• Sole executive leader responsible for wholly owned Garmin subsidiary site of 500 employees• Leadership of a vertically integrated business with core departments including product engineering, manufacturing operations, product support, information technology, human resources, and facilities• Responsible for budget planning, resource allocation, and staff management including recruiting, employee engagement, professional leadership development, performance management and salary administration• Continuously balancing priorities to implement strategic vision and maintain operational efficiency• Acquisition, maintenance, and operation of large capital assets including multiple aircraft and a multi-million dollar electronics production facility with two surface mount technology lines• Direct responsibility over R&D engineering driving innovation initiatives and product roadmap planning to maintain and manage a diverse avionics product/system portfolio• Direct responsibility over manufacturing production operations including supply chain activities• Responsible for flight operations, aircraft management, and safety of flight

• Directed a large engineering organization in the planning, definition/design, implementation and production of safety-critical flight systems• Led all innovation initiatives for new product ideas and roadmap feature development across the engineering department• Participated in business development activities• Responsible for multiple department budgets (cost centers and capital expenditures) as well as performance management and salary administration• Responsibilities spanned from systems engineering and software engineering, to operations/process engineering on the manufacturing floor

• Worked directly with systems and software engineering team leaders and mangers to drive key product development across the avionics platforms developed by Garmin AT• Moved the team from a waterfall-based process to an agile process while staying within regulatory requirements for aviation software development• Responsible for budget planning, salary administration and performance management• Led strategic roadmap planning and participated in 3-5 year strategic business planning• Represented Garmin engineering in global dealer meetings held annually in Europe and biannually in Australia• Part of a core team of industry leaders and regulators tasked to develop the federal rules for cyber security protections in general aviation systems• Negotiated key technology/intellectual property contracts with partner companies to bring cutting edge solutions into avionics systems

• Responsible for leading a team that grew to 17 engineers• Primary duties included system architecture design, definition, and certification

• Defined top-level product requirements for new avionics products• Worked as a liaison between design teams (mechanical, electrical, software) to communicate system issues and resolve product conflicts• Served as test engineer for development and FAA certification flight testing• Worked directly with customers to provide engineering support and resolve field issues

• Defined, designed and implemented embedded software solutions• Work included heavy testing and documentation including FAA certification testing• Gained a considerable amount of hardware design experience primarily with FPGAs and VHDL

Services offered include technical project consulting, custom computer software, and professional Web solutions including dynamic and database-driven Web content.• Provided high-quality, professional and affordable computing solutions to customers• Organized business meetings and coordinated schedules with contractors• Managed projects and budget in order to ensure a profit• Provided business coaching for a small startup