OVERVIEW:• Accomplished automotive industry professional with 30+ years of experience integrating engineering, manufacturing, and technical sales leadership. The quintessential “gearhead” while also incorporating extensive business acumen and interpersonal skills to provide innovative insight, vision, and strategy for growth. Expert Generalist (with specializations) combining and leverage varied knowledge and skills for highly creative technical and commercial solutions.SKILLS and EXPERIENCES:• Proven Lead Strategist for Growth and New Business Development.• Market, Product and Competitor analysis to drive broader business strategy.• ICE & xEV Propulsion & Energy Systems technologist that understands evolving market opportunities and risks. • Developer of Processes/Systems/Tools – to mentor and enable technical sales team.• Expert in organizing, campaigning, and negotiating large ($100M to $300M LTR) contracts with complex financial, technical, and often significant CAPEX content. Experienced with Value Selling techniques.• Very experienced with OEM Cost Breakdowns and Purchasing Methodologies.• Extensive manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, machining and assembly. experience.• Recognized and respected technical and commercial credibility with customer and intracompany resources.• Extremely Automotive Knowledgeable - there is not a component or system that I am not familiar with via career and lifetime of auto mechanics, competition, hot rodding, building and fabrication experiences. • Extensive International business experience with global divisions and customers.• Passion and curiosity for learning, sharing and teaching to build organization sustainability.• Extensive 20+ years of Aluminum Foundry Experience - HPDC, LPDC, CPC, GDC, GPM, Squeeze and Enhanced Ultra High Vacuum HPDC. Some Disamatic and green sand experience in both Ductile and Gray Iron. • Automotive Product Mechanical Engineering with significant emphasis on systems of components, design, packaging, and structural analysis. Specifically, Chassis, Suspension and Drivetrain.• A lifetime of technical activities that have developed an extensive hands-on mechanical aptitude and knowledge set that translates to significant technical credibility with the customer and intracompany resources.• Capabilities, skills and experiences that are universally adaptable to a wide variety of products and processes both technically and commercially.