Project Manager/ Program Manager, PMP, Agile CSM/ CSPO

Professional Summary

Erik Badgley is an Manager with over 20 years of experience in program and project management, product development, engineering, manufacturing, and IT systems development. Mr. Badgley possesses a unique blend of skills pertaining to both Product Development Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Management. Mr. Badgley has experience leading gate reviews in a waterfall environment as well as leading agile teams as both a certified scrum master (CSM) and Certified Product Owner (CPO). Erik has experience leading multifaceted engineering and technical teams from pre-project acquisition to project closure. He has experience in both public and private sectors, across multiple industries including Automotive, Medical, Healthcare, and Consumer Electronics, and in both Domestic and Global markets.

Mr. Badgley is a seasoned and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has experience as both Project Manager and Program Manager. Non-traditional to most project managers, he was also sometimes responsible for direct reports as well. Thus, he also has experience as an Engineering manager, Software Development Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, and Test Manager. Mr. Badgley demonstrates success leading teams to deliver high-quality products, while often overcoming difficult cost, time, and resource constraints.

Mr. Badgley is recognized for success in applying continuous improvement through creative problem solving and collaboration techniques, which benefited clients millions of dollars through both product and process improvements. He is a champion of continuous improvement with knowledge of various methodologies, including Agile, Kaizen, Value Stream analysis, 5 Whys, Eight Disciplines (8Ds) Problem Solving, and Design for Six Sigma.

Education & Certifications

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Kettering University

M.S. Engineering Management (In progress);

Kettering University

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute, Member ID #1668905

Six Sigma Greenbelt

ZF Friedrichshafen, Formerly TRW

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

Experience

Kunz, Leigh & Associates 05/2013 – 04/2018

Senior Project Manager

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services; Michigan Department of Technology Management, and Budget (DTMB)

Kunz, Leigh, and Associates is a software and professional services consulting company that consults primarily with the State of Michigan IT projects. Mr. Badgley acted as the Engagement Manager and Project Manager on several IT projects with two State Agencies: Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and the Department of Technology Management and Budget (DTMB). Mr. Badgley held other roles such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Test Manager, and Software Development Manager. Responsibilities and accomplishments include:

Managing development and test teams through various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from project acquisition to project closure. Practiced Agile Increment development and Waterfall gate reviews.

Managed release schedules and recorded several successful key launches on time and budget that enhanced the user experience and led to better access to care, improved population coverage, lower processing time, and lower costs.

Managing Quality: Ensuring Project Management best practices and adhering to the State of Michigan’s SUITE and SEM templates. Implemented lessons learned into process and improved team performance and defect accountability. Managing Test activities.

Conducted business process reviews that identified business process improvements opportunities.

Creation of State of Michigan’s SUITE and SEM deliverables Planning and Prioritizing Development and Test Teams Daily Activities using Scrum and Agile Methodologies

Performing Risks and Issues Management

Managing Scope and Time: Facilitating workshops to define project scope, work break down structure (WBS), and schedule.

Performing Resource management and Optimizing the team’s efficiency by quickly removing impediments

Performing Stakeholder Management and understanding what motivates and influences team members and stakeholders.

Responsible for Human Resource management: managed test and development resources and supporting the project budget.

Responsible for Monitoring and Controlling the Projects. Setting performance metrics and reporting daily, weekly, monthly, and Quarterly reports to support the client and KL&A Business development and Service and Delivery

Internal KL&A Activities:

Regularly dedicated extra time to support several successful project acquisitions for KL&A that ultimately contributed to the growth of the company from 20 employees to over 100 in less than 5 years.

Developed the KL&A standard for managing IT projects that aligned with PMBOK 5th edition and Agile.

Developed a standard project reporting template for all project managers to report to the executive steering committee

Experience

Behr-Hella Thermocontrol 12/2012 – 05/2013

Program Manager and Senior Project Manager

Project Cost Optimization: Scope Behr-Hella Thermocontrol U.S.

