Union City, California, United States
Team leadership
• I led the end-to-end development of a new flywheel energy storage product, overseeing strategy, execution, process improvements, timeline, and budget to deliver on customer requirements.
• Directing eight multidisciplinary teams, I facilitated cross-functional collaboration through agile and waterfall methods, all-hands meetings, phased gate reviews, and weekly tracking of progress and dependencies.
• True to my leadership style, I fostered collaboration between engineering and the product team to refine requirements and shape the product roadmap through technology to ensure a strong market focus.
Player-Coach
• As a player coach, I led RCAs, DFM, cost-down exercises, and re-design efforts that resulted in a radically simple suspension that cut capex by $1M per assembly line, and significantly improved performance, reliability, and manufacturability of the flywheel amidst competing constraints.