Evaluated an opportunity to enter a market adjacency with a new product introduction.Gathered the voice of the customer through interviews and an electronic survey.Conducted market analysis to quantify size and segmentation.Worked with a cross functional team to compute new product financial impact due to development investment and expected returns. Product recommendation and go to market strategy are estimated to grow market share by 10% in four years.

Engineered high-quality Honda and Acura vehicles from design conception to final product.Developed targets and technical specifications to ensure vehicle safety.Coordinated and conducted verification testing for body structure safety systems.Analyzed data and prepared reports and presentations to communicate results to executives including, President of Research and Development and Division Director. Obtained three patents for novel energy absorbing structures.Project Development: Launched initiative to upgrade current vehicle performance to exceed new roll-over safety regulation and achieved target of increasing performance by 100% with no effect on development schedule.Led a cross-functional six member team (design engineers, computer simulation analyst, material scientist, and manufacturing specialists) to develop creative, time-neutral solution.Engineered a novel vehicle structure that achieved safety targets with minimal effect to cost and weight.Equipment Procurement: Coordinated purchase of new equipment that brought out-sourced testing in-house in order to improve efficiency. Generated equipment specifications and negotiated purchase directly with suppliers.Implemented test equipment predicted to save company $200,000 over the next six years.Procedural Improvement: Identified bottleneck in process of analyzing vehicle crash data which hindered the application of design improvements. Addressed issue by proactively programming automated procedures for bottleneck portions of data analysis process. Communicated procedure and trained fellow safety engineers. Allowed department to achieve goal of one-week turnaround for tests result reporting resulting in faster design change implementation and improved efficiency.