Tony Escarrat

Lead the development and release of propulsion-system calibrations for high-performance engines (including supercharged engines), ensuring milestone achievement while maintaining emissions compliance and optimal driveability. • Manage full calibration lifecycle: core engine mapping, driveability and emissions tuning, transmission calibration, engine diagnostics and transmission diagnostics strategies, torque-security protocols, and hardware/software integration. • Balance high-power engine and vehicle performance targets with regulatory requirements from the EPA and CARB (California) Government Agencies and functional-safety frameworks, delivering production-ready calibrations to demanding vehicle programs.

Led the industrialization of lightweight automotive safety components for aluminum bumpers and electric vehicle battery trays. Oversaw engineering of lightweight components to meet safety and performance standards. • Ensured compliance with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) requirements and industry standards throughout all project stages. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams during design reviews to optimize designs for manufacturability and cost-effectiveness. • Managed the quotation process for new projects, ensuring accurate and prompt estimates to support business development.

• Led the industrialization of high-end electronics components for the automotive sector, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products that meet stringent industry standards and client specifications. • Assembly of complex electronic components on printed circuit boards (Surface Mount Technology), consistently maintaining position tolerances within ±100μm. • Led the development of encapsulation and sealing processes (potting) for assembled PCBs using advanced protective materials, safeguarding electronic components against environmental factors such as moisture, dust, shock, and vibration enhancing product durability and reliability. • Oversaw and optimized multi-million dollar budgets, ensuring efficient allocation of financial resources, adherence to cost constraints, and maximization of project profitability without compromising quality or timelines. • Managed the development of high-volume manufacturing equipment capable of nearly 1 million parts annually by streamlining processes, implementing automation, and enhancing workflow efficiency to meet demanding market demands. • Conducted regular strategic phone calls and face-to-face meetings with key customers, providing detailed project updates and addressing concerns, while reporting progress and key metrics to top management (VP and President level), ensuring alignment with organizational goals and client expectations.

Responsible for the Development of Exterior Plastic, Chrome and Painted parts with stringent appearance requirements (Front Skid Garnish, Front Grille assembly, Front Emblem and Rear Hith Garnish for the Acura RDX). Led engineering efforts for high-gloss resin implementation and appearance-critical parts • Manage Core Team (20 people), including design engineers, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, and sales, as well as engineering and quality managers. • Attend and lead customer meetings (Honda) and management meetings. • Implementation of a new high-technology high-gloss resin for molded-in-color black parts which triggered several critical escalation meetings within the management.

Development of the manufacturing processes for transmission components requiring micrometer-level precision, utilizing advanced techniques like flow forming, CNC machining, press piercing, and balancing. • Successfully launched new programs for Ford and GM within the plant and led ongoing process improvement initiatives enhancing operational efficiency and product quality. • Oversaw a multidisciplinary core team and led weekly meetings with major clients such as Ford and GM, ensuring alignment with customer expectations and fostering strong partnerships. • Delivered daily project status presentations during fast-response meetings with senior management, facilitating informed decision-making and swift issue resolution. • Managed a capital budget of $11 million to uplift production lines with new equipment, resulting in increased capacity, improved quality, and reduced downtime. Key Achievements • Eliminated a critical part balancing problem that had persisted for three years within the first three months of tenure, saving the company $21,000 per month by reducing rejected parts and improving overall product quality.

• Led the Development of Exterior Plastic and Chrome Components (door moldings and overfenders for the Nissan Pathfinder, Kicks, and Infiniti QX60 models). Ensured Compliance with Stringent Geometry and Appearance Requirements (APQP, PPAP) • Coordinated Production Across Facilities located in Tennessee and Kentucky, ensuring seamless integration and consistency across sites. • Cross-functional team collaboration: Worked closely with design engineers, suppliers, and quality assurance teams to resolve technical challenges, optimize designs, and enhance overall product performance. • Delivered weekly project status presentations to Senior Management and monthly briefings to the Board of Directors, ensuring transparency, fostering trust, and facilitating informed decision-making at all organizational levels. Key Achievements • Led the resolution of a high-stakes customer crisis over two years, providing daily support—including weekends—to address urgent issues and maintain client satisfaction. • Frequent onsite customer and supplier support in the USA and Japan even in the middle of a global pandemic.

• Led end-to-end project management for automotive fuel tanks, from initial quotation to production stabilization in the manufacturing plant. • Managed strict project budgets of up to $ 3.5M, covering design development, serial production tooling, prototype manufacturing, and validation. • Successfully achieved project milestones under a strict schedule, managing development timelines of 2-3 years per project. • Oversaw development for Japanese car manufacturers with production in India (Delhi, Chennai, and Ahmedabad) and Russia (St. Petersburg), while providing ongoing remote support to teams in Brazil and France. • Facilitated cross-functional collaboration and team-building activities involving five members across Design, Industrial, Quality, Sales, and Purchasing teams, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of project objectives. • Maintained regular communication with customers, providing progress reports and updates on key deliverables. • Held full accountability for achieving quality and profitability targets, managing changes during development and production phases, and delivering status presentations to stakeholders and Asia Senior Management. Key Achievements: • Launched production operations within a brand new Indian manufacturing location in Gujarat and handled leading critical customer communications as well as reporting to top management. • Recognised for creating and deploying a reliable tool to centralise and classify all the open issues within the technical center, resulting in communication improvement between departments and performance improvement. • Successfully increased projects profitability up to 3.1% compared to the award condition during the projects life by strategically optimizing the most impacting key figures.

