Robert Wingrove Email & Phone Number

Burnaby, Bc

• Product Strategy: Oversaw business case and human capital system development, formulated product strategy, and managed facility specification and design• Budget Management: Formulated, allocated and controlled the development budget of CA$12MM to streamline required resources and facilitate product development operations• Product Development Supervision: Directed various product development initiatives, including engine and hydrogen fuel cell stack product development, while overseeing architecture, engineering, manufacturing, field support, quality, and supply chain operations• Investment Generation: Interacted with investors, partners, and customers, including Cummins Inc., PACCAR Inc. (Peterbilt), DTNA LLC. (Kenworth), Robert Bosch GmbH, Transpower Corp., CNHTC Ltd. (SinoTruk), and CRRC Corp. Ltd. (Times Electric Co. Ltd.) to present the company's unique technology and product, generating optimal investment• Product Design Unification: Unified the engine innovation and maturation to a cost-superior high-volume automotive product to modify and facilitate an automated assembly line, establishing a comprehensive product roadmap.• Commercialisation Strategy: Enacted a commercialisation plan, including expenses, internal and external labour need and ramp-up, infrastructure build-out, and capital plan to comply with the go-to-market and business growth strategy, focusing on the market potential and competitive advantage• Risk Mitigation: Obtained approval from the board of directors and key investors for the company's first project plan by executing a project risk assessment and mitigation plan• Strategic Alliance: Negotiated with a past supplier in Japan to form a strategic alliance, including strategic investment and obtaining essential product components at lower costs• Capital Investment: Accomplished the capital investment goal by building four full-scale prototypes and unifying three prototypes into demonstration commercial tractor-trailers

Burnaby, Bc

• Project Scope Setting: Collaborated with the Director of Engineering and Research to align the budgetary constraints with short-term and long-term technology objectives, developing the overall project scope• Budgeting: Arranged workshops to assist project managers in devising and allocating budgets and facilitating development for the following two years• Programme Management: Spearheaded the overall stack programmes implementation for powertrains, enacted the human capital skills development system, and executed the work breakdown structure system and responsibilities matrix (RASIC)• Programme Roadmap Creation: Devised and administered generation two powertrain programme plans to produce certified hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and deliver 350 cars to lease, modifying technology, sub-zero start-up, freezeability, six sigma quality cells, and high system reliability, ensuring the lowest production cost• Fiscal Control System: Attained approval of a project/department fiscal control system from the CEO and CFO to implement a project financial planning system, accomplishing programme budget variances within 5% • Product Commercialisation: Optimised the understanding and commercialisation of hydrogen fuel cells to amplify the project performance, developing the two critical multi-year technical task forces• Project Management: Directed US$79M of budget for Daimler and Ford's generation two fuel cell development programme, supervising a team of ten project managers and 140 FTEs• Tax Credit Reporting: Enforced a development tax credit reporting process to coordinate with consultants, facilitate accurate forecasting, and minimise costs• Saved US$4MM in development cost by negotiating revised scope with the contract manufacturer.• Resolved a critical sub-supplier quality issue without programme delay while maintaining a good working relationship with the contract manufacturer, who failed to resolve the issue

Burnaby, Bc

Reporting to the Vice President of Fuel Cell Products, led the lead program, the generation two fuel cell development programme, and was responsible for design and development, supply chain, quality, process, and manufacturing. This product was considered the best performing fuel cell at the time, being used in cars, buses and heavy-duty vehicles on five continents by Mercedes, Ford, and Volkswagen. The budget was US$96MM over four years.• Attained contractual bonus payments of US$4.5MM by outperforming all payment milestone deliverables.• Diagnosed and resolved a major no-go production quality issue within two weeks after taking over the program’s leadership. If this issue had not been resolved, it would have prevented subsequent joint venture creation.• Oversaw the replanning of the process readiness phase that eliminated the need to hire fourteen engineers and a planned material spend of US$12MM.• Orchestrated a product reliability growth initiative that reduced the pre-launch failure rate of the generation two product above the previous generation’s present status.• Won employee of the year and declined in favour of recognition of the entire team. In addition, the programme leadership team won three of the four awards of excellence in 2008: Customer Focus, Program Execution and Financial Success.

Burnaby, Bc

Reporting to the Design Verification Manager (tiger team), responsible for creating and executing verification campaigns by working directly with the design and release engineers and the testing department. Additionally, was responsible for design conformity by advising on customer acceptability.• Developed the first signed contractual requirements document between Daimler, Ford, and Ballard through negotiation by utilising the support team’s expertise. (Program Execution Award runner-up)• Delivered a 70% cost reduced factory acceptance test which doubled projected productivity and eliminated the need for additional fixed assets.• Orchestrated, planned and successfully executed the concept-level verification plan for the generation two program. Daimler and Ford feedback: “The best and most complete verification campaign ever achieved”.• Strengthened decision making by upper management at Daimler and Ford by summarising all verification reports into a product conformity document for the generation one hydrogen fuel cell module.• Taught senior engineers through timely examples that observed unexpected behaviour concurrent with a part failure is often a significant clue to identifying the root cause.

Burnaby, Bc

Reported to the Testing Manager, was responsible for coordinating all test planning, test design, data acquisition and test execution activities for the company both in house and in the field.• Consolidated all test planning and execution within the company under one function by managing the politics and eliminating territorialism• Decreased R&D spending by CA$1.3 in the first year by creating a central parts warehousing system to promote used and spare parts use for maintenance, and new test station builds (cost savings award runner-up)• Recognised as a company mentor

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Burnaby, Bc