Twenty-six years experience in engineering, project and business management, specializing in composite materials, product development, tooling design, production line setup, intellectual property, and product life cycle management (from concept through commercialization). Sixteen years experience as a successful lead engineer or engineering manager for large-scale medical device companies. 7 years experience as a successful business manager for a wholly owned North American subsidiary of a European medical device company. 3 years lead college instructor for Composites Manufacturing Technology and CATIA V5-R21. Awarded, as inventor, seven US design patents. Specialties: International design and fabrication sourcing, composite materials design and fabrication, injection molding, rapid prototyping, rapid injection molding, compression molding, electronic packaging, structural design and analysis, solid mechanics.