Diane Davis

About Diane Davis

Skilled, insightful, engaging, and strategic Engineering and Business Executive with significant experience in voice of the customer, business and capacity planning, advanced engineering, current and future product R&D, project management, manufacturing, and warranty analysis across industries with leading companies including Whirlpool Corporation, Navistar International, Visteon and Ford Motor Company. • Creating and Executing Product Strategy and Roadmaps – Talented at strategically integrating complex information. Envisioned a $32M aligned portfolio which included customer desired features, IoT aspects, and regulatory projects. • Innovation and R&D – Focus on Voice of the Customer combined with technical leadership and innovative problem solving to deliver leading edge and inspirational products and services • Continuous Improvement of Processes, Products, and Systems – Identify lean opportunities to maximize organizational benefit and improve speed, efficiency, and functionality to exceed consumer’s expectations. Created a 3-gate flexible, yet comprehensive Advanced product development process and implemented within 6 months. • Global Team Creation, Collaboration, and Servant Leadership – Empower cross-functional, global teams. Consistently develop talent as future leaders. Responsible for advanced engineering innovation project team across 3 continents / platforms and 6+ functional areas with $7M annual budget.

Experience

1. Vice President of Engineering

   Sargento

   Jan 2019 — Present · Plymouth, WI, US

Education

• Michigan State University

  BS, Mechanical Engineering

  1988 — 1992

• Stanford University

  Masters, Mechanical Engineering - Mfg Systems

  1998 — 1999

Skills

• Project Management
• Team Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Planning
• Process Engineering
• Mentoring
• Apqp
• Product Design
• Kaizen
• Problem Solving
• Business Planning
• Operations Management
• Fmea
• Value Stream Mapping
• Dmaic
• Process Improvement
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Cost
• Leadership
• Business Strategy
• Automotive Engineering
• Dfmea
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Product Engineering
• Six Sigma
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Root Cause Analysis
• Forecasting
• Continuous Improvement
• Cost Reduction
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Automotive
• Product Management
• R&D
• Lean Manufacturing
• 5s
• Vehicles
• Ppap