Engineering Engineer

Career Summary

Engineering and IT Leader with proven success in, product development, project/process management, product life-cycle management, design engineering, strategic planning, developing customer solutions, problem resolution, Validation/Verification testing, and building effective cross-functional teams. Recognized as a result driven leader with proven ability to motivate, mentor, grow and lead teams to achieve goals. I am very process oriented and strive for continued improvements using systems engineering principles for full product life-cycle optimization. I am six sigma trained and come to work every day looking for operational and process improvements to drive positive outcomes for my employer and the customer.

Skills:

Concept Visions

Project Management

New Product Development

Cybersecurity

Quality Management System, ISO Certified Lead Auditor for 9001 and 14001

Change Management

Platform Strategies for Requirements, Change Management

Product Life-Cycle Management

Trade-Off and Risk Studies

Vendor management as it relates to DO 178B and C

Customer Supplier Relationship Management

FDA/GMP Compliance and product development

Continuous Improvement

DFM/DFA/FMEA

Hierarchical Design

Requirements Based Development

Process Engineering Optimization

Voice of Customer

Strategic Road Mapping

Strategic Marketing

Quality Assurance

Oracle, Crystal, COGNOS, SQL,IOS,DROID

Mercury Quality Center/Test Director

ASP .NET,J2EE,Web Services

Performance testing utilizing SEGUE, Winrunner, Load Runner, and AstraLoad

Websphere,TOMCAT,APACHE

Design System Integration

Engineering Strategy

Business Process Analysis & Re-Engineering

Solution Delivery and Roadmap Development

Multi-disciplinary Engineering Tools Design, Development and Implementation

Advanced Technologies

Change Acceleration Process

Waterfall, Agile & FastWorks Methodologies

Project/Program Planning, Monitoring & Management

Global Team Leadership

Budget, Workload and Resource Management

Leadership / Mentoring

Inventory Reduction, Optimization

Supplier Performance, Risk Mitigation, Selection

Systems Engineering

8D/QRQC/DMAIC/Sigma

Professional Experience

Motor Components LLC/Elmira NY 2019-Present

Deputy GM/Director Quality and Process Engineering

Manage all plant and production functions

Manage End to End Quality for company from supplier to customer

Manage Industrial and Process Engineering groups

Manage all quality functions

Alstom- Chicago Ill/Hornell NY 2016-2019

Deputy Director Engineering

Project Engineering Leader managing engineering interfaces with programs

Managed Engineering Workload, Resource Planning

Implemented key process measures to enable KPI based process improvement

Bid Tender Leadership and Management

General Electric Corporation -Evendale, OH) 2007-2016

Promoted to Controls IM Program Leader 2013-2016

Owned Requirements, Change Management. and Controls strategy for engine programs

Owned Vendor Management for key vendors in support of Controls Strategy and Execution

Owned Compliance and Security strategy for Requirements and Change Management

Promoted to Requirements and Change Management Team Leader 2010-2013

Lead team which supported Requirements and Software Configuration Management for:

oCommercial and Military Engine Programs

oLocomotive Platforms

oPower Business

Requirements and Change Management Architect 2007-2010

Requirements Competency lead for:

oAviation and Transportation Programs

oCommercial and Military Engine Programs including JSF

oLocomotive Platforms

oGE Security Systems

Consultant-Resolvit Resources 2004-2007

Client: Proctor and Gamble Healthcare Division 2006-2007

Requirements and process Competency Lead

Use Case Methodology Owner

DOORS Database Administrator and Architect

Managed DOORS requirements system and Mercury Quality Center applications.

Application owner for Mercury Test suite in charge of owning, migrating and validating Oracle data moves.

