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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

On the day to day I managed technical and engineering functions for Dematic's micro fulfillment business development team. I coordinated internally with multiple departments including R&D, Engineering Execution , Training and Documentation, and Sales teams to define standardization efforts, product direction, and message alignment for the organization.In this role my customers were both internal and external to Dematic. As a Solutions Consultant, I provided feedback from external customers to the internal engineering department to ensure Dematic had the knowledge they needed to design systems which accounted for customers' needs. As the micro fulfillment business development team discovered how the market was changing, I helped position our technology to account for the evolving demands. For external customers, I synthesized knowledge of the market with capabilities of our automation to provide them with key information to help them understand how Dematic's solution could fit within their operations.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

As the first ever Dematic Super User, I led the development of the program for Dematic. Leading by influence and example I spearheaded a project in which I worked onsite with a customer to build a Micro Fulfillment operation. To do this I worked as the single point liaison between the customers operational team and Dematic. I gathered customer requirements directly from users of the system and translated them into technical solutions, managing the development and testing of all new features. I helped to define operational procedures for how store operators could efficiently integrate automation and manual efforts and defined improvement to the user experience with Dematic's system. The effort involved helped the customer see 325% improvement in order output. This position gave me valuable insight into how mechatronic systems are incomplete without people to run them. It is the interaction between operators and the machine that drives success in operations. This philosophy has challenged me to think differently on how to design systems. It is the critical in automation to design systems that encourage interaction through approachability. Automation needs to make our lives easier, not more complex.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

I applied and was accepted into an internal Engineering Rotational program which provides high-potential engineers broader knowledge of company solutions. In this rotation, I implemented, tested, and deployed code for warehouse management software platform. During this opportunity I was able to use my existing knowledge of the Dematic project life cycle as well as my new experience of being onboarded into the software group to help define an initiative which would accelerate future engineers path to value add work. In parallel with my own software training and day to day work, I led a team of 6 engineers in developing and releasing this updated onboarding training. The Software group has since seen marked improvement in execution readiness and new engineers have felt more secure in their knowledge of the scope of their work and where their work fits within the project.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Served as global project SME and controls project lead for highly integrated Automated-Mixed-Case-Palletizing (AMCAP) solution, Coordinated simultaneous projects valued at over $200M.This was a move that was as transformative for me personally as it was engaging for me professionally. The work involved was rigorous as my team had to adjust to standardization demands and project delays. I was tasked with onboarding engineers from Dematic's Southern Europe to the AMCAP solution which had been developed in a then-obsolete coding standard. The team brought the code up to date and reworked the controls architecture to fit to Dematic's global standard. I defined testing and emulation protocols that allowed the team to iron out the code during a project delay, Despite many setbacks our team was able to handover the system for integration testing well before our deadline.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Developed and commissioned a large-scale highly-integrated Automated Mixed Case Palletizing system near Brussels Belgium valued at over $150 Million. Performed electrical commissioning work along with software and hardware debugging. Also worked as task leader for the project within a multi-cultural team including nationalities from Germany, France, Spain, Egypt, Lithuania, and Australia. Successfully delivered the system for integration testing.My first time living abroad brought both difficulty and success in my personal and professional development. At the same time I was learning how to integrate within a foreign culture I was learning how to speak and understand German, commissioning a site which was well behind its installation schedule (the garage doors weren't even on in January when I began my work), as well as creating commissioning guides to help us track progress during extreme variability in our schedule. I learned how exciting work could be when a diverse group of people all came together to tackle something really difficult.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering