PROFESSIONAL CV

NHAN TRAN

MBA | BScEng | PMP | Six Sigma Master Black Belt

HEAD OF ENGINEERING & PRODUCT

Atlant 3D Nanosystems

Denmark 🇩🇰 | 2023 - Current

Reporting to the CEO, I am an architect of the growth strategy for product innovation, development, commercialization, and manufacturing for this Series A startup, with a mission to revolutionize atomic-era manufacturing.

GLOBAL HEAD OF NPI & MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

Formlabs

USA 🇺🇸 | 2022-2023

Reporting to the COO, I developed and scaled up new product introduction (NPI), program management, and manufacturing capabilities and capacities across NA, EMEA, and APAC regions to help a 3D-printer OEM grow market share and achieve profitability in its high-volume operation.

STRATEGIC BUSINESS SEGMENT HEAD

Resonetics

USA 🇺🇸 | 2020 - 2022

Reporting to the COO, I was responsible for the general management of a $30M automated solutions (capital equipment) business vertical that specialized in the design, build, and service of automated multi-physics micro-manufacturing systems for life sciences and MedTech applications. I steered factory automation technology, ERP/MRP/MES integration, Operational/Enterprise Excellence, NPI, IQ/OQ/PQ standardization across 15 global MedTech sites in NA, EMEA, and LATAM regions.

Transformed a fragmented team into a high-performance team, resulting in the achievement of 60% year on year growth, within 6 months of employment, by crafting governance, methods, and tools for product innovation and product development.

DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS & ENGINEERING

Albany Engineered Composites

USA 🇺🇸 | 2018 - 2020

Reporting to the Group President I was responsible for the general management (with full P&L) of a new high-tech plant for the design, development, and manufacturing of mission-critical aircraft engine 3D woven carbon fiber injection-molded composites components, with contract value of $500M; Transformed 20,000 sq. ft. development cell into 80,000 sq. ft. full rate production facility within first 1 year via brownfield expansion.

Exceeded all safety, quality, and financial KPI's of annual operating plan and secured strategic 5-year plan for double-digit growth with an authentic, engaging, and people-first leadership philosophy; achieved 100% on-time-delivery & 99% yield.

HEAD OF GLOBAL ENGINEERING

Albany Engineered Composites

USA 🇺🇸 + France 🇫🇷 + Mexico 🇲🇽 | 2015 - 2018

Reporting the SVP/General Manager, I was responsible for the technology portfolio, new product introduction, and manufacturing systems by shaping and scaling up a responsive, multi-disciplinary engineering center of excellence across 3 textile-weaving & closed-molding manufacturing centers in United States, France, and Mexico.

Harmonized KPI, NPI process, and teams of mechanical, electrical, design, process, configuration, manufacturing, and software engineers across cultures and locations. Secured industry & regulatory certification for sites.

HEAD OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, CERTIFICATION, AND TEST

Spirit Aerosystems (formerly Boeing)

France 🇫🇷 + USA 🇺🇸 | 2012 - 2015

As a leader in the Chief Technology Office, I led a corporate multi-disciplinary team of senior scientists & engineers to provide corporate-level steering of R&D, standards, product testing, certification, and regulatory compliance for 4 business markets (Airbus Commercial, Boeing Commmerical, Business Jets, and Defense) of $6.5 billion combined revenue. Also served as a senior customer-facing expat in France to streamline the design, development, analysis, and fabrication of a $20M aircraft product.

Designed, built, aligned a multi-national, multi-nodal (across 9 cities in 5 countries), multi-disciplinary product development team from the ground up to peak size of 140.

INTEGRATED PRODUCT TEAM LEADER

Pratt & Whitney

USA | 2010 - 2011

Provided technical expertise guidance and managed the activities of 15-20 engineers (domestic and international) in providing design & analysis, build & test support for fighter jet propulsion systems development during low-rate initial production (LRIP) phase.

Mitigated a business threat by reduced design verification and validation lead time from 1 year to 6 weeks and developing full-scale engine shake rig testing as an in-house core competency within 6 months of employment at a new company and industry.

INTEGRATED PRODUCT TEAM LEADER

Siemens

2001 - 2009

Drove the completion of market-timing-critical design initiatives to offer customers greater engine operational flexibility, lower product life-cycle costs, improve design robustness, extend product lifetime, and ensure technology readiness and differentiation in the gas turbine marketplace.

Contributed to long-term bottom-line growth and scrap reduction by pioneering data science and analytics methods for product reliability assessment, failure & hazard forecasting, and risk modeling.

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