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Hamden, Connecticut, United States

- Lead the product engineering team to explore and pilot new products in high-speed cable assemblies.Collaborate with customers to deliver innovative designs- Extremely agile project management process.- Build and deliver product validation.- Drive decisions for rapid tooling and specification definitions.- Grow team capabilities to keep up with company growth velocity.- Create robust international team structure (USA, China, Mexico)

Shelton, Connecticut, United States

• Provide strategic foresight to group leadership for strategic investment in product incubation and platform technologies.• Evolve team capabilities (internal and external) to support and execute technical roadmaps, build high performing teams.• Drive product development from design verification through manufacturing, on budget, on time and to a defined product specification.• Lead product lifecycle management (PLM) for new product launches and existing product portfolio.• Foster a sustainable development mindset in all product innovation to unlock new business models.• Drive technical and financial direction (CAPEX and OPEX) for the R&D team, including activities in ideation, development, CAD/drafting, engineering services, test laboratory, and technology research.• Responsible for leading product innovation, product engineering, and overall development execution from ideation and through the entire product lifecycle.

Paris, Île-De-France, France

• Lead the Project Management Office (PMO) for new product launches and establish a project management culture for group innovation teams.• Build and maintain detailed projects dashboards that track and update on project milestones, resources, and budgets across the organization.• Establish sustainable development metrics for product design that tracks and measures global product portfolio improvement.• Responsible for driving the knowledge management process for the Group Insights & Innovation.• Collaborate with platform engineering teams and optimize research for time-to-market.• Implement new program management operating model and operating system focused on innovation launches.

Shelton, Connecticut, United States

• Project lead role for special B2B and strategic projects driven by Senior Leadership.• Design and implement industrial expansion projects with cost analysis, resource planning, scope definition, critical path timelines and budgeting.• Ensure strong and clear communication to executive, including escalation of critical issues.• Apply industry knowledge in manufacturing, consumer goods, marketing, and strategy to deliver projects end-to-end.

Shelton, Connecticut

• Serve as technical lead in mechanical design and product portfolio expertise. • Lead planning and communication with external legal services to ensure intellectual properties' freedom to operate (FTO).• Lead the development of IP strategies for protecting technical innovations; manage intellectual property portfolio and create processes to protect key innovations.• Influence and lead an international team with internal and external intellectual property advisers to provide strategic direction: patent strategy mapping of IP assets and IP portfolio management.

Athens, Greece

• Lead and mentor product engineering team to solve design and manufacturing problems of plastic assemblies, high volume injection molding.• Collaborate closely with product portfolio teams to conceptualize, design, develop and test consumer goods in the personal care segments.• Implement engineering processes and design thinking for sustainable problem solving in mechanical design using CAD, FEA software and lad instrumentation tools.• Drive operational efficiency that assures process excellence and financial responsibility that is aligned to business goals and objectives.

Milford, Ct

• Develop various mechanical designs for B2B clients in the aerospace, industrial and retail industries.• Lead project management activities including technical communication and project delivery to clients.• Apply design concepts to SolidWorks, Mechanical Desktop, AutoCAD, or PROE model assemblies while creating all detail drawings of mechanical designs per GD&T standards.

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

• Design validation tests with document protocols for company technologies; experiment designs on pressure seal verification and dosage consistency validation.• Test, document, and present engineering reports on developed medical patents for manufacturing, conforming to FDA regulations.• Validate material, components and fabrication technologies for manufacturability including injection molding recipes: define process validation (Cpk).

Boston, Ma

• Create complex mechanical designs and execute layouts for electrical housings.• Build packaging for electrical component assemblies and validate design integrity.• Define and execute testing protocols to deliver final production specifications.• Collaborate with QA and industrialization process teams to assure production stability.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Mba

Mbet, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: ASME (member, president), WIT Newspaper, RA Scholarship, Senior RA Summa Cum Lade Graduate