Co-founder and part owner of Working Draft Beer Company, a brewpub in Madison Wisconsin. At Working Draft we embrace our homebrewing roots to create a large variety of beers from ones loaded with hop flavor and aroma, beers aged in sour and spirit barrels, and beers that are crisp and satisfying.

Lead sales strategy development and execution for growing nanolaminated metals company. Manage and grow sales team, develop and implement appropriate commercial methodology to align with targeted industries and applications, and lead internal cross functional commercial. Identify, prioritize, and develop new opportunities for strategic products and technology.

Provide strategic marketing analysis, insight, and recommendations as a strategy development and execution team member for the Engineered Materials Business. The Engineered Materials Business focuses on specialty products, primarily for the electronics, healthcare and lighting markets. Directly accountable for cross market technology growth, strategic price analysis and management, and short term innovation growth strategies.

Lead high priority innovation programs, consisting of cross functional teams, to develop and globally commercialize novel materials in high growth industries. Develop and execute of all aspects of commercialization strategy and accountable for financial results.Analyze, and execute business development strategies for products in early development in a variety of industries using market analysis, technology assessment, and financial modeling.

Led global cross-functional entrepreneurial teams within the Incubator to commercialize new silicone materials. Made investment recommendations to Incubator Board after performing financial, marketing, strategic analysis and coordinated technical analysis.

Analyzed business case and developed go-to-market strategy for a new silicone technology improving recyclability of various paper products.

Led cross-divisional team to consolidate disparate data management systems among different development centers, and migrate over 10 years of engineering dataManaged several projects to automate engineering approvals, documentation management, and test requests using product lifecycle management (PLM) softwareImplemented a common engineering approval process at 5 development centers by leading extensive end-user training

Improved testing efficiency through enhanced time management, facility improvement, and continued investment into advanced data acquisition systems.Improved the engineering approval processes through organized training and ad-hoc issue resolutionParticipated in cross-divisional project to standardize product lifecycle management practices and software among 5 engineering centers

Managed investment of over $50,000 into advanced data acquisition software and hardware over a 3 year periodAssisted in development of a formal approval process for over 3,000 new parts per year affecting 4 boat brandsTrained over 100 employees in the engineering approval processes