Greater Chicago Area
I am an accomplished serial builder and design thinker focused on Next Level strategic innovation, advanced manufacturing, product development, engineering integration, and business development. I am deeply influenced by my upbringing where I grew up admiring my immigrant parents' work-ethic and resilience. ☑ Effective story-teller with entrepreneurial mindset to move beyond conventional methodology and develop breakthrough products, innovation strategies, digital connected operations, and exhibit creative teamwork to redefine and solve complex problems. ☑ Startup experience (ex-Tesla/ex-FF) led development and execution of new mobility strategies for advanced electric vehicle production, Battery, and full vehicle integration. (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric) ☑ Unleash talent through a leadership model focused on fostering inclusion, creativity, strategic analysis, and a design thinking process approach. ☑ Ability to build advanced engineering concepts, lead design architecture, and build new organizational functions from initial hire to full globally aligned staffing. I strive to positively impact colleagues and focus to redefine world-class. ---- ----- Lean Startup | Product Management | Design Thinking | Product Ideation | Lean Manufacturing | Automotive | Product Innovation | Strategic Thinking | Design for Manufacturing | DFM | DFX | AI | ML | Data | Mobility | Autonomous Driving | Vehicle Integration | AR VR | Digital Manufacturing | Production Engineering | Advanced Manufacturing | Electric Vehicles | Additive | Public Speaking | Digital Thread | 3D Printing | Business Development | Toyota Production System | Entrepreneurship | Kaizen | IIoT | Industry 4.0 | ADAS | Strategy | Management Consulting | Thought-leader | Series A | DELMIA | CATIA | 3DX | Digital Transformation | Human-centered Design | Micro Factory | PLM | JIRA | JAMA | NX | Siemens | Agile | Critical Path | COGS | P&L | S&OP | IBP | B2B | SaaS | Contract Manufacturing | ODM | Factory Design | Operations Excellence | Hoshin Kanri | D2C | SAFE | PCB | ADAS | Six Sigma
Re:Build combines innovative solution sets to unleash the potential of U.S. based technology and innovation. We sit at the intersection of human-centered design, innovative engineering, traditional production methods, and digital solutions. We specialize in tackling the most complex multidisciplinary engineering and development challenges. Building new technologies, AI native workflows, and capabilities. Leadership, market growth, organizational strategy, and accelerating growth from innovative industries. Focused on end-to-end product design to execution, to deliver the best service across various industries needing safety / quality critical applications.
Built new connected products across 115M-user platform, manged business outcomes (Go-to-market, P&L, client acquisition). Owned commercial product transformation strategy aimed at platform growth while increasing efficiency and improving customer NPS. Agero is an industry-leading B2B platform powered by Swoop; next-generation digital assist platform, with comprehensive services built for software-optimized architecture; and support enabled by a robust partner ecosystem. Agero has over 150 million coverage points in partnership with leading insurance carriers, financial services, and many others
Innovate with Fortune100 and Startups to accelerate digital transformation in: advanced development, intelligent supply chain, digital platform, and product launch. Sustainable tech, leading North American GTM strategy for clients, clean-tech, and circular economy. Execute go-to-market, planning, and strategy initiatives, including AI, circular economy, digital traceability, metaverse tools, and advanced simulation.
Leadership of EV / Vehicle fleet tech product roadmap, execution, and engineering technology platform for future last-mile delivery: Driver Safety, Computing Platform, Vehicle Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Strategy, Supplier Development, Electrification, Product roadmap development, Vehicle Engineering lifecycle + validation, Charging systems, EV, Hardware / Software integration, and Prototype testing & evaluation * Intelligent Mobility * Autonomous Systems * Innovative safety * Net zero carbon
Global Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Consumer Product Architecture and systems integration, Digital Transformation, IIoT, End-to-End Supply Chain, Factory Industry 4.0, World Class Manufacturing, WCM
Leading a globally aligned Advanced Development, DfX, Digital Transformation, Supply Chain Design, and Innovation Strategy to deliver breakthrough capability through concurrent engineering, modular architecture, and application of agile technology. Directly apply, across all major architecture categories, our design methodology to deliver product leadership, optimized manufacturing launch, and overall complexity reduction. - Build agile engineering teams to deliver a comprehensive DFM / DfX strategy + Digital Thread to redefine product and process introduction activities, including early feasibility and concurrent engineering. - Chair / Advise Sr. VP Manufacturing Council and Global ISC - partner with global manufacturing and supply chain Sr. Executives to form strategy, align on key imperatives, and execute a cohesive metric-driven agenda to improve operations to reinvent our value chain. - Strategic leadership and global alignment on effective disruptive technology integration for manufacturing innovation and product/process excellence. - Lead the global digital transformation and Industry 4.0 strategy: Rethinking our operations and manufacturing to deploy technology, people, and processes to unlock value and performance. - Create and deliver the next-level of production capabilities to enable a smart and agile production system that drives Whirlpool to connect with a digitally-enabled customer, IoT, and reach new levels of business performance in a digital world. - Advanced Process technology - establish global best processes, standard manufacturing technology, and application of agile manufacturing methods. - Manufacturing Planning and Architecture - concurrent engineering methods to parallel path process and product planning enabling a multi-year roadmap to deliver product leadership - Launched 1st Medical device on Covid-19 innovation team, setup lab, operations, in record time (7-weeks) to build NIOSH-EUA/FDA emergency PAPRs - Appointed to ESG task force