I interact daily with senior manufacturing leaders who need to do more with less to be successful. Invent Automation designs and builds efficient work centers, machine vision systems and leading-edge automation solutions to meet their strategic objectives. With a seasoned team of amazing engineers, we invent and solve complex manufacturing problems to make others successful.

Umbra Cuscinetti, Inc. is a leading provider of ballscrews, repair station services and flight critical components to the Aerospace industry. My role is to help lead the North American group through a period of rapid expansion and growth, while maintaining our world class quality and service.

Perceptics is a high-end, imaging technology company.Drove 25% growth in only two years.Retained by CEO to reinvigorate revenue growth, expand customer base, upgrade personnel and establish clearly defined goals and processes.• Executive Leadership: Built consensus with Board and other senior management around need to shift from solutions-based to product-focused company. Developed a strong, well-organized sales team; increased sales in non-core accounts 350%; brought a market and sales perspective to a formerly engineering-only outlook. Forged new and profitable domestic and global strategic partnerships.• Market Growth:Increased leads 400% and generated a $XXM pipeline in less than one year by repositioning products and penetrating new markets; revamped messaging and guided company to the leadership position industry wide.• Joint Ventures & Strategic Partnerships:Advocated for new Middle East joint venture and grew commercial safety vehicle enforcement market from zero to fastest growing market by partnering with top five players. Led effort to establish larger strategic partners in Mexico; established relationship with Mexican military and police leaders that produced $XM in bookings in 2012.Head of Business Development, Perceptics Machine Vision Division (09/10 – 09/11) Challenged with leading business development for new medical device packaging equipment line that had been faltering for two years. After comprehensive analysis, determined product was not viable. Made case for business discontinuance, saving company $XM.

Chief Executive Officer (02/04 – 08/10) | Vice President of Operations (02/02 – 01/04)Delivered 30% growth YOY for seven consecutive via careful planning and strong execution.Reinvigorated 20-year-old aerospace parts manufacturing company by transforming processes, staff and management to focus on more profitable gearbox assemblies, aircraft spare parts (PMA) and flight critical maintenance, repair and overhaul contracts. Launched new business diversification strategy and championed a culture of continuous improvement in response to market feedback and a need to differentiate companies products, services and client experience.• To broaden appeal of parts facility to high end market, applied expert manufacturing knowledge of aerospace parts, transforming it into a full service gearbox design, PMA manufacturer and MRO operation.• Improved both quality and profitability as reputation skyrocketed, successfully increasing backlog from $1M to $14M and revenue from $3M/year to $10M/year.• Distinguished company from competition and increased customer base by adding seven new manufacturing processes, creating an FAA-certified repair station, and instilling principles of 5S; gained reputation for being one of the premier facilities in the industry.• Increased revenues 500% by attaining AS9100 and FAA Part 121 repair station certificates; attracted major clients, including Boeing, Rolls Royce, Bell Helicopter, and Lockheed.

Semi-conductor material handling equipment manufacturer.Championed innovative product development to facilitate company’s sale, multiplying proceeds.Operations Manager (06/99 – 01/02)Grew bottom-line by delivering higher levels of quality, cost control, and operating efficiency for complex, high-part-count, electro-mechanical products. Responsible for materials, production, assembly and tests.• Product Development: Collaborated with marketing and leveraged design engineering expertise and knowledge of manufacturing processes to streamline and reduce time to commercialization. • Divestiture: Facilitated transfer of intellectual property upon firm’s sale. Pivotal original design constituted primary reason for company’s 2001 acquisition by Hover-Davis.Design Engineer (06/97 – 06/99) Converted concepts into products by designing and creating hundreds of assembly drawings, component drawings and electrical diagrams to support manufacturing.