Robert Bezingue Email & Phone Number

Rockford, Illinois Area

Contract engineer working for Belcan Engineering at Hamilton-Sundstrand Aerospace, Rockford, IL. Focusing on planning, organizing, and ensuring adherence to key milestones and meeting deliverables targets for the primary and secondary electrical systems on commercial aircraft.Coordinating the efforts of team members in the creation, customer review, and release of requirements documents, design files, and test procedures. Responsible for maintaining supplier adherence to design and test requirements. Instrumental in product testing and test data reduction and formal release and approval processes. Managed standard processes, including presentation of project step completion for phase gate reviews.

Project manager in the development of hearing aids and hearing care products. As a team leader and project manager, I directed development teams of engineers, marketing support people, operations and supply-chain members for global projects. Projects were developed in the US and Europe, then launched out of production facilities in Asia. • Managed cross-functional, teams in engineering, supply chain, marketing, and manufacturing to develop and produce electronic hearing aids and accessories for the global consumer market. • Planned, directed, and coordinated the efforts of project team members in the implementation of hardware and software development projects. I worked daily with product managers, audiologists, engineers, operations managers, and vendors located in the US, Denmark, Sweden, Amsterdam, Germany, and China.• Responsible for driving program managers to develop business plans. I was accountable for maintaining project budgets, ENPV cost documents, Risk management plans, and product specifications that align with P&L objectives.• Insured on-schedule adherence to all FDA, ISO, and other European, Asian, and US regulatory agency testing and licensing procedures.• Full responsibility for project from start to production, Duties included managing product scope definition, project tracking, resource management, vendor management, quality plans, and product ramp-up and launch strategy.• Implemented a global supply-chain for precision plastic parts consisting of European tooling vendor, Asian part molding, Scandinavian finish coating, and then Chinese final product assembly.• Reported performance to the company board and ReSound-Beltone executive management.

Senior Project Manager for a Tier-1 supplier of electro-mechanical controls to the major appliance industry. I managed both the developments of new products based on existing technology and lead teams doing research into new user-interface technologies.In addition to development, the job entailed cradle-to-grave support of exisitng products and customers. • Managed in-house hardware and software engineering teams to develop electronic appliance controls for all the major US home appliance manufacturers.• Negotiated with customers to reach acceptable product quote, followed by development of Requirements and Design documents with customer.• Responsible for product development from quotation stage through manufacturing. Launched three control programs worth $2.3 million in sales simultaneously in 2003• Development duties included management of design, testing, vendor (component) qualification and product launch in foreign manufacturing facility.• Managed project schedule, product cost and tooling costs. • Implemented Quality Processes including 6-Sigma techniques

Lead engineer for electronic and electro-mechanical design of commercial door openers, and gate and fence security products. • Managed third-party subcontractor in the design of the digital and analog logic for a custom IC utilized in hand-held encoding RF transmitters for the consumer market. Responsible for developing the specifications, testing procedures, and manufacturing implementation.• Designed and put into production low-cost security gate and door controller products consisting of 8-bit embedded microcontrollers and radio receiver circuitry.• Responsible for hardware and software design of 8-bit commercial door opener line which replaced relay and analog designs with microprocessor controller-based logic.