Mr. Badgley served as Program Manager on the Product Cost Optimization Initiative for all the products produced in the U.S. The initiative consisted of a collection of multiple projects and programs with the strategic goal of identifying and maximizing cost savings and profit. Responsibilities and accomplishments included:

Defining the strategy and process to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close the collection of projects.

Led the Change Control Improvement Initiative resulting in better control of scope management and stakeholder accountability.

Managing stakeholders and communication to establish organizational commitments and accountability in order to achieve project success.

Leading workshops and the overall collection of ideas from various departments, such as maximizing processes; identifying contract renewal opportunities; identifying material cost savings through economies of scale, alternate suppliers, and design simplification; minimizing cost of quality; and identifying price renegotiation opportunities.

Designing and organizing a project selection process used to grade, prioritize, and target potential opportunities.

Generating weekly and monthly status reports on individual project and cumulative program savings.

Leading weekly executive meetings, which reported each project change status and effect to margin levers.

Exceeded the projected target by 500%.

Behr-Hella Thermocontrol 01/2011 – 05/2013

Program Manager

Mr. Badgley served as the Program Manager responsible for the delivery of a highly complex collection of hardware/software embedded electronics projects. These products included a combination of Injection molding, stamping, printed circuit board fabrication, SMT assembly, and final assembly. The project involved global sourcing with several vendors and Tier 2 manufacturing facilities. He utilized processes consistent with the Project Management Institute philosophy. His responsibilities and accomplishments included:

Leading cross-functional team activities, including technical design reviews, software issue product backlog reviews, open-issues reviews, scheduling (timing plan) reviews, and crisis management / triage, and he coordinated continuous improvement efforts.

Created multiple, concurrent Software Implementation Plans and successfully executed the plans, launching software on time and in budget.

Managed risk and implemented risk mitigation strategies to ensure project health.

Managing development and testing activities.

Providing leadership in solving software, manufacturing, quality, and logistics issues.

Identifying opportunities and leading improvements to the validation process.

Improving engineering change management and release management efficiency.

Authoring several technical documents, including Technical Specifications, Statements of Work, Test Plans, Engineering Reports, and Experiments.

Conducting formal training workshops and creating training manuals.

Electrolux Home Products 01/2010 – 01/2011

Senior Product Engineer (Technical Project Manager)

Electronic Oven Control Projects Portfolio

Mr. Badgley’s was responsible for the delivery of oven controls. These included a combination of stamping, painting, printed circuit board assembly, and final assembly. His responsibilities and accomplishments included:

Leading cross functional team activities including technical design reviews, software issue product backlog reviews, open issues reviews, scheduling (timing plan) reviews, and crisis management / triage, and he coordinated continuous improvement efforts.

Providing leadership in solving global software issues.

Leading manufacturing in root cause analysis of fallout and returns.

Created multiple, concurrent Software Implementation Plans and successfully executed the plans, launching software on time and in budget.

Submitting two invention disclosures related to unique software algorithms.

Leading redesign initiative, which provided cost and quality benefits, and incorporating the use of methodologies from Project Management Institute and Six Sigma.

Designing and proposing new data-driven strategic process used to evaluate design alternatives and to make more objective decision making.

Developing a unique cost-benefit calculation model, which used statistical methods and tools to weigh the existing product’s cost of quality, material, and process costs against proposed design solutions.

Organizing the gathering of statistically competent field data to accurately calculate the cost of quality.

Holding workshops with suppliers to evaluate new technology and the potential application to the product portfolio.

Authoring several technical documents, including Technical Specifications, Statements of Work, Project Schedules, Test Plans, Engineering Reports, and Experiments.

TRW Automotive 10/2005 – 05/2009

Senior Project Engineer (Technical Project Manager)

Embedded Electronics Portfolio of Projects

Mr. Badgley’s was responsible for the delivery of hardware/software embedded electrical and mechanical products. These products included a combination of cast metal, injection molding, stamping, printed circuit board fabrication and assembly, and final assembly. His responsibilities and accomplishments included:

Leading cross functional team activities, including technical design reviews, software issue product backlog reviews, open issues reviews, scheduling (timing plan) reviews, and crisis management / triage, and he coordinated continuous improvement efforts.

