Experience

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  Erie Insurance Group

  • Solution, Portfolio, Delivery, And Support Manager

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  Erie Insurance Group

  • Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Project Manager

    • Jul 2022 - Present
    • Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

    Focused on projects related to Billing and Payments.

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  Wabtec Corporation

  • Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Program Manager

    • 2021 - 2022
    • Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

    Contract position through LanceSoft working with the MODs team. Focus was on creating and managing the validation plan for a locomotive overhaul program. Assisted with managing design review and Engineering task completion.

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  Greenleaf Corporation

  • Global Engineering Manager

    • Nov 2017 - Jun 2021

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  Zurn Industries, LLC

  • United States
  • Wholesale Building Materials
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • Engineering Manager

    • Dec 2013 - Nov 2016

    Managing all engineering tasks related to Value Added Value Engineering and new product development, including writing business cases for new products, developing new product lines, creating procedures and TTI/KPI expectations. Manage new product launches generating over $4 million in sales annually.•Initiated visual management process and project team updates to communicate status and establish path to ensure successful project completion with deadline and budget parameters. •Facilitated 3P events to provide framework for design projects, collaborating with cross functional teams to expedite product development and launch through a gated process.•Identified process flow improvements to analyze and resolve issues from field sales teams, establishing cost effective practices to ensure customer retention. •Engaged ZSpec Director of Procurement to improve product development processes by gaining alignment from Operational Team, improving the content of the tools, and adding a signoff by project team to key tasks to ensure alignment on project deliverables to make product design process more robust ensuring improved product launches.•Presented new products and conducted training accelerate customer conversion to new products.•Established management of project funnels worth over $350M for new products and $3M for VAVE projects, for fiscal planning purposes and to easily identify project priority based on a set of weighted selection criteria.•Innovative member on many product development projects, awarded 3 patents; multiple pending, to create market separation between Zurn products and competitors.•Initiated and oversaw project to review and organize existing standard operating procedures, set yearly associate training schedule, new hire orientation, and identify gaps in department processes to standardize and improve the quality of the work completed by the Engineering Department and to decrease the learning curve for new associates.

  • Concurrent Engineering Supervisor

    • Jun 2012 - Dec 2013

    Managing VAVE projects, establishing future projects and meeting financial goals. •Created standard operating engineering procedures to support global manufacturing and vendors to establish the required manufacturing quality of products and to reduce percentage of rework. •Managed projects that generated annual savings over $300,000 through facilitation of ideation events to establish design concepts and assess value of each option to meet corporate cost out initiatives.•Utilized parent company Rexnord’s innovation center, working virtually with the team to increase department project capacity and increased speed to market for projects. This allowed myself and another Engineer to work on one large VAVE project (12 – 24 month duration) at a time and support all other concurrent engineering projects and requests.•Established partnership with local universities, Pennsylvania State University Behrend College and Gannon University, with respect to Senior Projects, to improve recruiting opportunities and to accelerate the product development process by having students complete the project through the concept stage of the design process.•Named board member to industry related American Society of Engineers (ASME) standard committees to ensure that standards were written such that customers were protected and manufacturers were given enough latitude to develop innovative market changing products.•Oversaw and drove the listing of 62 products with respect to industry regulations, on time and within budget. Project completion removed financial exposure of over $10M in potential lost sales, positioned Zurn as a leader with respect to product listings to ensure future sales and set the stage for Zurn to become active on the committee boards to support industry advancement.

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  Howden North America Inc.

  • United Kingdom
  • Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Design Engineering Leader, Gyrol Fluid Drives

    • Feb 2011 - Jun 2012

    Managing all engineering functions, writing business cases for new products, developing new product lines, drafting ISO documents and establishing key performance indicators (KPI’s). •Drafted department processes and procedures in preparation of ISO certification; June 2011, to meet customer requirements and preserve sales.•Worked directly with customers; troubleshoot units at customer locations and during manufacturing process to provide the highest level of customer service and to maintain customer relationships.•Established expectations for quality of work, core hours, professional attitude to improve the performance of the Engineering Department having a positive effect related to on time delivery of projects leading to an increase in repeat rebuild and new product orders.•Created department goals based on organizational strategic plan and established KPIs to improve percentage of on time delivery and accuracy of hours quoted per project translating to improved relationships with departments downstream in the production process and reduction in overtime required on the shop floor to meet project delivery schedule.•Managed loading in the Engineering Department to ensure on time delivery of projects and to accurately communicate to site leadership and sales team capacity for new projects.•Provided guidance during implementation of ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics AX, including implementation updates and team meetings to address and resolve process gaps, limiting the impact to the Engineering Team during implementation.

  • Project Engineer, Mining

    • Apr 2009 - Feb 2011

    Managing up to $1 million axial fan projects, customer relations, bidding, installation / start-up phases of projects. •Interfaced with manufacturing, design, production and purchasing to ensure on-time project progression; continually updating customer (emails, phone calls) on progress. This experience increased my ability to multi-task and to negotiate favorable outcomes for multiple stakeholders.•Selected to corporate team tasked to develop the future organization structure for North American operations, creating specialized project management and technical positions allowing each to focus on specific tasks contributing to an improved customer experience..

  • Solid Modeling Engineer (CAD Administration)

    • Jan 2007 - Apr 2009

    Implementing and managing drafting software migration from Cadra to Autodesk Inventor. Managed software migration to AutoCAD; Created fundamental drafting standards.•Created custom training materials for designer staff, provided AutoCAD training tips and led training sessions outlining best practices when using AutoCAD leading to 70% of the Design team being qualified to use Autodesk Inventor.•Used Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to customize AutoCAD and Inventor to increase the productivity of staff through automatically loading the drafting standards into drawing templates. Within one year over 200 hours of design time was saved through the automated tasks.

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  Dukane

  • Senior Project Engineer

    • 2004 - 2006

    Plastic Assembly Machinery and ToolingDesigned tooling for Ultrasonic, Heat Stake, and Laser Welding projects for Commercial, Medical, and Automotive products.

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  Cox Automations Systems

  • Project Engineer

    • 1900 - 1900

    Custom Automation Manufacturer