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Reno, Nevada, US

• Power-Sonic, Inc. is a world leader in the sale of lead acid and lithium batteries for industrial and commercial applications. Responsible for driving growth through new product introduction, marketing, strategic.
• Lead the transition of Power Sonic as the market leader in lead acid batteries to a market leader in lithium batteries. Launched five new product platforms increasing the lithium product offering from 3 batteries to.
• Increase Power Sonic internet marketing presence, as measured by traffic, tenfold to over a million visitor annually through the website redesign, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of all pages and educational blogs.
• Developed Power-Sonic’s ecommerce channel utilizing an in-house website, a network of partners and traditional ecommerce platforms.
• Developed several business processes to support new product introduction including a stage gate development process, engineering change process and supplier qualification reducing time to market from years to months.
• Develop a sales and operational planning process based on a custom forecast method to optimize inventory and improve cash flow. Develop purchasing tools to streamline the purchasing process.

• Consultant helping customers achieve aggressive profit, operational and engineering improvement by developing custom analytics, strategies and training on the application of best practices. Key Accomplishments
• Develop strategies and software tools to drive improvement in price management, sales forecasting, operational planning and supply chain logistics. Results included an annualized profit improvement more than $2M and a.
• Application of Design Failure modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Fish bone diagrams and Design of Experiments (DOE) to reduce high warranty failure rates.
• Expert witness on intellectual property matters.

Birmingham, GB

• Chief Operations Officer for a $30M company with 140 team members designing and manufacturing pumps, valves and syringes for global life science OEMs. Functional responsibility including human resources, operations.
• Transformed the company culture from family business to international corporation while increasing operating profit from 21.6% to 25.9%.
• Established key customer relationships resulting in long term agreements valued at over $20M to deliver 5% growth reversing four years of declining revenues.
• Implemented lean best practice improving on time delivery from 70% to over 98%, increasing inventory turns from 4 to 8 and reducing average daily past due backlog for $300k to zero.

Birmingham, GB

• Marketing and Engineering executive responsible for Norgren America’s product management, marketing and pricing. Managed all site engineering activities and provided engineering and process mentorship to sites.
• Improved custom engineering opportunity assessment, forecasting, and sales processes resulting in $43.5M increase new opportunities, $16M in new product sales and $1.9M in cost reduction projects
• Developed pricing tools and strategy for Norgren Americas that increased annual price gain from 1-2% to greater than 4% generating $10M annual profit

Birmingham, GB

• Led Norgren’s new product introduction team consisting of technical and marketing directors from the United States, Germany, China, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Founded and chaired the intellectual property.
• Developed a global product management and development system to standardize, measure and optimize the activities of 400 engineers at 11 technical centers in 6 countries. Increased the new products as a % of sales from.
• Increased capabilities in the Norgren engineering community through the targeted rollout of training on the principles of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Design of.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Led engineering research efforts to advance state-of-the art of Coriolis technology and directed product marketing efforts to define and maintain Coriolis sensor product roadmaps. Managed all product development and.
• Decreased the time-to-market for new product development from 36 months to 18 months using advanced engineering analytical tools and an APQP based new product development system. Released five new or redesigned.

Research engineer responsible for supporting the redesign of the space shuttle rocket boosters through the use of finite element analysis. Accomplishments include validating the analytical techniques used in the redesign of the failed o-ring joint of the Callenger.