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Company brands include: PLAYABILITY TOYS, focused on development, sales and distribution of braille activity books and toys for the blind. and NURTURE SMART™ brand of developmental toys for babies... Designed for Hospitals, Loved by Parents.After serving the board for some time, I assumed the company leadership role to build team performance, improve product, enhance customer satisfaction elevate unit sales, revenue and profitability. Efforts are focused on premium brand development, increased web visibility, social media and operational improvements

Re-inventing the toothbrush with advanced bristle technology• Managed lean team for product development, engineering, quality systems, manufacturing, validation, sales, marketing • Awarded 3 issued international patents and developed multiple dental products Product design is now production-ready.

Focused on business and corporate development for start-up and early stage companies, my contributions include business plan development, general management, strategic direction, revenue growth, advisory board formation, and fund raising through angel investor network, private equity and venture capital sources. Always looking for great ideas and companies in which to invest.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Westfall Technik is a fast-growing, dynamic, vertically integrated plastics manufacturing company. The Director of Program Management is responsible to ensure excellence in execution of all new customer programs across the corporation. Ensure resource coverage, oversee program managers to assist the sales team in the business award process. Develop customer proposals and manage tooling, automation and manufacturing programs to achieve budgeted costs, within the required timing and in accordance with all technical specifications.

Plastic Injection Molding Contract Manufacturer• Co-founder responsible for sales, business development, product engineering, account management, program management• With 2 partners created a lean, cost-effective, high-quality plastics contract-manufacturing operation• Grew to over $10 million annual revenue: pharmaceutical, bio-medical, consumer goods, electronic devices• Team & employee development; excellent employee retention• Company was acquired by Westfall Technik, a private equity funded company in 2017• Corporate Director of program management over 18 international manufacturing entities (2019 – 2020)

Producers of organic fertilizers and ionic minerals for nutritional and consmetic products• Established international customer relations with Coca Cola & Minute Maid citrus growers • Achieved FDA GRAS certification for nutritional organic ionic trace minerals • Elevated market standing & sales growth of ionic minerals for cosmetics (Bare Minerals) and nutritional products• Improved inventory management system and quality systems for lean operations and profitability• Re-structured debt for cost savings and financial asset protection

Bioscience Inventors of “Instantaneous Microbial Detection”• Employee development and recruitment for advanced optics / electronic scientific instruments• Inspired team development for advanced product engineering, quality management and manufacturing • Established business and partner relations with Homeland Security and international pharmaceutical manufacturers• Awarded 33 international issued patents• Fund raises from angel investors, private equity and venture capital partners Sold Company to Yamatake Corporation of Japan (now Azbil)

Injection molded plastics contract manufacturer• Full P&L control of 50K sq factory, 126 employees.• Re-focused target markets from industrial to consumer products, consumer health care & medical device• 75% increase in revenue from approx $12 million to $21 million over 2 years.• Awarded long term contract with Pfizer Consumer Healthcare - $6.5M first-year plus multi-million dollar annual, as a direct result of new design engineering service offering. • 123% improvement in EBITDA from $2.4 million to $5.3 million• Optimized production quality and profitability with the implementation of Six Sigma methodologies

$32M Optics & Photonics technology developer / manufacturer comprised of 4 international operating subsidiaries (optical thin film coatings, polymer optics, glass optical pre-forms, and precision encoders) with more than 300 employees serving consumer electronics and commercial markets globally. • P&L management, develop global customer base, and provide direction for 6 international facilities operating in the US, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea. Profit Enhancements:• 121% revenue increase from $14.5M to $32M within 2 years.• $16.9M in additional revenues generated by spearheading development of plastic lenses for web cam and mobile phone camera products.• Negotiated and secured $1.1M contract with Intel.• Initiated merger of Donnelly Optics Corp. and Applied Imaging Inc. • 30% improved gross margins achieved by elevating optical thin film coating yields from 74% to 96% through targeted process improvements, expert operational restructuring and procedural enhancements. • Established a technical support office in Taipei, Taiwan as well as an assembly platform in Suzhou, China.• Foresaw potential of camera integration into cell phones and initiated development of the organization's first customized lenses for cell phones, preparing company for market boom.

Manufacturer of automotive components and precision plastic optics. • Employee and team development to grow / secure new business, advanced quality planning, product design• Led international cross-functional teams of engineers, program & account managers in North America, Europe and Asia • Manage cost, timing and technical integrity of all products under development through vehicle product launch • Provided account support and quality assurance throughout product life• Grew revenue and profitability from $94.6M at -10% pre-tax to $235M at +11% pre-tax annually• 1998 – 1999 Assumed additional responsibilities as CEO of Donnelly, Optics (Tucson, Arizona) • Orchestrated company merger with Applied Image Group

• Led and managed start-up and expansion of the North American division of Valeo Lighting• Managed ex-patriot and domestic team of engineers and administrators, inspired to achieve excellence• Generated over $110 Million annual revenue in 4 years • Implemented rigorous international engineering & program management process to meet cost, timing and technical targets.• Successfully established a North American state-of-the-art manufacturing operation for high volume production.• Initiated corporate merger with Sylvania Composite Lighting

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Administration