50 hp spindles by leading the design and testing of a four-spindle, liquid cooled, 12,000 RPM, machining center.
• Significantly reduce assembly time and material costs, of a twin spindle, vertical turning center product line, while increasing load capacity, reliability and machine life.
• Designed rotary and inline automotive drilling and milling machine tools to survive a continuous duty cycle, with typical cutting loads of 100,000 pounds.
• Spearheaded the modernization of Kingsbury's vibration measuring equipment and spindle run-in department to compete in the modern high-speed spindle market