• Identify opportunities for company's growth and sustainability by setting department goals and objectives. Mentor, guide and support department directors and managers to be successful in their roles. • Lead business development efforts by developing new customer relationships and expanding product offerings and capabilities which will create value for customers.• Developed cost effective processes for cost prohibitive product lines to convert them to commercially feasible products.• Grew fuel additive business by 168% and engineering service business by 824% (by revenue) over first 2 yrs in position.• Developed and registered fuel additive products (both gasoline and diesel) with the US EPA for the North American market.

• Oversee Production, Prototype, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Supply Chain operations for the company. Develop and/or improve department and operational processes to optimize resource utilization and increase productivity. • Developed a new inventory and bill of material database system and re-establish cost of goods sold (COGS) for new business structure to better analyze gross margin, ultimately to increase profit for business.

• Manage production and prototype department for the company leading teams of salaried and hourly employees. Manage overall production activity and prototype department projects to achieve goals set for profitability and growth.• Work with R&D engineers and scientists to develop preliminary engineering processes for technologies and products for scale up and manufacturability.• Create Bill of Material, calculate Cost of Goods Sold, and propose preliminary price estimates in response to customer RFQs for prototype and production samples.

• Establish and manage R&D’s coating department, responsible for fabrication of all research and customer ordered parts ensuring all safety, quality, productivity and delivery goals are met.• Develop and support the launch of new products, defining initial product concept and demonstrating product feasibility and capability with customers. • Designed and implemented new operational process and system resulting in increased annual sample throughput by 329% while reducing labor cost by 62% per lot built.

• Lead a multi-disciplinary customer focused NPI (New Product Introduction) team to scale up and launch 17 different OEM automotive catalyst products over 2 production lines. • Reduced cost and time to scale up a product by ~75% on average while achieving lowest scrap rate at production launch (same scrap rate as on-going production). • Championed use of Statistical Design of Experiment in continuous improvement projects to drive down cost in production.

• Research and develop automotive catalyst products and processing technologies. • Developed process and product which resulted in 50% increase in production capacity while maintaining company's core technology within the product resulting in equivalent, if not better, product performance.

• Manage customer focused R&D team to develop cost effective gasoline catalyst product for European OEM customers. Train and lead incoming technicians and engineers to strengthen R&D resource base.• Developed first European product for the company resulting in ~$50MM in revenue over 3 year program cycle.

• Manage automotive gasoline catalyst development projects for global market (North America, Europe, and Japan). • Member of multidisciplinary customer team which managed the start to end of product life cycle.• Co-developed and assisted in scale up and launch of first North American gasoline product for the company resulting in ~$200MM+ total revenue for the company over multiple 3-5 year program cycles.

• Design, fabricate and test automotive gasoline and diesel flow through ceramic and metallic catalysts for both OEM and aftermarket customers• Created laboratory documentation system for sample preparation

• Produce radioactive sources and calibration standards for nuclear and medical industry.