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Oxford, Me, Us

Windham, Me

optimize is a continuous improvement firm focused on assisting clients by accelerating their innovation cycle and limiting the associated risks to commercializing new products & services. As you know, coming up with ideas is just creativity, but turning those ideas into new revenue or increased profit is innovation. Like anything else, there needs to be a structured approach with assigned accountability, because after all, innovation without execution is futile. Whether you are creating incremental, new, evolutionary or revolutionary innovations, optimize is prepared to develop high performing work teams with a structured approach to mature a culture of innovation that will drive top line growth and sustain increases in bottom line results.

innovation transition center, Inc. is a revolutionary non-profit where industry, government and academia collaborate on “DEMAND” based economic development.The Mission is to TRANSITION new product, process and service innovations to the Commercial Security market at an accelerated pace & lower risk.

Portland, Maine Area

Tandem Training Corporation specializes in Teambuilding, Leadership, Sales, Customer Service and development of Effective Communications. We facilitate workshops for Corporate, Government and Academic entities.Successful businesses - yours and mine - need to be aware and ready for increasing complexity in a competitive business environment.

Provided Lean Six Sigma Sensei Services to NAVSEA Submarine National Value Stream Champion Developed Green and Black belt personnel within Patrona Provided commercial business development outside of existing Government clients

Agusta, Me

Managed multi-million dollar contracts with the US Government as well as Private IndustryContributed to marketing functions of:scoping the project, identifying the deliverables, writing the statement of Work, Identified, vetted, trained and approved delivery resources to meet the deliverables of the statement of work, Built program materials used to standardize delivery of the program across multiple client sites nationally, Managed Supply Chain Development and Integration Programs for Large PrimesSubmitted two pending patents for systems designs for a comprehensive Lean training and implementation system known as the Time Wise® Product Suite.

Auburn, Me

Managed and consolidated three departments into one cohesive Advanced Manufacturing Engineering groupDepartment was responsible for all pre-production planning - Cost, Quality and DeliveryDesigned manufacturing processes and equipment for productionProvided standardized work and training to production personnelWorked directly end customer to solve manufacturing problems before start of production

Designed Molded Fibre products, the tooling to make the products and managed the production and installation of the tooling to build the products. Worked as a corporate trouble shooter to resolve problems the local maintenance/engineering staff could not. Assisted sales and marketing during sales calls to design and build new products.