Accomplished innovation and solutions development executive with over 20 years of progressive experience, including leading global organizations, spanning diverse industries, developing meaningful innovation, new solutions and vitality, driving significant, sustainable, organic and adjacency, business growth.Strategic Leadership - Seasoned executive with key contributions in defining the strategic vision of large and complex organizations. Demonstrated success in operationalizing strategic objectives into action oriented teams, driving measurable results, tied to key business drivers. Solutions and Product Development - Over 20 years of research and development leading large global teams, introducing innovative and customer-focused new solutions and products, in diverse industries that include consumer goods, automotive and industrial segments.Quality / Performance Excellence - Transformational quality and continuous improvement professional with demonstrated success leading global teams to improve internal and supplier product and process quality and productivity through metric-based quality system deployment, lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies. Strong competencies in developing and managing regulatory and compliance systems.Specialties: New Product Portfolio ManagementDesign ThinkingJobs TheoryConsumer ResearchIntellectual Property ManagementWarehouse and Logistics ManagementSix Sigma Black Belt Certification (Motorola)Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)Green Belt Certification (GE Master Black Belt Instructed)Project ManagementLean ManagementValue Analysis/Value EngineeringDesign of Experiments (DOE)Robust DesignFailure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)Agile DevelopmentElectronic Document Control (EDC)Taguchi Statistics.Minitab 15.0SolidWorksPro/EngineerAutoCAD