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Support and manage a forward thinking team while growing a combined shop and educational center. Develop a shop skills training system for staff. Administrative support to all areas of staffing and creative projects.Streamline a budget for equipment purchases and shop personnel. Develop a marketing strategy for directors, board members and employees. Drive the look, feel and theme across the MakerspaceCT brand. Educate Connecticut's manufacturing community to not only understand our workforce development mission, but help them become part of the solution to fill the gaps in the early introduction to STEM engineering skills.Give people a chance to dip their feet into the variety of disciplines at MakerspaceCT... learning a new skill, or building on existing skillsets - and help those that want it - to join the manufacturing workforce.

Specific digitization of aerospace components. Re-engineer and create digital models for casting and machining.

- Further growth for Sterling Group... educating clientele with WHAT CAN be created and demonstrating when it CANNOT...- Try to attain what some manufacturers say, can't be produced - Sometimes fail, and re-invigorate the team effort to alternate approaches. - Connect idea people, inventors, and product entrepreneurs to appropriate manufacturers and act as educator of all types of protoype & production line techniques. - Consider best production for specific part requirements including but not limited to: Injection molding, thermo-forming, punch and laser cutting of alloys. - Guide engineering, design and 3d Modeling teams to build efficiencies into tooling for moderate to high production cycles.- Oversee, proof and release 1st run injection molded plastic parts, fromed and machined metal parts, and custom composite parts - Balance costs of RAW materials, nesting, inline molding, machining and secondary operations.- Include best cost approaches for packaging and logistics to/from production to assembly, warehousing, etc.

- Sterling Group grows...- At times we've succeeded to take a product idea to fruition, but then the client may hit the dead-end as to "what to do next?"- So there was a discovered need to continue to liaison with clientele and assist with developing a brand around their idea.- This may include packaging, graphics for social media support, animation and rendered imagery fulfillment.- We'll connect clients to our photography experts who will make their ideas step up to the next level in marketing- We have also tackled some exhibitry design concepts, but at that point, we'll usually hand the client off to our contacts that are the real experts in trade show fabrication.

- The early years of Sterling Group...- Combine award winning product design talent ranging from skilled engineers to "blue-sky-thinking" artisans!- Product ideas to fruition through sketches, prototypes, computer models, rapid prototyping, and animation.- Always search for new product ventures and invention collaboratives.- Initiate newly developed production processes to efficiently manufacture products from alloy parts to plastic molding technologies.- Corporate communications, marketing, graphics, engineering, production, packaging all come together under our guidance.- We love what we do and this enthusiasm shines bright in all areas of creative development.

- Create personal and public art pieces based on theme and fun.- Combine knowledge of working-metals with assembly and production to fulfill architectural RFQs for indoor and outdoor pieces in commercial and educational environments.- Produce and manage install teams for a variety of outdoor sculpture and artistic building facades.- This includes review and fulfilling zoning requirements, site work, rigging, on-site safety.

- Build brand and solid reputation of a successful real estate investment company. - Manage all aspects of assets, workflow, finance.- Reduce claim liabilty, increase structure safety, manage annual risk assessment.- Oversee subdivision development, contractor timelines, and develop a successful emergency repair and management team for residential and commercial building stock.- This venture forces communication among a wide rage of investors, site contractors, and tenants...Making it all flow seamlessly (and sometimes NOT) together.