• Managing an engineering staff of four people tasked with supporting balloon component manufacturing.• Led lean initiative to re-layout the manufacturing area, eliminating non-value added activities and leverage best practices.• Chartered a vision for the department to base goals upon and align with site level goals.• Fostered a collaborative environment to create a better working relation with partner teams.

• Manage the technician staff tasked with maintaining equipment uptime and general engineering support of high volume manufacturing• Project lead over numerous value improvement projects of varying scope and complexity, including material vendor changes, equipment hardware and software introduction and updates, manufacturing layout• Championed lean improvement to drive operations efficiency goals• Lead and provide technical support for CAPA projects of both a corrective and preventative nature• Qualify and implement new tools, methods and equipment to introduce new products to manufacturing or improve product quality, cost and delivery• Operations lead, collaborating with R&D and Process Development teams to ensure timely delivery of 2-4 new products per year to commercialization and integrate into scaled up production

* Project leader over installation of numerous pieces of equipment required for capacitygains* Backup supervisor over the process engineering group for high volume production* Work closely with development groups for production ramping and equipment optimization* Oversee high volume products and continually work towards improving yields andthroughput* Support manufacturing with all machine and process related issues* Qualify and implement new tools, methods and equipment to improve process capability* Document, investigate, and form corrective actions for all non-conforming events

* Study heavy metal removal from water using aquatic plants along with the effects of heavy metals on microorganisms.* Analyze and document metal removal over time using atomic absorption spectrophotometerand cold vapor mercury analyzer* Presented results at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in Whitewater,WI, April 2002