Providing leadership and expertise on projects in manufacturing, recycling, solar energy, and transportation.

Facilitating manufacturing flow, minimizing materials expense, leading by-product processing activities, and documenting the way the business works.

Senior Quality Manager (2010 – 2012): International assignment responsible for electronic control system quality at suppliers and customers, wind turbine design quality and design certification documentation at AMSC Austria, power converter manufacturing quality at AMSC China and quality skills training for AMSC globally.Program Manager (2007 – 2010): Successfully managed several complex proposals and projects for the Grid and Wind businesses. Facilitated team project reviews to solve… Show more Senior Quality Manager (2010 – 2012): International assignment responsible for electronic control system quality at suppliers and customers, wind turbine design quality and design certification documentation at AMSC Austria, power converter manufacturing quality at AMSC China and quality skills training for AMSC globally.Program Manager (2007 – 2010): Successfully managed several complex proposals and projects for the Grid and Wind businesses. Facilitated team project reviews to solve project problems and to guarantee project cost, performance and delivery objectives were achieved. Obtained 2 patents in superconducting degaussing technology.Senior Development Engineer (2001 – 2007): Responsible for improving physical yield and electrical performance of HTS wire as well as leading product development. Coordinated mechanical, electrical and programmer resources to upgrade equipment, automated inspection and implemented data acquisition and a manufacturing database. Show less

GENERAL ELECTRIC FOUNDATION, Fairfield, CT 2000 - 2001Program Officer and Comptroller: Corporate assignment for grant making, grant writing and community strategy in GE locations. Responsible for Comptroller oversight of $42MM annual budget. Distributed $4.0MM in Pre-College and $1.7MM in Arts in Education programs nationally. Effectively initiated and completed installation of a grantmaking database on time and on budget.GENERAL ELECTRIC MEDICAL SYSTEMS, Florence, SC… Show more GENERAL ELECTRIC FOUNDATION, Fairfield, CT 2000 - 2001Program Officer and Comptroller: Corporate assignment for grant making, grant writing and community strategy in GE locations. Responsible for Comptroller oversight of $42MM annual budget. Distributed $4.0MM in Pre-College and $1.7MM in Arts in Education programs nationally. Effectively initiated and completed installation of a grantmaking database on time and on budget.GENERAL ELECTRIC MEDICAL SYSTEMS, Florence, SC 1990 - 2000Customer Satisfaction Manager (1998 – 2000): Promoted improvement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) customer satisfaction by increasing product uptime through early identification of failure indicators and immediate field service preventive maintenance, resulting in $4MM annual savings to business and the installed base.Team Leader, Superconducting Components (1997 – 1998): Sustained magnet winding for three shifts; production goals exceeded every quarter by increasing manufacturing efficiency and effectively implemented design, test and delivery of next generation coil winder, resulting in winding error reduction and a decreased winding cycle time of 10%.Senior Materials Engineer (1994 – 1997): Maximized supplier superconductor performance by optimizing wire shape and identifying wire defect sources at a savings of $30,000 per reworked magnet and reduced magnet quenches from ~10 per month to 10 per year as well as envisioned and enacted an initiative to decrease superconductor content in coil windings through design margin minimization, lowering wire cost by 60%, yielding $24MM annual savings.Advanced Project Engineer (1990 – 1994): Developed superconductor wire and magnets for next generation MRI systems with innovative process improvements documented in 9 patents. Show less

Responsible for supplier and process quality of magnetic wire used in security access product. Established major process improvements, increasing wire yield from 40% to 90%.

Superconducting Wire Division: Designed low temperature superconducting (LTS) wire maximizing electrical properties. Contributed to quotation process, proposal writing, technical paper preparation and presentation.

NbTi & Nb3Sn Low temperature superconducting wire process development. Developed prototype manufacturing techniques for LTS wire for Fusion applications. Designed, installed and validated electronic systems for in-process wire quality control.