Managed Development, QA, and Production environments for both DOORS, and Mercury Quality Center

Maintained SDLC Architecture for Pharma Regulatory compliance systems

Worked on team to maintain SDLC standards

Utilized Doors/Test Director Integration versions 1.8 and 3.0

Worked with offshore development team for custom DXL scripting

Client: Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America- 2005-2006

Worked on team to develop and validateToyota.supplier.com

Responsible for development and support of Supplier Quality System

Lead Business Analysis for the Creation of Use Cases

Decomposed Use Cases into business and system requirements

Created Overall Testing Strategy and Planning documentation

Created Test Cases and Lead testing effort for Validation and Verification testing

Managed defects utilizing Mercury Quality Center.

Performed SQL query verification/validation of data utilizing standard query tools.

Managed/Utilized Mercury Load runner Performance testing software to accomplish testing of Global Application.

Client: American Financial Group- 2004-2005

Program Management Office Requirements Competency Lead and Data Master architect:

Member of Project Management Organization

Worked directly with Director of Quality assurance to ensure a high level of process rigor between DOORS (RM TOOL) and Mercury Quality Center (QA TOOL) via test director integration API.

Requirements competency lead

Managed development of Custom dxl’s for schema variants

Served as primary DOORS tool administrator for the IT Services division

Created and customize new DOORS projects

Conducted project architecture workshops to define domain or project-specific implementations of DOORS

Maintained DOORS domain-specific project templates and associated documentation (standard requirement types, attributes, and traceability criteria and strategy)

Focal point and AFG/GAI liaison with tool vendors and IT Services system administrators on problems and issues reported by users

HILL-ROM COMPANY INC.– Batesville IN 2003-2004

Senior Systems Engineer

Worked to establish product platform plans, standardizing components, re-use, and cost reduction both at the product level and across product platforms

Established ERP strategy with implementation plan to sunset applications and move to new ERP platform.

Integrated Doors Database with legacy infrastructure to modernize product development process, enabling better, risk assessment, FMEA, and trace ability from design back to the “Voice of Customer”.

Managed development and deployment of custom dxl.

Member of core teams authoring requirements for customer and product specification documents.

Developed a data-mining tool utilizing COGNOS IMPROMPTU™ to mine large amounts of sales and manufacturing data for Voice of Customer configurations.

Provided document management for FDA regulated Quality Control System and regulation for medical devices.

Introduced STRATEVA™ to company as a tool for implementing a more rigorous approach to market, technology, and Product Road Maps

Project lead implementing a new sales order entry process, with scalable design rules, real-time quoting and BOM, automating sales to manufacture process. enabling $960M new market for Hill-Rom.

Author for Statement of work documents for outsourcing of Product components, and design house consulting.

Served as liaison with marketing and product teams ensuring that “Voice of Customer” requirements were documented and met by Product Development and engineering teams.

Outcomes for Hill-rom:

Established modularity with common interfaces for product lines.

Introduced a new system level requirement document with product development process revision (PRS)

Implemented Platform Strategy Document with Cross Platform Architectures for Architectural products business

Enabled realization of product roadmaps

Designed the product system architecture for integration with platform plans

Defined functional modularity ensuring validation against customer needs

Specified component and product level interface requirements.

Defined customer acceptable product limits

Enabled design re-use with engineering standards

Designed for consistency between products,

Developed standard user interfaces

Established a consistent Hill-Rom brand identity.

Corning Incorporated –Corning N.Y. 2001–2003

Systems Engineering Leader:

Managed projects across the enterprise encompassing, mechanical. electrical, chemical, systems, and process design

One of the founding Members of a 3-person organization in Systems Engineering Research.

Analyzed existing business operating environment and architected a new Enterprise Wide Business Operating Environment.

Supported Research, Development, Engineering, Marketing of the Corning Product offerings for:

o Photonics, Optical Fiber, AMLCD display technologies, and Micro Array Technologies, Catalytic Converter Environmental Technologies.

Managed documentation, requirement traceability, testing protocols and Quality Management System

DOORS Database Administrator, responsible for working with TELELOGIC and internal Information Technology personnel to implement DOORS 5.2 then 6.0 across all Corning businesses.

