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Elmwood, Il, Us

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Mossville, Il

Performed Validation Testing for Caterpillar Fluid Filter Products.Developed and maintained LabView electronic test procedures.Devised built and implemented mechanical test apparatus.Documented and validated and standard safe operating procedures.

Mossville, Illinois

Caterpillar C9-C18 Engine Performance and ValidationUtilize CANape and VersaDAC data acquisition systems to gather engine performance and emissions data for development of engine ratings in Cat machine, industrial, and genset applications.Responsibilities include: - Setting up instrumentation, coordinating work required from skilled trades, facilities support and technical specialists to install, and maintain engine operation in the test cell. - Gathering test requirements requested by platform and project engineers and validating quality of data using DATK and CANape. - Developing test fixtures and setting up auxiliary instrumentation necessary to fulfill data acquisition needs of systems engineers.

Mossville, Il

Responsible for electrical system NPI product support deliverables on T4F Medium Track Type Tractors, Medium Track Type Loaders, Motor Graders, Wheel Loaders, Soil and Refuse Compactors• Validated and Coordinated development of service information for electronics systems. • Monitored and reported progress on delivery of NPI product support deliverables.

Mossville, Il

• Led development of telematics core system validation process and metrics for Product Link and Vision Link data validation.• Identified and reported system defects in PPRD product issue documentation system• Assisted software development team in investigation, and validation of defect resolutions• Coordinated End-to-End validation efforts with product validation counterparts in product group and Peoria Proving Grounds (PPG)

Mossville, Il

Performed Primary Tier 2 Dealer Solutions Network (DSN) call center support as well as Service Engineering responsibilities for CGC systems on Track Type Tractors, Wheel Type Scrapers, Hydraulic Excavators, Motor Graders and Paving products• Developed training materials and service publications for New Product Introduction (CGC) systems• Assisted dealer techs in resolving problems on CGC systems• Participated in Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) Projects• Collected and documented information required to launch and close CPI projects

Mossville, Il

Coordinated documentation of ALL Tier 4 Final emissions compliant large core engine software feature requirements.

East Peoria, Il

Low Cost Producer (LCP) product Feature analysis and Value Estimating Tool (VET) Facilitator covering all Cat vs Competitor machine comparisons.Accolades: 2010 PD> VP Mountain Mover Award Recipient• Streamlined, standardized & implemented Corporate LCP feature analysis processo Eliminated redundant work to reduce engineering resource needs by50% resulting in 50 hrs resource burden reduction - equivalent to more than $5000 cost savings per project, amounting to $100,000 savings over 2 years.• ldentified, documented and communicated over 400 new product differentiation ideas on 20 Cat vs competitor machines providing technical documentation to enable worldwide dealer sales force to better sell Cat product value.• Trained over 50 engineering and marketing colleagues in the LCP Feature & VET idea capture process.• Facilitated Added Value in Design (AVID) engineering/supplier collaboration events• Co-Developed competitive common parts analysis process and toolo Captured parts data and developed pareto analyses tool to evaluate competitive parts reuse strategy for all current production NA construction equipment models from 4 major competitive Equipment Manufacturers

Peoria, Illinois

Author and process champion for Technical Analysis (TA) dealer equipment inspections• Developed & published technical (TA2) & visual (TAl) equipment inspectiontraining materials & checklists for 12 prime product familieso Supported worldwide Cat dealer network capability to monitor equipment condition in order to generate parts and service sales as well as to satisfy customers by minimizing product downtime

Peoria, Illinois

• Developed & implemented global dealer equipment inspection strategy &tactics to align with corporate condition monitoring initiative• Coordinated & participated in development, implementation & support ofdealer-facing equipment inspection software on the Service Technician Workbench• Managed tactical partnership with overseas 3rd party inspection software providero Maintained contractual agreement which provided Cat with exclusive access to worldwide Cat equipment history data from a well known/established inspection software provider, as well as enabling cost savings of over $10M software development capital investment + $100K per year in software maintenance

Peoria, Illinois

• Developed symptom-based troubleshooting procedures for Diesel & Natural Gas Engines in the on-highway, captive machine, industrial & power generation applications resulting in training and technical support of worldwide dealer technician workforce• Developed & implemented multi-generational plan for development of dealer troubleshooting software which reduced publication development time 65%• Conceptualized & developed process to automatically create & validate troubleshooting procedures by integrating PC-based troubleshooting information with CPI process & toolso Business case documented $156M per yr opportunity in worldwide dealer time/labor savings + potential for 56M per year Cat incremental parts sales.

Peoria, Illinois

• Devised & implemented authoring process & supporting SGML tagging formats required to integrate diagnostic information into a dealer-facing guided delivery software• Conceptualized & developed process to automate the dealer technician's troubleshooting process by integrating Electronic Service Tool functionality with authored Guided Diagnostic procedureso Improved dealer technician diagnostic accuracy and improved dealer technician resource utilization by 25%.

Peoria, Illinois

• Authored & published field service procedures for off-highway truck product family• Devised & implemented process to reduce custom product publish & develop time by 50%o recovered over 75 wasted work hours per year in productivity worth over $7500 labor cost per year

Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Designed roll form tooling, inspection tooling, stamping tooling. Programmed CNC mills, lathes and screw machines. Implemented $100k cost reductions in tooling with design changes that utilized common parts.

Downers Grove, Illinois

Scheduled, Coordinated and planned tooling development for progression stamped components for T3 automotive parts supplier. Coordinated development of stamping and inspection tooling projects totalling $1M. Designed inspection fixtures. Performed piece part and tooling cost estimates