Bio(s)
- Miller is an executive with more than 30 years experience in the automotive industry with American Motors, Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, Ford and MSX International. He also founded a management consulting company dedicated to product development leadership in 2003.
His extensive leadership experience includes product development positions at MSX International, Ford Motor Company and DaimlerChrysler, where he spent the majority of his career.
At DaimlerChrysler, he was vice president of the Large Car Platform Team during the 1990s, leading the team in the development of numerous automobiles that received many industry awards including the J. D. Power and Associates IQS best-in-class awards for initial quality, the first ever for Chrysler Corporation.
Miller later joined Ford Motor Company where he assisted the global product development leadership team in the transformation to a new operating model for product development. He also ran the global engineering operations for MSX International, an engineering services and consulting company servicing the automotive industry in North America, Europe, Brazil and the Far East.
He was recently technical advisor to the Master of Science in Product Development Program at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he also taught courses at the graduate level in Product Creation and Product Development Process Management. He also taught Lean Product Development workshops through the Center for Professional Development at the University of Michigan. He is currently an advisory board member of the Lean Learning Institute at Oakland University, the Broad Executive Forum at Michigan State University and the Strategy Research Institute, an organization dedicated to research in product development practices.
Miller received his undergraduate degree from Western Michigan University and his MBA from Michigan State University.
February 24, 2007