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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

Technical Lead for the JennAir refrigeration product category designing and developing a new platform for refrigerators and freezers. Responsible for leading and executing a large project from concept to Product Approval (PA) for a category of internally designed JennAir refrigerators models. Accountable for the delivery of all technical deliverables to create a product that meets or exceeds all approvalcriteria.

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

Leader of features and mechanical structures engineering department for all North American refrigeration product. Responsible for new product development and introduction projects. Provided leadership, technical expertise, and mentoring to 26 engineering team members. Responsible for product attribute road-map planning in support of side by side, French door bottom mount, and built in refrigeration product platforms.

Kinston, Nc

Leader of Engineering department for all North American dishwasher product. Responsible for new product development and introduction, manufacturing support, cost reduction, and service call reduction projects. Provided leadership, technical expertise, and mentoring to 38 engineering team members including mechanical/structures engineers, hydraulics/performance engineers, electrical/electronic engineers, CAD designers, specialists such as safety/compliance engineers, and lab technicians.• Team successfully completed on time launch of new wash system meeting all quality and cost goals.• Team successfully completed on time launch of products to meet upgraded 2012 E-star requirements.

Kinston, Nc

Leader of Mechanical/Structures Engineering Team for all plastic and stainless steel tub dishwashers for dishwasher facility. Responsible for new product development and introduction, manufacturing support, cost reduction, and service call reduction projects. Provided leadership, technical expertise, and mentoring to five engineering team members.• Completed several parts consolidation projects resulting in cost savings and increased manufacturing flexibility.• Successfully brought to market new Kenmore Canada models.

Kinston, Nc

Leader of Platform Integration Team for all plastic tub dishwashers for dishwasher facility. Responsible for new product development and introduction, manufacturing support, cost reduction, and service call reduction projects. Provided leadership, technical expertise, and mentoring to five engineering team members.• Developed troubleshooting guide for and trained new customer call center.• Supervised projects to bring all plastic tub product in compliance with new 2010 DOE/E-star standards.• Successfully brought to market new Kenmore US models.

Leader of product care team for dishwasher facility. Responsible for manufacturing support, cost reduction, and service call reduction projects. Provided leadership, technical expertise, and mentoring to ten engineering team members.• Participated in development of facility CAD and data management standards.• Team executed cost reduction projects resulting in over $8 million annualized savings in one year (5% of facility annual material spend).• Supported facility FTQ and conversion cost reduction projects.• Team executed service call reduction projects resulting in service call rate reduction of 10% in one year.• Personally executed cost reduction projects resulting in $2 million in annualized savings in one year.• Redesigned hinge assembly for annualized cost savings of $800K to start production in 2/08.• Redesigned door assembly for annualized cost savings of $3 million to start production in 2/08

Member of product care team for dishwasher facility. Responsible for manufacturing support, cost reduction, and service call reduction projects. Participated in component design of new Fully Integrated product platform.• Worked with motor supplier to diagnose root cause of Tower wash motor field failures and introduced design change that reduced SCR rate for wash motors on this platform from peak of 1.35% to low of 0.33%• Worked with component suppliers, sub-contractors, and manufacturing to diagnose root cause and implement corrective actions that resulted in reduction of SCR rate for 18” product from peak of 20.2% to low of 12%• Developed design for under product insulation barrier for Fully Integrated product, awarded patent 8,317,935.• Developed design for friction counterbalance system for Fully Integrated product, awareded patent 8,043,442.• Worked with fabrication and plastics departments on introduction and approval of new tools.• Developed bitumen door sound dampeners to be used in place of door foam insulation resulting in annual cost savings of $224,000.• Worked with purchasing to qualify alternate wash motor bracket material resulting in annual cost savings of $81,000.• Worked with purchasing and fabrication to support transfer of stamped metal parts from in-house to sourced.

Member of Steering Team for six distinct product categories. Evaluated new and potential products purchased from outside vendors. Oversaw product-engineering responsibilities from initial evaluation through production and supported products through their life. Responsible for the design integrity, safety, agency compliance, and market cost competitiveness of all products including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Design For Manufacturability, and evaluation of test results. Provided leadership, technical expertise, and mentoring to product category engineering team members. Project manager for all planning, scheduling and tracking for all new product development, resource manager for 3 subordinate engineers, and task manager for all engineering related activities.• Successfully brought to market 7 product platforms.• Submitted for patent for air filter design

Member of Steering Team for three distinct product categories. Evaluated new and potential products purchased from outside vendors. Oversaw product-engineering responsibilities from initial evaluation through production and supported products through their life. Responsible for the design integrity, safety, agency compliance, and market cost competitiveness of all products including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Design For Manufacturability, and evaluation of test results. Provided leadership, technical expertise, and mentoring to product category engineering team members. Project manager for all planning, scheduling and tracking for all new product development, resource manager for 3 subordinate engineers, and task manager for all engineering related activities.• Awarded 2 patents (6,827,601 and D498,731) used in litigation against competitor• Successfully brought to market 11 product platforms

Evaluated new and potential products manufactured in captive facilities and purchased from outside vendors. Oversaw product-engineering from initial evaluation through production and supported products through their life. Responsible for the design integrity, safety, agency compliance, and cost competitiveness of all products including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Design For Manufacturability, and evaluation of test results.• Primary responsibility for new product development project in captive facility utilizing $3.1 million in capital.• Led transition of team from support of products manufactured in captive facilities to products manufactured by outside vendors.• Replaced all product lines manufactured in captive facilities with products supplied by outside vendors, including evaluation of CAD designs, prototypes, engineering samples, and pilot lot samples.• Worked with two new Asian product suppliers from proposal to product introduction to ensure supplier products, processes, and practices met all requirements.• Planned and implemented cost reduction and yield improvement measures.• Successfully brought to market 5 product platforms

Analyzed new and existing printed circuit board designs to provide instruction and support to the tooling and manufacturing organizations in order to provide products in the most expedient and cost effective manner while satisfying the customers’ technical and quality expectations.• Engineer for product lines generating revenue in excess of $50 million.• Resolved customer quality issues and managed constraint facilities.• Provided design for manufacturability recommendations.• Planned and implemented cost reduction and yield improvement measures.

Managed and supervised the long range planning, training preparation and implementation, logistical support, and combat readiness of 150 personnel. Led maintenance, repair, and quality control for 50 vehicles.