• Experienced and motivated professional with strengths in technical sales, business acumen, leadership and coaching, and factory automation. Degrees in Technical Management and Electrical Engineering Technology compliment more than 20 years of business and industry experience.
• Highly effective at goal setting, tracking progress toward objectives, and navigating around roadblocks. Ability to focus on direction and objectives and execute deliberative courses of action.
• Professional representative of brands and products regionally and internationally. Past business relationships with customers and suppliers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Ability to combine methods and logic with effective communication to quickly evaluate complex issues and generate solutions. Successful at communicating across multiple organizational levels and with external organizations.
Original equipment manufacturing of specialty machinery: Direct and lead electrical and controls activities to ensure new product platforms achieve planned function, cost and schedule.
Provided technical leadership, training, and mentoring for outsourced engineering teams and multiple internal departments including research and development, software, applications, and service.
Net Result: Successful projects with domestic and foreign machine builders involving new and complex proprietary technologies.
Innovate and support research and development efforts.
Net Result: Multiple new technological advancements including United States patent 8,896,293 for a new and unique sensor application. http://goo.gl/dtzOiq
High volume automotive component manufacturing: Led continuous improvement engineering teams in process and product improvements.
Improved product quality despite 86% workforce reduction with plan for plant closure. Reduced costs associated with non-quality in a lean manufacturing environment.
Net Result: 2,787,417 annual automotive wiper motors with customer line return rate of 0.425 PPM.
Quickly unraveled and resolved complex automated process and product design related issues in response to early warning data. Communicated directly with customers to address quality concerns and technical process and design related issues.
Improved efficiency, safety, and quality through continuous improvement initiatives utilizing leading edge technologies including motion control, SCADA, and vision systems.
Managed projects for improved production efficiency. Refined and improved automated processes through innovative design changes. Net Result: Cycle time and MTBF improvements resulted in 270% efficiency increase, cost savings realized including scrap improvement of 65.7% representing a savings of $2,793,672.
Upgraded production equipment for safety to OSHA and Valeo standards:
Net Result: Over 580 consecutive days without a single lost workday accident.
Responsible for complex automation system projects from initial sale to on-site validation.
Developed and programmed custom automation and controls solutions to customer requirement and budgets. Net Result: Multiple project successes supporting the creation and growth of Zynergy Solutions business unit.
Guided customers daily in product selection and provided technical support in a dynamic sales environment.
Experience included Modicon PLC sales and support, as well as many other electrical automation products. Improved the safety of customer's equipment while acting as the product line sales manager for Pilz safety products.
Represented automation and motion control products in a technical sales capacity, provided on-site technical support and training, and designed and programmed automation and motion control solutions.
The Bachelor of Science in Technical Management curriculum prepares students for a career in business management within modern high technology corporations and industries. An heavy emphasis is placed on the unique aspects of managing technology development, engineering teams, project management, manufacturing systems, and research and development initiatives.
The AAS in Electrical Engineering Technology is designed to prepare graduates for technical positions in the expanding fields of electronics, computers and microprocessors, instrumentation, and electrical equipment. The primary objective is to provide a broad foundation of theoretical and practical knowledge in the areas of electrical and electronic circuits, digital circuits, computers, electrical machinery, and programmable logic controls.