Served as liaison for strategic road mapping activities between competitive intelligence organization, marketing, and research & development organization.

Traveled Internationally to China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea as liaison with manufacturing plants to unify data, sourcing plans, and requirement management systems.

Xerox Corporation- Webster N.Y. 1990 – 2001

Promoted to Sr. Systems Engineer, 1999-2001

Coordinated problem resolution team through launch for software validation testing.

Manage application performance testing activities utilizing Segue(now Borland) Performance testing software.

Responsible for module intrinsic & extrinsic performance, requirements authoring, and ensuring coherence between software, hardware, and firmware elements of the system, facilitation of program management, product development, facilitator of problem resolution forum.

Supervised customer simulation laboratory maintaining color and black and white pre-press applications, inclusive of all industry standard applications and operating systems.(Windows, MAC, Solaris, Unix);(Adobe, Quark, JASC, etc..)

Worked on XEROX igen3 system, high volume full color network printer, and experience with CREO-SCITEX front end as well as XEROX DOCUSP.

Established database and worked with software group to change manage feature content, and interface with Requisite Pro

Promoted to Systems Analyst, 1997 - 1999

•Acted as striker for program-level support of product rollout to the field.

•Interfaced with key accounts to develop solutions to meet customer environment needs

•Worked on a 3-person specialized team to scope and facilitate the cut over of legacy functionality of an existing product line.

•Scoped and designed matrices, which would reflect a viable cross-section of customer environment.

•Compiled comprehensive, comparative, data and graphical analysis.

•Enabled product software, to co-reside on existing platform.

•Implemented cost down measures and facilitated more rapid introduction of the product to the marketplace.

• Worked on Xerox DOCUTECH system as well as 6135,6180,6100, also pre-press systems including XDOD(Xerox Documents on demand), as well as the development of a Solaris based system to support open architecture printing environment formats.

Promoted Systems Test Engineer, 1994 - 1997

•Acted as lead for new product family introduction to the market place comprehending all industry standard network, application, and printing standards.

•Acted as trainer for team.

•Developed quality assurance automated test suites for UAT, Integration, and Component testing

•Worked with 6 Technicians and 30 key operators in proper execution of testing effort.

•Piloted Training for CD-ROM based interactive training program.

•Managed test suite creation process

•Organized weekly group meetings to improve group interaction/communication skills.

•Commended as single-point liaison for multi-nationalization of entire product line offering to Japanese market region.

System Technician, 1991 - 1994

•Acted on a 2 person team with Senior Engineer to facilitate the conversion of flagship product to Japanese market region, inclusive of, software, hardware and GUI design modification.

•A unique opportunity due to specialized task to be exposed to entire gamut of internal product processes, as well as integration with Multi-National Company requirements.

EDUCATION

BSME, Mechanical Engineering with Aerospace Option

Rochester Institute of Technology, 2001

AAS, Mechanical Engineering Science,

Rochester Institute of Technology, 1996

AAS Electromechanical Engineering Technology,

Alfred State Technical College, 1991

Training

Building Essential Leaders-GE

Front Line Manager-GE

Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP)-GE

Change Acceleration Process-GE

Technical Program Management Program- Xerox

TOPS Program- Xerox

Dynamic Teamwork –Corning

Innovation Effectiveness- Corning

Portfolio Management-Corning

Strategic Road Mapping- Corning

Center of Quality Management (CQM)- Hill-rom

Excellence through Voice of Customer (CQM)- Hill-rom

Six Sigma Green Belt- Hill-rom

In search of excellent requirements (Weiger’s)-American Financial

TELELOGIC DOORS™ Certified (Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System)

Novell Certified Administrator

Microsoft Certified Network Administrator

Unix Administrator

SUN OS Administrator

Joint Application Development(JAD) Facilitation- AFG

Professional Affiliations

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

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