Lead global manufacturing engineering and product quality activities at plants in Shakopee MN, Suzhou China, Penang Malaysia, and Axminster UK . Provide support for production, develop manufacturing capabilities to build and test new products, develop manufacturing automation systems, and lead special projects within operations.Key accomplishments include:• Completed value engineering projects generating over $400,000 in annual savings each of the last 5 years.• Partnered with Field Service and Engineering to identify and complete significant quality improvement projects.• Reduced existing product labor standards by 5% year over year through efficiency and quality improvement projects• Led creation of multi-million-dollar Operations capital equipment strategy. Work included budgeting and project execution. • Led development of manufacturing capability for all new product introductions including 6 major desktop printer families. Developed capability to build numerous modules for large central issuance equipment including drop on demand ink jet, laser engraving, passport personalization, and quality assurance modules. Provided effective design for manufacturing feedback• Completed special assignments including managing a supply converting plant and an in house production machine shop.• Led successful plant consolidation projects for business units with more than $15M sales• Led large Operations cost reduction projects including shut down of a manufacturing plant in Suzhou China. Planned and executed successful transition of production to Shakopee, resultant savings were more than $1.5M per year. • Created a process to analyze make versus buy opportunities for our internal machine shop. Cumulative savings of over $500K.• Created a process to plan and execute factory acceptance test events for external customers. Managed factory acceptance test events for projects worth over $1M in revenue.