Gene Cox

About Gene Cox

Occupational Description: Facilitate and lead engineering teams for cost metrics, quality improvement, and customer satisfaction. Offering approaches to team challenges. Work as an Innovator with actionable and real world skills, including very manageable and efficient techniques, designed to create and promote specific innovation results.Product Engineer with a Kaizen value mindset of being a creator, inventor & innovator, with global operations execution and market competitive experience. Also an understanding of operating profit, various cash flows, product quality, and market demand & delivery. Familiar with the design & development efforts of OEMs, including industry quality requirements, and corporate testing in a high volume vehicle company.Fluid in scope and schedule management, by way of understanding the complexity in business models and pipelines. Identify and use value streams to boost productivity and results. Making effective and easy ways to adapt goals sequentially, monitor and then show incremental progressions for improvement and aligned objectives. Aware of best ways to introduce and ignite corporate innovation, and to move those efforts forward in the right direction at the right time.Technology interests include: HEVs, energy storage, electric vehicle safety,(automated vehicles) & cybersecurity frameworks, drive-by-wire, active safety, lightweight (plus multi) materials, and emerging electronics. Guest speaker in the Univ. of Mich-CoE Automotive Engineering Seminar Series (since Nov.\'99).

Experience

1. Design Engineer

   Ford Motor Company

   Feb 1996 — Present · Dearborn, MI, US

   Focused on process and design systems efforts, for project life span development (from design through product phase-out - including logistics management, team coordination, evaluation and testing, time and cost management, systems engineering, organizational and training management, and overall systems and process control engineering methods).Digital Intelligence in EV (Production starts), Product creation, and Plant support of H & EV series models for mass production, which meets the OEM high quality ( & automotive industry) requirements for latest vehicle architectures.Following Next-Gen design solutions (in the automotive and transportation sectors), as Hybrid and Electric vehicles continue with new digitalization and industry innovations. Functional Commodity Team Leader 2015 Body Exterior + Electrical and Electronics Systems. Cockpit, Trim & A/C + IP Finish Panels & Substrates. Cross Car Beam, Center Console, Air Ducts, and IP Registers. Interior Lighting, H.V.A.C. Syst components, Powertrain/Engine Cooling. 1996-\'99; Manufacturing, & Facilities and Tooling Engineer for IP Systems and Door Trim Panels; Taurus +F250/350 Superduty.

Education

• Wayne State University

  Seminar Series March 2010, Electric Vehicle Program

  2010 — 2010

• Technical Mentor Program

  Automotive A/C Systems, Complete

  1999 — 2005

• University of Michigan

  Master's of Science, Automotive Subsystems Engineering

  1997 — 1999

• University of Detroit Mercy

  Advanced Electric Vehicles

  2013 — 2014

• Michigan State University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

  1987 — 1991

• Ford Motor Co. Design Institute

  Technical Education Program, Hybrid, Fuel Cell and Automated Vehicle Design and Development

  2006 — 2017

• RPI Lally School of Management

  Educated in MS of Engineering Management Program, International Business/Trade/Commerce

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• Dmaic
• Lean Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Injection Molding
• Kaizen
• Catia
• Dfmea
• Advanced Product Quality Planning (Apqp)
• Ppap
• Geometric Dimensioning
• Fmea
• Product Design
• Six Sigma
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Vehicles
• Mechanical Engineering
• Production Part Approval Process (Ppap)
• Automotive Engineering
• Dfss Green Belt
• Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Dfmea)
• Apqp
• Gd&T
• Root Cause Analysis
• Engineering
• Continuous Improvement
• Design for Manufacturing
• Geometric Dimensioning
• Value Stream Mapping
• Teamcenter
• Automotive
• Spc
• Engineering Management
• Powertrain
• Product Development