Engineering manager with substantial experience in team-based product development. Experience in Design for Six Sigma (highly effective with statistical techniques, DOE, and overall methodology of designing systems comprised of multiple components), change management, and project management (PMI certified PMP).Development experience in stents, delivery systems, balloon catheters, drug-coated products, CTO products, vascular access, TAVR, and Mitral.Experience in innovation (56 patents and more than 90 published applications) covering the technologies of catheters, stents, guide wires, stent delivery systems, biodegradable coatings, drug-elution, electro-active polymers, biodegradable implants, and optimized material properties.Specialties: Design of Experiments, Voice of Customer (how to conduct and how to translate to product requirements), leading on cross-functional teams, Brainstorming (TRIZ, DeBono), Test Method Development, decision-making (utilizing Kepner-Tregoe or similar tools), complaint analysis (statistical techniques and root cause analysis), and commercializing technologies post-acquisition. Management coaching focus on presentation skills, communication, change management, culture differences, and a healthy dose of social psychology.