Richard A. Rowe Email & Phone Number

United States

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

Hillsboro, Or

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon. Usa

Managing multiple small collaborations with internal and external stakeholders to further improve user experiences within Infotainment features.

Portland, Oregon. Usa

Providing a wealth of experience within Infotainment and Automotive Engineering to OEM clients.

Woking, Surrey, Uk

Introduced as Principal Engineer to deliver entire Infotainment systems onto future McLaren vehicle lines, to expand the Infotainment department, and to roadmap future systems and commercial strategies. Influencing marketing managers and Directors. Financial management responsibility of budgets over £1.2m.

CONTEXT: Introduced as Module Leader for Next Generation Infotainment (NGI) Systems to deliver the entire NGI System onto future vehicle programmes across global markets. SCOPE: Management and co-ordination of multiple Engineering teams and suppliers ensuring OEM programme milestone gateways are met on time and on budget. Managing costs, timing, design validation and test time allocation, people, and off-shore resource.CORE ROLES: Manage and report out to senior programme… Show more CONTEXT: Introduced as Module Leader for Next Generation Infotainment (NGI) Systems to deliver the entire NGI System onto future vehicle programmes across global markets. SCOPE: Management and co-ordination of multiple Engineering teams and suppliers ensuring OEM programme milestone gateways are met on time and on budget. Managing costs, timing, design validation and test time allocation, people, and off-shore resource.CORE ROLES: Manage and report out to senior programme Managers, the deliverable status for all system commodities against vehicle timing milestones. Organise and run vehicle programme reviews for NGI system - organising priorities for the various Engineer Leaders, and managing programme budgets including; piece costs, D&D and tooling.ACHIEVEMENTS: Steered Engineering teams through uPA gateway by specifying requirements in uPA specification, and supporting through event. Organised, collated and planned complex test rig requirements for NGI development across multiple partners in multiple countries. Show less

Coventry, United Kingdom

CONTEXT: Introduced as Engineer Leader for Digital Tuners (TV, DAB, and SDARS modules) to drive and deliver the next generation of digital tuners into future vehicle programmes across global markets. Ensuring GPDS deliverables such as ESO, PPAP, and PSW were achieved by team and suppliers.SCOPE: Implemented methods to organise and structure the digital tuners team to deliver next generation feature set on time to leaner Global Product Design System (GPDS) timing milestones, and… Show more CONTEXT: Introduced as Engineer Leader for Digital Tuners (TV, DAB, and SDARS modules) to drive and deliver the next generation of digital tuners into future vehicle programmes across global markets. Ensuring GPDS deliverables such as ESO, PPAP, and PSW were achieved by team and suppliers.SCOPE: Implemented methods to organise and structure the digital tuners team to deliver next generation feature set on time to leaner Global Product Design System (GPDS) timing milestones, and ensured that Engineering deliverable tracking was implemented within 6 months of appointment. Cradle to grave projects managed over 2.5 year commitment. CORE ROLES: Organise, run, and minute Engineering meetings to track the development of next generation digital tuners - organising priorities and delegating tasks for the cross functional team members and suppliers. Consulted during technical and commercial communications during supplier sourcing for next generation digital tuner business - RFI and RFQ. Developed and presented forward business strategy for World Wide TV roll out to Senior Management. ACHIEVEMENTS: Target of full functionality at Final Data Judgement (FDJ) met for first time by digital tuners team for newly sourced TV and DAB modules. Engineering sign off obtained by Preliminary Engineering Concurrence (PEC) and Final Engineering Concurrence (FEC) milestones for Satellite radio module (SDARS), TV, and DAB radio modules.Grown and sustained productive working relationships with world wide suppliers from UK, US, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, and Japan.Structured shared area for the team to allow for clear communication of documentation between team members. Assisted management to structure efficiently Roles and Responsibilities within the digital tuners team.Recognised by promotion within 16 months by appointment to D Grade - Senior Engineer. Show less

Solihull, Uk

CONTEXT: Infotainment System Quality Engineer leading projects to meet company quality targets such as; JD-Powers score, CQI score, AWS warranty spend, Quick Service Fixes (QSFs), First Time Through (FTT) metrics.SCOPE: Implementation and action of different quality techniques to drive quality improvement on the Range Rover vehicle line. Successful use of the 8D process, IS/IS NOT, Fishbone Diagrams, and Replicates to find root cause and cascade lessons learnt to Core Engineering via… Show more CONTEXT: Infotainment System Quality Engineer leading projects to meet company quality targets such as; JD-Powers score, CQI score, AWS warranty spend, Quick Service Fixes (QSFs), First Time Through (FTT) metrics.SCOPE: Implementation and action of different quality techniques to drive quality improvement on the Range Rover vehicle line. Successful use of the 8D process, IS/IS NOT, Fishbone Diagrams, and Replicates to find root cause and cascade lessons learnt to Core Engineering via Replicate process. CORE ROLES: Coordinate Priority Automated Warranty System (PAWS) into Infotainment projects to manage and improve product quality. Liaise with National and International suppliers to produce 8D quality reports and review quality categorisation.Competent with laptop based diagnostic tools to diagnose vehicle and ECU faults effectively and accurately. ACHIEVEMENTS: Met all company quality targets while working in PVT.Supported late evening product clinics with directors and senior staff during launch of Range Rover 10MY.Showed initiative by externally researching and sourcing a supplier to provide a commercially viable product to solve a customer quality concern. Project managed until delivery. Presented solution to Chief Engineers and Company Directors. Show less

CONTEXT: Audio Amplifier Module Engineer.SCOPE: Provided competitor bench marking data including Sound Pressure Level (SPL) recordings and Human Machine Interface (HMI) evaluation report, as well as delivering core audio systems onto vehicle programmes. CORE ROLES: Delivered a Total Value Management (TVM) Amplifier project onto Land Rover and Range Rover programmes, and also a TVM Subwoofer project onto a Land Rover programme.Developed an analogue amplifier specification for… Show more CONTEXT: Audio Amplifier Module Engineer.SCOPE: Provided competitor bench marking data including Sound Pressure Level (SPL) recordings and Human Machine Interface (HMI) evaluation report, as well as delivering core audio systems onto vehicle programmes. CORE ROLES: Delivered a Total Value Management (TVM) Amplifier project onto Land Rover and Range Rover programmes, and also a TVM Subwoofer project onto a Land Rover programme.Developed an analogue amplifier specification for a mid line audio system to be delivered onto a Land Rover programme.ACHIEVEMENTS: £52,000 annual cost saving for the business due to successful introduction of TVM amplifiers. Contributed as a member of the listening evaluation board during sign off of the award-winning Bowers & Wilkins sound system on the Jaguar XF. Show less

Meng, Electronic Engineering With Music Technology Systems

A Levels, Maths, Physics, Music