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Hudson, Il, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Providing leadership to the modernization of Caterpillar’s manufacturing footprint and supply chain. Driving breakthroughs in lead times, resiliency, and cost through strategy digital transformation.

Irving, Texas, Us

Appointed as part of leadership development track to provide strategic direction in turning around struggling purchasing department. Manage ten figure spend with team of purchasing professionals across the globe. Leverage deep product and industry knowledge to design five-year strategy around cost, quality on time shipping. Elevate internal capability to drive life-cycle sourcing strategies. Revise global contracts to incentivize supplier performance. Personally travel the globe to build culturally sensitive supplier relationships.Impact highlights…☛ Transformed segment from worst-performing to best-performing in two years.☛ Delivered annual cost reduction and improved on time shipping.☛ Elevated quality.☛ Negotiated hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts with improved terms and conditions. ☛ Secured multiple deals with suppliers that included greenfield expansion of supplier capacity.

Irving, Texas, Us

Promoted to replicate prior success in product development for this large and complex engineering organization. Managed deep eight figure budget and global team of engineers on three continents with nine figure spend across electrical systems, mechanical system, and structural components. Applied world class product development discipline. Restructured organization to allow dual focus on product issues while developing new products. Developed and implemented product innovation for four product lines. Strengthened relationships with global supply base. Collaborated cross-functionally to ensure alignment with product design, market trends and customer requirements. Impact highlights…☛ Improved quality.☛ Reduced costs.☛ Doubled engineering hours in low-cost countries of China, India, and Romania.☛ Won Chairman’s Award for Best Emerging Innovation for air system, now the market leader.

Irving, Texas, Us

Promoted to corporate based on prior impact in transforming product development capability. Reporting to CTO championed product development process enterprise-wide and led enterprise governance to develop and commercialize new machine and engine products. Leveraged personal influence and reputation to embed Lean principles as best practice within the organization.Impact highlights…☛ Led company’s largest-ever new product introduction wave with hundreds of new machines.☛ Met all launch dates and improved budget achievement.☛ Improved product quality.☛ Recognized by Board of Directors for elevating product development across the company.

Irving, Texas, Us

Promoted to lead product development expansion initiatives to support large increase in mining development programs. Managed product development & engineering center in Tucson, AZ with high performing test engineers, test technicians, and equipment mechanics and operators. Collaborated with machine group product managers on development of machines. Implemented Visualization as part of Lean product and process development. Impact highlights…☛ Developed first fully autonomous mining vehicles.☛ Led nine figure capital expansion project to enable mining equipment development.☛ Grew technical and operations personnel organization.

Irving, Texas, Us

Promoted to president level role to manage engineering group in bringing new high end complex electronics products to market while establishing business model to generate cash to sustain production of legacy electronic designs. With nine figure P&L responsibility for electronics JV, led team of design and manufacturing engineers along with business and sales team. Oversaw major capital expansion projects to implement new high technology automation lines to support growth. Impact highlights…☛ Developed first satellite communication devices integrated into Caterpillar products.☛ Grew business by tens of millions of dollars.☛ Improved profitability and cash flow.

Irving, Texas, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Mba, Business & Finance