Product Development Project Management

VALUE TO BUSINESS

Experience: Professional Engineer with expertise in product design, implementation, and manufacturing as well as broad experience in the efficient application of diverse technologies to develop products that solve difficult problems and reduce costs within global manufacturing organization.

Leadership: Proven track record of leading and managing multi-level, global work teams to successfully complete projects under challenging circumstances.

Project Management: Process driven and highly analytical with the ability to manage projects and initiatives relative to company goals while ensuring product quality, meeting aggressive timelines, delivering measureable results, and translating complex ideas into manageable communications.

Global Product Management: Builds, leads, and manages cross-functional multi-level teams liaising between engineering, leadership personnel, and product marketing groups to develop diverse projects, coordinate project time lines, and execute and communicate experiments and results.

New Product Development: Extensive experience directing product development through entire life cycle: inception, design, build-out, installation, and manufacturing scale-up. Successfully transferred new products and processes from development to mass-manufacturing facilities in USA and China.

Profitability Improvement: Utilizes Lean Business strategies and Six Sigma principles to reduce operating costs, improve efficiencies, and increase manufacturing capacities.

Communication & Collaboration: Strong communicator and excellent collaborator possessing outstanding oral, written, interpersonal skills. Adept at working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to meet objectives and achieve measurable outcomes.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Process Development

Cross-functional Leadership

Team Development

Failure Analysis Methodology

Process Improvement

Cost Reduction

Process Implementation

Product Development

Project Management

Six Sigma Methodology

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

KEMET ELECTRONICS CORP., Simpsonville, SC July 2006 – Present

A global manufacturer of over 250,000 part configurations capacitors including tantalum, multilayer ceramic, solid and electrolytic aluminum, and film and paper capacitors.

Senior New Product Development Engineer

Led the successful development and launch of new, first-to-market capacitors while adhering to aggressive time constraints. Managed, trained, and directed staff of multi-level technicians to implement processes in accordance with new product development standards and quality methodologies.

Provided project management through leadership of technology and direction of experiments for new product development projects including the use of Six Sigma methods and analysis (DFMEA and DOEs) to streamline product development. Analysis tools include the use of Minitab software.

Managed activities to simultaneously develop diverse projects while maintaining a hands-on role for smooth project completion. Projects included new material development and scale-up and new capacitor part numbers for first-to-market applications.

Executed experiments and coordinated development activities with engineers and technicians of several departments including new material technology, equipment engineering, and production personnel.

Communicated experiment results and project timelines to a diverse team including fellow engineers, leadership personnel, and product marketing groups. Utilized Microsoft Project to layout and communicate timelines.

Consistently reduced development cycle time and provided failure analysis and corrective actions that lead to a robust product while maintaining qualification timelines; failure analysis methods included

X-ray, DPA, SEM, and ICP.

Documented new procedures and updated current quality documents (flowchart, control plan, FMEA, and manufacturing instructions) to reflect required production activities.

Transferred new products and processes from development to mass-manufacturing facilities in Simpsonville, SC and Suzhou, China.

Developed Beginning of Line equipment for new Ta Polymer production line in Simpsonville, SC.

CERTIFICATIONS

Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (2013)

Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (2011)

EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration (MBA)

Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 2016

Graduate-level coursework; Material Science and Engineering, 42 Credit Hours Completed

Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 2003 – 2006

Bachelor of Science, Textiles, Fibers, and Polymer Science

Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 2003

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