Responsibilities:• Direction of production planning and assembly, composites, and fabrication manufacturing cells.• Safety program manager and key member of the quality system development team.• Administration of production planning data and workflow in the internally-developed ERP system.Key achievements:• Maintained production schedule and inventory levels of internally produced and locally subcontracted chassis components for 2012-2014 Indycar seasons and instituted the use of consumption trend analysis as a key input.• Collaborated with colleagues at Dallara Automobili headquarters in Italy and local general contractors to plan and execute construction and expansion of 30,000 sq ft plant.• Improved production planning portions of enterprise resource planning system through rigorous application of system tools and detailed algorithm analysis, bug reporting, and workflow feature requests to Italian development team.• Developed project plans for special orders from aerospace clients and conducted postpartum reviews.• Established and maintained procedures for safety and facility security as part of OSHA and ITAR compliance, and quality system procedures for ISO 9001 registration, as a prerequisite for a defense industry client.

Responsibilities:• Direction, staffing, and budgeting of a research group performing in-depth analysis of product failures with critical business and/or regulatory implications.• Ensure feedback of lessons learned from failure analyses to design, reliability, and risk management practices.Key achievements:• Created the Engineering Analysis group with the Vice President of R&D to obtain more detailed and accurate information from product failures; established its vision, methods, and operating principles.• Contributed to the achievement of the division’s reliability goal of a 10% reduction in the average weighted complaint rate for key products each year for three consecutive years.• Performed a gap analysis of departmental practices of reliability specification, testing, and analysis; published internal guidance on the correct application of Weibull distributions and related statistical techniques.• Overhauled the company’s risk management process to achieve compliance with ISO 14971 and add more value to the product development process in an efficient manner.

Key achievements:• Developed the PRO2033 high speed drill attachment for the PowerPro handpiece line as lead design engineer and project manager of a cross-functional team.• Analyzed failures of legacy handpieces and attachments, including several gearbox and bearing configurations; published internal lessons-learned summaries.• Authored the company’s first internal procedure governing technical drawings to customize ASME Y14 standards and prevent recurrent problems in development projects.

Key achievements:• Successfully led a variety of new sports medicine products from concept through market launch to post-market surveillance as design engineer and project manager of cross-functional teams.• Invented and developed the BioStinger Hornet delivery system for a bioabsorbable meniscal repair implant.• Developed the Stress-Equalizing Graft Tensioning System in conjunction with the surgeon inventor; revised design for usability, manufacturability, cleanability, and accuracy. U.S. patent #7686810.• Invented an expanding dilator system for compacting bone tunnels in anterior cruciate ligament repair. U.S. patent #7211098.

Key achievements:• Designed and developed multiple iterations of the stent portion of prototype endovascular prosthesis systems for minimally invasive abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. U.S. patents #6802859, #7122051.• Directed in vitro stent durability testing and radial force measurement as part of design verification, including equipment specification and qualification, protocol development, testing, and data analysis.

Key achievements:• Directed the technical effort to demonstrate compliance with domestic and international harmonized standards, supporting CE Mark Declarations of Conformity for non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) cuff systems.• Established the strategic approach to risk analysis for NIBP accessories.