Product Development Business Operations
Resume:
Younes El Kacimi, Ph.D.
New York, NY
******.********@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/younes1
HIGHLIGHTS:
• 15+ years of specialized project management and
engineering expertise.
• Strong awareness and understanding of new product development and various business operations.
• Vast team leadership as a global cross-functional team lead.
• Managed business operations including business
finance and budget allocations.
• Led cross-functional teams (product management,
service, sales, platform, testing).
• Key player in the launch of new products, landing of new contracts.
• Led global cross-functional teams for project
alignment.
• Managed diverse project portfolio to meet strategic goals.
• Communicate clear technical & development program status throughout all company levels.
• Present leadership with clear vision and regular status updates (schedule, cost, resources).
• Elicited customer requirements and created Market Requirement Documents (MRD).
• Managed SW & HW development (code generation,
verification, and validation).
• Ran daily scrums and oversaw 20+ engineers;
managed end-to-end product development workflow,
including service and PMO.
• Validated product performance, created engineering change requests, and troubleshot product failures.
• Ran IDRs (Independent Design Reviews) and
completed field test reviews prior to launch.
• Int’l travel to lead product development and testing in new markets.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
October 2020 - Present Bavalon New York, NY
Business / Project Manager
• Launched online business, established market strategy, led product development from inception through production.
• Manage offshore teams through product refinement, marketing, customer service and sales cycles.
• Manage all business operations including business finance, supply chain, and budget allocations.
• Technical Environment: G Suite (ERP Google Workspace), NPD, MS project, MS Office. May 2020 - October 2020 ULC Robotics Hauppauge, NY Project / Program Manager
• Combined excellence in research and development engineering with a strong field services capability to build and deliver advanced robotic systems, machine learning, technology, and inspection systems.
• Managed multiple projects across different industries (Energy Services, Windmills, Pipeline Robotics)
• Initiated new projects, authored proposals, and acquired new clients; led engineering team through new product development for Edison Energy and other clients throughout the US, Canada, and UK.
• Technical Environment: MS project, SharePoint, PDP, Agile/Scrum, MS Office. November 2013 - October 2019 Ingersoll Rand – Thermo King Minneapolis, MN Project Manager / Senior Engineer
• Managed a global team of engineers to overhaul the entire specifications for a truck platform (AP) and reduce development cost, while meeting all customer requirements.
• Served as a PMO on a major Marine controller NPD project, which I successfully got through the PDP approval process.
• Led cross-functional systems engineering teams in the US, Europe, China, and India, to launch new products.
• Reduced the development time of code generation and launch of new products by efficiently managing suppliers and other internal teams, writing, and interpreting specifications & product requirements.
• Led daily scrum meetings managing a team of over 20 engineers, developers, and third-party suppliers.
• Significantly improved design and specifications’ development lead time in the controls’ department by leading the implementation of the Agile process and Standard Work throughout the SDLC.
• Led SW Controls’ Quality and instituted higher engineering quality standards.
• Substantially improved resource allocation and costing of new products through implementation of new business practices and tools.
• Led the training of junior engineers & interns across different platforms and served as their team lead.
• Designed UI for transport refrigeration controllers’ mobile apps.
• Technical Environment: SDLC, Agile/Scum, SharePoint, DOORS, SAP/ERP, G Suite (ERP Google Workspace), Helix ALM, NPD, DOORS, JIRA/Confluence, Tableau, MS Office.
October 2011- July 2013 Emerson Flow Technologies St. Louis, MO Lead Project Engineer
• Reduced time to market of new products by leading project teams of cross-functional participants from procurement, advanced manufacturing engineering, divisional quality, marketing and manufacturing.
• Led the product development and design of new solenoid valves for different refrigeration applications.
• Conducted project planning and Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessment on key projects.
• Created and maintained project detailed schedules, goals and work plans using PDP and SharePoint.
• Provided production and systems engineering support to plants in China and Mexico.
• Managed entire projects and coordinated formal product development and design reviews.
• Supported procurement with Free Market Bid Activity.
• Technical Environment: SharePoint, DOORS, MS project, PDP, MS Office, DFMEA/ PFMEA, Helix ALM. June 2010- June 2011 Microstaq Austin, TX
Product Development/Applications Engineer
• Managed customer accounts, solved customer issues, and troubleshot product failures.
• Served as a key team member in the product development of the SEV (Silicon Expansion Valve) for energy savings on a wide range of applications.
• Landed new contracts by sizing products and developing new solutions for different OEM and after-market HVAC and Refrigeration applications.
• Collaborated with a team of engineers, researchers, and managers to develop and launch new products, namely silicon expansion valves and controllers
• Managed field and lab testing on different MEMS expansion valves and super heat controllers for key clients on a variety of applications.
