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South San Francisco, California, Us

Oversees large, multi-initiative programs to deliver innovative medical devices and drug/device combination products.

South San Francisco, California, Us

A catalyst for operational excellence and innovation, guiding the leadership team through daily challenges and longer term strategic initiatives.

South San Francisco, California, Us

Lead cross-functional teams in development of new drug/device combination therapeutic products.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Drive product vision and execution for cross-functional drone systems team, including hardware, system software, and mobile application. - Defined and communicated quarterly roadmaps that delight customers.- Worked with sales and marketing on new product launches.- Engaged third party vendors to add direct integrations with Kespry system.- Implemented data logging to track user engagement and guide development priorities.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Lead development and integration of hardware, embedded software, and cloud analytics projects for the leading provider of automated drone systems for commercial environments. Build new program management processes and systems to enable teams to stay nimble while scaling up with rapid growth.• Drove launch of new second generation drone system.• Implemented daily Visual Management, adopted common project tracking tools across all of Engineering, and introduced Scrum software development.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead new product development projects for design and launch of complex biological research instruments and software.• Oversaw cross-functional global teams of 5 – 15 members in defining, developing and launching new products, delighting customers and beating schedule targets by as much as 30% while meeting quality, cost, and scope requirements. • Established new lean development process for flagship imaging product, leading to accelerating requirements definition through customer feedback 6 months earlier than on previous projects and process being recognized as best practice at company-wide technology summit.• Piloted new technology roadmap process and developed standard work, enabling leadership team to double time horizon of strategic product roadmap from 3 to 6 years.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Delivered internal consulting for operational process excellence. Drove business, manufacturing, supply chain, and transactional improvements through extensive customer VOC, transparent metrics and deep data focus.• Reduced site inventory by $2.6M (15%) in 6 months through Kanban implementation and finished goods planning, including extensive data analysis on over 50k items. • Enabled $1M cost savings by facilitating transfer and ramp-up of 3 new overseas product lines, including support of materials planning, standard work development, and leading Kaizen events for production cell optimization. • Streamlined processes and improved communication with service team as interim master scheduler, increasing service spares on-time-delivery (OTD) from 89% to 94%.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led logistics optimization project to reduce freight costs and improve shipping revenue from customers.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Oversaw quality deliverables for FDA-regulated cardiovascular devices with revenues of $1B, including early development, production, government approval, and launch. • Facilitated transfer of new stent from R&D lab to production facility, scaling volume from 500 to 5K by implementing new operating procedures, training, and equipment. • Reduced in-process inspection time 25% by leading 18 cross-functional teams in Design-For-Profitability initiative that included sharing best practices and data-driven decision making. • Led process validations for Xience Prime™ stent with 20-person staff and $8M budget, including coordinating build / test schedules and driving root cause failure investigations, resulting in product launch 4 months ahead of schedule.

Ran facilities improvement projects at major oil refinery. • Ensured employee safety by identifying and reducing high-risk areas in plant.• Designed and installed safety eyewash stations throughout refinery, protecting workers from injury and complying with government regulations.

Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering