Site Operations Lead for defense based optical coating business unit. Multi-site Company Lead for quality and continuous improvement.

Leader of Operations team including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, and Quality Assurance. Execution strategy focuses on increasing quality while implementing lean, six sigma, and other efficiency methods to continuously decrease cycle time and maximize flexible operations.

Leader of lean business operations strategy for procurement and manufacturing of precision machined parts, assemblies, and systems supplying the needs of the web handling industry for components, spare parts, and automated machinery. Functional areas include Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Repair, and Quality Engineering coordinated through globally located manufacturing facilities, suppliers, and partners. Advanced Operations business model changes using lean techniques and continuous improvement to create a sustained favorable cash flow position while increasing production capacity on a global basis. Operations direction through a flexible resource model that is dynamic according to market needs and segment growth changes.

On a personal sabbatical to complete a patent, a predictive analytics application for business that integrated techniques of; nonlinear dynamic phase space analysis, web analytics, adaptive resonance theory, and statistical forecasting. The results identified the broadband cause-and-effect variable influences through automated coding, autonomous data gathering, mathematical modeling, graphics representation, and time series handling that isolated specific innovative business opportunities

Leadership Experience: Efficient and flexible Operations Production of high precision gas and ambient air monitoring instruments & systems used in industry for regulatory, safety, envronmental, hospital, medical, biopharm, and process control applications. Influence corporate leadership on strategy, investment, and business unit direction.Leader of Operations business unit that included functional areas of Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance, Production, Shipping & Receiving, Inventory, and Facilities. Continually exceeded Operating Plan goals in measures of safety, productivity, quality, and on time delivery within an ISO9000 2008 workplace that also had compliance requirements within TUV, UL, CE, CSA, and ITAR. Business analysis actions included Operations and Sales Management (OSM), Sales & Operations Planning (SOP), Materials Replenishment Forecasting, Kanban Analysis, R&O Advisement, Total Cost of Ownership Modeling, and Department P&L Management. Typical hands-on project leadership involved integration of product acquisitions, New Product/Technology Introductions (NPI), Lean Strategy Implementation, Production Transfers, and Facilities/Equipment Investment.Customers were in the manufacturing, life science, industrial, power generation, mining, medical, regulatory agency, Homeland Defense, and scientific research areas.

Leadership Experience: Operations Production of Mass Flow Controllers, high vacuum Pressure Transducers, and FTIR-based gas detection instruments for semiconductor, biopharm, medical, and other high precision manufacturing processes. Influence corporate leadership on Operations and Engineering investment.MKS Instruments Technical Experience included but not limited to:Hands On: Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly business metrics analysis & executive reporting, Production Process design, capacity planning, Takt, Production & materials forecasting, Six Sigma analysis (e.g. gage R&R, FMEA, Design of Experiments, CpK, process variation, etc.), kanban, flow cell design, Design for X (DFX), Corporate (VP, President) & Division (GM, VP) Engineering ReportingManagement: Multi-facility resources & equipment, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, QA, Production, Machine Shop, Test, Shipping/Receiving, Inventory (e.g. DOS, E&O, scrap, MRB, etc.), Green Belt Team program planning, Operations/Facility/Capital budgeting, Technology Transfer (acquisition & low cost region), business unit restructuring, Corporate (VP, President) & Division (GM, VP) Business ReportingCustomers were in the semiconductor manufacturing, chemical processing, medical/pharmaceutical, regulatory agency, and scientific research areas.

Leadership Experience: Design of Mechanical & Electromechanical Packaging and Operations Production of linear synchronous motor systems solutions for high precision positioning, automated plant logistics, and material handling applications.MagneMotion Technical Experience included but not limited to:Hands On: Mechanical & Electro-Mechanical Design and Production ramp, Supply Chain Sourcing, Manufacturing process development, ERP, CAD, Geometric Tolerancing, materials selection, Supplier Selection, Contact Order fulfillment, hiring resources, procuring equipment, DFMManagement: Supplier tooling methodology, Production methodology, Operations budgeting, Material budgeting, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Machine Shop, Production (DL & IDL), Shipping/Receiving, Mechanical Engineering, Procurement, capacity planning, Inventory planning, International Strategic Partner teaming (design, sales, distribution)Customers were in the manufacturing, logistics/warehouse distribution, material handling, U.S. Navy, NASA, and scientific research areas.

Leadership Experience: New Product Engineering Design, Development, Budgeting, Project Management, and Production of Mechanical and Electromechanical mixed signal semiconductor instrument test system platforms used for automated testing of Wafers and Packaged ICs.Teradyne Technical Experience included but not limited to:Hands On: Systems Manufacturing Process design, Production Cell Design, Material Replenishment & logistics, Systems Product Design (Mechanical & Electro-Mechanical), New Products Supply Chain Sourcing, Materials analysis/selection, Packaging Analysis & Design (e.g. resonant frequency, shock, etc.), CAD (Intergraph, SolidWorks), FEA (Cosmos), Design for Manufacturability (DFM), ERP, Geometric Tolerancing, BOM development, Margin development, Trade Show & User Group presentationManagement: Broad Band Systems Platform/Project Development, Total Quality Management (TQM) Planning, Voice-of-the-Customer survey/meeting, House of Quality Analysis/action, New Product development strategy, Operations & Engineering (cross functional) New Product Release, hiring resources, Procuring equipment, NRE & Tooling decision-makingCustomers were in the semiconductor manufacturing, U.S. Air Force, and scientific research areas.

Leadership Experience: Design, implementation, and management of high speed, automated metal stamping, swaging, deep draw, feeding, and welding operations, including tooling and systems development for the production of component parts primarily for the automotive industry.TRW Technical Experience included but not limited to:Hands On: Mechanical Automation Design, Feed Systems, Tool & Die, Automotive Quality Compliance, CAD, CAM, Taguchi Methods, Capital Equipment development costing/ROI analysisManagement: Project Management (new product & manufacturing equipment releases), Engineering developmentCustomers were in the automotive manufacturing, fastening manufacturing, law enforcement, and engineering areas.