Teaching a variety of courses in both the undergraduate and graduate program. Specifically ME537 Transition to Production, ME500 Additive manufacturing, and ME358 Manufacturing Systems.

Applying engineering, data, and process analysis to improve product realization, product quality, and production efficiency.

Teaching EM153 - Management of Innovation

• Supporting new hardware startups navigate the transition from prototype through production. Coaching teams in hardware design, quality systems, product development, production systems and cost reduction. • Developing state of the art software tools and methods to systematize, accelerate and risk reduce introduction to manufacturing.• Coaching executives in ramping businesses and implementing the right sized systems to support ongoing production.• Authoring blog and presentation content on a wide range of topics. Regular lecturer at a number of universities, hardware accelerators, symposium, and hardware workshops and meetups.Dragon Innovation works with entrepreneurs to launch hardware products and scale companies. Founded by a team of hardware experts, Dragon provides a clear path from prototype through production with unmatched manufacturing expertise, trusted connections and a manufacturing platform, all optimized for today's hardware. Dragon's customer roster includes Ring, The Coolest Cooler, MakerBot, LIFX, PerkinElmer, Scout, Romotive, Sifteo, Orbotix and hundreds of other companies paving the road for how new technology gets made.

Worked with over 40 companies in a wide variety of industries to:* Design quality management systems to drive significant improvements in product quality and design speed in industries ranging from consumer goods to assisted living facilities to aerospace* Create warranty analysis systems to quickly and accurately identify emerging trends in production quality* Provide in-depth engineering and statistical analysis to identify root causes of quality failures* Drive productivity improvements through both production optimization and quality* Provide training development and train-the-trainer to enable companies to deploy improvements throughout their organizations* Coach and facilitate executive teams in assessing product development and production systems and guide their strategic planning. Analytics is an elite consulting firm that applies advanced quantitative methods to solve challenging operations problems. Analytics produces bottom line results for clients by improving productivity, lowering costs, increasing capacity, and enhancing service levels. Founded in 1994 to help improve industrial competitiveness by implementing operations improvement techniques developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Analytics has grown to serve a wide variety of organizations throughout the world.

* Led research in the area of product development and quality systems; developed the science around designing quality systems in product development and production* Managed yearly $700K research budget and team of 15+ graduate students* Co-PI for the Center for Competitive Product Development. Research projects for LFM, DARPA, Lean Aircraft Initiative, the Center for Competitive Product Development and NSF Career award.* Taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in the core mechanical engineering and product development curricula. Developed graduate courses in product development* Many research partner companies including Boeing, Northrop Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Intel, Chrysler, Xerox, Ford, Kodak, and ITT* 1943 Career Development Assistant Professorship Chair* Ran an industry consortium on quality system design