• Work closely with the sales team to conceptualize and direct the development of new products and markets, providing development and manufacture cost estimates to support pricing and product configuration decisions.• Optimize the standardization of those products well received by the market in order to maximize profitability. Work with vendors to source the best value components.• Allocate engineering resources to support sales, manufacturing, and technical assistance requirements and manufacturing resources to deliver quality products in a timely manner.• Interface directly with customers in order to satisfy their unique design needs, solicit feedback on the performance of delivered equipment, and resolve any issues they may encounter.• Support marketing and sales in winning new orders and insuring customer satisfaction.• Direct documentation efforts in order to insure consistent manufacture, comprehensive product operation and service manuals, and legacy technical support information.

Lead the design and manufacture of material handling equipment with a focus on forklift-truck battery-handling equipment used in distribution centers to switch out batteries in order to keep fork trucks operating 24/7. Conceptualize and direct the development of new products and markets, providing development and manufacture cost estimates to support go/no go decisions.

Multi-disciplinary company put together as part of two quarter Northwestern NUvention Medical class to innovate a medical device in a compressed time frame. Part of two person engineering team that worked with medical school team members to shadow surgeries and discover unmet needs. Brainstormed solutions and designed progression of prototypes to satisfy a team selected need and worked with law school team members to file provisional patent and business school team members to develop business plan that was pitched to investor panel.

Manage process control, data acquisition, and computer integration solutions to provide manufacturers increased productivity and process data from the plant floor to their business systems. Working in this capacity allowed me to gain entrepreneurial experience managing manufacturing automation projects for a wide variety of customers.

Manage fluid handling system and product design from inception to field startup and training for wide range of industries such as automotive, defense contractors, fiberglass fabrication, and pharmaceutical.