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Manchaca, Texas, US

• Led Product Development and Operations in heavily regulated, vertically integrated, and rapidly transforming FMCG business, overseeing end-to-end product development, operations, business processes, and industry/market.
• Created safe space with healthy respect and appreciation for risk where creativity and innovation could thrive, growing a passionate, high-performing team that loved their jobs +150% over 2 years
• Championed a business strategy from an established mission & vision, enabling a cohesive product strategy, product management competence, and a resource efficient product roadmap
• Developed and executed strategic plans to increase efficiency and agility across operations while scaling rapidly
• Scaled production of a new category +340% and total manufacturing +120% over 4 month period, maintaining supply continuity and improving inventory levels from low of <1w to >3w, increasing revenue +108% and improving.
• Planned & developed new vertically integrated expansion facility with 16x capacity and another 48x capacity available for future expansion, including equipment & system selection, financial analysis and procurement

Manchaca, Texas, US

• Completed gap analysis in first 45 days and executed plans of action in first 90 days, resulting in: - - - vertical integration through insourcing of extraction, processing and manufacturing to improve processing.
• Established Quality & Product Development organizations, simultaneously flying and building by introducing a product development process, new product roadmap and launching 4 first-to-market new products and.

Austin, TX, US

• Helped build new product industrialization (the underrated & unglamorous requisite of successful product launches) as a global core competency for competitive advantage at YETI
• Built a new function and team chartered with improving the predictability of new product launches through production system development, documentation & validation, including owning production qualification, startup &.
• Established departmental vision, conducted competency & process gap analyses, and implemented departmental strategy, including standard operating procedures, requirements, templates, deliverables & gate reviews
• Led a global team of engineers who managed supplier relationships and performance, qualified new suppliers and production processes throughout North America, Europe & Asia

Austin, TX, US

• Built product definition & critical characteristics by market & consumer research for a outdoor seating segment shattering product
• Managed project and core team through fresh & evolving stage-gate NPD process, wearing any hat necessary to ensure project momentum
• Owned conceptual design & engineering of product with 10x complexity of any existing YETI product; BOM of 120+ components utilizing extruded & die-cast aluminum, metal forming, heat-treatment, robotic & manual welding.
• Built new global supply chain by establishing supplier evaluation matrices and development/supply agreements

Camberley, Surrey, GB

• Led engineering of new B-SAFE 35 infant car seat line (5-Star NHTSA rated; Consumer-Reports "Best")
• Built complex surface data and owned conceptual & detailed design of many innovative and patented mechanisms utilizing injection molded plastics, sheet metal, powdered metal, steel tubing and weldments
• Extensive static/dynamic simulation and mass optimization versus highly dynamic events (~30 Gs)
• Analyzed empirical acceleration & load data (filtering, manipulation, high-speed video correlation)
• Supported tooling development via flow simulation, including gating, ejection, cooling, fill patterns & runner balancing, managed tooling qualification and produced engineering documentation for PPAP
• Developed automated production and inspection fixtures & training documents for domestic assembly lines

Atlanta, GA, US

• Senior product development engineer for Calphalon's Kitchen Electrics product line, including consumer appliances in heating, preparation and beverage categories
• Collaborated with strategic partners to bring a new-to-the-world heating technology to market, solving unique technical challenges requiring development of new UL standards
• Utilized nonlinear thermal simulation with ANSYS to optimize thermal profile for fast/even heating
• Led engineering of digital bar-top blender, including design of flat-panel UI optimized for superior tactile-feedback & lighting, and program development for key qualitative performance metrics

Atlanta, GA, US

• Owned design of complex mechanisms optimized for performance, cost and DFMA
• Developed 3D data (A-surfaces, skeleton models & complex motion assemblies) with Pro/E Creo and Moldflow Adviser
• Utilized ANSYS for linear/nonlinear FEA to support design decisions and material selection
• Validated design through dynamic crash testing to FMVSS 213 & R44/Rxx (US & Euro) regulations, including analyzing high-speed video and empirical acceleration data using ProAnalyst, Visual-Viewer & JMP (DOEs)

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Developed patented device & assembly method to eliminate parasitic battery load & dramatically improve product shelf-life
• Optimized microphone boot design for improved call quality
• Conducted worst-case and statistical tolerance analysis for complex assemblies

• Modeled new/existing commercial buildings and conducted energy simulations to determine environmental performance using eQuest building energy analysis tool from the DOE
• Completed LEED certification documentation

Master Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science With Highest Honors, Mechanical Engineering