Background

Dedicated career beginning in engineering and transitioning into finance roles of increasingly greater responsibility. Recognized for strengths of managing problems through data, establishing standardization to create efficiencies, and integrity. Manage regional and global costing teams of up to 100 employees. Analysis of global controlled spend of 3B+.

Job experience

• February 2017 - present
  Director Global Costing
  Adient
  

  Plymouth, MI, USA

  • The global voice of costing: to lead down, across and up the organization. This role utilizes a wide breadth of product and process knowledge and a strong knowledge of estimating to review and challenge details.
  • Direct development plant quoting rates for 200+ manufacturing locations and SG&A relative to commodity and country.
  • Deliver presentations to leadership regarding transparency of cost assumptions and global alignment.
  • Develop constructive relationships with leadership by calling attention to organizational roadblocks that impede the speed and accuracy of the quoting process.
  • Responsible for tracking and reporting spending gaps relative to global benchmark pricing for $5+ Billion direct material spend.

• August 2012 - February 2017
  Regional Manager, Costing
  Adient
  

  Plymouth, MI, USA

  • Regional leadership roles in Cut and Sew Commodity Costing and Supplier Benchmark Costing to develop and mentor a team of 3 – 6 North American employees.
  • Coordinate all customer quotes for cut and sew as well as manage costing impacts from award to start of production.
  • Develop cut and sew costing rates for five North American plants.
  • Create and maintain 30+ supplier benchmark cost models to be used as purchasing targets and supplier agreements.
  • Develop supplier rates and throughput models for quote comparison and price negotiation.

• May 2007 - August 2012
  Product Financial Manager
  Johnson Controls
  

  Plymouth, MI, USA

  • Perform costing for trim covers and metal seat frames, including new business quoting as well as engineering changes.
  • Costing analyses include piece price, tooling, capital, and evaluating Make vs. Buy decisions for seating components.
  • Create ground-up cost of engineered components from engineering drawings.
  • Establish activity-based costing rates for manufacturing plants.

• July 1997 - May 2007
  Staff Engineer
  Johnson Controls
  

  Plymouth, MI, USA

  • Represented Johnson Controls as a member of the SAE Human Accommodation Design Devices committee and as a chairperson for the Digital Human Modeling Conference.
  • Objectively analyze human comfort of vehicle seating programs and performed research on vehicle interior designs including driver performance, occupant packaging, and motion / ergonomic studies within a state-of-the-art facility.

• January 1996 - July 1997
  Research Assistant
  University of Michigan
  

  Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  • Performed biomechanical analyses to evaluate the differences between manual material handling devices.

• July 1994 - January 1996
  Assistant Tooling Engineer
  Bailey Corporation
  

  Dearborn, MI, USA

  • Acted as liaison between tool shops and program engineers for engineering and timing changes.

Education

• University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
  Master of Business Administration
  

  2003 - 2008
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Master of Science in Engineering (Biomedical Engineering)
  

  1996 - 1997
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)
  

  1990 - 1994