Agave provides Start Up advisory services and strategic consulting. We call it transition management. Clients range from Start up - raising funds and requiring outsourced finance; to Mid Sized companies requiring hands on Operational work with Executive Teams and staff to develop and implement Operating Plans supporting growth.

As a member of AV senior management group reporting directly to senior VP, responsible for setting the directions and making the strategic decisions for AV laser related matters, such as establish the strategy, negotiate multi-year capital equipment purchase agreement with vendor, coordinate with cross function groups on manufacturing implementation, evaluating laser technologies, introducing new lasers to Abbott, designing and building lab systems and develop laser processes and applications for R&D product design.

Responsible for evaluating laser technologies, introducing new lasers to Abbott, designing and building lab systems and develop laser processes for R&D product design. Laser related SME (subject matter expert) for Abbott Vascular and other Abbott sister divisions.• Designed proto type systems for R & D• Built laser systems for AV commercial stent manufacturing• Technical inventions for new laser applications

Responsible for component design, system building, alignment, characterization and testing for Capella’s products (WSS).

Managed an R & D group. Successfully transferred 100G interleaver from R&D to production with complete documentation. Developed temperature compensation for interleaver to solve the wavelength shift problem. Wrote Reliability test plans and set-up testing equipment for optical switches, Optical Interface Module and Band Equalizer Module for customers.

Worked/initiated several research programs in the R&D laser lab.Responsible for process setup,system design, build, maintenance and troubleshooting. Worked with others to create medical devices innovations.

Specialized in excimer laser and applications. Responsible for laser setup of material processing (etching, cutting, marking, annealing, etc.) jobs for semiconductor, fiber optics, medical and aerospace industries. Managed production runs and communicated with customers frequently.