Holly Craddock
Murfreesboro,TN
Summary
Dynamic project manager with a proven track record at DENSO Manufacturing, specializing in automation deployment and real-time location systems. Efficient in cross-functional collaboration, I successfully led teams to enhance safety and optimize processes, achieving significant cost reductions. Passionate about driving innovation and fostering industry connections as a Founding Ambassador for the RTLS Alliance.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Founding Ambassador
RTLS Alliance
07.2025 - Current
- Advancing Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) across industries as a charter member of the RTLS Alliance.
- Key Responsibilities include fostering cross-industry collaboration, evangelizing best practices, and connecting stakeholders across enterprise sectors.
Process Engineer 1
DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee
06.2024 - Current
- Acted as the project manager for new automation projects across DENSO’s South Sub-Region to reduce manpower, improve safety, and streamline throughput on the manufacturing floor.
- Led cross-functional teams of DENSO engineers, production, and executives to deploy a successful automation project.
- Designed, rationalized, deliberated, and installed three Automated Industrial Vehicle projects across DENSO’s South Sub-Region.
- Reallocating a total HC of nearly seven associates to higher skilled tasks by deploying autonomous technology within the plant.
- Improved safety of associates by removing the necessary pushing of carts across plants frequently.
- Designed, rationalized, deliberated, and installed a Real Time Location System in a new plant to achieve real time visibility of all vehicles traveling within the plant.
- The accompanying digital twin allowed for route optimization of associate-driven vehicles and autonomous vehicles to find an asset reduction equivalent of $500k to achieve an ROI of xx.
- Also finding a 1eHC reduction with labor savings of engineers.
- Installed a location-based safety intersection to restrict vehicles and pedestrians to be crossing simultaneously, improving the overall safety of traffic flow within the plant.
Electrical Engineer Intern
Middle Tennessee Electric
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Collaborated with senior electrical engineers to help maintain successful substations, breakers, and reclosers in Middle Tennessee.
Education
Bachelor of Basic and Applied Sciences - Mechatronics Engineering (ABET)
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN05.2024
Associate of Science - Mathematics
Pellissippi State Community College
Hardin Valley, TN05.2021
Skills
- Project management
- Real-time location systems
- Automation deployment
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Digital twin technology
- Process optimization
Certification
Engineer-in-Training, FE Exam: Other Disciplines, 11/21/23, https://account.ncees.org/rn/2398847-1658937-f5c0865
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Founding Ambassador
RTLS Alliance
07.2025 - Current
Process Engineer 1
DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee
06.2024 - Current
Electrical Engineer Intern
Middle Tennessee Electric
05.2023 - 08.2023
Bachelor of Basic and Applied Sciences - Mechatronics Engineering (ABET)
Middle Tennessee State University
Associate of Science - Mathematics
Pellissippi State Community College
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