Robert M. Bick, Ms, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Mounds View, Minnesota, United States

Plymouth, Minnesota, United States

Golden Valley, Mn

• Resideo is a Honeywell spin-off company.• Managed the company’s most important project leading a global cross functional team of 170 members and a $26M budget developing Resideo’s next smart home thermostat.• End-to-end program responsibility leveraging project management best practices utilizing a combination of Waterfall approach for hardware development (phase gated) and Agile for software development. • Successfully launched the T9/T10 Smart Thermostat project on time and within budget.

Golden Valley, Mn

• Managed the T9/T10 Smart Thermostat project with $13M budget.• Partnered with multiple cross functional disciplines including engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, quality, sourcing, finance, regulatory, customer service, and key stakeholders. • Managed program scope, resources, schedule, budget, project and technical risk, and product quality.• Worked with engineering teams to translate marketing requirements into engineering specifications and requirements, develop schedules, budgets, resource planning, and identify risks.• Led global cross functional engineering teams to develop newest thermostat hardware, develop Cloud infrastructure, and App development. • Managed stakeholder expectations through update and escalation meetings and phase gate reviews.• Performed project risk mitigation, contingency planning, and trade-off analysis to ensure optimal project performance to maintain project schedule and cost.• Mentor, coach, and train new project managers in the product development process and provide leadership and assistance.

Golden Valley, Mn

• Managed Honeywell’s newest T9/T10 programmable Smart Thermostat series project. • Project responsibilities included project requirements definition, planning, scheduling, executing, budgeting, resource management, leading technical teams, risk analysis and mitigation, and effectively communicating with stakeholders.• Technical responsibilities included product requirements definition, design and analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, product testing, ensuring product quality, providing technical expertise, solving technical problems.• Worked with global, cross-functional teams including marketing, engineering, software, sourcing, packaging, manufacturing, App & Cloud teams, and key stakeholders, to successfully introduce new products to market utilizing the Honeywell New Product Introduction process.• Employed Agile and traditional Waterfall design approaches to accelerate product development process to improve project cycle times and time to market metrics.• Collaborated with 3rd party partners to deliver programs within specification, schedule, and budget.• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well with cross-functional and global teams. • Project Management Professional certification (PMP).

Bloomington, Mn

Lead Project Engineer, Engine Air Development Group• Developed the Donaldson FKB Air Cleaner product series - two stage air cleaner for medium dust conditions. • Developed and analyzed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models using FLUENT software to optimize air cleaner designs and reduce design cycle times.• Worked with customers to develop and establish customer requirements and product specifications including material specifications, prototypes, drawings, assembly drawings, manufacturing documentation, verification and validation protocols.• Use Design of Experiments (DOE) methods to optimize system performance, analyze results.• Conducted Failure Mode Effects Analysis reviews as part of our design process.• Managed all product testing of a new series of Donaldson air cleaners for off-road customers such as John Deere and Caterpillar.• Designed and analyzed products for compliance with Underwriter’s Laboratories for special hazardous testing.• Coordinated with manufacturing to ensure successful product implementation into factory and timely product launches.• Used Lean - Six Sigma principles to improve manufacturing processes.• Coordinated product launch activities including ramp-up and market launch plans.• Supported customers during product field trials.

Bloomington, Mn

Project Engineer, Dust Collection Group - New Product Engineering • Delivered numerous successful industrial filtration products over period as project engineer with Donaldson’s Dust Collection Group.• Successfully delivered Donaldson’s dust collection flagship product, DownFlo Oval (DFO), resulting in highest first year sales in business unit history.• Awarded design patent for the DFO product line (Pat. No. US 6,368,388).• Awarded Filtration + Separation magazine’s 2002 Product of the Year Award for DFO product line. • Project management responsibilities included program specifications, schedules, and budgets resulting in timely and successful new product launches.• Project engineering responsibilities included product concept and design, computer modeling and analysis, technical feasibility, cost analysis, manufacturing, and product testing and verification.• Performed design simulations using ANSYS finite element analysis (FEA) software and FLUENT computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to reduce design cycle times.• Worked in a cross-functional team environment. Developed and established customer requirements and specifications with Marketing teams.• Developed and implemented laboratory test protocols, procedures, and methods.• Provided supervision and direction to lab technicians and student interns.

Bloomington, Mn

Product Engineer, Dust Collection Group – Current Product Engineering• Accomplishments included engineering management of twelve existing product lines including product redesign, modifications, improvements, and cost savings.• Authorized new product releases for market implementation.• Designed and supported databases for the Engineering group using MS Access.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Manufacturing Systems Engineering (Abet Accredited), 4.0