Allison R. Toler
Chief Engineering Officer, Industrial equipment
Boise, ID · (208) 555 0121 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/allisonrtoler
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Twenty three years in mechanical product engineering, the last seven on the executive team
INDUSTRIES
Industrial equipment, agricultural machinery, contract manufacturing
SPECIALTIES
Enterprise engineering strategy, product safety governance, engineering capital planning, technology roadmap
SYSTEMS
SolidWorks, Creo, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Jira, Power BI
CREDENTIALS
Professional Engineer licensed in Idaho and Oregon, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration, Boise State University, and Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering, University of Idaho
Executive Summary
Chief engineering officer for a four hundred million dollar industrial equipment manufacturer, sitting on the executive team and accountable to the board for the whole engineering function across five plants. Twenty three years in the field, still licensed, and still the person who signs off when a product safety question reaches the top of the company.
Signature Achievements
- Took the enterprise engineering function from five disconnected plant groups to one organization of one hundred forty engineers on a shared standard.
- Cut development time on new equipment platforms from twenty six months to fifteen by putting a stage review discipline behind every program.
- Chaired the product safety board through two voluntary field corrections, both closed with no injury reported and no regulatory action.
- Directed a warranty reduction program that lowered claims cost from three point one percent of revenue to one point four percent over four years.
- Presented the engineering technology roadmap to the board of directors each year and secured a doubling of the engineering capital budget.
- Built the engineering leadership bench so that four of five plant engineering managers were promoted from inside the company.
Professional Experience
Chief Engineering Officer
Snake River Industrial Systems, Boise, ID 2019 to present
Executive team member for a manufacturer of material handling and agricultural equipment with five plants and one hundred forty engineers.
- Set engineering strategy and the multiyear technology roadmap and defend both with the chief executive officer and the board.
- Own product safety governance across the enterprise, including the field action decision and the standards it rests on.
- Control the engineering operating and capital budget of thirty eight million dollars a year.
- Chair the design standards council that holds all five plants to one set of drawing, material and testing practices.
- Represent the company in industry standards work with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Vice President of Engineering
Cascade Forge Manufacturing, Nampa, ID 2013 to 2019
Engineering and product development for a forged components business of six hundred people.
- Ran product engineering, test and drafting for two product lines sold to original equipment customers.
- Introduced computational analysis into the design flow and reduced physical prototype builds by half.
- Rebuilt the supplier engineering process after two quality escapes reached a major customer.
- Grew the engineering group from nineteen to forty two people through a period of rapid demand.
Engineering Manager
Teton Machine Works, Idaho Falls, ID 2006 to 2013
Design and application engineering team of eleven serving regional agricultural customers.
- Managed design engineers through the full cycle from customer specification to production release.
- Introduced the first formal design review gate the company had used.
Licensure and Certification
Professional Engineer, Idaho Board of Licensure of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors, license number 14082
Professional Engineer, Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying, license number 89311
Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering examination through the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
Education
Master of Business Administration, Boise State University, 2012
Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering, University of Idaho, 2003
Core Skills
Engineering strategy · Product safety governance · Technology roadmapping · Capital planning · Standards development · Executive reporting · Organizational design · Supplier engineering · Talent development · Design review discipline