Project Manager Of Engineering
Fulfilled tasks of QA Specialist and supervised development teamMonitored and approved timecards and paid time off, as well as conducted quarterly employee evaluations and implemented annual raisesReleased all mechanical and electrical designs and software in adherence to company’s development processes and standardsManaged and assigned tasks to engineers, developers, & QA specialist via a project management and issue tracking tool called RedmineDeveloped and managed project timelines, Gantt charts, and project wikisPromoted teamwork within development team to efficiently complete and release projectsCommunicated and coordinated assignments with domestic and international contract development teamsApproved invoices for contract development work and purchase orders for mechanical and electrical partsResearched and requested quotes from domestic and international manufacturers to determine the best and most economical way to advance a finished design to productionAssembled initial mechanical prototypes and submitted software for alpha and beta testingProvided document control for all departmental file management systems via Google DriveLed weekly and quarterly management meetings to review financials, goals, and upper management tasksContributed to strategizing and planning for new products, revenue increases, employee productivity increases, procedures and policies, etc.Improved mobile application ratings to above a 4.5Wrote release notes for all mobile applications and product firmware releasesCommunicated and trained customer service and marketing teams on new features and bug fixesDrafted new product manuals and maintained older manualsCreated new and updated existing bill of materials for mechanical parts and printed circuit boards