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Led large scale global projects integrating the requirements of Engineering, Marketing, Manufacturing, Program Management, Procurement and Quality to launch projects on time, below cost and exceeding quality.

• Led a 30M project to launch a new 24” Free-Standing range architecture consisting of 197 new SKU’s across all of EMEA and NAR markets. Presented technical and business case updates to the business team to enable delivery of desired business outcomes.

• Managed program schedule, resources, expenses, capital and contingency plan to minimizing project risk to enable successful delivery of key project KPI’s

• Created and adapted new tools outside of our standard processes to quickly assess business/engineering tradeoffs, monitor program status and quickly communicate to all stakeholders in the organization from executives to lab technicians. New processes have been highlighted as a best practice.

• Motivated teams to exceed past standard job duties by integrated team members in multiple regions, cultures, experience levels and functional teams. Set high expectations in work ethic and adaptability to manage in an uncertain environment.

• Used Critical thinking to continually break down roadblocks caused by inter-team conflicts, insufficient or competing project requirements, late change requests or inadequate process adherence, etc

Developed and managed a global team of 10 engineers to lead the design of all Free Standing Range consoles across North America and Europe.

• Created and executed a strategic roadmap to integrate engineers in Pune, India, Celaya, Mexico and Cleveland, TN into one cohesive design organization to execute Global products. Leverage work hours across three time zones at lower resource cost to improve efficiency by 400%.

• Managed the engineering resource plan for all console cooking projects by allocating specific resources and skill sets to projects and provided one-on-one and team coaching to improve leadership, communication and overall product delivery competency.

• Defined the base console architecture strategy across global products to leverage best practices in design and manufacturing capability.

• Leveraged knowledge reuse globally by centralizing best practice knowledge in a central information database that included design guides, engineering concept selection matrices, A3’s and benchmark/baseline information.

Led the design and development of various cooking appliance projects through target setting, concept selection and technical feasibility to meet project cost, quality and launch requirements.

• Designed, developed and launched a $3 million common console architecture for a new slide-in range flexible enough to deliver five unique UI console aesthetics and features to meet specific customer requirements for different product brand identities.

• Executed a three phase launch cadence from concept to launch as the technical lead on a new Kitchenaid brand downdraft cooktop.

• Identified and resolved emerging design and manufacturing issues during pilot production builds on a new commercial range. Facilitated meetings with a cross-functional teams to document, assign, and prioritize issues for resolution prior to launch.

Managed a new $250 million C-segment vehicle program by coordinating cross-functional teams to use a new process to acquire and translate “Voice of the Customer” insights to define product level and engineering requirements.

• Successfully applied Design for Six Sigma tools to acquire and analyze customer wants and needs from three different markets to align product features and strategy for the next generation C-segment class vehicles.

• Created an innovative database with an easy to use customizable interface that consolidated, analyzed and simplified the complex data set of customer insights regardless of user computer skill level. Database interface became the corporate benchmark and template.

• Communicated, assessed and directed the strategy for the platform team by creating financial roll-ups, technical assessments, budget management, and cost reduction opportunities.

• Tracked, assessed and initiated common Business, Engineering, and Best Practices to support corporate operations in functional areas such as Finance, Marketing, Procurement, Strategy, and Design.

• Negotiated and established a common CATIA math data release definition between Chrysler and Mercedes to enable a common product development cycle.

• Published the first global Action Letter to communicate changes in program direction and to establish product development direction across two different business units.