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Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Managed global team of automation and equipment engineers to develop and deploy automated systems for vinyl, composite and wood window assembly.
• Created unique robotic approach to SDL sizing and placement for wood window assembly.
• Developed robotic machining cells for composite window fabrication.
• Designed and developed a fill and seal system for argon-filled insulated glass units, featuring just-in-time delivery by AGV to multiple assembly lines.
• Developed an robotic assembly roadmap, with fully defined work cells, for vinyl window production from raw stock to finished goods.

• Managed global team of product managers, product development engineers and sustaining engineers in multi-site company with non-destructive testing products in probes, instruments, software and robotics.
• Revitalized a moribund engineering group, updating CAD platform and design processes to currentbest practice, reducing sustaining engineering content from 50% down to 30% of available resources.
• Integrated product management and engineering teams into coherent whole, revamping stage-gate process to shorten design-to-market lead-times by 50%.
• Spurred novel SaaS/equipment business-model for tank-bottom scanning solution utilizing pulsed eddy-current and submersible rover.
• Created next-generation tube-walking robot capable of reducing inspection times by 30%.
• Prompted development of a hand-held instrument with first-to-market surface-array scanning capability.

• Managed all engineering and operations activities within the fruit harvesting and fish transport sections of the business.
• Created revolutionary salmon cannon for shooting live 20-lb Salmon pneumatically through a tube. The pneumatic transport system used a pressure differential to push the salmon over distances as great as 500 feet.

• Founded a world-class automation company for regional and national clients. Customers included Boeing, Philips Oral Healthcare, Ballard Power Systems, Medtronic, Flextronics, Clarisonic, Blue Heron Biotechnology, and.
• Accountable for P&L, HR, Legal, Sales & Marketing, and all other business functions.
• Reduced machining costs by 30% through vertical integration and a combination of direct-from-solid fabrication, pre-cut materials and strict design-guidelines.
• Developed a fuselage-mounted crawler-robot to apply sealant and install titanium rivets to join major fuselage sections, cutting the required manpower in half.
• Designed lean fuel-cell assembly system which robotically assembled fuel-cell layers, presented the assembled cell to an operator for strapping, reducing floor space and manpower by 80%.
• Created a prototype synthesizer for creating DNA base pairs, increasing synthesis throughput by 400%

• Led the introduction of new products into production, and managed engineering support for all supply chain activities. Provided strategic vision in automation, manufacturing technology, and global supply strategies.
• Managed 45 engineers focused on product design, tooling, automation and manufacturing engineering.
• Led the design, development and production launch of the Elite sonic toothbrush, the first new Sonicare product developed in over nine years.
• Spearheaded the procurement, development and qualification of $8MM in tooling and automation.
• Established a quality improvement program in handle assembly, reducing scrap rates from 40,000 ppm to below 500 ppm, resulting in annual materials savings of $500K and a reduction in field failure costs, estimated at.

• Orchestrated the internal automation development group responsible for capacity expansion and cost savings projects to support the Sonicare factory, convincing executive leadership to drive towards an automated.
• Hired and mentored a group of 25 engineers and technicians to create custom automated-assembly systems within the company.
• Implemented automation systems to attain annualized cost savings of $12MM per year.
• Developed a fully-automated robotic assembly-line for the creation of brush heads, reducing labor costs by 70% and delivering 36 million brush heads to market over the life of the product.
• Created a semi-automatic continuous-flow handle assembly line, which reduced handle assembly labor costs by 40%.

Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering

Masters, Mechanical Engineering

Masters, Manufacturing Systems Engineering