Achievements:• Lead 2 - 3 direct reports through the entire product development lifecycle that averages 12- 24 months.• Manage product teams of 8 - 10 cross-functional professionals with ownership of budgets of $2 - $3 million primarily supporting new product development while also facilitating enhancements of existing products.• Serve as the technical expert on new product design and product enhancements including risk and statistical analysis in existing markets and emerging regions.• Select, develop, and manage 1 – 10 suppliers in product development projects based on specific project needs. • Create, analyze, and manage the technology roadmap including resource allocation to execute strategies while ensuring that R&D activities remain aligned with business needs as well as timeline requirements.Responsibilities:• Provide technical leadership in all aspects of the development, testing, and enhancement of products.• Develop product performance requirements as well as assembly and component specifications including applicable standards or regulations in the US and across the world. • Influence up and across the matrixed organization to maintain buy-in for product development initiatives. • Communicate with and direct external suppliers of components, materials, and subassemblies.• Identify, test, and implement goals and objectives by providing technical expertise. • Design products, assess materials, test, verify, and validate products while balancing leadership duties.

Achievements:• Led 1 – 2 direct reports (engineers) while balancing multiple medical product development projects.• Manage cross-functional teams of up to 10 people in the development or enhancement of medical products. • Partnered with 3 – 4 suppliers on each product to produce current products by realigning the supply change to prevent disruption in the materials while also ensuring that the proper procedure (SNC) was followed.• Championed new medical products while serving as the primary technical expert on multiple initiatives.• Balanced development of multiple experimental processes while designing and validating test methods to expedite new product release in the hospital and home use settings that minimized supply chain disruption.Responsibilities:• Served as the technical expert in the assigned medical products including mechanical design and evaluation.• Designed, tested, and improved current or new medical products including change control management.• Lead and produced quality assurance documentation including product specifications, BOMs, quality inspection documents, and procedures (SOPs) for several medical products. • Assisted in design reviews, analysis, project definition, and budget estimating.

Achievements:• Worked on cross-functional product teams in the development or enhancement of multiple medical products.• Interfaced with production teams at a manufacturing plant on 3 different product lines to find improvements in the product design, production processes, and minimize supply chain disruptions. • Applied excellent communication skills to produce legacy/design input traceability documentation. Responsibilities:• Understood the business and technical environments and assisted the teams in addressing complex challenges with technical solutions by assessing cost, alternatives, and prototypes.• Provided consulting and engineering support to manufacturing for emerging technologies and products.• Applied deep technical knowledge and strong leadership skills to drive innovation or effective enhancement.

• Associate Engineer responsible for all tasks involved in aluminum can design and manufacturing.• Responsible for tool design through AutoCAD / Inventor and all manufacturing process and quality control.• Produced new can lines and programs to improve cost and quality.

• Mechanical Engineering internship while working at a Maquiladora. Three manufacturing divisions of Standex are all located at the factory. Process and Quality engineering projects were completed for each business unit.• Worked with factory workers and managers on correcting manufacturing processes in a diverse and international atmosphere.