Supporting and leading the software/hardware development life cycle, while ensuring successful launch through engineering and Project Management Institute (PMI) principals.

Creating master schedules, managing open issues, and coordinating development and testing activities.

Managed risk and implemented risk mitigation strategies to ensure project health.

Authoring several technical documents, including Technical Specifications, Statements of Work, Test Plans, and Engineering Reports and Experiments.

Solving major warranty issues related to false customer returns.

Standardizing production processes, drawings, and packaging location to reduce cost and complexity.

Led the Change Control Improvement Initiative for Passive Safety Systems, resulting in better control of scope management and stakeholder accountability.

Created Software Implementation Plans and successfully executed the plans, launching software on time and in budget.

Visteon Climate Control 01/1999 – 10/2005

Product Development Engineer (Technical Project Manager)

Automatic Climate Control Electronic Control Unit Projects

Mr. Badgley’s was responsible for electrical and subsystem application design on automatic climate electronic control units from initial concept through post production. These were injection molded parts a printed circuit board fabrication, SMT, and final assembly. His responsibilities and accomplishments included:

Launching multiple products across several product lines.

Developed multiple concurrent Software Implementation Plans. Plans were successfully executed on time and budget.

Leading Stakeholder engagement discussions including meetings with the Client, Project Team meetings, Design reviews with Engineering Core, Test planning with Engineering Test facilities, Build activities with Manufacturing, Quality issues with Suppliers, and supplier selection and cost savings opportunities with Purchasing.

Supporting and leading the Software/Hardware development life cycle, while ensuring successful launches through engineering and Industry Standard Project Management philosophy.

Creating master schedules, managing open issues, and coordinating development and testing activities.

Inventing, designing, developing, and delivering an advance embedded software application prototype. Fully functional prototypes were displayed at several technical shows, around the globe, that demonstrated Visteon’s innovative capability.

Leading the implementation of several cost savings initiatives, which led to over $1 million in 2005.

Submitting four invention disclosures.

Designing and implementing the Subsystem Application Engineering department website.

Authoring several technical specifications, in

Including Software Specifications, Hardware Specifications, System Specifications, Test plans, Engineering reports, Experiments.

Gill Manufacturing

Co-op Engineer

Stamping, Tool & Die, Small Assembly, & Robotic Welders

Mr. Badgley was rotated throughout the plant learning how to perform duties in each department. He learned quickly, from the beginning of his career, there were frequent opportunities in everyone’s job that can be optimized easily with some initiative, commitment, and management support. His duties included:

Industrial engineering: Identifying waste, optimizing cycle time, executing process improvements, and improving quality.

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering: Reading prints, updating drawings SC/CC and revision dates, assisting Design and Release engineer with changes. Assisting quality in making fixtures that check each Significant and Critical characteristic (SC/CC).

Quality Engineer: Gathering and checking 2 parts from every line every hour, checking parts with measurement tools against a print, checking parts against a fixture, working with the lab to perform CMM on non-fixture parts. Performing root cause analysis on returned parts from the field.

Shipping and Handling: Operating a fork lift, inventory, material planning and logistics, packing, loading, and unloading.

Maintenance: Cleaning equipment, stocking replacement parts, troubleshooting down equipment, performing preventative maintenance on machines.

Press: Operating an overhead crane, loading and unloading dies, loading parts, performing quality checks, and general labor.

Tool and Die: Reading prints, creating parts of the die by machining, CNC, EDM, and sand blasting, working with engineering to load prints into the CNC machines. Operating a forklift and overhead crane. Using general tools.

Assembly: Perform the duties of an assembler creating the roller assembly for a caravan sliding door and the seat belt assembly. Knowledge was instrumental in improving the line from a 2 shift operation into a 1 shift operation. (Kaizen)

Robot Operator: Load parts into robot, weld, and check the parts.

General work: Sorting, delivering prototypes, printing and storing drawings.

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