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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