Looking for new opportunities to solve problems! 17 years experience leading and mentoring operations and R&D teams in a broad range of engineering and management disciplines including Reliability, Quality, Manufacturing and Product Engineering for various opto-electronic systems OEMs spanning Telecom, Datacom, Commercial Lasers and Life Science Instruments. Broad and deep experience in;- Technical program, project, product and operations management. - Implementation and improvement of Quality Management Systems.- New Product Introduction and gated Product Life Management processes- Best practices in the areas of lean manufacturing, production and field KPI definitions & tracking, process development, documentation and control, experimental and analytic methods, reliability modeling, statistical and root-cause analyses and DfX.- Able to quickly understand and communicate complex ideas across all levels of an organization.- A track record of managing large and small teams of direct and indirect reports to hit aggressive milestones, reduce costs, improve throughput and drive down failure rates. - A strong communicator with vigilance in data-based critical thinking seeking to empower teams to success.