Strategic and influential Engineering Professional with 15 years of specialized experience in transformational turnaround situations. Hands-on leader, versatile communicator across domestic and international organizations, and effective decision maker who thrived amidst corporate change and expanding markets in implementing creative and winning cost reduction strategies and bids. Final decision maker for placement of high value, million-dollar purchase orders for $3MM-$15MM projects. Global Product/Project Leader best known for driving the revitalization of a near extinct, non-competitive product line to a global market leader.
Areas of Expertise:
• Cost Reduction and CI Strategies
• Product and Project Development Stage Gate
• Matrix Work Process Optimization
• SAP Project Module (BIJR06)
• Equipment Rapid Prototyping
• Global Bid and Execution Strategy Leader
• Global Sourcing and Outsourcing Strategies
• Engineering Team Manager and Mentor
• Engineer, Procure, Design, Build Oversight
• Asset Profitability Improvement
Selected Accomplishments:
Drove the year on year new product development and continuous improvement programs globally, reducing product costs 5%-10% per year, resulting in a 10-fold increase in product sales between 2002 and 2011 with a 25% gross profit margin.
Established unconventional, non-matrix based, international, multi-disciplined engineering execution teams comprised of internal and external engineers deploying optimized regional strategies. Engineering execution costs were reduced by 50%-80%.
Negotiated, integrated, and sustained unique, lower cost 3rd party vendor supply partnerships in Korea and China to supply equipment and engineering, design, fabrication, and construction services to the global markets, often times at 25% lower equipment costs than available locally.
Developed the regional bidding, sourcing, and execution logistics strategies, and developed winning solutions to project specific customer requirements around the world, even when the company was not the low cost bidder.
Managed a global team of regional engineers and provided hands-on, applied engineering expertise and resources to the regional teams across a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines.
AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC. Allentown, PA/Phoenix, AZ, 2000-2015
Global Product Owner, Prism Oxygen VSA
Led initiative to reintroduce a more competitive Oxygen VSA product line offering to the global marketplace:
Reinvented the entire approach to engineer, design, fabricate, and construct both company owned and equipment sale offerings using small teams of regional, multi-disciplined engineers.
Collaborated with Commercial, R&D, and Operations to ensure al...
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