Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division ----- World-class lean manufacturer of engine fuel, thermal and lubrication management components and systems for gas turbines found in aerospace, defense, and power generation applications.

Senior Consultant. with full operational and P&L responsibility for consulting firm providing product, market, and business development services to clients in the advanced energy and environmental monitoring and control business sectors.Selected highlights: Start-up Consultant and LEED Commissioning Agent for an established building automation controls client to launch a new service business to commission and qualify HVAC, mechanical, electrical, and control systems for LEED (green building) certification. • Achieved LEED Gold certification for their first client as the first LEED Gold building in Northeast Ohio.Interim CEO and Director, Business Development (contract executive) to restructure a 30-year old instruments company product line around their new patent for a polymer-based MEMS sensor for environmental monitoring and control. • Led new product development, established new manufacturing partnerships with two silicon chip foundries and one device packaging foundry. • Formed strategic partnership with Tier 2 automotive sensors manufacturer to co-develop combustion air quality sensor module for off-road and heavy-duty diesel engine markets. • Negotiated investment funding agreement with leading HVAC controls customer to establish initial automated sensor testing capability for product development and production.Program Manager and Product Development Leader for a small west coast instrument manufacturer. • Led their engineering team to develop electronics, hardware, and software for an air monitoring flight instrument designed to MIL and aerospace standards for a DoD UAV application.

Echogen Power Systems (Akron, OH) designs and supplies thermal engines that recover and repurpose usable (waste) and renewable heat into electricity, reducing grid demand for large power consumers. Unlike water/steam or organic Rankine technologies, Echogen utilizes supercritical CO2 in a modified Rankine Cycle.Project manager for systems engineering and business development manager. Worked closely with Echogen’s customers to develop waste heat to power solutions tailored to their specific needs. In 2008, led the engineering team that designed and built Echogen’s first system, a 5 kW prototype, which reduced to practice the CO2-based power cycle that is the Company’s core technology. Also led the design and fabrication activities for Echogen’s 15 kW engineering prototype system, provided engineering support for the 250 kWe demonstration system and EPS100, 8 MWe, system development. Directed the design and commissioning of the Echogen Engineering Laboratory which is used to support new product development and customer applications.

Early-stage start-up; European (Swiss) manufacturer of silicon-based metal oxide chemical sensors and sensing modules for consumer, automotive, industrial and medical applications worldwide.General Manager with President’s responsibilities for P & L. Directed sales, marketing, applications engineering and design-in support for micro-machined chemical sensors and associated OEM sensing electronics for the Americas. • One of four consultants recruited by Motorola to start up the Motorola spinout company, MicroChemical Systems SA (MiCS) in 1998. • Co-founded and started up US company to service North, South and Central America in 1999. • Established joint development programs for OEM sensing modules with international home appliance manufacturer and two automotive Tier 1 manufacturers. • Led joint Swiss and US engineering team to develop company's first sensors module within three months. • MiCS acquired by e2v Technologies GmbH (Chemlsford Essex UK) in 2007.

Worldwide manufacturer of test & measurement instruments and systems for production testing and characterization of semiconductors, electronic components, and advanced engineering materials.Business Development Manager, Sensor Systems (1993 – 1998)Co-founded the Keithley Chemical Measurements Business Unit, 1993 with shared P & L responsibilities. • Provided leadership for product, market, and new business development of gas detection products for life safety applications. • Managed product engineering, technology alliances with sensor development partners, beta site and sales channel development. • Directed rapid development of automated test stands for chemical microsensors characterization. • Developed markets using QFD techniques and extensive customer contact. International business management experience (W. Europe and Japan). • Business unit acquired by Matheson Tri-Gas in 1999.Engineering Manager, Systems Division (1986 – 1993)Engineering and management leadership for Parametric Test Systems product development and support used for semiconductor production testing. • Technical operations and systems configuration control management, and manufacturing engineering liaison. • Project management utilizing multi-disciplinary teams, product line strategic planning, systems engineering, and mechanical engineering design/support. • Special projects manager for the design, development and on-time delivery of an extended-configuration test system for IBM-France which was the largest single systems order in the division’s history. • Established product development and management practices that expedited introduction of 80 new model-based instrumentation products over a six-year time period. • In-house consultant for technology evaluation and investment diligence for the Keithley Quantox wafer tester business unit; a joint IBM / Keithley effort in 1993. • Business unit acquired by KLA Tencor in 1998.

NASA and DoD contract technology development, design, and testing of systems for regenerative life support, environmental control, regenerative fuel cell power systems, and chemical warfare agent removal for spacecraft and military vehicles.Technical, managerial and marketing leadership for Vapor Compression Distillation Subsystem (VCDS) development programs to reclaim potable water from wastewater sources onboard NASA spacecraft; contract P & L responsibility. • Continued as a retained technical and business development consultant (through Primedyne Systems) from 1986 to 1993. • Managed technology development programs with on-time delivery to NASA Johnson, NASA Marshall Space Centers, and Boeing Aerospace •. Led program liaison and new business development at four NASA centers and with prime contractor, Boeing • Prepared and presented technical, managerial, cost proposals and program plans. Hands-on technical direction for systems design, test stands, instrumentation and trade studies. • Guided VCD technology programs through a critical development phase improving subsystem reliability with a 300% increase in water production rate which later positioned VCDS as the preferred selection over competing technologies for installation on the International Space Station in late 2009.

Technical Director (1981 – 1983)NASA Lewis Structural Dynamics Lab. • Developed and managed annual plan, budget and lab improvements. • Supervised shock and vibration certification testing of experimental high-speed rotating equipment and space-rated components. • Defined design changes to improve tested articles. • Established field testing service for vibrations troubleshooting, fault diagnostics, and analysis of research turbines and compressors using spectral and modal analysis.Project Engineer (1978 – 1983)Project engineering design, development, and fabrication of aerospace hardware, systems, and controls for NASA Lewis research customers. • Performed and supervised engineering tasks for stress, heat transfer, fluid flow, vibration, fatigue, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and safety / reliability.