Responsible for the management of the Quality Teams supporting the production of Airbags at the Autoliv Ogden Assembly facility and Airbags and Seatbelts at the Autoliv Ogden Service facility, which include over 200 unique production cells which include Molding and Paint operations, supplying all major automotive OEMs.• Led team of 80 launch and process quality engineers, customer relations personnel, product testing technicians, metrology, quality systems and document control personnel to meet Autoliv and customer requirements.• Trained approx. 40 team members in 8D Problem Solving skills with an emphasis on statistical analysis.• Mentored and trained launch and process quality engineers in product development and customer requirements including FMEA, Control Plan, and PPAP with 90% improvements in execution.• Developed over 15 annual department objectives and tracked progress toward those goals with 95% achievement.• Monitored product launch status to ensure 100% of targets and requirements were met to achieve successful product launch without major quality problems.• Executing over 75 Customer and Autoliv requirements.• Maintained ISO 9001:2015/IATF 16949 Automotive Quality System Certification required by OEMs: (International Automotive Task Force).• Led weekly management reviews of capital expenditures and program milestones.

Developed and managed the Oblique Impact System solution for MY23 Acura TLX and MDX vehicles, resulting in three Airbag patents and 20 MUSD annually in awarded business.• Developed and qualified Active Vent technology for Honda Passenger Airbags.• Qualified and patented compression wrapper and diffuser technologies for Global Honda CRV business resulted in 29 MUSD.• Managed Honda and Autoliv CFTs to address a performance issue with technical solutions while preventing any interruption of Honda vehicle production.

Oversaw sales, marketing, quoting, product development, launch and profit/loss of passive Automotive Safety Products for the Honda North American Account. • Integrated and grew accounts from 75 to 625M USD in annual sales. Interfaced with key customer contacts in Purchasing, Research & Development, Engineering and Operations in both North America and Japan.• Developed ability to communicate and excel in Japanese culture with over 100 business trips to Japan.

Created and developed global application strategy at Honda for introduction of Airbag technologies.• Managed and directed a team of 8 engineers in the qualification of new products for use in new business.• Oversaw supplier development, testing and cost of module damper technology used in Driver Airbags.• Coordinated and communicated status for advanced development projects monthly with Honda Japan and North America technical teams.

● Managed Frontal and Side Airbag accounts● Quoted new business to Honda, managing BOM, C/M and EBIT● Development and executed cost models for stamping, injection molding and Airbag cushions● Technical advisor to Honda for application problems and solutions for all Airbag applications

Developed first 3-row rollover inflatable curtain for Acura (Honda) MDX vehicleObtained patents for gas distribution and modular curtain AirbagsInterfaced with corporate engineering to meet cost and performance requirements

Built and evaluated prototype airbag assembliesPrepared test summaries and presentations of results