Served in multiple, progressive roles over 17.5 years at Siemens Industrial and Siemens Healthineers - including a corporate spin-off and public listing launch - with a focus on delivering data-driven solutions and consumer-centric innovation for global product design activities and user-centricity initiatives. Select accomplishments include:• Led a US tech-center, managing diverse team of 15-30 employees, growing operating budget 300% over 10 years by implementing new processes, KPI tracking, and cultural pillars; captured $2M - $3M new contract revenue - annually - via competitive bid to both internal and external customers.• Acquired, negotiated, and led $15M+ of benchmark multi-year new-product development projects in remote vascular robotics, touchscreen-enabled medical devices, IoT-compliant environment controls, and digital industrial-service tool chains.• Core member of ISO-9001 enterprise initiation team at Siemens’ Princeton site, handling process creation, documentation, and ownership; drove adoption and successful launch with training and audit support. • Hired ~120 contingent workers over 10 years, converting >15 to high-quality full-time internal resources, after implementing novel labor model and sustained talent pipeline; many later continued their career success at Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft.• Championed establishing a global centralized UX competence center by evangelizing the user-centered transformation through dozens of internal showcases; created Siemens' first regional UX group in Asia after leading executive-team coordination, business model refinement, manager & talent recruiting, and organizational setup; grew to >20 headcount in the first year.

Served in multiple, progressive roles over 7.5 years at SRI International (originally called Sarnoff Corporation) with a focus on overseeing hardware and materials innovation for government and commercial use. Select accomplishments include: • Launched program management office that reported on detailed forecast/analysis of revenue and expenditures, implemented earned value management, and created new processes for program review and resource optimization. • Organized and negotiated $50M+ in proposals related to mixed-signal IC design, solid-state lasers, phosphors, organic electronics, thermal photovoltaics, fuel cells, and computer visualization systems.• Managed $5M+/year in major development projects, including two of the company’s top-10 margin-generating projects, preserving $1M+ in EBIT combined in one year.• Invented, prototyped, and patented electronic-textile programmable large-area signage; FabriLED spinoff created, organized venture & licensing activity; established $500k government seed funding and a commercial development partner.• Invented, modeled, prototyped, and patented novel reduced-depth CRT system and sub-system concepts: lead resultant $3.3+M Korean commercial development program including successful demountable demonstration.

Post-doctoral research under Dr. Brian Swartzentruber. Select accomplishments include: • Achieved first-ever direct quantification of field effects on measured Si(100) growth precursor dynamics.

Ph.D. research under Dr. Ward Plummer and Dr. Hanno Weitering. Select accomplishments include: • Discovered, visualized, and characterized first-known purely-2D localized surface charge density wave and temperature-mediated electron correlation induced metal-nonmetal transition; first author on the 5/30/96 Nature magazine cover story.