Keith Buckley
About Keith Buckley
Innovative Automotive Engineer with a specialty in Tire Performance and Tire/Vehicle Interaction. Strong strategic thinker and team builder. Desire to use real world Product performance data to improve future products, reduce costs, improve financial performance and increase customer repurchase intent. Areas of Expertise * Managing and Mentoring Field Technical Engineers * Deploying Field Engineering Resources based on sound Business Criteria across business units * Customer/Consumer Relations * Passenger & Light Truck Tire Development * Passenger & Light Truck Tire Testing * Passenger and Light Truck Tire Product Performance * Tire/Vehicle Interaction * Automotive Engineering * Consumer Tire Marketing Experience Goodyear Tire & Rubber CO. Nov 1998 to present Customer/Account Engineer Senior Provided Engineering Support to Sales and Marketing teams to develop desirable, cost efficient, trouble free products to delight our customers. Responsible for support of existing product lines and development of new tire lines for Mass Merchants. • Provided opportunity for sales growth through identifying optimum new tire sizes for expansion of existing lines/platforms. • Managed development of products (tires) which were upgraded and could be repositioned for higher volume and profit. • Acted as Technical liaison to internal and external customers. • Coordinated responses to customers pertaining to Quality Issues of existing products. • Assured new product selections were aligned with corporate strategies and available plant resources.