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Summary * Over 7 years of Program Management experience * Managed multiple projects through all phases of the development cycle. * Hired and managed Engineering Department of 20 engineers and designers * Vast experience in moving high profile projects from development into full production. * Excellent communication skills PROFILE * Program management * New product development * Design lifecycle management * QFD & SWOT analysis * Lean manufacturing * Proposal writing * Quality, reliability & failure analysis * Product sustaining & cost enhancements * Software/hardware integration * New product development, concept through production * Scheduling costs, risk mitigation, cost controls * Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills * Graceful under pressure-drive high impact through influence Create/sustain highly productive environments that help engineers do their best work. * Provide professional leadership to manufacturing engineers, inspiring and motivating through highly developed communication skills to build collaborative, productive teams. Identify, cultivate and leverage individual and group talents and skills to attain superior performance levels and to achieve goals and objectives, on-time and within budget. Proven ability to establish a vision and execute visions into reality. Collaborate effectively cross-platform to drive growth. * Participate in the strategic business planning and development process for product introduction into markets. Coordinate available R&D, sales and marketing talents to identify, prioritize and plan opportunities, solve problems, and implement new product designs, focusing efforts into alignment with customer requirements. Interpret and resolve contradictory requirements and communicate clear objectives to team. Advocate for continual improvement in customer experience to increase loyalty. Uncover and shape manageable risks to increase project viability and ROI potential. * Track record of delivering world-class product performance by identifying, analyzing managing and tracking risk, and exploiting opportunities-through communication between internal and external customers-to deliver world class product performance. Support development and manufacturing processes by accurately assessing project equipment and resource requirements, uncertainties and available resources, to determine needs and transition materials and process technology to production. Optimize the concept/design/build stage with emphasis on cost reduction and profitability. * Maintain focus on assessing and managing risk, developing project resource requirements, forming productive partnerships with vendors, designing for lean production to minimize overhead, reducing quality costs, and eliminating change orders. Career highlights include: * Built an entirely new engineering department from the ground up. * Shortened design cycle from 18 to less than 12 months by creating/implementing a new product introduction process. * Conducted QFD and SWOT analysis and introduced new technology to a customer which potentially increased revenue. * Obtained ISO-9001 certification over a period of 3 months.
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