Neb Petrovački

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Honeywell Industrial Safety 6712 E Kentucky Ave

**** * ***** ****** ******* Hills, CA 92807

Santa Ana, CA 92704

e-mail: ac4gnq@r.postjobfree.com

phone: 714-***-****

Education And Professional Certification

UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD, SERBIA (2008)

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Thesis: Simulation, Modeling And Control of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE (2005)

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering - Control Systems and Manufacturing Qualifying Exam for Doctoral Degree in Electrical Engineering GPA: 3.84/4.0

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PASADENA CA (1999) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program graduate PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMP) (2011)

Certification from Project Management Institute (PMI); License 1757742 GREEN BELT SIX SIGMA (2013) - HONEYWELL

Professional Experience

HONEYWELL INDUSTRIAL SAFETY

GLOBAL ENGINEERING DIRECTOR – HIGH RISK SAFETY SEP 2015 – PRESENT

Leading a Team of 150+ global engineers working in NPI, Technology, O&M and VE/CE responsible for $700M portfolio of Honeywell Industrial Safety

Single point of contact for all segment General Managers in Americas, EMEA, APAC, and G. China

Engineering stakeholder in all strategic business activities such as STRAP, AOP and OD for the segment

PMO LEADER – PPE AMERICAS 2014 – SEP 2015

Leading the team of 10 Sr. Tech. Proj. Managers and managing NPI portfolio of 3 HOS Gold Enterprises (HIS-A (High Risk, General Safety), Specialty Safety, Retail) TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER 2012 - 2014

Integrator of all project activities and executive management liaison on an $11M product development project.

POWERWAVE TECHNOLOGIES

SR. PROJECT MANAGER – ENGINEERING 2010-2012

R&D PROJECT MANAGER 2008-2010

Developed and lead a project team of more than 80 engineers, supply chain managers, factory personnel and program line managers from feasibility study to general availability of the new platform (4G wireless base station) with the largest project budget in the history of this $1B company

DANAHER

ELECTRONICS & CONTROLS ENGINEER 2006-2008

Applied Danaher Business System’s NPI process guidelines at the recently acquired flow meter manufacturer

Developed telemetry features for remote reading of the flow meters installed in various municipal and industrial applications

UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD, SERBIA

VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (NONLINEAR CONTROL) 2008-PRESENT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC.-SPONSORED RESEARCH ASSISTANT 2000 - 2002

Development of optimization algorithms for TI’s ARM-based MCUs Hard Skills

10+year practical implementation of best engineering and project management practices prescribed by the systems implemented by Fortune 100 companies such as Honeywell and Danaher

5+ years of global supervision of cross functional team members

High global cultural awareness and understanding o Languages: English, Serbian, Croatian (mother tongues), Slavic Languages

(Russian, Czech: reading, intermediate knowledge)

Publications and Awards

1 patent application: First Responder Tracking Breadcrumbs, US Patent Application No 15 634 044

12 technical publications focused on energy-efficiency field appearing in IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, and other peer-reviewed journals such as: o Methods for Assessing Energy Savings in Hospitals Using Various Control Techniques, Energy And Buildings, Elsevier, 2014

o Optimality Conditions And A Solutuon Scheme For Fractional Optimal Control Problems, Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Elsevier 2009

University Fellowships at UCSB and UCR (2001-2005)

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