Experienced and professional Manager with over thirteen years of valuable experience in monitoring project performance to ensure company success. Reputation for continually achieving on time and under-budget performance goals. Adept in all aspects of project management including planning, budget management, and coordinating all working parts of a project. Highlighted carrier achievements: leading NA production project with international OEM, selected to receive Michigan State funding for future mobility and electrification, landed first customer for mobility with major distribution client.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Manager Advance Engineering
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
08.2016 - Current
Managing team of 15 and budget of $5 mil working on mobility, localization, perception, and communication.
Established project and team with State of Michigan funding to integrate infrastructure to provide AD features for shipping yard, Distribution Center, smart city, and automated parking structures. Work includes managing international team, resources, project risks and budget.
Established a set of best practices and documented procedures aligned with Scrum and Agile framework for software development and testing, resulting in improved accuracy and reliability of software products.
Managed team to set requirements and develop cloud-based Control Center for automating geo-fenced (Distribution Center, Parking Lot) system, providing reporting and diagnostics of operations and manage operations and controls requests.
Leading production project with OEM that includes development, testing and data collection activates of GNSS based localization to provide dead reckoning for AD vehicle. Working with multiple HD Maps and Correction data providers in North America.
Manage camera-based Machine Learning project to detect and classify different objects to provide 3D pose estimation. This work is used for complex articulated trailer/truck controls maneuvers
Principle Engineer
Westport
01.2012 - 08.2016
Ford - AM Generals: Development vehicle with Ford Engine Control Module-ECM. Role involves OBD testing for different self-test emission codes and Dynamometer tests.
Cummins Engines: Embedded Systems programming using embedded C for developing close-loop controller strategy for driving Urea system injection for 95L diesel engine dyno.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering
University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, MI
12.2012
Skills
Critical thinking and problem solving
Leadership and Teamwork
Highly organized and efficient
Scrum and Agile Framework
Certified Agile Leadership for Teams and Organizations
Software Engineering
Strategic Planning
PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Ground-truth localization using a sequential-update extended Kalman filter. Electro/Information Technology (EIT), 2014 IEEE International Conference.
Map-based Lane identification and prediction for autonomous vehicles. Electro/Information Technology (EIT), 2014 IEEE International Conference.
Mixed-integer Programming for Centralized Coordination of Connected and Automated Vehicles in Dynamic Environment," 2021 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
Motion Planning and Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Tractor-Trailer Hitching Maneuver
[Patent-US17/389,722] Global Multi-Vehicle Decision Making System for Connected and Automated Vehicles in Dynamic Environment
[Patent-Pending] System and Method for Controlling Motion of Articulated Vehicles
[Patent] Driving system for distribution of planning and control functionality between vehicle device and cloud computing device, vehicle computing device, and cloud computing device
[Patent] Apparatus and method for providing location
[Patent] Optimizing management of autonomous vehicles
[Patent] Sensor fusion for dynamic mapping
[Patent] Roadside communication system for monitoring and maintaining sensor data transmission
[Patent] Vehicle control based on reliability figures calculated from infrastructure information
Timeline
Sr. Manager Advance Engineering
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
08.2016 - Current
Principle Engineer
Westport
01.2012 - 08.2016
Master of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering