James — Engineering Manager

2015-Present Western Reserve Water Systems, Engineering and Process Improvement Manager - Managed engineering and fabrication group that designed and manufactured reverse osmosis systems and their Rockwell Automation control systems. These systems saved over 32% on water costs for our customers with an ROI of 14 months. - Implemented Quality Management System, per ISO -9001; audited and accepted by several medical and pharmaceuticals companies in the Cleveland area, included Engineering, Fabrication, Material handling and business operations. Monitored customer satisfaction metrics and used system to support medical and industrial customers. - Developed mechanical and process drawings in AutoCAD that used blocks, macros and scripts, including LISP programs to automate design processes. Improving the design cycle times by 33% and increased quality of product by 11% as well as reduced the cost of creating manufacturing documentation. Developed engineering and manufacturing standards. - Installed ERP System that improved financial accuracy of Customer Service accounting, material management, project and equipment management. - Developed technical training materials (presentations, exercises and videos), Quality Manual, Work Instructions, corrective action and reporting system for engineering and manufacturing system

2007-2015 First Choice Technologies; Product Development Engineering/Operations Management - Leading the research, commercialization, development and manufacture of system implementing RF/GPS/Cellular/Embedded technologies for aerospace and medical applications. - Directed value engineering methodologies and improve compliance with regulations for CT and NM product lines. Developed processes for dealing with findings (483 observations) from FDA inspection/audit of 21 CFR 820/ ISO 13485 requirements. - Negotiated $1.4 Million cost savings on electrical and electronic components, a 37% cost reduction. - Leader of 4 engineering organizations and successful performance initiatives that reduced product develop times and costs. - Implemented software development processes in-line with Agile/SCRUM guidelines and created/implemented training. - Initiated business standards and metrics based on the Balanced Score Card and 6-Sigma methodologies. - Assumed lead of $5MM project that was one year behind schedule, finished and negotiated with customer, recovering $780K that was between 2 and 11 months overdue. - Leader of a 5 wireless product development for use in industrial environments, from concept through design, verification, validation, production and field warranty period. - Managed critical project with 4 month delivery schedule. Largest customer, after testing prototype, doubled their initial order. - Developed and implemented Technology Road-map in support of "Internet-of-Things" strategy. Products used digital and RF PCB designs, ARM processors, Linux 3.2 kernel, C and uClibc Library. - Cost of goods for product came in 15% less than target. Product ships over 50,000 units/year. - The team, recently acquired by B&B, had some assimilation issues; successfully turned around key team members and hired several "A" players. - Implemented CMMI level 3 processes, LEAN/6-Sigma/5S/Kaizen events to improve engineering processes and company-wide development environment. Responsible for passing IEEE 802.11, Microsoft and Wi-Fi regulatory testing. - Promoted after 6 months to take responsibility for Fiber Optic equipment division facility. Leader of new R&D effort for an innovative system for integrating sensors and devices to promote the "Internet of Things." Clients: B & B SmartWorx; Engineering Manager, Embedded Systems and General Manager Philips Healthcare, Supply Chain/Operations Process Improvement Consultant Goodrich Landing Gear, Manager, Military After-Market

1991-2007 Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley, Mayfield Hts., OH Manager, Hardware and Systems Engineering Manager all aspects of this developing and growing electronics technology business from concept to field support. Leader of crossfunctional teams dealing with all the group's operations, as well as suppliers (NEC, Philips, Atmel, Altera, Xylinx), contractors, and customers (USS/Kobe Steel, Solar Turbine, Ford). Successfully developed and implemented sales strategy. Business and Product Development results: - Developed and implemented a leading edge business model, these unique services (Electronic System Level Engineering) grew at 141% in one year, with an increased business unit customer base of 125% and accounting for a budget increase of 36%. - Managed a $1.4M department budget and coached project leaders to manage several >$1.5M new development projects on budget and on time. - Reduced Time-to-Market with the application of new services that cut hardware start-up from 3 months to 4 days on 3 projects. The process included board level functional simulation and hardware/firmware/software co-verification methodologies, transactional level simulation and signal integrity analysis. - Component designs include ARM 9 and ARM 7 CPUs with math co-processors, communications: Ethernet, USB, CAN protocols, power management functions and custom designed processor. Generated customer requirements, functional specifications, C/C++, Verilog coding, to GDSII tape out. - Arranged for PCB design (OrCAD), module designs (Pro-E), manufacture, and testing in field - Developed Intellectual Property for IEEE 1588 provided for customers, also programmed automation systems (ControlLogix and PLC-5) using function blocks and ladder logic. Productivity, Management and Value Add: - Achieved a productivity improvement of 35% year over year, and a 25.8% increase in customer satisfaction index over 3 years; while spearheading culture/resource/skill shift, a very effective organizational turnaround case study. - Successfully launched 2 new System-on-a-Chip designs that are the back bone of the high-end control systems. - Developed and implemented successful strategy for outsourcing engineering efforts to India that allow 73% ($6.34 Million) material cost savings, relieving obsolescence issues and savings in engineering development costs. - Received a performance award for cost savings, and received "Highest Achievement," on 2005 review, a rating reserved for the top 10% of employees. - Trained in LEAN, 6-Sigma (Black Belt) process improvement methodologies, and used CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) process improvement guidelines in department. - Lead engineering effort to implement Mechatronics (MatLab/Simulink tools) and Mechanical Engineering services by Rockwell Automation in support of Proctor and Gamble. Manager, Application Engineering Managed all aspects of this Hardware Engineering group and developed a share services model with increased responsibility of engineers and material commodities. - Developed Activity Base Accounting system which allowed reduction of the billable rate by 26%. - Provided manufacturing support when dealing with production stoppages. Lead tiger teams to implement changes to bring manufacturing processes back into statistical process control limits. - Supervisor for Strategic Sourcing Initiative which saved 36% material costs for PCB and 10% on connectors by development of offshore suppliers. Developed technology road-maps for both commodities and guided manufacturing capital equipment procurements. - Project Leader for 1791 D, developed with Denso, Japan. 5 year sales of $36M, product made Available-for-Shipment early. - Profile testing of ControlLogix, RSLogix 5000, FlexLogix, Flex I/O, Flex EX and SoftLogix. Evaluated integrated system functionality; identified problems and implemented solutions. Implemented seamless pipe manufacturing simulation of customer application with current and new products. Tested both ladder logic and functional block methodologies. - Leader of department whose Direct-Employee satisfaction index (Best-Place-to-Work Survey) significantly surpasses company average while customer satisfaction index increased by over 50% in 2 years because of management skills including an innovative process of aligning their personal and professional goals with the goals of the company through career development planning. Human Resources acknowledged these efforts as best practices for developing skills and technical leaders. - Developed control systems for hydraulics press and braking systems for industrial steel mill applications. Skills: AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, RA Logix products/software, MatLab/Simulink, Scilab, Visio, Solidworks, Ubuntu/Linux, Blender for 3D printing and animation, Virtualbox/VM, RUST Programming, Java, VB, GIMP for photo editing, Amazon Web Services with voice activation, Google TensorFlow