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Bellevue, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Applied Project Management techniques in an agile environment to manage customer schedule and cost targets for customer's Portal applications.Led sustaining management process execution across the program.Prepared and reported consolidated project status to IT and customer senior management.Managed Risks, Issues, and Opportunities in accordance with.

Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Project Management Consultant to the Customer Service department of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, (MITAC).Advised senior leadership with program issues; prepared and presented for the department in the weekly corporate senior leadership review.Worked with individual groups to improve schedule and cost performance, including, status tracking and.

Greater Seattle Area

Technical lead for Advanced Manufacturing projectsDeveloped a $1.4M project plan and reporting structureRepresented the site in the enterprise wide Advanced Manufacturing communityDefended my teams from budget harvesting with Earned Value to maintain and report cost and schedule performance.

Greater Seattle Area

Project Manager for technical research and development projectsTechnical and Project lead on composite material development project, resulting in a new engineering process specification and use of a new development material in production.Managed automation, 3D printing and sintering, and cost/weight improvement projects, prepared schedule and cost.

Everett, WA

Engineering lead responsible for the 787-9 fuselage made in Nagoya, Japan at Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI).Signed off (as engineering) on pre-production and first articles audits for all composite parts associated with the KHI fuselage.With 17 international trips, reviewed over 40 structural composite components and production procedures in 2 countries.

Subject Matter Focal for composite material, process, and manufacturing equipment engineering specifications.- Created 4 development specifications – 2 of which I led the development and testing.- Subject Matter Expert for 9 material and 4 process specifications.- Led 20+ material and part manufacturers throughout the US, Canada, Italy, China, Japan, and.

Suzuka, Japan

Design engineer responsible for modelling of automotive electronic hardware with CATIA v5.Created 3D models in CATIA (and 2D drawings) of relay and fuse boxes for Honda, Volkswagen, and Fiat automobiles.Prepared and tested prototypes for fit checks and thermal properties.As the only native English speaker in the group I often did translations for meetings.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance And Financial Management Services

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Material Science And Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Japanese Linguistics