Consulting Services and Design ServicesIdea Generation: Idea Evaluation, Product Requirements, Brainstorm, Product Strategy Product Development: Conceptual Design, Proof-of-Concept Prototypes, Production DrawingsManufacturing Equipment: Equipment Specifications, Proposal Evaluation, Equipment Design and Fabrication Supervision, Equipment Testing Supervisionsharonengineeringanddesign.com

Teaching high school students to love Engineering, Computer-Aided Design and Robotics!

Instructor in Computer Graphics Department teaching SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Revit and Drafting.

Virtual group of over 200 professionals interested in Product Development and Product Lifecycle Management. • Led the development of the PLM Matrix, a collection of tools to improve the product lifecycle management of small, medium and large companies• Led monthly meetings to provide information to the membership on Product Development and PLM.• Represented the Technical Group on strategy meetings within SME

Led a 4-person team responsible for product development of module mounting systems-- Led design and construction of beta-versions of single-axis tracker. Tracker was improvement of 7-year old design with 60% reduction in material cost. Installed 25 MW system to move 100,000 modules. -- Designed low-cost versions of ground mount products at 1/3 reduction in material cost.-- Modified German-designed Ground Mount and sloped-roof systems for US market. Debuted Ground Mount in 10 MW system for LADWP.-- Created a test lab to test system electrical, mechanical and communication components-- Supported system design and projects groups in recommending and evaluating 3rd party mounting systems.

Designers and manufacturers of solar module mounting systems.Responsible for product development processes, new products, product testing, and intellectual property. Hired to improve Product Development processes and increase the number of new products released from one in 2007. Led Product Development department of four with annual budget of $350k.• Released 6 products in 9 months resulting in $2.5M in first-year revenues.• Started Unirac Labs for product testing including industry’s first wind tunnel. Produced 80 test reports in 7 months in support of company’s products vs. 1 in previous year.• Created Portfolio Management system integrating Product Development and Product Management• Worked with UL, NEC, ICC and ASTM to develop standards for PV module mounting and grounding systems.

Largest US manufacturer of photovoltaic crystals, wafers, cells and modules with 400 employees. Responsible for product development, manufacturing equipment engineering and manufacturing process development.• Created layout of 150 MW Module manufacturing line in substantially the same space as the previous 35 MW manufacturing line. Worked with European suppliers to develop the automation equipment.

Largest US manufacturer of photovoltaic crystals, wafers, cells and modules with 400 employees. Responsible for product development, manufacturing equipment engineering and manufacturing process development.• Led international product development team to improve performance of module by 25% over 2 years by step-wise replacement of four major parts of the product.• Led development of new, patentable junction box to meet new international standards and reduce costs by 25% saving $600,000 per year. • Architect and mechanical project engineer of $5M continuous flow, manual and robotic manufacturing process for module lay-up through testing with a capacity of 40/hour.• Reduced lamination defects by 50% over six months working with Quality and Manufacturing.

ISO 9001 manufacturer of air-driven liquid pumps and gas boosters with 250 employees.Hired to start new Systems Group. Led a 5-person team responsible for quotations, designs, project management and contract management of custom and standard systems. • Tightened quotation process for custom and semi-custom systems. Improved quote production from three to six quotes per week and reduced response time from ten to three days.• Standardized Hydraulic Gas Booster Product. Reduced quote time from 8 hours to 2 hours.

Developer of custom automated systems for assembling and manufacturing with 35 employees, $5M in sales. Responsible for mechanical designs and project engineering with a staff of 6 mechanical designers. • Led project team to develop new $1M heat-shrink tubing production line due to high maintenance on existing lines. Delivered a robust system on time with customer ordering 4 additional lines.• Led project teams to develop custom, equipment for semi-automatic manufacturing of 27-piece seat belt retractors and automatic manufacturing of electrical connectors and medical devices.

Manufacturer of electron-beam processors for drying printing inks and cross-linking polymers, 35 employees, $9M in sales. Responsible for product development, mechanical design and project engineering with a staff of 5. Responsible for scheduling 14 people and the company's entire production as Master Scheduler• Developed company’s product development process including successful introduction of first standard product. • Scheduled $9M of semi-custom machines. Increased capacity and shortened delivery time by 25% .