• Director of Engineering for a global organization, with over 100 full time and contracted employees. • Responsible for managing research and quality for a global organization that delivers hardware and software products and services globally. Managed business with high revenue growth over 12%, focused on modular and embedded computing. Warranty costs on key hardware platforms were reduced through continuous improvement by over 50% in three years• Responsible for financial performance and multimillion dollar operating budgets.• Developed a quality improvement efforts in services business, and set strategy and the technology roadmaps while customer satisfaction scores increased significantly to record highs.• Led improvements in project management methods to improve design for manufacturing and initial quality in complex hardware and software products. • Implemented agile development methods to improve software quality, while achieving cost structure reductions.10 issued patents.

Responsible for improving the returns on the portfolio of R&D investments for a global business unit with over $750M in annual revenue and an R&D budget of over $150M. The business had R&D labs in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Proactively managed the Business Unit R&D portfolio, which helped lead to doubling of operating profit over a three year period, and raising revenue growth by 37% in the same time period. Promoted to run the same portfolio process across the larger Business Group with an R&D investment of over $350M

Managed the product development for three new logic analyzers, rolling over the entire product family in 16 months. The 16800 series analyzer won the best product of the year in it's category and exceeded revenue, sales and gross margin targets.Managed a manufacturing and development team in the Colorado Springs Technology Center - a facility focused on leading edge microcircuit fabrication, assembly and test. Annual revenues peaked at $100M/year. Yields were improved overall by 15% and cycle time was reduced by 35% in two years.Led the investment and deployment of over $5M in capital equipment projects.Led the research and development team responsible for new process technology related to MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), used in high frequency electronic instruments.

Managed a group of 21 engineers, technicians and system administrators in a wafer fabrication operation. Responsible for process engineering, process development and manufacturing engineering in a 24 hour/7 day per week high volume high tech manufacturing facility Production costs were reduced by over 20% while process capability was improved on average by over 25%.Led the successful implementation of a system to track and constantly improve process capability and yields.Hands on experience with most electronic fabrication techniques - photolithography, diffusion, wet etch, thin film deposition, plasma etching, and metrology.