As President of SPM, I guided the company from under $1MM in sales to over $150MM before selling to Dynacast and then continued to manage its growth to over $300MM over the next 3 years. I have hands on experience managing tool rooms and designing injection molds. I authored the book SPI published as, "Design Guidelines for Injection Molds" and have presented at several manufacturing conferences on planning and efficiency. I also founded a company,Vertech, Inc., in 2001 to build vertical injection molding machines. This was sold in its infancy to Trueblood Mfg.Though primarily involved with aiding non-profit organizations, I do consulting work for any and all types of manufacturing. I love to help those with potential.Specialties: Consulting for manufacturing companies, particularly those with injection molded plastics and tooling. Strategic Planning, Process Improvement and problem solving are strong suits. Past clients include Abbott Labs, Nypro, Tech Mold, Jeffrey Court and Trojan Battery. Experienced with automotive, electronics and medical products. I recently helped resolve plastic related manufacturing problems at a division of Abbott in China. At Jeffrey Court, I helped turn a losing division to profitability.