• Individual contributor (remote employee)/Team technical leader responsible for GM Lidar strategy/roadmap including leading Lidar supplier technical reviews, established business case for lidar, and realtime support for Cruise Automation AV and GM ADAS retail platforms.
• Lead Sourcing for Ultracruise 1.0 program and Supplier product development with Cepton including production and testing audits to achieve run at rate before SORP
• Responsible for Supplier benchmarking and GM Lidar testing including performance testing and pointcloud analysis, created worlds only lidar test capability to evaluate range performance within a thermal chamber to GMW3172 validation testing
• Developed LiDAR Robustness Strategy including a baseline Knowledge Set (DFSS, DFM, DFA, DFMEA, DRBFM methods)
• Responsible for Lidar R&D including component based development scouting components to make educated lidar procurements
• GM Lidar team key resource problem solver in optoelectronics, Lidar architecture, system/electrical/software/algorithm based engineering
• Pushed the envelope to upgrade the GM Lidar lab capabilities to be state of the art in validating Lidar supplier claims