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Bloomfield, Ct

Glastonbury, Ct

New product and service development, particularly as relates to conceptual designs, prototyping, validation and design for manufacturing. Supply technical direction to the organization for existing product offerings, supply chain, manufacturing and operations. Support to sales and marketing including proposal generation and customer visits.Responsible for sizable reduction in product labor content through application of lean techniques. This included facilitation of Kaizen and Kaishun events aimed at continuous improvement for our design and manufacturing processes. Successfully developed and brought to market a number of new products resulting in record sales for FY12 and FY13. The combination of new product offerings and process improvement insured the success of our leadership team in meeting our stretch goals. Managed Information Technology system improvements to further improve workflow. This included creation of innovative database systems and other custom software tools aimed at reducing overhead labor and maintaining product configuration control.

Glastonbuty, Ct

Responsible for the development of new products in conjunction with Sales, Marketing and Business Development teams. Successfully execute the NPD process while leading Engineering and Operations to develop working prototypes, test and evaluation and product realization plans. Work closely with the President and CEO to evaluate new product opportunities from field representatives, trade shows and market research.

Glastonbury, Ct

Since joining HABCO, Inc in 1989, I have held numerous positions each aimed at continued growth and development of the company. Through the introduction of new technologies and skills, I successfully grew the company from a small manufacturing operation with less than $1M sales to a successful $6M+ technology driven engineering and manufacturing company. Lean Manufacturing techniques along with creative ideas, good customer relations and efficient manufacturing processes helped us to achieve record level profits throughout our growth cycle.Positions held during my tenure included: General Manager Engineering Management Sales Management Quality Control Management Information Technology

New Britain, Ct

Responsible for all technical and administrative operations within department including new product design, software development, R&D and computer aided design.Manage and participate in the design of large capital equipment for the manufacturing industry including machine tool lathes, material and product handling, robotics, process monitoring & measuring equipment. Areas of expertise include Electro-Mechanical design, servo control positioning systems, computer controls, electrical controls and software at the real time and system level.

South Windsor, Ct

Developed analog circuit designs for servo positioning systems used in the plotter and garment industry. Also developed digital control circuitry including Microprocessors and mini computers for control of servo systems. Designed and coded software controls for a number of products.

Mse, Engineering

Bsee / Bscs, Digital / Analog Controls - Real Time Software Systems - Solid State Physics