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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 providing a low-cost alternative to fish ladders, allowing marginal hydroelectric dams to remain operational.

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 Emerald Biosystems. • 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 $600K per year.

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 assembly future. • 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