QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
A Compliance Manager with over 31 years of demonstrated expertise in Product Compliance serving as the subject matter expert, providing guidance to Engineering, Operations, Quality, Sales, and Marketing teams regarding applicable national, international, and industry codes and standards. Coordinated with internal teams, as well as outside organizations, such as ASSE, ANSI, ASME, ASTM, CEC, CSA, DOE, DVGW, EPA, IAPMO, KIWA, LGA, NSF, TUV, and UL to ensure products are current with the appropriate industry standards. Supported, researched, analyzed, and interpreted all codes and standards pertinent to the subject industry and product lines. The primary contact and oversees all codes, regulations and standards for all existing products as well as new product innovations.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Bradley Corporation, Menomonee Falls, WI 2008 to Present
Manager Corporate Codes Compliance
Primary responsibilities included:
• Review standards with other departmental specialists to assure consistency with existing standards and those in other specialized disciplines.
• Communicate with management of organization to maintain knowledge of current and proposed projects in order to develop appropriate standards for design and production of new products. Represent company on cross-functional teams to ensure that codes and standards compliance are built into the business’ New Product Development and operations processes.
• Communicate with users to confirm knowledge of standards and the cooperation of various project groups.
• Defines and specifies codes and standards for company products.
• Focused efforts in organizing, documenting, and interpreting codes and standards documents and records for company products.
• Communicated effectively and interfaced at all levels of the organization. Conducted presentation of complex technical information associated with codes and standards.
• Remained current on changing regulatory requirements
• Evaluated data in scientific journals, suppliers’ catalogs, government standards documents, and other sources of information on materials, processes, and parts to update knowledge of available resources.
• Proactively participated on select industry committees deemed most important to the Company’s future and influence codes and standards to the degree possible. Ensure company’s compliance to such codes and standards going forward.
• Responsible for identifying, interpreting, and applying industry codes and standards to the design of products
• Follows established procedures for retention of data developed to assure optimum storage and retrieval by manual or automated methods.
WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION, St Joseph, MI 2007 to 2008
Senior Engineer, Dryer Controls Platform Integrity
Primary responsibilities included:
• Designing controls for dryer model line.
• Developed, introduced and launched a new wire harness design process that greatly reduces the number of iterations before part is released.
• Developed, introduced and launched the “Universal Power Supply Cord for commercial washers and dryers that reduced SKU’s and increased sales and marketability.
• Reduced wire harness SKU’s by more then 50 percent as part of the Radical Business Simplification Project.
• Collaborated with key members of the Controls Development Center, Product Approval Group on the Emerging Markests Team in designing two new control systems for use on international dryers, increasing international sales and marketability.
• Acting as the Controls Engineer on Component Architecture Modularity Project for Switches, Timers and Sensors.
• Successfully interacted with Procurement and outside suppliers in securing product approvals from relocated manufacturing facilities.
• A key member in a cross-functional team in fulfilling corporate productivity, quality and bottom-line objectives.
ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, Anderson, SC 2005 to 2007
Senior Design Engineer, International Group
Primary responsibilities included:
• Acted as Lead Engineer in obtaining RoHS approval of products produced at EHP’s Anderson, SC and Juarez, MX facilities. This included in collaborating with procurement and suppliers in obtain Declarations of Conformity and off-site verification testing.
• Acted as the Lead Engineer obtaining international certification of EHP manufacturing facilities at Anderson, SC, Greenville, MI, Juarez, MX and St. Cloud, MN. Major Compliance Projects included: “Frost Free Chest Freezer”, “Glass Top Chest Freezer”, “Counter-Depth Refrigerator” and “Universal Power Supply Cord”, “The-Perfect-Drawer”.
• Lead engineer on numerous cost initiative projects including alternate evaporator fan motors, compressors and alternative plastic materials
• Creating a strategy that systematically and efficiently allowed EHP to navigate the compliance process as new products entered new markets.
• Partnered with the product development team to design with compliance requirements in mind.
• Teamed with procurement to maintain approved and approvable raw materials and purchased components.
• Monitored manufacturing processes to ensure procedures are compliant and investigated discrepancies.
• Supported Product Liability Investigations...
Bunn Corporation, Springfield, IL 2003 to 2005
Manager, Compliance
Primary responsibility included:
• Leading and scheduling the activities of two engineers in securing agency approvals of household and commercial coffee making and brewing equipment.
• Introduced a program that involved advanced agency review of product designs, identifying design requirements early; selecting pre-approved components; reducing test requirements; accelerating new product introductions at a reduced cost.
• Numerous cost and quality initiatives supported along with the development of the “POD”, a single cup coffee maker.
• Provided career development by mentoring and coaching direct report engineers on various regulatory and safety agencies.
• Operated the team at or below budget.
MAYTAG CORPORATION - GRP, Galesburg, IL 1983 to 2003
Senior Engineer, Standards & Safety
Primary responsibilities included:
• Culpable for the application of system safety principles to new products from inception, through production and replacement.
• Chair the Product Safety Committee, budgeting, coordinating and scheduling of testing, obtaining safety certifications on dehumidifiers, dryers, freezers, refrigerators and w...
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