Sarah Wills Carlsson

Owner of a consulting, coaching, and creative product company. Most of my time is spent in industry, but I develop my creative side by designing products that I sell with the intent of creating jobs and interest in Lysekil, Sweden. I have a trademarked brand, SEW & Knot Co, that offers nautical theme home decorations and accessories. In addition, I sell photographs of Lysekil and my travels around the world, and am working on some other new interesting ideas.

Responsible for function and system engineering development over the three teams of Connected, E/E Body, and Safety.

Organization, talent, product, and project advisor at Connected Car, CEVT.

Chief Engineer Electronic Controls Sweden - responsible for building and growing Electronic Controls (primarily Active Safety) competence in Sweden

Responsible for growing organization in Sweden to develop and support active safety customer projects.

Project Manager for a commercial vehicle infotainment product. Responsible for the hardware portion of the product development process.

On maternity leave with our daughter.

Responsible for revitalizing and updating corporate Software and Systems Colleges, including assisting in the rollout of a new testing system, driving the development of new courses, and securing the update of existing courses. Also participated in the Center of Expertise for Software, driving re-use and common development platforms globally.

Responsible for the business portion of a SAP rollout for four German manufacturing sites, including project management and team leadership.

Loaned to GME as a project management resource to manage the release of navigation radios internal to the customer.

Responsible for the launch of entertainment products (radios and satellite SDAR receivers). GMB Radios required working with a development team in Mexico and Argentina, with manufacturing in a joint venture in Argentina.

Responsible for first shift production for the Audio Mainboard surface mount lines, including UAW personnel management, quality, and production output. Selected to participate in Lean Prep School.

Responsible for the customer interface and activities for the launch of a family of Infotainment products for the new generation SAAB.

Selected as a Delphi fellow to attend Stanford University to study Management Science & Engineering. Coursework concentrations in Global Project Management, Marketing, and Computer Science. Research focus in Global Project Management.

Responsible for systems and software engineering development for multiple projects: BMW concept vehicle software and HMI development Internal high speed data bus specification Japanese DARC radio software development Product development proposals

As part of engineering education program, completed training assignments in the following areas: TALC (Trim Appearance Lighting & Color) Development Hybrid Ignition International Development Powertrain Operations RF/Antenna Development Advanced Entertainment & Communications Development

Marketing Global Project Leadership Human Computer Interaction C/C++/Java Programming

Computer Architecture International Business