Systems Design Engineer known for product and process innovations and getting difficult jobs done. Experience with multiple start-ups. Creates solutions individually and in teams, and improves operating efficiency to increase profits. Experience in scaling up manufacturing operations in Eastern Europe and India. Expertise in a variety of fields: systems engineering, lean product development, mechanical engineering, optics, and the development of highly regulated products. Inventor on 7 patents and 4 records of invention (trade secrets). Co-author on 2 technical papers.• Led the technical development and systems engineering for a Class III Medical Device redesign.• Led a strategic redesign of United Technologies' most popular video camera with lean product development techniques. Worked with manufacturing, customer service, and marketing to reduce costs >33% by using requirements management, design reviews and DFMA methods.• Designed the optics and image processing algorithms for an award winning digital video system for the Airbus A350 taxi cameras, enabling >$50M in sales.• Turned around a magnetic head manufacturing operation in Bulgaria – cleared a 9 month order backlog in 8 weeks and ramped up manufacturing capability, growing both revenue and income.• Directed and transferred scientific research from the University of California, San Diego to 3M/Imation, producing optical equipment used to test tape quality on all Imation magnetic tape products. • Led breakthroughs that helped transform scientific research of perpendicular magnetic recording into a working data storage product, 20 years before eventual commercialization. • Led the redesign of a LIDAR system powered by a diode pumped solid state (DPSS) Fiber laser.

• Created Class III medical device requirements- VOC to component level in Cognition Cockpit• Instituted UDI Direct Marking on reusable tools• Led creation and validation of cleaning and sterilization instructions• Helped lead Human Factors testing • Lead System Designer for two product renewal projects • Worked with Marketing, Regulatory, Clinical Affairs, R&D, Quality, and Operations to complete preliminary design phase deliverables. • Consulted on Systems Engineering Methods.

• Optics and video consulting expert for start-up of India manufacturing and design operations.• Invented an LED Infrared illuminator and a video interface detection circuit to simplify the product strategy of a surveillance video camera- 9 part numbers replace 27. Two patents issued.• Conducted architecture trade studies and developed lens, imager and camera assembly test methods for the A350 taxi cameras. Analyzed and optimized the image pipeline. The project won a Goodrich Team Technical Achievement award. • Used Design for Reliability principles and Verification and Validation testing to develop an external aircraft video camera. The project won a Boeing Team Excellence Award. • Analyzed and modeled system relationships, developed the architecture and led the design of a laser radar surveillance system. Developed customer specifications, CTQs and product specifications. Conducted design trade studies. 2 US patents issued and 2 patents pending.

• Led a cross-functional engineering team to transform scientific research into a proprietary production tester projected to reduce scrap by $20M/year. Led the development team. Produced 4 invention records (protected as trade secrets). • Presented project status reports to management and Seagate stakeholders. • Received management achievement bonus and two leadership awards.

• Turned around a magnetic head manufacturing operation in Bulgaria – cleared a 9 month order backlog in 8 weeks. Improved cooperation between cross-functional teams in the US and Bulgaria. Wrote weekly status reports read by the Division VP, Division President and Group President. • Led the transfer of 20 products plus production equipment, processes and tooling to Bulgaria.• Led a 1300% increase in production of check reader heads, within 6 weeks, with no loss in quality.• Led manufacturing and operations process innovations to eliminate stoppages due to part shortages.• Led shipping process innovations- cut costs by 50% between the US and Bulgaria.• Predicted a falloff in factory workload, and coordinated with management and marketing to fill the gap.

• Designed a 3 wavelength Optical Interferometer for head-media interface testing in collaboration with PhD students at the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego. 2 journal articles published. • Led a cross-functional team to create a proprietary opto-mechanical machine for a new assembly process resulting in sub-micron precision, very high quality and high throughput to enable >$2M in sales. Received Merit Award.• Invented a Split Image Video Microscope for calibrating production equipment, enabling > $2M in sales.• Invented the head/media interface for a proprietary magnetic tape storage product. 2 patents issued.• Verified a disk cartridge design by designing a computer controlled 3 axis cycler with 3 sensor data acquisition. Designed the mechanics, electronics and wrote the control and data acquisition software.

VTC was a Integrated Circuit manufacturing start-upPackaging engineer, manager of the packaging department and manufacturing engineer in charge of wafer dicing and 2nd optical inspection.

Vertimag was a perpendicular magnetic recording start-up that transformed research into a working perpendicular data storage system 20 years before eventual commercialization.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording· Responsible for all mechanical engineering and the machine shop· Grew the department from 1 to 15 people.· Developed heat removal technique for sputter coating, allowing dramatically higher sputter rates. Patent issued· Made technical presentations for potential joint venture partners, investors and the board of directors.