• Technical Environment: MS Office, Design Reviews, stakeholder support, DFMEA/ PFMEA. April 2007- May 2010 Rocore Holdings, Inc. Knoxville, TN Applications Engineer
• Designed a variety of heat exchangers for different applications.
• Reduced the manufacturing cost of both aluminum tube type and brass/copper shell and tube heat exchangers by efficiently sizing and costing these products using home grown tools.
• Conducted product development of heat exchangers for new on and off highway applications.
• Conducted performance analysis on heat exchangers for a wide range of applications.
• Performed new product research and development to meet customer requirements.
• Coordinated efforts between different teams and departments in the organization, including engineering, design, manufacturing, quality, and purchasing.
• Technical Environment: DFMEA/ PFMEA, Design Reviews, NPD, MS Office. Aug 2004- May 2007 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Research/Teaching Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
• Conducted research on regenerative flow pumps and compressors.
• Performed experimental, theoretical, and CFD analysis on air pumps and compressors.
• Taught mechanical vibrations and mechatronics labs to undergraduate classes of 20-25 students.
• Assisted professors with projects’ evaluations and grading of project papers and homework assignments.
• Taught thermodynamics, mechatronics and other engineering courses.
• Technical Environment: CFD Systems: Fluent/Gambit, STAR-CCM+, MS Office. Aug 2002- Aug 2004 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY Research Assistant, Mechanical/Microsystems Engineering
• Led full product research & development of micro-actuators.
• Synthesized a process flow for MEMS linear actuators.
• Designed and fabricated heat microsensors.
• Technical Environment: Micro-fabrication: photolithography, thin film deposition and coating, MS Office. EDUCATION:
Michigan State University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering
• Dissertation: Performance Study of a Regenerative Flow Compressor as a Secondary Air Pump for Engine Emission Control.
• Relevant courses: advanced turbomachinery, data acquisition and analysis, tensor math and PDE’s, advanced thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, mechatronics, vibrations, CFD.
• Full scholarship/ assistantship.
• Awards: The Joseph Colucci Fellowship Award for excellence and outstanding commitment to mechanical engineering research, Michigan State University, November 2006; Research Fellowship, Dean of Engineering, College of Engineering, Michigan State University, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
• Honors and Affiliations: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Mechanical Engineering Graduate Advisory Committee student representative. Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering
• Thesis: Long Distance Traveling Electrostatically Driven Micro-actuator.
• Relevant Courses: MEMS design, microsystems engineering, microelectronics, finite elements, engineering vibrations, advanced mechanics of solids, systems engineering.
• Full scholarship/ assistantship.
• Certified in using FAB tools (stepper, SVG track, developer, and others). The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical / Aerospace Engineering
• Relevant Courses: aircraft stability and control, system dynamics, aerospace propulsion, fluid mechanics, material science, thermodynamics, circuits, dynamics, statics, IDEAS design.
• Honors and Affiliations: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Outstanding Junior College Scholarship, Engineering Dean’s List. TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• SharePoint, DOORS, JIRA, Tableau, MS Office, Monday.com, Slack, Klaviyo, Make/Integromat.
• SDLC, Agile. / Mobile App Design / G Suite (ERP Google Workspace), SAP.
• NPD, PDP, Helix ALM/TestTrack,
• DFMEA and Design Reviews.
• Operating Systems: All Windows OS including XP, NT, Windows Vista, and Windows 7/10 Professional.
• Microsoft Office including outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Micro-fabrication: photolithography, thin film deposition and coating.
• CFD Systems: Fluent/Gambit, STAR-CCM+.
PUBLICATIONS:
• A. Engeda, and Y. Elkacimi: "A Regenerative Flow Compressor as A Secondary Air Pump for Engine Emission Control”, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Vol 222, 2008, Part C, pp. 1707 – 1715.
• N. Muller, and Y. Elkacimi: “Regenerative Flow Pumps and Compressors (RFP/RFC) Applications for Water as Refrigerant”, 2006 ISME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, IL.
• N. Muller, and Y. Elkacimi: “Utilization of Regenerative Flow Compressors and Pumps in Refrigeration with Water as refrigerant”, 2007 ASHRAE Society Meeting, Long Beach, CA.
• Y. Elkacimi: “Long Distance Traveling Electrostatically Driven Micro-actuator”, Master’s thesis, 2004 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
CHARACTERISTICS:
• Outstanding mechanical and analytical skills, very dependable, and learns quickly.
• Communicates effectively with others.
• Reliable, passionate team lead, and problem solver.
• Takes initiative to accomplish tasks with a high degree of difficulty.
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