Ark Angel Flood Protection is a start-up focused on helping homeowners protect their homes from future floods. We've developed a full home flood protection system that can protect a home up to a 3 foot flood depth, requires minimal effort to deploy prior to a flood, doesn't detract from a home's aesthetics, meets all regulatory requirements, and is available at a reasonable cost. We also work closely with the Flood Defense Group, which offers a complete line of flood protection products for the residential, commercial and municipal markets.

The Flood Defense Group is a provider of flood defense barriers and flood defense solutions for private and governmental organizations throughout North America. Flood Defense Group understands that there is no ‘best’ solution when it comes to flood defense barriers because no two floods are exactly alike. With the largest selection of proven flood defense barriers in North America, we're able to provide each of our customers the best overall solution to meet their flood protection needs.

Co-Founder and Member of Executive Leadership Team tasked by Private Equity Sponsor CSL Capital Management with starting up and building a de novo midstream chemical Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) company, Optum Energy Solutions (OES). OES was sold by CSL to the largest global DRA supplier, LiquidPower Specialty Products Inc (a Berkshire Hathaway company), 3 years from initial start-up date, culminating a highly successful effort.

Leader of a team of technical service and product development professionals. Responsible for developing and executing the technical and commercial development plan to improve the profitability of Polyethylene and Polypropylene business by creating, capturing and maintaining value through the:• Timely delivery of new product/commercial development opportunities • Develop the segment strategy and technical service support strategy in support of the PE and PP business plans.• Create a targeted service offering that delivers value to strategic accounts while maintaining non-strategic accounts.

Achieved progressively increasing levels of responsibility and decision-making authority in the oilfield chemicals division (FLO® Drag Reducing Agent business unit). Drag reducers are ultra-high molecular weight PE additives used in crude, aqueous and refined fuels pipelines, to allow for increased throughput and/or reduced power costs. Oversaw all sales support functions ($2MM budget, 10-12 people), comprising the new product development, product management, and equipment production areas. • Responded to customer quality concerns by launching an initiative to generate “no harms” information for FLO® additives, when used in crude oil and refined products. Summary rolled out to Sales and presented at several external industry and customer meetings, leading to improved external technical credibility and product development efforts. • Performed market segmentation and competitive analysis, to clarify market needs and trends. Results used to justify the development and commercialization of three new products. On-going sales of $15MM/yr. • Drove team execution in developing a product with a 15% lower cost and equal performance to incumbent, which was no longer competitive in high volume/low margin accounts. Positive profit impact of $600k/yr since commercialization ($6MM/yr revenue).• Led effort to determine best plan to minimize impact of an uncompetitive product family, involving $4MM of existing inventory and $2.5MM/yr of fixed costs. Recommendations allowed for recovery and sale of 60% of the inventory, along with new product development and pricing strategies to minimize the fixed cost impact.

Entrusted with oversight of the product line, including economic analysis of business performance, product cost reduction, pricing recommendations, and technical sales support. Implemented several changes to improve business operational efficiency, including: a new project management process; quarterly business updates for the sales support (off-site) personnel; weekly teleconferences including manufacturing, sales, technical support, and customer service; monthly meetings for the business unit leadership team.  Analyzed product costing models to identify potential savings. Determined that changes were justified, gained agreement from the appropriate functions to make these changes. Total savings to the business of $700k/year. Wrote and/or coordinated the generation of product line marketing materials, including Technical Bulletins, Case Histories, Product Data Sheets, and website content.

In addition to product line responsibilities, managed the Equipment Group ($1MM/yr budget), responsible for equipment production, maintenance, development, and technical support.  Evaluated whether outsourcing equipment activities made business sense. Decided to outsource certain jobs, while maintaining internal capability for the more specialized, differentiating work. Result was an increased capability and improved customer service, at no additional cost. Led effort to develop a new injection pump skid design to allow for conversion of an underutilized, fully depreciated skid into a high demand skid. Capital savings of roughly $600k/year were realized.

Led global teams of 5-15 people on Six Sigma product/process development projects of 6-18 month durations. Project sizes typically generated greater than $500k/year revenue. Certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt team leader.

Conducted and supervised research directed at identifying market gaps and opportunities, developing differentiated polyolefin products with improved properties and higher margin opportunities.

Responsible for polyolefin catalyst research and development, commercialization, and process support for Dow’s manufacturing plants.