Manages all stages of the Product Management, Product Engineering and Repair Operations functions for the TraumaFX business unit, ranging from proposal or requirements definition to project planning to execution and implementation. Provides day-to-day management of multiple functional, contract or program areas that may encompass multiple work efforts, and direct supervision of designated team leads and professional, and/or technical staff.

Managed the TraumaFX line of rugged mannequins and training aids for trauma simulation for both military and civilian use.

• Analyzed and tracked all research projects for the Advanced Research & Technology organization.• Reduced the active project portfolio by 30% using advanced metrics for direct comparison of project values.• Along with a direct report, performed technology assessments covering a broad range of subjects at both universities and start-up companies.• Communicated project portfolio upward across multiple business units, ensuring tie in between divisional strategy and active research.• Developed reporting methods to ensure executive management was kept abreast of the status of on-going research projects.• Connected customer needs to the research goals, eliminating projects that showed little value to end users or refocusing technology in a different direction.

• Managed new design projects from discovery through the concept phase, ensuring both technical feasibility and sound business rationale: goal was to quickly answer key questions before design begins.• Successfully transferred multiple projects each year, including 4 product launches in the last 3 years.• Gathered customer input through interviews, questionnaires, and informal conversation with doctors, nurses, sales team members, and patients.• Translated customer input into unmet needs, value propositions, and user-driven design requirements.• Created and tested functionality of prototypes, both on the bench and in vivo.• Moderated group discussions and performed decision analyses using Monte Carlo simulation across the R&D organization.

• Combined role of project manager and technical lead for medical device design projects, including hardware components, dressing systems, and active topical solutions.• Principle investigator on multiple large animal studies to test efficacy of new designs.• Connected diverse project teams including external collaborators and key opinion leaders.• Presented project milestones before the executive review committee.

• Led several product design teams to develop and produce new medical devices based on microbial cellulose and composites for FDA approval.• Planned, executed, analyzed and reported all wound-care research activities.• Modified and improved existing microbial cellulose wound-care devices through bioreactor design, culture and media development, and downstream processing techniques.• Investigated the properties of wound-care devices for application to specific types of slow-healing and non-responsive wounds, including development of new analytical techniques.• Designed and implemented scale-up of production facilities from laboratory scale to pilot-plant, managing a team of 3 laboratory assistants.