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Dublin, IE

• P&L responsibility for multi-site business unit that designs and manufactures high-speed, automated, food and beverage packaging equipment sold throughout North America.
• Total direct and indirect headcount of +200 including engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, R&D & QA/QC.

Atlanta, GA, US

Leading teams of electrical and mechanical engineers responsible for the design and development of the Freestyle dispenser, used to create 100+ mixtures of Coca-Cola products, with a brand value of over $70B, across an install base of +50K units.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led multi-site engineering department, as a part of a private equity turnaround, responsible for $200M product line of ASME and API heaters, separators and combustors used in the upstream and mid-stream markets
• Merged mechanical and electrical engineering departments from three acquisitions by implementing standardized procedures for drafting, equipment design, product development, and engineering change notices.

Quincy, Illinois, US

• Recruited to lead engineering and operations group with headcount of over 50, including engineering, R&D, machine shop, assembly, supply chain and warehouse, responsible for product development, design and.
• Developed multi-generational product plans and engineering stage gate process resulting in the obsolescence of 6 redundant pump models, 3 new product launches and a realignment of R&D efforts with unmet market needs
• Reduced pump and unit test failures by 40% through root cause analysis resulting in 60% increase in OTD
• Oversaw creation of engineering design practices documenting tribal knowledge for full water jetting product line
• Reduced inventory by 30%, while maintaining service levels, through product standardization, multivariate demand forecasting and systematic reviews of safety stock levels
• Wrote and implemented ISO 9001:2008 procedures for sustaining engineering, product development and internal training leading to ISO certification and compliance

Houston, TX, US

• Built and managed strategic planning, business development, capital budgeting and engineering processes resulting in 9 product launches, 3 software upgrades, a 15% decrease in the time to resolve engineering change.
• Led engineering department of 25 electrical, mechanical and software engineers, managing sustaining engineering, field service and R&D of laboratory instruments used to measure the properties of multi-phase and complex.

• Performed in-depth combustion market analysis and research for early stage, venture capital backed, engineering start-up, to create benchmarks, performance targets and optimize company’s value by appropriately.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Led R&D teams of up to 20 engineers, in multiple geographies, producing advanced coal slurry burners with 1% efficiency increase and doubling in life
• Managed all engineering work on $10M burner product line including 4 new product introductions and $1M requisition projects
• Modified design of $75M Syngas Cooler based on two-phase flow modeling, cutting complexity and cost by $1.3M
• Collaborated with requisition and sales team software users to develop next generation tools for burner sizing, quoting limits and general design, resulting in 80% reduction in design cycle time
• Generated 10 domestic patent applications on gasification burner and boiler design

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Mechanical Engineering

Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Mechanical Engineering Minor In Business

Ba, Physics