Wendy Brooks Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Currently leading a global engineering organization consisting of ~180 associates across nine global locations responsible for new technology, new product introduction, sustaining, requisition, and operations engineering. • Managing a $31MM engineering budget for a $1B O& G business segment.• Successfully integrated the engineering organizations for GE’s O&G Rod Lift Systems and Electrical Submersible Pump businesses through establishing collaborative and transparent relationships tasked with identifying duplications, leveraging engineering synergies while maintaining a high level of talent retention. • Developed Production Solutions MGTP/MGPP roadmap ensuring cross-functional organizational alignment, prioritizing budgets and resources in collaboration with Product Management and Global Research Centers.• Responsibilities include ownership and compliance with all global Technical Regulations & Standards (TR&S) and product safety for over 12 major product lines.• Established organizational KPI’s, standard design practices, and implemented proactive Product Safety and TR&S reviews with a tracking management system.• Executive sponsor for GE Women’s Network myConnections, GE People with Disabilities, GE Veterans Network, and leader for the development of Women in Technology at GE O&G.

•Tasked with establishing and leading the Electronics CoE for the $3.5B Measurement & Controls (M&C) Oil & Gas business.•Demonstrated strength of working across a matrix organization, global engineering, and a multi-modal business model.•Conducted cross-business technology workouts to establish product platforming, process commonization, & component consolidation opportunities. •Drove the implementation of a Technical Wiki sharing website and the establishment of numerous technology sharing communities.•Established cost saving plan that leverages global electronics spend across the six M&C business segments.•Institutionalized Design for Manufacturing, Design for Test, and organizational metrics.

•Software & Instruments Engineering Leader responsible for supporting a $1.1B business serving the O&G Industry operating on a ~$15MM engineering budget. Additional responsibilities include Product Platforming Engineering Leader. •Responsible for a global new product development and sustaining engineering team consisting of 97 associates supporting 5 major product lines serving the O&G markets.•Successfully established and lead a product structuring special project across 6 major business segments that transformed into electronics CoE.•Partnered with the GSC, Tools, & Sourcing teams to execute on the M&C electronics product structuring opportunities.•Effectively led the SW&I organization through tough economic year in 2013 and met the reduced budget constraints while still executing on $2.4MM of DMP, delivering 3 NPI’s, and contributing to the business exceeding the on-time-delivery, contribution margin, & operating margin goals.•Co-hub leader for the M&C Women in Functional Engineering. •Corporate Technical Staff coach, Women’s Network, WISE, STEM, and diversity champion.

Houston, Texas, Us

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New Product Engineering manager with extensive experience in building and managing various disciplines of engineers supporting new product launches. Overall responsibilities include design for manufacturability, cost, quality, delivery, and transition to external manufacturing for new product launches.  Responsible for technical support of products transitioning to Asia and Mexico EMS’s

Surface Mount Technology Engineer supporting production and new product development of electronics telecommunications devices and complex infrastructure systems. Responsibilities included root cause analysis of production/prototype yield loss, design for manufacturability, process characterization, and continuous quality improvements. Specialty skills were solder paste technology, reflow technology, and failure analysis.