John A. Magdaleno

• Provide guidance and direction to automotive companies needing to certifying their products to legally enforced safety regulatory requirements
• Review compliance strategies, regulatory checklists, and certification documentation review.
• Engage in project management plans for automotive certification.
• Address potential safety regulatory impact of new technologies being introduced into automotive products.
• Advise clients navigating new automotive regulatory landscapes.
• Monitor industry trends to provide clients with innovative solutions and insights.

• As GM’s Global Lead, managed GM’s Global Regulatory and Certification teams located in different regions. Responsibilities include: (1) Securing Global Regulatory communications, strategies, and interpretations for consistent direction to global teams. (2) Overseeing Global rulemaking responses addressing GM’s business interests (3) Regulatory integration of global standards to assist responsible vehicle teams for assuring regulatory compliance basis.
• Served as Committee Chair of GM’s Regulatory Oversight Committee as a result of the Department of Justice direction for Monitor oversight of GM’s Safety practices.
• Voting member on both GM’s Global Safety Council and Open Investigation Review Board
• Directed oversight of Regulatory representation on every vehicle program team. Responsibilities included assessing and integrating regulatory impact of current and proposed global regulations, as well as final compliance sign-off of MVSS certification and export witness testing for Type Approval Certification.

• Served as GM's Safety Liaison in Washington D.C. Represented GM's Safety team to (1) the NHTSA, (2) the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, and (3) Automotive Alliance Safety Policy Committee.
• Participation in industry associations and government technical working groups (including Trade and Commerce) addressing product impact and possible OEM burdens of legal standards and certification protocols.

Managed GMNA Safety Standards and Regulatory Compliance teams. Responsibilities included: (1) GM’s Global Leaders and Subject Matter Experts for Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (MVSS) in US and Canadian Markets. (2) Work to influence U.S./Canada MVSS rulemaking consistent with safety benefits and GM objectives, (3) Regulatory integration of global standards to assist responsible teams for assuring regulatory compliance basis.
Key Accomplishments:
• Combined two key GMNA Regulatory Groups (1) Safety Standards and (2) Regulatory & Compliance.
• Represented North America on GM’s Global Regulatory Team to help define global regulatory strategies.
• Anticipated, analyzed, clarified, interpreted and communicated North America safety standards to GM’s global teams.
• Represented GM to the NHTSA and the Automotive Alliance Safety Policy Committee technical working groups.
• Oversight of regulatory representation on each domestic market program team for assessing and integrating regulatory impact of current and proposed global regulations.

Managed team responsible for assisting GM’s global engineering community to assure compliance with government regulations for global markets by providing consultation as necessary regarding regulatory changes.

Key Accomplishments:
• Participation in industry and government level (including Trade and Commerce) communications on product impact and possible export burden of legal standards and Type Approval certification.
• Secure, interpret, negotiate, and facilitate the distribution of regulations as needed for all markets.

Served as GM’s North American regulatory Subject Matter Expert in the areas of Seats, Restraints , and Passive Safety Occupant Protection. Responsibilities included educating, advising, and training safety engineers in global regulations as well as accompanied witness officials during Type Approval certification for these regulatory areas.

Provided crashworthiness engineering support for numerous vehicle platforms. Lead Engineer project responsibilities included development of methodologies in analytical simulation used for predicting and optimizing occupant protection. Analytical methods incorporated both nonlinear finite element analyses as well as lumped parameter modeling. Later generated test plans and conducted testing methods to support numerical analyses. Documented findings and developed best practice methods used in determining corporate restraint system evaluation considerations.