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Summary
This Engineering Executive Bridge Technology & Business with a Strategic Mindset—Leveraged technical expertise and Executive MBA to align product development with market realities, customer expectations, and enterprise goals. Lead with Engineering Precision in High-Stakes Environments—Spearheaded automotive component launches and pre-production upgrades under extreme pressure, delivering complex products with zero defects at launch and multimillion-dollar cost savings while never compromising quality and customer experience. This Engineering Executive drives Innovation with Precision & Foresight—Turned bold engineering ideas into market-ready products by anticipating risks, embedding data insights, and setting benchmarks for quality and performance. Elevate Organizational Culture & Performance—Cultivated high-impact, collaborative engineering teams that drove well-received market innovations. This Engineering Executive influenced key decisions from the factory floor to design reviews and customer impacts, consistently earning trust across engineering, supply chain, and leadership teams.
Highlights
- Technical Product Management
- Component & Systems Design
- Voice of the Customer (VOC)
- Customer Experience (CX)
- Market Data Analysis
- Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management & Mitigation
- Cost Optimization & Financial Management
- Project & Program Management
Relevant Accomplishments
- Orchestrated global standardization and strategic sourcing initiatives, defining component strategies, evaluating North American supplier capabilities, fostering key partnerships, and leading efforts to streamline development processes. Led harmonization efforts across global automotive manufacturers and facilitated weekly cross-regional engineering reviews.
- Aligned regional component strategies with enterprise goals, improving supplier selection, risk mitigation, and product quality across international programs.
- Leveraged simulations and data analytics to predict early failure rates, minimizing future production risks and ensuring launch readiness.
- Strengthened sourcing strategies, reduced risk by identifying and qualifying 5+ backup suppliers.
- Achieved 95% alignment of technical specifications across global counterparts.
- Improved operational efficiency, enhanced quality, and reduced duplicated engineering efforts by defining local component strategies and implementing lessons learned from global programs.
- Drove continuous improvements across design and engineering processes.
- Ensured design and performance standards were achieved before production tooling kickoff.
- Promoted to drive future parts strategy across 4 pre-development programs, overseeing system and component engineering, risk mitigation, cost reduction initiatives, and cross-functional project teams. Led supplier bid processes for future systems, organizing innovation contests, prioritizing features, establishing consumer profiles, and formalizing source packages to streamline development. Determined subsystem technical specifications for future unreleased parts, systems, and products.
- Steered benchmark-driven product innovation by analyzing customer feedback on 6 competitor vehicles.
- Enhanced product market fit and competitive edge by integrating customer-driven features.
- Translated insights (including market trends) into 15+ technical specifications and requirements.
- Championed new component solutions, including redesigned liftgate system and hinge-torque evaluation tools, mitigating risk, improving customer experience, and enhancing system performance.
- Increased system design feasibility assessment speed an estimated 15%.
- Accelerated next-generation mechatronic systems development across 4 major pre-development programs.
- Defined, conceptualized, and mitigated risk for future mechatronics systems.
- Led pre-production design changes and quality fixes supporting all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee program. Managed external vendor design, development, and validation, driving efforts to identify and resolve technical issues (mechanical, electrical, software) and ensure supplier-delivered mechatronic systems met launch standards for quality, performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency. Provided bi-weekly project and validation status updates ensuring alignment and transparency.
- Delivered 2 new liftgate systems for the Grand Cherokee, integrating 15+ unique and 10+ carryover components.
- Prevented costly rework, boosted customer experience through root-cause analysis and rapid design fixes.
- Ensured alignment with project milestones and critical pre-production build phases.
- Advised senior leadership on strategic cost prevention opportunities, balancing performance, risk, product value at launch.
- Minimized risk on pre-production builds and reduced post-production vehicle warranty costs.
- Cut production bottlenecks and optimized resource allocation.
- Drove end-to-end development of electro-mechanical systems, overseeing external vendor-driven designs and serving as Chrysler’s supplier liaison. Spearheaded full design release cycle for 25+ new components on all-new Grand Wagoneer and mid-cycle Pacifica programs, leading efforts to refine product development strategies, mitigate risk, achieve regulatory compliance, and hold suppliers accountable to technical requirements and deliverables.
- Improved safety and customer experience by assessing and resolving Chrysler and vendor design concerns.
- Delivered best-in-class results on Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH) performance by strategically applying 5+ lessons learned, boosting performance without increasing weight or cost.
- Validated compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) on 4 newly designed vehicle components.
- Set stage for future innovations by strengthening internal team and supplier partnerships.
- Inspired collaboration as Technical Cost Reduction Team Lead, enabling Chrysler and external vendors to deliver innovative, cost-optimized solutions.
- Cut $2M annually while balancing design, quality, risk, and testing requirements.
- Enhanced brand image and competitive edge by integrating first-of-kind, customer-driven features into next-generation Pacifica.
- New premium vehicle features contributed to profit margin growth.
- Earned FCA internship in manufacturing quality engineering, assisting efforts to improve auto safety while learning various aspects of automotive production. Made design recommendations and strategic tooling modifications based on floor inspections, detailed data, and risk analysis.
- Aided team in achieving World Class Manufacturing standards for safety torque joint quality.
- More than doubled CPK score, achieving FCA Bronze status in manufacturing.
- Improved product release quality in collaboration with local tooling engineering specialist, primarily in regard to key safety attachment points.
Roles
- Manufacturing Quality Engineer
- Electro-Mechanical Systems Design and Release Product Engineer
- Mechatronics Design and Release Product Engineer
- Senior Mechatronics Design and Release Product Engineer
- Mechatronics Core Team Engineer
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