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Vista, CA, US

I provide on-site, hybrid, and remote consulting and training to organizations and individuals seeking to establish best practices and improve performance implementing the Quality, Reliability, Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, and Risk Management bodies of knowledge into their business practices.

I built strong quality, reliability, test, and failure analysis teams and locked in structured and effective processes that significantly increased product quality and yield, enabling year-over-year growth, market share capture, and increased profitability while accelerating product launch by leveraging best practices throughout the product development.

Louisville, Colorado, US

I mentored a strong team in reliability and risk management for a start up company revolutionizing Green Hydrogen production to achieve lower total cost of supply while achieving the high reliability necessary to provide dependable delivery to a range of industries and applications.

I built high performing global Quality, Reliability, Test, Design Assurance, and Risk Management teams, locking in more effective approaches based on real world use cases and workflows and leveraging existing resources, recruiting additional talent, and developing much more capable product development teams to update current products and develop next.

Niles, IL, US

I implemented reliability and test best practices and upgraded lab capabilities to improve current products and increase the pace of product development and launch for professional and consumer class audio products and systems.

Tinley Park, Illinois, US

I built an effective global Reliability and Compliance program consisting of reliability, quality, compliance, design, and manufacturing engineers and technicians to design for product and process reliability and quality and quickly resolve issues resulting in accelerating product launch of communications and network infrastructure solutions with near zero.

I built the Reliability program and served as Six Sigma Master Black Belt, teaching product development teams to design for and deliver quality and reliability resulting in significantly reduced field failure rate and regaining customer confidence. I leveraged the reliability program with critical chain project management, guiding the way to launching.

I built Gilman’s Reliability & Maintainability program to deliver best in class OEE and become the first machinery supplier to achieve ISO 9001/QS 9000 Tooling & Equipment Supplement certification, achieving preferred supplier status, and generating $60M in additional orders.

Dallas, TX, US

I led the Quality and Reliability assurance and supplier development effort for high-end professional class DLP (Digital Light Processing) based projectors, gaining majority market share in a tough market with entrenched competitors.

I became a subject matter expert in quality, reliability, maintainability, and supportability. I improved test methods for complex composite structures, eliminating $2M in false rejects. I led the Specialty Engineering Team (Reliability, Maintainability, Parts Control, Logistics) to deliver F-16 upgrades to European Air Forces providing performance better.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management And International Business