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Engineering Manager

Location:
Grosse Pointe, MI, 48230
Posted:
May 28, 2017

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Steven C. Tengler

**** ******, ****** ****** ****, MI 48230

E-mail: ac0i5o@r.postjobfree.com

Home: 313-***-****, Cell 313-***-****

Accomplished automotive executive with strong leadership, honed people skills, and both business and technology experience looking for a challenging position within a growing company. Skills include:

Electronics & Connected Car Marketing Acumen • Software & Services Leadership

Profit & Loss Management • Innovation & Start-up Capability

Customer Experience & Program Management • OEM & Supplier Experience

EXPERIENCE Honeywell -- Transportation Systems June 2014 – present

Global Business Leader for Connected Vehicle: Cybersecurity (Sr. Director)

• Started line of business using Advanced Development resources from Aerospace div.

• Responsible for Profit & Loss (P&L) for all sales regions (e.g. N.A., EU, APAC)

• Overseeing onboard & offboard dev in Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis and Bucharest

• Leading all activities, e.g. s/w & h/w engineering, marketing, comms, prgm mangmnt

• Managing all strategic segmentation, partnerships, collaborations and/or acquisitions

• Setting product roadmap, advanced dev spends, product release schedule, etc.

• Grown to multimillion dollar business; profitable in 2018; added 1 OEM & 4 Tier1s

Global Director of Customer Experience (June 2014-Nov 2015)

• Created HON’s Honeywell User Experience vision, metrics and operating system

• Led distributed teams for connected car and turbo businesses

• Co-designed Honeywell Design Language System (HDLS) for all HON businesses

• Started Net Promoter Score (NPS) measurement & led business to 28pt improvement

Altia Incorporated Mar 2011 – Jun 2014

Sr. Director of Software Services

• Led global quotes, Statements of Work, and projects related to engineering services

• Created Altia’s global UX team, Design Studio, vision, personas, and roadmap

• Managed internal resources for usability overhaul of Altia's user interface (GUI)

• Coordinated internal Services resources (20-30) to deliver on UX projects

• Developed and implemented marketing plan for Services & Operations

• Managed P&L for UX services ($4-5M / year) to a 40% margin

Wayne State University Jan 2012 – Dec 2012

Adjunct Professor

l Conceived, developed, and taught Usability Modeling & Testing class

OnStar LLC Sept 2006 – Mar, 2011

Engineering Group Manager for HMI & Emerging Services (Adv Sys. Development)

l Managed HMI & Emerging Services team of 40-50 engineers, N. Amer & China

l Coordinated advanced projects between New Business Development, R&D, etc.

l Oversaw annual budget of ~$1M; was 0.5% under budget all years

l Led creative designs for innovative services (e.g. eNav, Injury Severity Predictor)

l Revamped innovation prioritization scheme for cross-functional integration

l Submitted seventy-eight (78) patent applications for advanced, telematic designs

Nissan Technical Center – North America Jan 2003 – Sept 2006

Technical Management Team (Research & Development) & V-Up Pilot

l Led research team (5) for advanced engineering of cooperative safety systems

l Successfully transitioned product from research to advanced product development

l Managed internal budget of $975,000 with 80/20 cost-share (approx $5M project)

l Represented Nissan at CAMP and VII for veh-to-veh & veh-to-infrastructure syst.

l Submitted twenty (20) patent applications for advanced automotive systems

Ford Motor Company / Visteon Corporation Mar 1993 – Jan 2003

Human Performance Lab Manager

l Managed team (2) to launch and baseline study for Visteon Driving Simulator

l Designed Human Machine Interface (HMI) for European navigation radio

l Reviewed and redesigned radio and telematics ergonomics & icons

Launch Leader, Audio Systems

l Represented interior electronics at Edison Plant for launch of the 1995 Explorer

l Assisted in coordinating module redesign which reduced inventory 80%

l Designed & released twenty-eight end items ranging from radios to brackets

EDUCATION University of Michigan

M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Human Factors & Ergo) May, 1999

B.S.E. in Structural Engineering December, 1991

HONORS & Founder & Primary Trustee of SET Fund (www.setfund.org) Dec 1999 - present

LEADERSHIP Ruling Elder & Deacon, Grosse Pointe Memorial Church Jan 2000 - present

Co-Chair of SAE Distracted Driving Task Force Feb 2011 –2013

Chairman of SAE DSRC Message Set Technical Committee Mar 2004 – Mar 2006

PROFESSIONAL “Big Data Talks; Toyota Scientist Listens”, UX Magazine May, 2017

PUBLICATIONS “You Cannot Spell IDIOT-PROOF without IOT”, Connected April, 2017

(32) World Magazine

“Book Review of ‘7 Text Effects in MS Word”, UX Mag November, 2013

“Moneyball2: How to Sweep the UX World Series”, UX Mag October, 2013 “Design4Experience: Promoting Empathy for Users”, UX Mag September, 2013

