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Irvine, California, US

Founder, past President and Board Member of DeviceAlliance™, a member-focused community of experienced southern California medical device professionals committed to building relationships, sharing knowledge, and gaining insight into the key issues and opportunities within the medical device industry.

Leveraging 30+ years of global Medical Device engineering, operations, and program management to assist aspiring businesses in attainment of stretch goals in a range of areas. My strengths include an extreme breadth of experience, a collaborative nature, and a strong desire to create results. At this juncture in my career, I only consider opportunities.

Unlicensed Chimp Technologies is a Brand Activation and Engagement company. UCT utilizes a unique platform of location-based interactive technology and user applications to create crowd-based immersive experiences which drive significantly higher levels of engagement, brand loyalty and data collection.

US

Nanospectra is a novel nanotechnology-based cancer therapy company working to commercialize a novel and powerful targeted therapy for tumor ablation. Consult-to-perm COO responsibilities including development of the commercialization plan, capital equipment and disposable product design and manufacture, nanoparticle process scale up and creation and.

CryoCare is early stage cryoablation company specializing in women’s health. Initial responsibilities include technology transfer, 510 submission, manufacturing strategy and funding support. CryoCare is an exciting opportunity which utilizes a “next generation” platform technology that we believe can put cryo on the forefront of many existing and newly.

Dublin, Coolock, IE

• A premier global specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company with over $4 billion in sales.
• Managed a complex product improvement program for a critical aesthetic drug delivery system. The newly introduced product was already over $100 million in sales and 30% growth.
• Development through globalization of the new design was accomplished in 12 months, less than ½ the time originally estimated. The new design effectively eradicated a 4% field failure rate to zero.

Brea, California, US

• A Leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems with $3 billion in global sales.
• Performed a company-wide analysis of the reagent manufacturing operations to identify a “Best of Class” vision and related implementation plan involving integration of manufacturing automation, project management.

• LifePoint, Inc. is a diagnostic device start-up, completing development and scale-up a saliva-based, blood-comparable drug and alcohol testing system with substantial global opportunity in the law enforcement.
• Recruited to manage the reestablishment of the Operations organization after funding issues resulted in loss of all but one indirect support staff. Assessed technical and resource requirements, recruited and hired all.
• Managed the development of the manufactured product and packaging design, validation and subsequent production scale-up of both a sophisticated electromechanical instrument and complex disposable device within a.
• In response to key business plan requirements, developed and began implementation of a multi-faceted cost reduction plan to reduce the disposable device cost by 80% through design changes, off-shore manufacturing and.
• Established requirements for the “next generation” instrument including sourcing of a contract-manufacturing partner capable of both product redesign and low-cost production.
• Key participant in “repackaging” the company’s product and business strategy.

Langhorne, PA, US

• Founded in 1999, Power Medical is an innovative and aggressive developer of a “next generation” surgical stapling and cutting system. In a very short period, the company has developed and launched (domestic and.
• Built and managed the contract manufacturing, planning, purchasing, distribution and manufacturing engineering departments.
• Ad-hoc engineering project leader for the Circular line, responsible for bringing a complex surgical stapling/cutting system (SurgASSIST ™) from prototype to international market in world-class time.
• Grew contract-manufacturing capacity to support a sales growth from $2 million to $12 million. Requirements included establishment and management of four contract manufacturing organizations in addition to one major.
• Participant in an extensive FDA audit process.
• Left Power Medical after customer related functionality issues lead to a stall in funding and instability in full time employment.

US

• Joined Leiner, a privately owned, $700 million vitamin, supplement and OTC drug manufacturer / distributor to lead a major technical infrastructure development program.
• Created a corporate engineering group to support the technical requirements of a growing company with little to no technical infrastructure.
• Developed a component spec system and formalized the change control process. Established several component consolidation programs with annual savings in excess of $2 million.
• Introduced a cross-functional project management process to significantly improve the success rate and time to market of new product designs.

Melsungen, DE

• Progressive management responsibilities in a $350 million IV solutions and sets company recently purchased by B.Braun. Managed most of the primary engineering and operations technical functions as well as direction of.
• Director, SAP Manufacturing. SAP project integration leader for an enterprise based manufacturing business system implementation.
• Director, Manufacturing Engineering and Maintenance. Management of 140 people and an $18 million budget. Major projects included new cleanroom construction, implementation of new maintenance/parts inventory management.
• Manager, Process and Sterilization Engineering. Responsibilities including process design and pharmaceutical scale-up and for a generic nasal drug. Directed Sterilization Engineering department functions including.
• Manager, Automation Engineering. Responsibility for new equipment development and implementation related to cost reductions, new product designs and product/process improvements.

Irvine, California, US

• A $50 million division specializing in Class III silicone and saline breast implant devices.
• Completion of an 110M sf cleanroom manufacturing facility, transfer and revalidation of all operations from the existing California location. Built an engineering group (5 engineers) responsible for manufacturing.

Deerfield, Illinois, US

• A $200 million division of Baxter International consisting of 10 major domestic and international manufacturing locations.
• Manager, Special Machinery / Packaging. Oversee plant capital appropriation budgets for packaging and automation. Annual spending exceeds $1 million and created $750 thousand of annual cost improvements.
• Program Manager, Restructuring. Managed the orderly transfers of a $30 million scrub and biopsy tray production line, twelve latex glove-packaging lines and a $35 million specialty procedural tray line to a new.
• Program Manager, Malaysia Surgeon’s Glove Program, (Penang, Malaysia). Managed $54 million budget and a team of ten engineers and 12 on-site contractors responsible for general plant construction, glove dipping and.
• Project Engineer/Supervisor, Special Machinery. Designed, constructed and installed two $3 million glove dip lines. Saved $1.2 million through an innovative manufacturing process redesign.

A Manufacturing and Engineering executive with over 20 years experience in both the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Vice President (VP), Director, Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, Project Managment. Classically trained in 4 fortune 100 companies. Major domestic and international management successes including new factory design and.

Mba, Business Administration

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering