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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Severna Park, Maryland, United States

New Freedom, Pa

Lead a team responsible for building and maintaining advanced analytics for the chiller product group and building a data ecosystem spanning sales, product, and manufacturing teams that includes injecting raw data from CRM, ERP, MRP, and service systems. Democratize data by creating ETL operations with Microsoft Azure tools, SQL, and Alteryx extracts of consumable data for teams across product business units. Lead the efforts across cross-functional teams to provide data visualizations with PowerBi, cleaned data tables, or Tableau servers. Coordinate and develop strategies for the team to create executive-level data analysis with recommended action plans.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Engineering manager of a group responsible for executing contract specific customer requirements. These activities represent approximately 45% of all the units produced at the factory located in San Antonio, TX. Manage coordination with the manufacturing teams at the local plant and large subassembly feeder plants located around the globe. Main efforts include leading a team in a high paced environment requiring quick thinking to quickly identify and solve issues to avoid delays in customer shipments. Accomplishments:Modernization of the contract scheduling of the team from a simple excel based workbook to a cloud-based software which lead to improvements in on-time delivery. This tool increased collaboration with the internal and external teams to improve the quality of the delivered engineering. Creation of development plans for team members ranging from little to no experience to more than twenty years experience. Created shared metrics between engineering and operations teams to highlight deficiencies to drive change to exceed customer expectations.

York, Pennsylvania

Managed and created best practices processes for the global chiller application pre-sales chiller team. Analyzed raw business metrics, designed and maintained dashboards, and presented to the management team with managers in Asia, India, Europe, and North America. Lead projects between global pre-sales team and engineering, software development, customer service, global sales, and production to ensure issues are solved in a prompt fashion. Defined and managed new software developments in order to meet the group's requirements, including improving overall process flow. Conducted interviews with internal and external customers to integrate voice of the customer feedback into current workflow improvement projects.Accomplishments:Developed metrics with transparent dashboards with data visualization software to improve customer response times for the pre-sales engineering team. Deployment of Salesforce ServiceCloud to track customer inquiries, improve customer satisfaction, and response rates. Lead data analytics efforts to rethink how warranty and quality issues affected customers leading to a realignment of metrics driving activity pertaining to product quality improvements

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Product engineering manager responsible for the development of a new product targeting the modular data centers industry. The product was a data center that would be assembled in a controlled factory setting and then broken down into smaller shippable pieces and sent to the final job site. This allowed reduced site construction time as well as an overall capital expenditure savings. I was responsible for the development of the product from the overall design perspective along with coordination with suppliers and production activities. Accomplishments:Development of the business case for the new product line that included the voice of the customer, financial projections, potential customer targeting, and required project funding estimates. Planned, developed, and collaborated with corporate strategy team to develop the business case that was presented to executive leadership. Managed design activities for the development of standard product offerings to match business strategy. Worked directly with suppliers and production to reduce risk and uncertainty regarding the products supply chain. Ensured that the product could be designed for manufacturability.

Greater Denver Area

Responsible for the complete production cycle of all products manufactured in North America. This process included; design, supplier procurement, purchasing, delivery, quality control, warehousing, customer delivery, and customer field issues. Solicited feedback directly from the field staff and customers to create and refine new product development plans. These plans were communicated to our European partners in order to create a global development plan strategy.Accomplishments:Searched and qualified North American supply chain to produce parts to the company’s high European standards. Successfully adapted European designs to be fabricated in North America using local material compositions and sizes. Ensured that the parts that were delivered met design specifications and customer expectations.

Greater Denver Area

Responsible for the development of a new fan snow producer line. Developed new concepts and methods that were tested in the field. The final product was the lowest energy consumer product on the current market. Small division within the larger corporation operated very similar to a startup allowing me to manage all aspects of the design, production, logistics, installation, and service of the product line. New machine automation was developed to control the machines as stand-alone and remote operated machines. Accomplishments:Controlled all incoming and outgoing material of all parts of the product line. Experienced working in the field directly with customers, field staff and independent consultants. Product development from ideation phase to execution and rollout of a new product line. Responsible for development of the most energy efficient product on the market for its segment at the time of launch. Managed and lead a mix of full time and seasonal staff for production and logistic demands.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering