Member of the MIT IPC (Industrial Performance Center) Advisory Board on Building Innovative Capacity Among SMEs. The project, Building Innovative Capacity Among Massachusetts Manufacturers: Pathways and Opportunities for SMEs, looks at OEM supply chain management practices, how they have evolved to drive greater innovative capacity and what the implications are for the regional industrial ecosystem and SMEs.

Lilliputian Systems, Inc. is developing a Personal Power™ solution for Consumer Electronics (CE) devices targeted at the $50 billion portable power market. The Company’s breakthrough solution delivers a small form-factor battery replacement that provides run-time improvements demanded by today’s CE devices. Lilliputian’s patented Silicon Power Cell™ technology is based on highly-efficient, MEMS based solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), custom electro-mechanical componentry and is fueled by high energy butane cartridges.Member of the Executive Management Team responsible for in-house and outsourced operations, manufacturing engineering, MEMS development, quality, facilities, EH&S and supply chain. Developed high volume production processes in-house then transferred silicon MEMS, hermetic packaging and electro-mechanical manufacturing technologies to external manufacturing partners in Europe, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Partnerships included technology transfer, CapX investments and both dedicated and non-dedicated lines.

Private Mfr. of high reliability opto-electronic instrumentation products serving the Telecommunications, Spectroscopy and Medical markets. Sold to Volcano Corp., a medical device manufacturer, in 2008.Member of Executive Management Team. Responsible for managing the supply chain and overall operations of multi-site MEMS wafer fabs, hybrid packaging, and system assembly and test operations through 5.5x revenue and 7x unit growth.

Private Mfr. of piezoelectric actuators & vibration control systems serving the Semiconductor Equipment, Sporting Goods, Industrial Valve and Automotive markets. Sold to Cymer Inc. in 2000.In addition to overseeing Manufacturing Operations, responsible for managing all corporate Engineering Design Service efforts and P/L responsibility for OEM products.

$2B Mfr. of mixed signal processing integrated circuitsManaged staff of electrical, mechanical, industrial and test engineers responsible for production, equipment, new product development and new process development.