Executive Vice President \ Director Project Management \ Sr. Buiness Analyst
Identified manufacturing process improvement opportunities for multiple large manufacturing firms. Determined detailed project requirements using cross-section of machine operators, design engineers, supervisors and upper level and executive management. • Created scope requirement documents, screen flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, and performed various reach and feasibility studies. • Designed and developed the companies’ first object based programming model to decrease software development timeline of custom machines.• Created company policies and procedures regarding software design requirements, coding standards, testing requirements, FAT protocols, requirements gathering and documentation.• Wrote functional and technical specifications used in the design, manufacturing and programming of custom automated manufacturing equipment. • Created detailed flowcharts of all software including robot, PLC and HMI / GUI interface. • Wrote user acceptance (Factory Acceptance) documentation and user documentation. Created and executed detailed testing at various levels of machine and software development. • Managed multiple large scale projects with half-million dollar budgets and 6 month to one year durations. Design, purchasing, build-buy decisions, manufacturing, programming and installation with multiple projects and limited resources created a complex management environment.• Automation machinery is highly complicated in today’s manufacturing environments. The need for easy to use interfaces to handle the many aspects of the machines is critical. Our HMI designs became a company selling point due to their intuitive, easy to use design.