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Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States

Leading two to four PLM Scrum teams in their Agile journey, through strong facilitation, training, and coaching, building a focus on delivering value.

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

Leading research and planning of Model Based Definition for Whirlpool. Driving awareness and usage of areas of focus of the Whirlpool Product Development system, particularly Design Control and Windchill Packages.

Took over and completed analysis and requirements for configuration of PLM system for collaboration with partner company. Captured requirements from Kaizen event for Design Control, updated development process including standard operating procedures and training deck. Analyzed requests, wrote requirements, and prioritized various PLM enhancements.

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

Developed and/or released several software projects for refrigeration and cooking user interfaces (UI) and appliance control units (ACU), written in C. Drove process improvement.

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

Led the development, purchasing, deployment and training of hardware development, software development, and project management tools, to support a global department of over 300 users and 160 tools. Drove standardization of tools, managed global tools budget, developed new solutions, and led process improvements. Primary liaison for development tools to Global Information Systems and Procurement.

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

Managed team of 16 software engineers for Washers, Dryers, Refrigeration, Cooking, and Dishwasher products, delivering 50-70 production software releases annually.• Improved overall team competency by hiring exceptional engineers and stressing training and teamwork.• Provided project management leadership, in cooperation with matrixed project leaders, to critical software projects.• Led global software council, driving development of reusable modules and standard processes.• Provided innovative thinking on serial communications strategy, resulting in a patent.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Managed team of 13 hardware engineers, software engineers, and layout designers, developing electronic controls for Cooking and Refrigeration products.• Drove project management of two highest priority projects to production.• Managed team and maintained morale during shutdown of Dayton Technology Center.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Developed Windows applications using Microsoft C/C++ and Microsoft Foundation Classes, for programming and configuration of PanelView factory automation user interface products and AdaptaScan barcode readers.Developed high-level embedded software modules for AdaptaScan on Motorola microcontroller.

Led team of 4 software engineers and contributed to development of emissions testing application for Canadian testing program using Microsoft Visual Basic. Developed real-time emissions testing PC applications for U.S. state run testing programs, using Microsoft C.