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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Work with suppliers and design engineers to determine the best solutions and resolve quality problems. Source prototype electrical and electronic components and systems for New Product Development projects. Provide input for sourcing strategy development for electrical commodities.

Burnsville, Mn

Developed operations support projects and budgets, led projects to solve complex problems, and provided mentoring to team members.• Led team to identify root cause of intermittent failure mode of air data computer for major customer, resulting in $64K of NRE sales in less than 2 months, and exceeding customer expectations.• Developed operations support engineering project budgets for two product line families. • Led teams to address complex obsolescence challenges allowing the business to maintain sales and customer satisfaction for several key customers.• Identified and drove kaizen event to reduce turn-backs and errors for engineering changes, reducing site-wide costs for engineering changes by 20%.

Burnsville, Mn

Managed design engineering support of operations, supply chain, and customers for existing Air Data Systems product family, including air data computers and transducers.• Led cross-functional teams to identify and implement creative solutions to obsolescence issues preserving sales and customer satisfaction. • Led cross-functional teams to analyze data, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions resulting in improved customer satisfaction. • Led design engineering efforts to respond to Export Classification Reform.o Twice nominated for internal award for Ethics, Export Compliance, and EH&S.• Provided technical support to customers, suppliers, and operations, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, reduced costs, and reduced lead-times.• Developed and administered training for ERP transition to SAP for site engineering population (400 users)

Burnsville,Mn

Managed design engineering support of operations, supply chain, and customers for existing Air Data Systems product family, including air data computers and transducers.• Developed and implemented new method to capture and show demand for design engineering support of operations. • Identified and implemented method to determine business impact of requests for design engineering support resulting in improved prioritization and resource utilization.• Led team of engineers to solve problems impacting suppliers, operations, and customers.

Burnsville, Mn

Led team of 8-10 engineers to develop a new technology for the Boeing 787 aircraft from initial design and engineering builds to first customer hardware deliveries and integration testing.• Led internal team through initial builds for the first application of a new technology on a customer platform. • Interfaced with customer on schedule, risk, preliminary design, and certification strategy.

Burnsville, Mn

Design engineering activities for Ice Detection product line at several stages including proposal, design validation, entry into service, and sustaining support.• Negotiated Statement of Work for new ice detector on proposed Bombardier C-Series aircraft. • Completed Design Validation of ice detector for Airbus A380 per RTCA/DO-254.• Completed Root Cause Analysis and implemented corrective actions for ice detectors on several platforms improving manufacturing yield, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

Burnsville, Mn

Electrical Engineer, Junction Box 2001 to 2003Technical Lead for Electrical Junction Box project for the Bombardier Challenger 300 Business Jet, completing qualification testing and managing 14 customer-directed scope changes.• Developed functional test procedure for Maintenance Data Access Card resulting in improved test yield at final assembly levels. • Programmed and audited automated test system to improve test reliability and lead time.

Duluth, Minnesota

Led and executed projects ranging in scope from $10K to $500K to make capital improvements to pipeline pumping station automation, controls, wiring, communication and sensing systems.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

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