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San Jose, Ca, Us

San Leandro, California, Us

Strategic advisor for volume production outsourcing, supply chain, and logistics for Vantage's UAV systems.

Los Altos, California, Us

Proper technology is the servant of visions. Somehow society has it backward today. Navitent, or “Navigational Content,” serves a highly effective, no-required IT cloud platform for visionaries, influencers, caregivers, trainers, and front-line subject matter experts to design and deploy step-by-step change models as powerful impact agents for growth, improvement, achievement, and social good. The delivery, management, accountability, and collaboration of human change provide objective oversight and drive high reliability in triumph through continuous process improvement in any mission.Because inspired visions and intentions die on platforms not up to the task, we are on a mission to make actual, systemic, impactful change reality and eliminate the costs and IT barriers to implementation. We act both as a powerful business utility and as a community to achieve socially beneficial goals. We remove the unintended consequences, disparate impact, or bias arising from any social media profit model.Our “servant” IT approach provides barrier-free growth, collaboration, scale with DeeperIntel™ user intelligence to power your vision, fuel improvement and take care of the IT.We give users a place to grow and an opportunity to achieve without limits. They follow the collective knowledge of front-line experts without personal data compromise, fillers, or paywalls. Our pre-launch provided 50,000 live use cases of growth made possible through our dedicated, navigational system for life, wherewith augmented feedback, functional support, and accountability that keeps them on their path to achieve their professional, personal, or spiritual goals. Whatever your goal or vision is, Navitent is your ‘GPS for Change.’See our and public/private vision for high reliability in the public trust and stay up to date with our mission. Be part of our world-changing social impact platform providing hope for real improvement in the human condition.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Now part of Stryker, Vocera is the leading SaaS platform for healthcare clinical communication and workflow, simplifying and improving the lives of healthcare professionals and patients while enabling hospitals to enhance the quality of care and operational efficiency.Senior Vice President Operations ◆ Revenue $220M+ ◆ 800+ person public company, acquired by Stryker in February, 2022, for $3BAs the senior Operations executive, I led a 25+ Team with $81M P&L leading to revenue growth, multiple new product launches enabled by process optimization.► Reduced production costs by 25% and reached 17K-unit monthly volume.► Increased production 15x and capacity 20x. Diversified Vocera’s footprint to 5 warehouses worldwide.► Implemented e-commerce webstore, data systems, and KPI metrics for planning/forecasting, production line statistical process control (SPC), warranty/returns, warehouse loading, Operations conversion from Microsoft Dynamics to SAP, and inventory management► Local NPI and transition to near-shore and Asia production factories► Improved quality controls/process time and transitioned to lower-cost vendors.► Led the cross-functional team for product planning, multiple product launch planning, S&OP/demand planning, build planning, capacity planning, business continuity program, and inventory management from conception through EOLLed diligence and integration of 4 acquisitions for Extension Healthcare ($55M), PatientSafe ($40M), Ease ($35M), and ExperiaHealth ($10M).Saas | IoT | Wireless | Telecom | Fabless Semiconductors | Healthcare IT | Operations Efficiency | Contract Manufacturing | Cost Control | Product Reliability | Profitability | M&A | IPO | Quality Benchmarking | Production Controls | Technology Leadership | Facilities & Infrastructure | Cross-Functional Team | Executive Leadership |

Now part of Sigma, Foveon was a fabless semiconductor company that created and distributes unique CMOS image sensor technologies for high-end digital cameras and a professional digital camera platform.Director of Operations ◆ CMOS Imaging Chips & Optics ◆ Fabless semiconductor productionRecruited by the CEO and CTO, I was challenged to set up manufacturing and cleanroom operations for digital camera systems and later convert production to a fabless semiconductor company.► Reduced cycle time 30% and boosted manufacturing cap. 100% with new inventory recovery program.► Extracted $500K in scrapped parts in 30 days and cut WIP inventory 40%.► Led production for 400+ professional camera systems using electro-mechanical components and optics.► Reduced cost of goods 50%+ via production, supplier management, volume, and yield changes.► Secured 38% assembly cost savings and 20% wafer price reductions—plus backup vendor resources—through outsourced strategic partner negotiations.

Milpitas, California, Us

KLA-Tencor - Staff Applications Engineer ◆ New Product Introduction & Manufacturing Engineer ◆ Staff Quality Engr► Supported customer applications and engineering teams, including pre- and post-sales and beta tests. ► Earned promotions from New Product Introduction to Manufacturing Engineer to Staff Quality Engineer.► Served as SEM support to SEM support at AMD, Micron, VLSI, LSI, and National Semiconductor and for reticle inspection tool support at Micron, Photronics, and Dupont.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

► United States Military Academy @ West Point Physics Instructor and Photonics R&D Project Officer► Attack Helicopter Company Commander, Flight Operations Officer, Intelligence Officer► Held TS/SCI clearanceInstructed over 120 cadets in a calculus-based college sophomore physics course. Conducted original optics research and development on laser eye protection for aviators. Associate instructor on senior advanced experiment on extremely short laser pulses using autocorrelation techniques. Twice consecutively nominated for the US Army MacArthur Leadership Award for leadership development in cadets, instructor excellence, and community support.

Ms, Physics

Mba, Operations

Bs, Nuclear Engineering & Laser Physics