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Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Huntsville, Alabama Area

* Managing the Huntsville office as the company grows* Focusing on product development and innovation* Providing the sales team with current capabilities and technical growth areas

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Established commercial biometric technology company producing ONEprint touch-less fingerprint identification scanners. Directed all start-up activities including assembling a technical team, developing and refining technology, filing patents, and converting prototype technology to a viable product. * Led team to turn around sensor prototype generations within 3 weeks.* Increased productivity more than 50% and decreased costs $11k per unit by employing effective communication strategies with employees, vendors, customers and managers.* Identified and secured initial customer (fitness center); currently negotiating for 2500 units.* AIRprint invention was featured in INC Magazine and MIT Technology Review.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Assumed newly created director role and immediately improved project infrastructure. Developed clear vision and established a collaborative working environment, directing resource cross-leveling activities throughout the company. Trained and mentored all project managers; tracked progress of new projects. Led business development and proposal efforts. * Developed professional relationships with potential customers who agreed to fund 3 separate biometric technologies ($800K), now commercially available.* Improved internal time and task management by directing company-wide transition to MS Project server system.* Mentored employees and encouraged continuing education; one employee earned a MS in Computer Science and co-invented biometrics technology patent valued up to $15 million.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

* As Project Manager and Principal Investigator, managed multiple mid-size projects exceeding $1 million, many which were converted to long-term contracts. Customers included NASA, US Navy, US Army, USMC, and Raytheon.* As Business Development Channel Lead, created and implemented marketing plans, built strong base of loyal customers, and composed winning proposals landing contracts totaling more than $5 million.* As Image Processing Expert, contributed to company’s first products for sale, developing algorithms and conducting laboratory tests for electro-optical, infrared, and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) systems.* Recognized as Subject Matter Expert on lunar landing, image processing, and biometric sensors.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Supervised, trained, and evaluated 7 group members (senior engineers, project managers, scientists, and technicians). Oversaw technical proposal preparation, requirements development, laboratory operations, capabilities assessment, budgeting, and cross-leveling activities. Boosted on-time deliveries 10% after establishing ISO9001 Quality Management System which accurately documented corporate processes and improved product testing and output quality.

Phd, Physics

Ms, Physics

Bs, Physics

Ba, German