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Conception and direction of R&D projects, in concert with the corporate vision. Site management of De Nora Tech's Fairport Harbor OH building. Corporate governance responsibilities, including Pension Committee, Environmental/Health/Safety Committee, Health Benefits Committee, and Succession Planning Committee. Manage 23 people, $4 million operating budget.

Managed Process Design and Cost Estimation engineering group. Presented customer proposals valued between $3 and $15 million. Resolved customer complaints. Developed next generation product.

Director of Manufacturing and Engineering. Directed Chardon Plant operations and Design Engineering group. Created and executed Manufacturing Plan, including cost reduction targets, lead-time reduction, cost of quality, safety targets.

Management of all production activities, including Manufacturing Engineering and Production Planning. Managed 130 hourly production technicians and 20 Supervisors and support Staff, with associated Budget, cost/schedule/quality, E/H/S responsibilities, including OSHA and EPA inspections. With consultant developed new Work and Wage Plan for hourly employees.

Supervision of 3 Manufacturing Engineers and one Tooling/Fixture Designer. Group issued Routings, Bills of Materials, and Tooling for Chardon Plant production.

Supervised 3 Manufacturing Engineers and one Tooling/Fixture Designer. Issued Routings, Bills of Materials, and Tooling for Chardon Plant production.

Initially worked as member of Engineering group assigned to special manufacturing projects, then as Supervisor of Design Engineering group.

Adapted electrodes developed for fuel cells (Gas Diffusion Electrodes) to energy saving chemistry for chloralkali production. Extended this GDE technology to Aluminum - Air Batteries. Developed new materials for Aluminum Electrowinning technology. Explored opportunities to extend ceramic composite materials in armor, cutting tools, vacuum metallizing.