Tyler Kramer Email & Phone Number

Chippewa Falls, WI, US

Wyoming, Minnesota, United States

• Indian Motorcycle: Advanced Rider Assistance and Electromechanical Systems
• Leads cross-functional program and supplier teams through the development of advanced rider assistance, braking, suspension, and hand control systems
• Responsible for budgeting labor, specials, and tooling for multiple pre-development and production programs totaling $10M+
• Develops and coordinates full system integration schedules
• Leads program gate reviews and manages system design reviews

United States

• Kramer Camper
• Explored 31 states and visited 19 national parks with my wife and dog in our off-grid camper

Wyoming, Minnesota, United States

• Advanced Technology Team
• Led project teams through creation of KPCs, project scope, and vehicle architecture for two new electric off-road vehicles
• Created full project and system level development schedules
• Organized innovation challenges to generate new ideas for production project teams and guided teams through IP documentation
• Aligned with key stakeholders and executed cross-functional project gate reviews
• Coordinated demonstrator vehicle builds with fabrication teams

Wyoming, Minnesota, United States

• Off Road Vehicles: Ranger Platforms
• Led design, development, and testing of door, windshield, roof, net, and cargo box latching systems while implementing sealing and quality improvements
• Created system level development schedules
• Managed design engineers, vendors, and contractors to complete system designs
• Generated 3 patent applications from novel system designs

Wyoming, Minnesota, United States

• Indian Motorcycle: Challenger and Pursuit Platforms
• Led project teams through creation of KPCs, project scope, and vehicle architecture while owning technical delivery motorcycle and accessory platforms
• Created full project and system level development schedules
• Planned labor, specials, and tooling budgets along with approving tooling kick-off
• Mentored design engineers and managed summer interns
• Executed cross-functional project gate reviews

Wyoming, Minnesota, United States

• Indian Motorcycle: Challenger Program
• Developed system designs from concept to production across multiple vehicle platforms -Experienced with: key FOBs, electrical controllers, injection molding, stampings, weldments, forgings, machining, die/investment.
• Led system DFMEAs, HARAs, and implemented routing documentation company-wide
• Selected supplier partners for system development and component manufacturing
• Mentored design engineers and managed summer interns
• Led ADAS technology team, motorcycle scanning operations team, and accessory project team

Rotational

• CAE Engineer: Off-Road Vehicles
• Created production designs from CAE optimization models
• Sourced mass analytics tool now used to predict vehicle dynamics during developmentProject Engineer: Indian Motorcycle
• Led internationally based team on design specifications, validation build scheduling, system benchmarking, system mass targets, component and vehicle stability testing, and concept bike developmentLead Design Engineer.
• Led a team to develop and build a light-weight concept vehicle with a 19% overall weight reduction while improving or maintaining all vehicle features and metrics along with designing many of the components and the.
• Managed production of tooling and fixtures, led new product pilot builds, contributed DFM/A improvements in design reviews, supported the assembly line, and designed an assembly solution for a steering rack alignment.

Wyoming, Minnesota, United States

• Indian Motorcycle: Scout Platform
• Responsible for tolerance stack-ups, benchmarking, designing components and inspection/assembly fixtures

Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States

• Victory Motorcycles
• Developed protective covers and a sustainable scrap redemption processes for parts with high scrap rates
• Improved organization and visual work flow by creating supermarkets and kanban systems

Dodge Center, Minnesota, United States

• Improved product quality by using hardware data collectors and software to scan, measure, and evaluate problematic manufactured parts and assemblies. Trained and managed colleagues when they assisted.

Kalona, Iowa, United States

• Developed ultrasound needle guidance systems, test fixtures, tooling, and packaging