Sam Draper Email & Phone Number

Simpsonville, SC, US

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

• Executive Leadership identified Sam for a critical bubble assignment to redesign the enterprise-level approach to managing parts across the fleet. The difficulties with the current process lead to field issues and it.
• Drove consensus with the digital team to redefine success in configurations
• Iterated with engineering on process for core parts identification
• Built, tested, and administered the process field teams to inspect turbines
• Walked the line in overhaul shop and will be testing improved data flow in the shop

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

• Sam starts with economics to identify unique solutions providing value to both GE and the customer. His investigations lead to the identification of a novel approach to wind turbine operations that unlocks value while.
• Recruited team members an lead the technology development leveraging lean agile processes
• Constructed technology plans built around vision of rebalancing risk and value addition
• Negotiated membership in industry consortium to ensure adoption
• Identified research needs and worked with USDOE to be GE's principal investigator in the RAAW project.
• Identified unique opportunity to apply robotics, recruited specialists, and negotiated unique commercial arrangement resulting in the most advanced up-tower robotic blade upgrade in the industry.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

• Sam recognized a need to eliminate technical inefficiency that was driving poor quality. He saw his unique combination of cross-discipline expertise, automation experience, and influencing skills were needed to solve.
• Proposed initiative to executive leadership and supported creation of his new position
• Built tool suite and performed validation analysis to prove solution, working with end users to drive adoption

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Sam’s team executes dynamic system modeling of wind turbines and leverages LEAN principals to apply advanced application processes for the toughest Wind Farms in the world. As product owner, Sam directs 3 scrum teams.
• Generated $500MM in customer value and $75MM in profit through project economic optimization
• Identified the path to creating the lowest cost of electricity wind turbine in the world
• Established and built a team of 32 engineers creating a collaborative culture where teamwork thrives

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Sam designed new simulation modeling approaches unlocking engineering margins, spearheaded prototyping activities at the Lubbock Prototype Test Facility, led system trades for his wind turbine product lines, and.
• Designed and implemented the de-icing system enabling the largest wind farm in Europe, earning $600MM
• Lead system trades to establish the operational characteristics of the 2.5-127
• Installed fiber-optic blade strain gauges to test new validation and product options

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Sam focused his full attention to finding unique technical solutions to one strategic customer's most complex technical problems. He worked across GE's organization to like with his customer's organization to find win-win outcomes that met the needs of both organization's technical, commercial, and intellectual property requirements.Key.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Sam led new conceptual designs for next generation gas turbines, imagining modular packaging solutions resulting in millions of direct costs savings. He then oversaw the company’s technology strategy for climate.
• Invented the world’s cleanest gas turbine technology and sold it to a customer for $300MM
• Created and sold solutions to the Saudi Electric Company to improve gas turbine operations with heavy crude oil
• Championed work on post combustion carbon capture, won funding from USDOE, pilot projects in progress

Kohler, Wisconsin

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering