Engineering Manager / Senior Project Manager
Extensive industrial, process and software experience in managing people
and projects, and in preparing and supporting proposals. In-depth knowledge
and understanding of SDLC and PMO standards. Proven ability to design and
implement effective and compliant systems, strategies, and solutions for
MES and Automation systems within the following industries:
Automotive Building Management System Environmental Management
System
Biopharmaceutical Chemicals and Specialty Food & Beverage
Chemicals
Language
. Fluent in Chinese (Mandarin)
Responsibilities
. Initiate, plan, specify, execute, monitor, control and close
engineering/planning projects of all sizes.
. Develop overall project direction, including technical, financial, and
client satisfaction.
. Interface consistently with clients and sub-consultants from proposal
stage to project completion.
. Prepare and establish Project Work Plans, budgets and schedules for
completion of assigned projects.
. Submit budgets and schedules to financial system and clients.
. Monitor projects to assure compliance with approved budgets, schedules,
design standards, and contract requirements.
. Plan and conduct work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation,
selection and modification of standard techniques, procedures and
criteria.
. Responsible for department meetings, monthly department financial reports
and department status reports to the general manager, plus resource
allocation and employee career plans and annual reviews.
. Provide marketing support for presentations and proposals.
Professional Experience
Rockwell Automation (2008 - 2013) Engineering Manager / Project Manager
. Bristol Meyers Squibb - Project Manager for planning, functional
requirements specification and validation of a building and environmental
management system.
. MolyCorp - defined and created automation design specifications for
mining process and building management system.
. Speaker at PackExpo 2010 for Serialization and RSTechEd.
. Pfizer, Shanghai, China - Program and project Manager for planning and
design specification of a Batch automation and manufacturing execution
system (MES) system. Coordinated with multi- international project teams;
participated in site meetings; functioned as a translator in
meetings/conference calls.
. Pfizer - Program and project Manager for planning and functional
requirements specification of a combined process improvement and
manufacturing execution system (MES) for Weigh and Dispense. The
specified solution was designed as a new client standard for consistent
process coordination, material traceability, works-in-process tracking
and yield measurement, and was designed to be rolled-out to various
processing plants with similar products. Member of the application
testing team.
. Nestle - Project Manager for design, development and deployment of an
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Process Reliability (PR)
improvement solution. Led a six person Rockwell Automation technical team
through planning, design and implementation of the OEE system for 1
production line. The solution provided client with the ability to
benchmark and improve OEE/PR in the areas of uptime, performance and
quality, all of which typically offer a positive impact on the bottom
line. System metrics provided means to benchmark and establish critical
links between financial and operational performance of production line
assets.
Siemens Energy and Automation (2000 - 2008) Project manager / MES project
delivery operation manager
. Texas Instrument - Program Manager with overall responsibility for
commercial and technical requirements for consultation, deliverables and
product functionalities of a control system for a semiconductor
manufacturing facility. Provided engineering consulting and management
to assist subcontractors in resolving issues of DCS system integration,
hardware, software and implementation, Machine Control Centers and
Variable Frequency Drives.
. Boeing - Program manager of a Canadian solution partner to provide a
manufacturing execution system (MES) to control automatic guidance
vehicles (AGVs) for a green fuselage facility. The system coordinates
with island of automation and the AGV system into a centralized MES. The
system manages AGV scheduling for island of automation and AGV flow.
Coordinated the Siemens Italy and Germany for product solutions and
maintaining schedule and scope
. Cargill - Project Manager for upgrade of existing Lab Information
Management system for a manufacturing facility that produced multiple
consumer products. System upgrade supported additional product
manufacturing requirements and higher user availability. Managed IT,
production stakeholders and Siemens team to coordinate remote
engineering, test and production.
. Degussa - Project Manager for replacement of an existing DCS for a
synthetic oil manufacturing facility. Managed MES and DCS applications
including receiving, batch and continuous process operations,
consumption, WIP, equipment utilization and reporting. This batch project
followed S88 standards.
Moore Products (1994 - 2000) Project Manager / Technical Lead / Application
Engineer
. Genentech - Project manager of demand services for a batch application.
Lead Project engineer of a green field plant to put in a state of art
control system. This batch project followed S88 standards.
Knoll Pharmaceuticals - Lead engineer with overall responsibility for
commercial and technical requirements for the design, implementation,
testing and commissioning of a pharmaceutical manufacturing batch control
system under FDA validation requirements. Developed test plans and
protocols for FDA validation of the control system and oversaw the
execution of these tests.
Foster Wheeler (1993 - 1994) Instrumentation Engineer
. ISLA - Instrumentation engineer for instrument specifications and
automation project specification.
Technologies
. MES - Factory Talk Production Centre, Factory Talk Metrics, Factory Talk
Scheduler, Simatic IT Production Suite, Simatic Unilab,
. DCS - Factory Talk Control Logix 5000, Simatic PCS 7, Process Suite
(InBatch and InTouch), Moore Products APS and APACS, IEC61131-3 and S88
. Database - SQLServer, Oracle, Access
. Software Tools - MS Project, Visio, Excel
. Operating Systems - Windows, UNIX
Education
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Drexel University,
Philadelphia, PA (1993)