"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality"Mark is an accomplished and incisive leader with experience in developing and directing the Manufacturing Engineering organization supporting product line. He drives continuous improvements in design, process, test operations, and tooling to improve quality, increase throughput and reduce cost of products. He has strong leadership skill leading a highly talented and creative engineering team along with capacity of technical and organizational leadership for all of engineering efforts, including new design, continuous improvement initiatives, and specific design engineering.He has a track record of supporting manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market of their products. He has developed in-depth expertise and product and domain breadth through progressive and varied experience also has advanced knowledge of product/engineering domain theories, principles, concepts, techniques, industry practices, government regulations, and policies.He is highly credible technical resource frequently consulted by top industry experts. He has expert knowledge of industry competitor products and next generation trends as well as he can create highly advanced state-of-the-art technical concepts, models, and techniques. In addition, he has ability to plan, conduct and direct research and development work on complex projects; understand problems from a broad, long-term perspective. He is responsive to significant challenges and inquiries from Group leadership, external customers, other divisions, and top management on critical matters. To know more about him, or how he can help you or your business, contact Mark at: mshields7@comcast.net