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Led the Boston-based team responsible for operations in North and South America. This included a team of field engineers and project managers responsible for the planning and execution of robotic installations at our customer sites.

Based in Paris, I was responsible for a 40-person global group of Project Managers and Field Engineers across EMEA, APAC, and Americas. With my team we managed and installed upwards of 50 projects concurrently.

Operations leader responsible for the project management, field engineering, and production organizations in the Americas.

Program Manager (Jan. 2014 - April 2016)• Directed the management of concurrent customer implementations of Symbotic’s automated storage and retrieval systems. Frequently reported progress to customers and executive leadership.• Responsible for projects exceeding $100M in annual revenue (and growing).• Individually managed a $15M implementation project for a new customer. This included requirements gathering, costing/budgeting, schedule development, team leadership, oversight of engineering, procurement and installation, and on-site integration. Single point of contact for all customer issues.• Extensive cross-functional leadership experience; adept at teasing out issues before they become problems. Able to communicate with hardware, structural, controls, software, electrical, and applications engineers.Solutions Engineering Manager (Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2014)• Led a team of solutions designers responsible for conceptual design, configuration, and layout.• Developed sizing and costing tools used to transform customer requirements into costed conceptual designs ready for detailed engineering.• Personally worked with 20+ customers during business development phase on hundreds of different solution configurations with constant customer and internal executive communication.• Gathered team input to prepare RFP responses. Presented to customers.Project Manager (at C&S Wholesale Grocers prior to Symbotic acquisition) (Feb. 2009 - Jan. 2011)• Project manager for small R&D team within C&S responsible for technical and financial due diligence of Symbotic (pre-acquisition).• Developed financial analysis of the technology business case, gathering extensive cross-functional input (Operations, Tax, Accounting, Legal, Facilities, Supply Chain, R&D).• Led the customer-side project management for the first Symbotic production installation.

• Managed $200M castings commodity, leading strategies to increase competition in a duopolistic environment and execute low cost sourcing. Strategies included project to tool competitive sources with anticipated NPV of $16M, payback under 2 years and IRR of 72%. Also negotiated 10-year $500+M contract which achieved program targets and provided winning solution for both Pratt & Whitney and our supplier.• Quoted, negotiated and sourced a portfolio of products for a new engine program and subsequently managed cost during product evolution.• Led negotiations for $100M forging commodity, successfully negotiating away $83M increase. Developed business case to execute cost reduction project at supplier with NPV of $0.5M and payback in under one year.• Managed strategic supplier relationship, establishing and executing part family strategy.• Teamed with engineering and suppliers to identify and execute over $250k per year cost reduction on legacy product lines.

Leadership Development Associate – selected for prestigious 18-month rotation programRotation 3: Buyer, International Parts Center • Procured parts from Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the PW2000 and PW4000 programs, routinely exceededing 95% MRP.Rotation 2: Commodity Management• Developed, quoted, and analyzed supplier quotation packages and prepared a comprehensive financial analysis of outsourcing opportunities, leading to $2.5M per year EBIT contribution.Rotation 1: Operations & Continuous Improvement• Led hourly and salary personnel in a developmental operations manufacturing cell, executing operations transformation with focus on quality and process improvement.• Implemented Process Certification (Six Sigma) to improve quality.

• Managed $200M castings commodity, leading strategies to increase competition in a duopolistic environment and execute low cost sourcing. Strategies included project to tool competitive sources with anticipated NPV of $16M, payback under 2 years and IRR of 72%. Also negotiated 10-year $500+M contract which achieved program targets and provided winning solution for both Pratt & Whitney and our supplier.• Quoted, negotiated and sourced a portfolio of products for a new engine program and subsequently managed cost during product evolution.• Led negotiations for $100M forging commodity, successfully negotiating away $83M increase. Developed business case to execute cost reduction project at supplier with NPV of $0.5M and payback in under one year.• Managed strategic supplier relationship, establishing and executing part family strategy.• Teamed with engineering and suppliers to identify and execute over $250k per year cost reduction on legacy product lines.

• Performed systems analysis of gas-turbine engines from preliminary design to production.• Increased engine life to 10,000 cycles from 1,500 cycles by developing stochastic modeling tools.

Validation Team Leader, Airplane Creation Process Strategy (1999-2000)• Led 15-member team of experts to develop program plan for multi-million dollar program.• Identified 50% cost and 40% cycle time reductions using cutting-edge program management tool.Specialist Engineer, Test Integration (1997-1999)• Identified and promoted opportunities for test optimization, reduced cycle time, and lower cost. Routinely identified savings of $5,000 - $50,000.• Member of cross-functional team that certified derivative engine with challenging engineering changes. Certification saved multi-million dollar redesign costs and boosted customer satisfaction.