“Five User Experience Lessons from Seth Rogen”, UX Mag July, 2013

“Five User Experience Lessons From Jim Carrey, UX Mag April, 2013

“Five User Experience Lessons From Laura Dern”, UX Mag February, 2013

“I Have A Screen … Now What?”, EDN.com February, 2013

“Smashing Book: The Mobile Book”, UX Magazine December, 2012

“Developing Superb HMI: How an Automotive Infotainment December, 2012

Team Does It”, SAE International Magazine

“Five User Experience Lessons from Tom Hanks, UX Mag November, 2012

“Automotive at the Roulette Wheel”, UX Magazine October, 2012

“Five User Experience Lessons from Johnny Depp”, October, 2012

UX Magazine and Mashable

“UX in Practice: A Real World Analysis of Embedded September, 2012

Graphical User Interface Impact” Embedded Computing

“Five User Experience Lessons from Tom Cruise” September, 2012

UX Magazine and Mashable

“The User Experience Evolution: A Discussion of Displays March, 2012

From a Darwinian Perspective” DesignWest Proceedings

“From Whence Failures Come”, Product Design & Feb, 2012

Development Magazine

“Connected Cars: How to Accelerate… Adoption” Mashable Feb, 2012

“Designing for Driver Distraction”, Ergonomics in Design October 2011

Speaker @ Ward’s Automotive Interiors & Internet UX May & Oct, 2011

“The Lorax of Driver Distraction”, Connected World October, 2011

“On-Road Evaluation Of Destination Entry and Way-finding

Tasks: Comparisons to Normal Driving”, Driving Assessment June 23, 2011

“Voice- and Visual-Manual-Control Navigation System January, 2011

Evaluation Based on User Performance in Destination Entry

and Navigation Tasks”, Transportation Research Board 2011

“Turn Signal Enhancement Using a Navigation System” December, 2010

“Inferring GPS Location Using RSSI of Short-Range Comm” Oct, 2009

“Calculating Green Points Based Upon Driving Variables” Feb, 2009

“Can Sea Bands ® Be Used to Mitigate Simulator Sickness?” June, 2005

PATENTS US Patent 9,511,683 Occupant recognition & verif. System Dec 2016

(51) US Patent 9,401,087 Vehicle-related messaging system July 2016

US Patent 9,078,200 Mobile-originated SMS local broadcast Jan, 2016

US Patent 9,078,200 Connecting to a comm’s unit July, 2015

US Patent 9,037,475 Auctioned, geoboxed radio presets May, 2015

US Patent 8,994,522 HMI auto-steer based upon eye glance March, 2015

US Patent 8,854,198 Forward Veh Brake Warning System October, 2014

US Patent 8,779,947 Vehicle-related messaging methods July, 2014

US Patent 8,744,745 Method of using mobile location June, 2014

US Patent 8,749,350 Method of processing crash data June, 2014

US Patent 8,750,832 Connecting a phone to a comm’s unit June, 2014

US Patent 8,705,724 Posting a remote voice message April, 2014

US Patent 61/975,158 UI Design Validator April, 2014

US Patent 8,660,735 Method of providing info to a vehicle Feb, 2014

US Patent 8,655,543 Vehicle on-board unit Feb, 2014

US Patent 8, 626553 Method for updating electr. calendar Jan, 2014

US Patent 8,483,903 Vehicle onboard unit July, 2013

US Patent 8,442,759 System for providing portions of a route May, 2013

US Patent 8,321,125 Providing route guidance to a vehicle Nov, 2012

US Patent 8,306,735 Stop sign maplet downloads Nov, 2012

US Patent 8,279,083 Vehicle information comm method October, 2012

US Patent 8,213,861 Method of vehicle to vehicle comm’s July, 2012

US Patent 8,188,837 Method of finding a key to a vehicle May, 2012

US Patent 8,054,168: Estimating an emer level of veh accidnt Nov, 2011

US Patent 8,050,855: Data to a traffic information server Nov, 2011

US Patent 7,742,603: Security for anonymous broadcasts June, 2010

US Patent 7,739,031: Vehicle on-board unit June, 2010

US Patent 7,734,050: Digital certificate pool June, 2010

US Patent 7,668,644: Vehicle fuel information system February, 2010

US Patent 7,609,174: Vehicle info comm. system October, 2009

US Patent 7,606,662: Traffic navigation system October, 2009

US Patent 7,554,435: Vehicle onboard unit June, 2009

US Patent 7,548,173: Vehicle onboard unit June, 2009

US Patent 7,523,000: Vehicle pre-collision system April 2009

US Patent 7,486,199: Forward Vehicle Brake Warning Syst February 2009

US Patent 7,444,227: Vehicle Communications System October 2008

US Patent 7,439,853: System for Determining Traffic October 2008

US Patent 7,437,232: Speed Control Based On Other Veh’s October 2008

US Patent 7,433,773: Vehicle Onboard Unit October 2008

US Patent 7,373,243: Method for Providing Traffic Info May 2008

US Patent 7,363,117: Method for Determining Same Path April 2008

US Patent 7,355,525: Vehicle Communication System April 2008

US Patent 7,233,779: Radio Human-Machine Interface June 2007

US Patent 7,005,977: Wireless, Cooperative Headlight Alert February 2006

US Patent 6,778,900: Vehicle Mileage Logging System August 2004

US Patent 6,717,287: Swivel Radio Bezel Mount April 2004

US Patent 6,470,256: Fuel-Economizing Speed Control October 2002



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