Brian Vera

• Responsible for designing stamped parts, hood and fenders, brackets, reinforcements and hinges.
• Responsible for meeting functional and regulatory requirements, weight, cost and tooling targets for specific commodities.
• Responsible for managing the status of weight, piece cost and tooling investments of the assigned components through the development of a program. (Over $3M USD tooling)
• Responsible for the packaging and attachment scheme of sheet metal components.
• Responsible for providing solutions and design actions in order to drive cost/ weight targets efficiently.
• Responsible for complying with Vehicle targets such as NVH, Thermal and Aero Management, Safety and Pedestrian Protection.
• Responsible for complying with Regulations depending on export markets and Homologation.
• Responsible for complying with Program Timing-GPDS and deliverables of each milestone.
• DFMEA.
  -Root cause analysis.
  -Problem-solving.
  -Define special and critical characteristics of a product - SCCAFs.
  -Assure compliance of PPAP and Quality.
• Responsible for providing interim and permanent corrective actions for issues during launch, always looking for the best alternative cost and engineering-wise.
• Currently assigned to EV SUV's.

Design and Release Engineer for Body Exteriors-
Functional and Appearance Trim components.

-Responsible for designing injection molded, compression molded and vacuum formed components.
-Responsible for meeting requirements, weight, cost and tooling targets for specific commodities.
-Responsible for managing status of weight, piece cost and tooling investments of components through the development of a program. (Over $2.5M USD tooling)
-Responsible for the packaging and attachment scheme of trim components.
-Responsible for providing solutions and design actions in order to drive cost/ weight targets efficiently.
-Comply with Vehicle targets such as NVH, Thermal and Aero.
-Comply with Program Timing-GPDS and deliverables of each milestone.
-Responsible for providing interim and permanent corrective actions for issues during launch, always looking for the best alternative cost and engineering wise.