Founder and CEO of Zutto LLC (DBA: Zutto Fire), a company that assembles and sells propane inserts for wood fire pits.

• Light and photograph products for a variety of industries.• Create extreme detailed macro photos using focus-stacking techniques.• Perform commissioned photoshoot for various catalogs.• Generate photography and travel content for online audience.

• Taught tiny house construction and minimalist lifestyle workshops.• Performed photoshoots for various assignments including events and sales.

• Co-created the Tiny House Giant Journey project promoting intentional minimalist lifestyle ideals and worldwide traveling.• Generated all media content (photography, photo editing and videography) for the project.• Generated travel related content for online audience, print and online publications.• Acted on several tiny house related TV shows.

• Created, implemented, updated and maintained processes, procedures, work instructions, forms and performance indicators for the Customer Support Group (CSG) responsible for accessory development from initial design to production.• Assisted Engineering, Quality Assurance, Marketing, Purchasing, Product Planning departments on the implementation and use of such systems and tools.• Promoted continuous improvement through performance measurements and work culture.• Managed non-conformances from their occurrence to their disposition working closely with other departments.• Created and managed systems to monitor and improve supplier performance.• Improved the customer return system and worked with IT to redesign its reporting system.• Reported monthly on various Quality Assurance performance indicators including customer returns, sample submissions and supplier performance.

• Successfully designed, implemented and managed an ISO 9001 system from scratch to certification (completed on schedule).• Created all the processes, procedures, forms and instructions required by the standard.

• Developed monitoring systems to gather competitor’s technical and financial indicators using websites, forums, press-releases and trade journals as sources.• Studied financial impact of in-house manufacturing versus outsourcing for specific processes.

• Developed manufacturing, assembly, packaging and machining procedures and reported directly to the Engineering Manager.