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Quality Leader for 1500+ person global P&L, advocating for customers, and ensuring effective, but efficient processes to deliver high quality software and hardware for embedded and non-embedded systems.• Established Customer Centric approach to decision making, ensuring cross functional alignment on investment decisions and commitments.• Integrated Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile and Kanban processes into a previously waterfall organization. Leveraged internal & external best practices to optimize time to market, project cost & quality. • Improved on time delivery from 60% to 94% while staying on budget and reducing defect escapes by 80%.• Improved First Pass Yield for SW deliveries from 70% to 95%.• Excellent communicator at all levels of the organization, internally and with customers.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Led 150+ person global software engineering organization, responsible for Locomotive control system, Marine and Stationary and Trip Optimizer software development. • Established Cross P&L planning process to reduce cost, accelerate delivery & improve customer satisfaction• Increased SW output by 400% delivering game changing SW solutions to market.• Delivered >90% of complex embedded SW projects on time & on budget, with full functionality.• Increased global content from 30 to 60% while improving time to market, product quality and schedule predictability.• Reduced defects per release by 50% and defect escapes by 75%.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Led engineering teams for Hand Held Computer, RFID and Software product lines, including new product development and sustaining engineering. 250+ Engineers in North America and Asia. • Reduced development cycle time and effort by more than 50% and increased output over 300%• Improved engineering quality >400% while reducing sustaining cost 8%/year• Improved gross margin >5 points through new product development and introduction• Upgraded and developed talent, developing significant bench strength• Led business recovery from historic flood that destroyed largest engineering center, managed all active projects to delivery within 2 weeks of pre-flood commitments,

Grain Valley, Missouri

Responsible for world-wide development including 125 engineers, including US, India and China • New Product Introduction driving 20% annual growth via new market penetration• Introduced transactional lean processes. Reduced Time to Market by 50% and Effort by 30%• Developed & deployed first wireless signaling solution in mountains of Western China• Developed new Crossing & Interlocking controller, winning 80% of Long Term Purchase Agreements

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

• Consistently delivered embedded software upgrades on time with superior quality• Mentored 15 Six Sigma projects to validate requirements and ensure successful launch of new Control System• Certified Design for Six Sigma Black Belt

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Computer Engineering, Computer Science