Gary Mitchell

About Gary Mitchell

Staff Electrical Design Engineer with 20+ years of experience in automotive ECU design, team leadership, and supplier management. Proven record of delivering complex automotive electronics from concept to production, with multiple patents and expertise in DFSS and SAFe Agile leadership.Technical Skills:• Design & Engineering: Analog/digital/microprocessor design, multi-layer PCB design, LTspice simulation• Leadership & Management: 10+ years leading engineering teams, supplier management, SAFe Scrum Lead• Tools & Software: Siemens Xpedition, Microsoft Office, Teamcenter integration, Lauterbach• Testing & Validation: EMC issue resolution, thermal modeling, lab equipment proficiencySpecialties: • Proficient in Microsoft Office Tools (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer)• Proficient with Siemens Xpedition tools (2.8 - 2.14)• Familiar with Mathcad and LTspice

Experience

1. Staff Electrical Design Engineer

   General Motors

   Mar 2025 — Present · Warren, MI, US

   Led the Aggregator (Body ECU) development with concentration on Ethernet, eFuses, high-side drivers, & ADC multiplexers• Completed significant portions of the overall schematic using previously developed schematic design guidelines• Coached ECAD resources in best practices for PCB layout• Contributed to the hardware-software interface specification• Worked with proto house to build first prototypes• Assisted software team in troubleshooting first software applied to the new hardware• Successfully brought up first hardware and demonstrated functionality of all circuits• Created the hardware priority test matrix and test plans and led the actual HW testing

Education

• Indiana University Kokomo

  MBA, Business Administration

  1993 — 1998

• Training Provided by Delphi

  Professional Development

• Michigan Technological University

  Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

  1984 — 1989

Skills

• Engineering Management
• Ppap
• Dfmea
• Electronics
• Powertrain
• Microsoft Excel
• Electric Vehicles
• Pcb Design
• Root Cause Analysis
• Mathcad
• Microcontrollers
• Hev
• Testing
• Systems Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Power Electronics
• Automotive Engineering
• Embedded Systems
• Product Engineering
• Six Sigma
• Automotive
• Supplier Quality
• Automotive Electronics
• Fmea
• Engineering
• Continuous Improvement
• Advanced Product Quality Planning (Apqp)
• Analog
• Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Dfmea)
• Apqp