Adam Raybin
Senior Engineering Manager of Embedded Software @ Tennant Company
About
I am an experienced technical program manager with a background leading and collaborating with teams focused on growth and process development; transitioning teams from waterfall to Agile development methodologies. My passion and drive is a focus on continuous improvement and to make teams more empowered and engaged by identification and elimination of roadblock and risks.
United States
Minneapolis
Computer Software
Mechanical Engineering, Product Development, Testing, Design of Experiments, Refrigeration, Project Management, Engineering, Project Engineering, Manufacturing, Programming, Data Analysis, Lean Manufacturing, DFMEA, Continuous Improvement, Operations Management, Recruiting, Transportation, Agile Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Resource Management
Experience

Director of Program Management
United States
• Executed a quarter-based plan by coordination with multiple managers in various roles and departments driven from the extended roadmap and presented weekly status updates. • Monitored all engineering projects and stepped in to lead individual projects as required. Coached others through their project execution, leveraging Scrum and Kanban methodologies.

Manager, Embedded Software
Thermo King
Bloomington, Minnesota
• Managed team of five direct reports locally and matrix-managed a team of 43 oversea engineers to implement a new portable software architecture across multiple projects and platforms to allow faster speed to market of subsequent projects. • Created and tracked project schedules and budgets to ensure project timelines and objectives were met on a rapidly changing project. • Elicited requirements from product management, sales, manufacturing, and service groups to develop roadmap of functionality and features. Adjusted the roadmap as the needs of the business and projects matured. • Drove transformational shift in the department by partnering with other internal groups and consultant agencies to identify areas in need of improvement. Led team through capability assessments to identify gaps and then proposed training as required. Ensured gap assessment was used as a metric for hiring of additional headcount. Results to date have brought group from CMMI level 1 to level 2. • Researched current best practices from multiple industry leaders and created transition plan to implement modified processes into the company and corporate standard work. • Migrated team in agile development and created workflow that ensured high quality delivery with a heavy focus on automation to drive efficiency as projects matured. • Coordinated work activities with other engineering groups, procurement, manufacturing, aftermarket, and customer service departments. In conjunction with product launch, aided publications and training teams in creation of manuals and training materials. • Developed and drove implementation of new production test process to allow manufacturing to proceed unimpeded by software updates. • Worked with the legal department to research competing patents and submit new patents including controller design, user interface and a novel data logging solution. • Identified and documented program risks, developed mitigations, and reported on risk realizations.

Refrigeration Controls Engineer / Sr. System Engineer / Technical Lead
Bloomington, MN
• Improve quality and performance of the controls systems in transport refrigeration equipment. • Serve as project manager for multiple projects involving multinational stakeholders and vendors. • Create and manage specifications, requirements, and schedules. Manage and mitigate risk to ensure on time project delivery. • Created novel field test method to allow faster analysis of software issues allowing a quicker response, ensuring both product quality and field test customer satisfaction. • Restructured current product specifications to better capture system performance and allow higher project quality in future projects. • Reutilized current and created new refrigeration, defrost, and engine management algorithms to meet customer requirements and improve system performance in a new project development role. • Created new self test algorithms to ensure continued system performance; maximizing system operation and meeting international food safety requirements. • Led and participated in multiple problem solving and strategic A3s. • Served as department subject matter expert on software FMEAs. • Assumed software team lead role for company flagship platform. • Managed scope and schedule definition for the flagship software platform while interfacing between product management, service, quality, aftermarket and engineering teams. • Turned a chronically late program with multiple quality escapes into a habitually punctual program with a high quality focus. • Mentored junior engineers in project process

Project Engineer
San Antonio, Texas Area
• Managed a team of engineers and designers to develop new category of dispenser for FBD • Developed and commercialized new remote condenser design • Devised more efficient evaporator design for frozen beverage equipment • Created refrigeration systems for multi-evaporator, variable load systems • Laid out new manufacturing methods to improve product flexibility while minimizing production errors • Designed and built data acquisition instruments, cycle test stands, and automated test fies • Provided analysis of empirical refrigeration data from laboratory and fielded systems • Programmed method to calculate and display live refrigeration diagrams • Developed several patents in refrigeration control logic, valve design, and assembly processes • Managed project schedules, budgets, metrics and performance indicators • Responsible for creating project requirements, specifications, test plans, and design of experiments • Worked directly with vendors to solve production issues and develop new equipment • Provided customer support with troubleshooting refrigeration issues

Mechanical Engineering Intern
IHI Southwest Technologies
San Antonio, Texas Area
• Gained work experience during an internship focusing on non-destructive examination. • Wrote computer programs to assist technicians in phased-array ultrasonic examination. • Created software to provide engineers visualization and analysis tools for data received from ultrasonic examination. • The software allows the engineer to detect potential problems, visualize those problems, and generate reports based to the examination. • Developed a flow loop testing system in Solidworks.

Transportation Specialist
Iraq
• Served as transportation specialist in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. • Assumed duties of communication specialist; meeting the necessitated demands of the unit. • Served as liaison between military and civilian personnel to optimize equipment utilization. • Maintained and operated heavy equipment transport vehicles. Provided convey security through hazardous locations.

Patriot Fire Control Operator
• Fire control operator and maintainer for the PATRIOT Missile System. • Ensured the unit's PATRIOT radar maintained a 95% uptime. • Served as tactical trainer for units in South Korean and Middle Eastern theaters. • Trained in various testing systems utilizing proprietary tooling and built-in test equipment. • Aided engineers in writing operation and preventative maintenance procedures for prototype equipment. • Experience in maintaining phased array radars, diesel generators, and various communication equipment.
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