Engineering Manager

Engineering & Production

§   Expanded responsibilities to include management of the Road bike engineering team (R&D and production)
§   Recruited internally to help improve morale, R&D, and overall productivity
§   Work closely with business counterparts to plan and execute $300M road product portfolio
§   Responsible for managing resources to meet project parameters on-time and on-budget
§   Manage engineering resources in US and Asia offices and coordinate with shared engineering groups
§   Responsible for overseeing engineering efforts at our suppliers

Lead a centralized group of specialists seen as technical thought leaders within Trek - driving R&D, advancing
Trek's engineering capabilities, and generating unique insights that fuel industry leading products
§   Responsibilities include structural analysis, aerodynamics, biomechanics, data analysis, advanced
experimentation, human factors, and ride testing
§   Created business justification and executed plan to grow structural analysis team and simulations capabilities
to support all business units to improve on-time delivery of products by reducing rounds of testing
§   Grew Ride Testing to support all business units by creating a more efficient process and spearheading an in-
house ride testing software that improved tracking and reporting
§   Actively connect with different product category teams and international design teams to provide simulation
and analysis capabilities, facilitate knowledge sharing and increase efficiency
§   Internal Great Places to Work team score of 92, highest among engineering teams and 10 points higher than
company average

§   Conducted structural analysis to support design development, both conceptual and detailed design
§   Project lead for test plan; managed testing budget and schedule, wrote test plans, coordinated with inter-
departmental test engineers and lab technicians

Airframe Stress Analyst

§   Hands-on engineering in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
§   Built a cost vs. performance model to determine feasibility and ROI for various turbine configurations
§   Conducted structural analysis and created design loads document to support drawing release during
development
§   Led effort for structural testing of full-scale, 16' tall prototype, fully strain gaged and instrumented prototype
turbine

Stress Analysis Engineer

§   Designed and tested operating room booms, Class I medical devices
§   Technical project lead for international product development, facilitated collaboration and resolved conflicts
between international sales divisions and internal development teams
§   Managed international product releases, compliance, and product field actions
§   Awarded quarterly quality award by senior staff; shortest tenured awardee; first awardee in R&D in 4 years

Mechanical Design Engineer

§   Simulation engineer on the FORMOTION footwear engineering team
§   Generated solutions to open-ended problems using testing and computer simulations
§   Developed novel FEA foot-shoe interaction simulation using Abaqus to inform future product development
§   Recognized as outstanding postgrad engineer; recommended for future employment through "Bounce Back"
program

Postgraduate Placement Engineer

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Zach Butler: Engineering Manager in Madison, WI

Zach Butler

University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma