A versatile engineering leader offers extensive experience in leading research and development, product design and manufacturing, and quality engineering for a range of industries, specializing in telecommunications, computer, and defense sectors. Collaborates with internal and external partners to drive global procurement, marketing support, and quality assurance while managing product production in Europe and global engineering teams working on advanced products and next-generation network division of Fortune 500 operations. Implements innovative solutions that improve efficiency, generate significant and sustainable savings, and open new business/revenue growth opportunities.SELECT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:• Reduced antenna development design cycle to support customers 4G/LT rollout, positioning the company as well as the customer to be first in the market; increased production volumes from 2,000 antennas per month to 5,000+ antennas per month, facilitating CommScope’s largest quarterly revenues in more than three years. • Directed dozens of engineers in the US, China, Australia, and Italy, working to improve process efficiency, eliminate redundancies, and create significant and sustainable cost savings for a $2B business.• Investigated, selected, secured capital authorization and procured 3D printers for US, China and Australian design centers to expedite CommScope’s prototyping process; adoption of 3D printing in the design process eliminated prototype tooling iteration time and cost, trimming the process by 8 to 16 weeks while earning full ROI in 6 months. • Named on more than 35 US and European patents or patent-pending applications; highlights include patents for Low Profile Connector System for Providing Multiple Drives on a Card, Phase Shifter Design Improvements, Dual Band Base Station Antenna, and Multi-Beam Antenna with Modular Lunberg Lens.