One page marketing plan providing experience highlights

1. Cara L. Shapiro
www.LinkedIn.com/in/ShapiroCara • Cincinnati, OH 45150 • Shapiro.Cara@gmail.com
PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEER / PROJECT MANAGER
Exceptional design engineer able to bring the Voice of the Customer into product development. Combining
engineering knowledge with business understanding to clearly express abstract and innovative concepts to both
internal and external customers. Managing multiple projects and competing deadlines to smoothly lead cross
functional teams from concept generation through production. 2008 completed 3-year assignment in Beijing, China.
KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• Creating relationships across technical and • Primary presenter to C-level clients
international boundaries • Project and Personnel Management
• Risk definition, evaluation, and mitigation • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
• Consensus building • BS Mechanical Engineering and MBA
SUCCESSES TARGET POSITIONS
Technical Engineering Leadership
• Coming from a mechanical engineering • Systems • Project Engineer
background I have focused my career on finding • Senior Mechanical • Project Leader
innovative solutions for complex and confidential • Advanced Design
projects. When asked to solve a high profile
development problem that had remained TARGET INDUSTRIES
unresolved for over 2 years, I created a • Medical • Construction
comprehensive but efficient test plan to unravel • Defense • Military
the extensive contributing factors. This • Manufacturing • Universities
uncovered the problem and provided a solution
below cost and before the deadline.
TARGET CONTACTS
• I increased yield using Design of Experiments
to determine which process factors most • Senior Engineers
impacted the final product while minimizing the • Directors of Engineering
number of tests to reduce time consuming
measurements. TARGET COMPANY PROFILE
• Team-oriented culture that values collaboration
Business
while encouraging individual contributions
• While I was a strong technical team leader, I
• Rewards calculated risk-taking and fact-based
wanted to earn my MBA enabling me to develop
decision making
better customer cases. I tested this knowledge
• Seeks out innovative and practical applications of
against the problems of international colleagues
emerging technology
who were building plants, starting businesses,
• Provides continuing engineering challenges
and representing worldwide companies
• Builds honest internal and external customers
throughout Asia.
relationships, enhancing satisfaction and loyalty
• From China, I evaluated the priorities of
• Keeps the user in mind through all stages of design
stakeholders on both coasts of the United
while allowing for sound business decisions
States, recognized their unvoiced needs, and
• Looks for continuous ways to improve their
created then streamlined a data transfer
processes as well as their products
process. This decreasing by half the number of
• Believes in their own products
US-to-China conference calls.
Relationships CORPORATE HISTORY
• As an extroverted engineer, I enjoy working with • Harris Corp, Government Communications Systems
people. When Harris’s new product line required • US Department of State
handling the conflicting requests from 7 sub
contractors I was selected as the on-the-ground
representative and successfully negotiated and
won agreement for my optimal architecture.
• I improved first-time installation success rate by
ensuring construction workers at the US
Embassy in Beijing, China grasped critical
features, reducing errors by 30%.