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Responsible for developing next generation optical instrumentation that utilize current and new technologies to grow and expand current markets while determining how to move into adjacent markets. Direct responsibility of $18M of currently produced instruments while leading a development team to create new and novel instruments.Key Contributions:• Ability to bridge the gap between technical issues and business needs.• Owner of quality management for $20M in revenue from current products.• Discovered a new $10M/yr market within our core market.• Direct responsibility to deliver new instruments on time and within budget.• Lead product development through the Agile and Obeya methodologies of product development, while using VOC (Voice of Customer) to direct development efforts.• Lead cross-functional teams (mechanical, optical, electrical, firmware/software) to create instruments and complete solutions for our customers.• Direct responsibility to monitor all responsible instruments for both revenue, gross margin, and costs.• Develop plans to increase revenue and gross margin of instruments while decreasing costs.• Created and led team to develop an automated float system designed for long-term deployments. This autonomous profiling system was the first successful oceanographic product able to pierce the ocean surface and survive winter ocean conditions within the Pacific Ocean.• Successfully designed and released a new novel instrument for oil detection (SeaOWL) using our core competency of fluorescence detection.• 1 awarded patent.

Bought and moved a highly respected business within the Sportsman/Hunting market. Created the business plan for funding acquisition of the company. Key Contributions:• Expanded product line from 38 to 178 SKUs.• Expanded sales through international distributors.• Created an OEM product line for a large manufacturer of archery equipment.• Increased product effectiveness through 3D CAD and fluid flow case studies.Responsibilities include finances, employee development, standard work processes, production scheduling, and engineering.

Responsible for leading a team of engineers responsible for the transfer of product development between the R&D and Manufacturing in addition to providing engineering and technical customer support to the marketing and sales teams. Design new optical instruments by using knowledge of other markets and technologies and successfully installed them into instruments.Key Contributions: • Developed and implemented an Engineering Change process to track all product changes.• Developed an Engineering Quote processes. Successfully bridged the gap between the Sales Team and the Engineering Team to determine costs and prices to allow custom instruments to be created and provide bottom-line to the company. • Led multi-dimensional team in FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis), RCCM (Root Cause & Counter Measure), BOM, Project Data Sheets, Defect Tracking, and Technology Development Cycles.• Designed instruments allowing company to grow revenues from $4.5M to $12M in less than 6 years.• Responsible for the design of new products creating over $5 million per year of revenue.• Developed new underwater optics utilizing advanced imaging components.• Developed instruments for Naval Seal Team delivery vehicles (SDV).• Created novel ideas for combining multiple wavelengths into one pathlength allowing measurements of organic and inorganic particulates.• Development of anti-fouling technologies.

Led engineering team of 21 engineers and researchers for development of new lighting technologies for Hewlett Packard’s digital projection and imaging business. Key Contributions:• Created new xenon lamp technology that proved to be the most efficient in its class.• Successfully linked development of new technologies from HP Labs to product development

Within HP R&D division, responsible for using HP technologies to create markets worth $1.5B over 7 years.Key Contributions:• Determined multibillion dollar business opportunities for HP that corresponded with HP’s knowledge base and internal manufacturing capabilities.• Developed business proposals, strategies, and models for associated risks and revenue growth in new business markets.• Developed intellectual property and patent strategies around HP businesses.• Created working prototypes showing feasibility of proposed products.• Interfaced with ID firms to create products that reflect HP’s consumer designs.• Designed and created a fuel injection technologies using HP’s inkjet technology.• Development of the “instant” book printing kiosk.

Responsible for the creation of thermal-inkjet characterization test tools.Lead mechanical design engineer for the development of high-vacuum tooling for Hewlett Packard’s $2 biLead mechanical design engineer for the development of high-vacuum tooling for Hewlett Packard’s $2 billion Atomic Resolution Storage program.Key Contributions:• Expert for fuel injection technologies.• Development of key technologies and patent portfolios. • 35 awarded patents.• Extensive work with original design manufacturers and industrial design firms.• Responsible for the engineering transfer to HP's international vendors.

Fabrication of plastic displays, design of molds, and creation of plastic forming methodology.