Heidi Kneller

About Heidi Kneller

Sowing cost data into the digital quilt. Creating intuitive cost confidence in…

Experience

1. Leading Affordability Development

   Boeing

   Feb 2019 — Present

   Boeing Designated Expert (BDE) Affordability: ASPIRE: Fuel an affordability cultural revolution realized through safe-to-fail experimentation. Energize and enable a cross-functional invention at the intersections of data science, machine learning, feature recognition, modeling and simulation, analytics, optimization, and data visualization. Operationalize an enlightened cost consciousness and confidence across product development, design, fabrication, and procurement at the enterprise level. Identify and automate simple-domain work while respecting the complexity of opportunity sleuthing and cost target realization. ACTUALIZE: 1. Set development strategy with regular off ramps and enforced feedback cycle. Prioritize emerging technology investment to enable both continuous improvement and breakthroughs. Grow the Affordability technology portfolio to balance impact across the decision lifecycle. Prime coveted capabilities for deployment in ways users crave. Connect with stakeholders over stories underwritten by data. Root affordability into the ecosystem of digital transformation, Model Based Systems Engineering, and the digital twin/quilt. Reduce production and procurement costs. “My philosophy is that lasting transformation only takes place through a brazen commitment to experimentation and a painful level of transparency that becomes the default. In this role I am dedicated to creating a development framework where safe-to-fail experiments thrive, metrics present welcome revelations, learning is celebrated, and we iterate quickly. Technology is only part of the mechanism needed for thought revolution. It is only when we marry it with people-centric implementations, that are tightly targeted and purposefully crafted, that we morph purely technical solutions into something that connects so profoundly with people that it cements a new status quo that is self-reinforcing.” -HK

Skills

• Life Cycle Assessment
• Additive Manufacturing
• Technology Scouting
• Should Cost Analysis
• Product Development
• Design of Experiments
• Complexity Management
• Theory of Constraints
• Photoshop
• Apriori
• Batch Programming
• Strategy
• Set Based Concurrent Design
• Word
• Microsoft Word
• Lean Manufacturing
• Data Visualization
• Predictive Analytics
• Sensitivity Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Engineering Management
• Information Design
• Product Design
• Ethnography
• Concept Development
• Illustrator
• Program Management
• Graphic Design
• Access
• Scenario Planning
• Catia
• Metal Fabrication
• Research
• Digital Fabrication
• Biomimicry
• Multivariate Analysis
• Intellectual Property
• Visual Basic for Applications (Vba)
• Data Science
• Invention