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Orlando, Florida, US

Orlando, Florida, US

For over 55 years, MtronPTI has designed and manufactured reliable and precise filters, resonators, oscillators and solutions spanning numerous technologies and topologies. Designed for both extreme Aerospace, Defense, Space and Avionics as well as Commercial requirements, MtronPTI has over 9,500 products spanning frequencies from 32 kHz to 50GHz to solve.

Wilsonville, OR, US

• Directed market research, sales, research and development, and market communications for 14 product lines generating $100M+ annual sales.
• Displaced longtime incumbent supplier and secured $8M order for thermal cameras.
• Determined requirements, led prototype build, and secured $7.2M order within 12 months.
• Entered a new market and launched a new radar resulting in a $2M order in less than 10 months.
• Secured largest radar order in company history ($8.8M) for an Army program.

Wilsonville, OR, US

Full Profit and Loss responsibility for a division that designs, manufactures, sells and services thermal imagers for the security industry. Recruited to turn around the division, change the culture, make it profitable, streamline operations, lead innovation and develop market driven products. We halted a five year decline in profitability and cash flow.

Selected as an elite team member that implemented ERP at all 16 locations throughout North America, reviewing all policies from quote to cash and transforming the company from unique entity silos to a highly integrated, consolidated corporation. Trained all employees on best practices. Selected Business Intelligence software and wrote numerous reports.

Hired as employee number ten at a start up thermal imaging company to transform an infant technology into a mass produced product. Recruited and trained a world-class team that rapidly grew the business from near zero sales to $8 million in two years. Selected the ERP system, installed, trained all employees, loaded all masters and went live in 3 months..

Hillsboro, OR, US

Worldwide P/L responsibility for the design and manufacture of Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) chemical sensors and instruments. Grew revenues 40% while increasing profitability 50%. Reduced product development time 50% by utilizing several rapid prototyping and design for assembly techniques. Entered into a brand labeling agreement, increasing product revenue.

Tampa, FL, US

Worldwide P/L responsibility for a $8.1 million dollar, 74 employee, ISO-9001 certified diverse electronics design and manufacturing business that produced Hall effect sensors, gaussmeters, current, voltage and power sensors. Increased profitability 20% year over year. Entered into international contractual agreements with brand labeled suppliers in.

Tampa, FL, US

Worldwide responsibility for a $3.2 million dollar product line of over 200 active productsIncreased domestic sales 20% and international business 35% each year. Implemented the first ever Current Sensor and Hall effect Sensor catalogs. Directed and implemented a new press release program, resulting in more than 2000 qualified leads. Selected, purchased.

Tampa, FL, US

Received three U.S. Patents for innovative, market leading current sensor designs. Designed twelve new products, increasing revenue 25%.

Bethesda, MD, US

Task leader of a four man design team, completing a $1.2 million automated electro-opto-mechanical test station utilizing IR optics, LASER ranging, FLIR alignment and imaging, gimbaled stages, a VME computer running OS-9 for image processing and a MicroVax computer communicating via IEEE-488 and RS-232 data links to test gear

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Emba, Executive Mba

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