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Jon M. Quigley Jon M. Quigley, PMP CTFL, is a principal and founding member of Value Transformation, a product development training and cost improvement organization established in 2009. He has nearly three decades of product development and manufacturing experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software through verification and project management. Jon has won awards such as the Volvo-3P Technical Award in 2005 and the 2006 Volvo Technology Award. He has secured seven US patents and a number of international patents. These patents range from human machine interfaces to telemetry systems and drivers aides. Jon is on the Western Carolina University Masters of Project Management Advisory Board as well as Forsyth Technical Community College Advisory Board. He has also been a guest lecturer on Project Management at Wake Forest University’s Charlotte NC campus and teaches Project Management classes at City University of Seattle via distance learning. Jon also is an expert at ITMPI (IT Metrics and Productivity Institute), is part of the Pm2Go experts (The Standish Group), has given webinars at The Project Management Institute and has spoken before PMI Chapters across North Carolina and parts of Virginia. Jon has membership in ASQ, SAE, AIAG and PMI (holding Project Management Professional Certification). Jon also has the CTFL certification from ISTQB. He has authored, co-authored and contributed to a list of books and publications, including the SAE book Project Management for Automotive Engineers: A Field Guide. Jon has an Engineering Degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and two Master’s Degrees from City University of Seattle. Raj P. Ranganathan Dr. Raj Ranganathan is well known for his expertise in heat transfer. Prior to his current position, he was a Director at CD-Adapco. In addition, Dr. Ranganathan worked for General Motors and Caterpillar in the U.S. primarily in gasoline and diesel engines. He received GM’s highest award for innovation, the 2007 Boss Kettering Award. He has been associated with SAE since 1989 and received the Forest McFarland Award in 2006. Raj has co-authored over 40 papers, patents, patents pending and proprietary research reports. Dr. Ranganathan received both a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in the area of heat transfer from Purdue University. Scott Ranville Scott Ranville graduated from the University of Michigan with a Masters in Electrical Engineering – Control Systems. Mr. Ranville started his career in Ford Research working with tool vendors to help create many of the state-of-the-art tools that now dominate the market for using Simulink for embedded software development. Mr. Ranville then moved on to running his own consulting business for 13 years, working with both automotive and aerospace companies. His specialties include topics such as modeling style guides and automated enforcement, automated test vector generation, MIL testing, automatic code generation,
model coverage, and creating custom automation tools. Mr. Ranville has passed the TUV Nord test to be a Functional Safety Certified Automotive Engineer. Sam Reddy Dr. Reddy is an independent consultant specializing in fuel vaporization and evaporative emission control. Sam retired from General Motors R&D Center in 2009. Since 1983, he has acquiredexperience in fuels and fuel vapor emission control research and development. He holds twenty-eight U.S. patents and has authored twelve SAE papers in the same field. Dr. Reddy obtained his B.S. CHE from Osmania University in India, M.S. CHE from UCLA, and Ph.D. CHE from the University of Michigan and is a licensed engineer in the state of Michigan. Tom Reinhart Thomas Reinhart is a Program Manager for NVH in the Engine, Emissions, and Vehicle Research division of Southwest Research Institute. Previous roles include Senior Manager for NVH at Visteon Chassis Systems, where Mr. Reinhart was responsible for the NVH analysis and development of axles, driveshafts, and power steering systems. From 2001 to 2004, he was NVH Program Manager at Roush Industries, Inc. where he was responsible for NVH testing and development of diesel and gasoline engines, as well as transmissions, axles and accessories. Diesel fuel system noise was a special focus of this work. Prior to Roush, he was Director of Noise & Vibration Technology at Cummins, Inc. Mr. Reinhart has been involved in solving noise and vibration issues in engines, as well as in a wide variety of engine applications, including pickup trucks, heavy duty trucks, construction equipment, and marine. Mr. Reinhart has developed noise reduction features for diesel engines, four of which have been patented. He has published 15 technical papers on Powertrain NVH topics. Mr. Reinhart received his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He also spent a year studying automotive engineering at the Technical University of Hannover, Germany. His master’s thesis focused on the application of acoustic intensity measurements to diesel engines. Michael Riley Michael D. Riley received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering Technology from Indiana State University in 1994. He is currently the Chief Engineer over embedded software, datalinks and software tools at LHP Engineering Solutions in the Software Solutions division, overseeing multiple software projects. His area of expertise is in datalinks communi- cations, focusing mainly on CAN protocols. He has led projects developing smart actuators for variable geometry engine turbos, exhaust after-treatment systems, telematics systems, battery management systems, CAN gateways, software engineering tools and service tools, among many others over his 22-year career.
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