Robert Stodola Mba Meng Email & Phone Number

Markham, Ontario Canada

• Directed and led staff to ensure the Company is in conformity of all compliance obligations, meeting or exceeding all legislative and regulatory responsibilities.
• Provide guidance and advice regarding the strategies and methods used by the Company to ensure compliance and oversee such strategies and methods.
• Provide technical support to in-house and outside Counsel on product liability matters and manage cases as required.
• Oversee the issuance of field service actions to address open safety defects and regulatory non-compliance issues.
• Responsible for ensuring annual and quarterly reports as well as all other reporting requirements are fulfilled to Transport Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and other government agencies.

Oakville, Ontario

• Led departmental transition after major restructuring.
• Developed new process flows for pre-litigation claim handling and Canadian Motor Vehicle Arbitration Plan (CAMVAP) case processing; prioritized response to all cases during transition to ensure proper handling.
• Provided strategic advice on handling litigated actions.
• Implemented claim handling process by realigning personnel, setting up IT resources, and training stakeholders to facilitate reduction of departmental headcount.

Ford Of Canada

• Directed and led staff to handle all product liability claims in Canada including litigated actions, arbitrations, and pre-litigation claims. Managed Ford of Canada’s participation in the Canadian Motor Vehicle.
• Crafted and delivered strategic direction to outside counsel for case handling; provided technical briefs on specifics, giving instructions on handling of the company’s defence and managing cases to closure.
• Restructured departmental structure for overall reduction of 3% in overhead costs while successfully managing a 24% increase in the number of Quebec Small Claims Court actions and 6% increase in other Product Liability.
• Evaluated total cost to Ford of CAMVAP awards and restructured case handling approach to deliver a $78,420 reduction in costs over one year; a 35.2% improvement.
• Championed the successfully lobby of the CAMVAP Board of Directors for changes to the Agreement for Arbitration as a member of the Industry Committee.

Oakville, Ontario

• Managed in Product Engineering Department responsible for vehicle interior and exterior subsystems,
• Managed multiple cross-functional quality improvement teams that used external quality data analysis to drive manufacturing, product, and supplier process changes to deliver 16% warranty improvement year-over-year.
• Led on-going product development and model launches for vehicle interior and exterior subsystems on two vehicle platforms comprising of 3500 components successfully launched four vehicle programs meeting timing and.
• Directed engineering change control process, releasing over 250 engineering changes to drive quality improvements and to reduce vehicles costs, saving over $4M annually.

Oakville, Ontario

• Sheet Metal Design Engineer
• Analyzed warranty data and other external quality indicators, identifying root causes of customer concerns.
• Implemented improvement projects, reducing warranty by 20% year-over-year.
• Documented all changes, ensuring Quality Operating System and Design Rule updates made to capture learnings.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Operations Management And Supervision

Activities and Societies: President of Business School Hockey Club

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Manufacturing Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Mechanical Engineering