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Technology leader for Houston and Pune India engineering teams. Introduced new Oil and Natural Gas analytical products for the Gas Analyzers Group in Rosemount Analytical.• Hands-on Project Manager for Rosemount’s next generation process gas chromatograph, making prioritization trade-offs and leading the inter-departmental team through successful design feasibility and scoping.• Delivered high tier process gas chromatograph upgrade on schedule, increasing penetration in the GC market.• Started up electronics and software projects for an innovative mid-tier Gas chromatograph product. Finished the development when the project lead left the company.• Sponsor for a NIR analyzer for the natural gas marketplace, securing funding and resources necessary for successful product development.• Engaged key customers in the Customer Advisory Council to gain greater insight into their needs. • Initiated a common architecture project to unify the Gas Chromatograph and Process Gas Analyzer products to reduce development costs and increase usability of these products. Created a common technology roadmap for these groups• Trained US and Scotland teams in the Emerson New Product Development (NPD) process resulting in better interdepartmental collaboration and delivery of new products.• Turned around a troubled development project to deliver a large Gas Chromatograph order (96 GC’s) to a key customer per aggressive commitments. Prioritized key features for delivery and focused team on delivery of quality product that met customer needs.• Improved engineering team performance by increasing team commitment through lean development practices, improved specification and requirement processes and updating the ECO flow.• Balanced and prioritized staffing between new product development and sustaining activities.• Created and managed the R&D departmental budget and maintained effectiveness metrics for the group (such as time use, on-time task delivery and ECO completions).

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Managed the Eden Prairie (US) and Hyderabad (India) software development teams through quarterly product releases. Xiotech provided storage area networking (SAN) products for small and medium sized businesses.• Introduced two new branded products that improved both the speed of storage access and dramatically increased the reliability of Xiotech’s products• Improved product development processes through post-project feedback and change processes

Provided strategic management, M&A advisory services and training for clients.• Created and taught Environment and Voice of the Customer (EOC, VOC) client seminar supporting initial client VOC efforts• Performed M&A company research in analytical, measurement and machine protection industries• Performed M&A gap analysis for machine protection and industrial control clients• Performed technical due diligence for a leading venture capital firm for an industrial networking company

Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Jp

Directed the development of ASIC solutions in Toshiba’s Minneapolis and Dallas Design Centers• Started-up the Minneapolis Design Center including hiring, facilities, equipment and software acquisition• Turned around a critical customer relationship by taking direct management of a troubled project and bringing it to successful tape-out. Awarded follow-on projects worth over $100M in total business to the company.• Managed technical customer pre-sales activities; Won new customers in Central and West coast areas• Trained team and passed ISO 9001 certification; No findings discovered on initial ISO audit, a first• Six Sigma Green Belt

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Directed development of technologies and performed technology transfer for Emerson’s next generation process platform products.• Developed new technologies in field communications including protocol firmware, electronics and chipsets, distributed computing, diagnostics, and ASIC’s.• Achieved first year development cost savings of over $5.9M as well as significant time-to-market reductions by transferring industrial communications ASIC’s and software into 8 Emerson divisions and 14 new products.• Improved initial customer satisfaction by creating inter-divisional support team to address systemic support issues early in PlantWeb system roll-out.• Led inter-divisional technology team to identify and leverage technologies across Emerson.• Won 2000 Emerson Corporate Technology Award (for the PlantWeb System) with 3rd year sales > $200M.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Managed ASIC design and procurement for Emerson's Silicon Solutions Center of Excellence. Also managed Rosemount's Software process improvement activities.• Ten-fold improvement in the delivery of IC designs in 3 years (1 in 1995; 10 delivered in 1997)• Built the group from 14 to 35 engineers in 3 years.• Delivered ASIC designs to 8 Emerson divisions including the control ASIC for the Maytag Neptune Washer (Emerson Technology Award Winner in 1999).• Center featured in the 1997 Emerson Electric Annual report.• Prioritized and managed multiple IC programs across Emerson’s Divisions (group 50% externally funded).• Provided ASIC consultation and design to other Emerson divisions; Created over $1M in annualized cost savings.• Reduced cost of ASIC semiconductor components by $1.9M (32%) by selecting and qualifying a new ASIC supplier; Managed Emerson-wide procurement for the supplier.• Directed the creation and use of software quality procedures for Rosemount; Rosemount was the first Emerson division to achieve SEI CMM Level 2 qualification.• Developed proposal and negotiated with the Singapore government’s NSTB for co-funding the Rosemount Asian Software development center; Proposal represented significant (>$18M) co-funding of startup activities of a $36.6M total program cost.• Initiated first web-enabled PC software development; Researched early Web technologies (ActiveX, JAVA) and determined appropriateness of these technologies for use in an industrial environment; Delivered component-based framework for communications to multiple development groups within the process group.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Managed DCS system releases, firmware center of excellence, and operator interface development for Fisher's PROVOX DCS system. Program manager for over 100 engineers in Systems group for system releases.Created processes for financial and project control for Fisher's system releases and managed controller, IO and communications firmware development. As manager of the operator interface products, created the 5-year plan and started implementation for Fisher's networked, distributed operator interface.

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Bsee, Electrical Engineering