• Conducted a range of project design, process and quality activities associated to the development of fuel tanks (safety part) and depollution tank systems, including the development of the Electronic Control Unit and Diagnostics for Japanese car manufacturers for production in Japan, India and South Africa. • Completed design and process failure mode effects analysis, control plans and prototype checklists, arranged customer and supplier approval process. • Facilitation of design and process failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEA, PFMEA). Defined the serial production control plan. Responsible for the quality of the prototype. Arranged customer and supplier production part approval process (PPAP). Conducted strategic problem solving through 8D reports and effective multi-channel communications to internal and external customers and assisted with the organizational efforts to the Quality Management System through internal audits and ISO/TS 16949 (IATF) audits. Achievements: • Recognized for having supported the quality management activities during 6 months while there was no quality manager in the technical center. • Recognized for simplifying the monthly quality report from 30 pages to 6, which is used by the worldwide technical centers to deliver information to top management.

• Responsible for the quality activities for the development of depollution system pump module (including heater, pressure and level sensor) developed for German and American car manufacturers (NPI New Product Introduction) and produced in Poland. • Required to utilize vast project development methodology incorporating design and process failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), problem solving, control plan and prototype checklists in addition to communicating effectively with both internal and external customers. Achievements: • Successfully restored a German customer confidence by presenting concise analysis and action plans for a comprehensive list of about 30 quality issues. • Gained the confidence of an internal task force team from the USA supporting a 1 week audit in Poland facility at the start of production.

• Worked within a project team on the development of an ECU (electronic control unit) with a focus on achieving set customer and company targets of quality, reliability and robustness and ensuring all requirements are considered in internal and supplier specifications. • Ensure all development issues are fully detected and addressed.

• Managed customer claims through incoming phone inquiries, developing and presenting effective action plans to ensure satisfactory resolution. • Coordinated part sorting operations at both production and customer sites, conducted detailed defect analysis, line audits, and root cause investigations using methodologies such as 8D, PDCA, and Failure Tree Analysis. • Collaborated closely with the production team to proactively identify potential defects and implement effective detection solutions, enhancing overall product quality. Achievements: • Received notable praise for driving 900km from France to Germany to deliver emergency replacement parts to a German customer. • Conducted two successful visits to French customers to deliver replacement parts and present an analysis and action plan.

• Based in the technical centre and front end chip manufacturing site, provided a comprehensive support service for the Chinese team in charge of back end manufacturing for professionally reporting back to customer on their quality claims.

• Tasked with assisting yield enhancement analysis for wafers production (Design For Manufacturing DFM), including layout design enhancement, addition of redundancy, critical area analysis, and yield simulation. • Provided support to the deployment of Design For Test (DFT) solutions to the different design competence centers of Imaging (located in Scotland, Singapore, and India).

Electric Vehicle Technology • Principles of electric vehicles, including batteries, motors, power electronics, and vehicle dynamics. • Focuses on design, operation, and environmental impacts of electric transportation. Image and Video Processing • Introduces digital image and video processing techniques, including filtering, transformation, compression, and analysis. • Covers motion estimation and tracking in videos, essential for multimedia applications. Advanced Internet Technologies • Explores advanced internet topics like web development, networking, distributed systems, and cloud computing. • Focuses on designing modern internet-based applications and services. Computer Graphics • Overview of graphics hardware and algorithms for 2D/3D transformations, rendering, shading, ray tracing and animation. • Includes modeling and image synthesis techniques for visual computing.

Signal processing • Analysis and manipulation of signals, covering techniques like Fourier transforms and filtering. • Applied to real-world scenarios such as audio processing and data transmission. Programming C++, Assembler, HTML • Learned programming in C++, Assembler, and HTML, spanning system-level to web development. • Coding memory management and creation of web interfaces. Microprocessor, Transistor, Semiconductor, Digital Electronics • Explored digital electronics, including transistor operation, semiconductor physics, and microprocessor design. • Design of digital circuits and microprocessor programming. Telecommunication, network • Covered the fundamentals of telecommunication systems and computer networks, including data transmission and protocols. Electromagnetics, Antenna • Electromagnetic theory, including wave propagation and antenna design principles. • Design of antennas for wireless communication, with practical simulation experience.

Research at National Taiwan University in Taipei inside the ‘Computer Music Laboratory’ in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Work on signal processing algorithms: changing of the frequencies of certain harmonics composing a signal in order to change the tonality of a chord.