Operations Executive with a strong track record of streamlining processes and optimizing product designs to eliminate both waste and potential for error in industries that include Robotics, General Motion Control, CNC, PLC, DCS and Wireless Safety Systems. Background encompasses sales and marketing, manufacturing, supply chain, aftermarket service, product management, in addition to technology development. Well regarded as a leader that can deliver new processes and products that capture or create new markets. Superior skills in facilitation of distributed international organizations. Industry leader that has organized standards, work groups, and authored over 40 patent submissions.AREAS OF EXPERTISE • P&L Management• Business Integration• Global Market Development• Organization Design• Offering Roadmaps• Operations• Customer-Centric Product Definition• Aftermarket Service• Leadership Mentoring• Forecasting• Strategic Planning• Technical Sales Leadership• Cross-Organization Coordination• Product Life-Cycle Management• Agile Product Development CAREER HIGHLIGHTS• Digital Transformation of global companies to common platforms and processes that were leveraged by coordinated LCR engineering and production to expand capabilities for lower % of SG&A. • Added offshore capacity and opportunities to the business, establishing new processes and tools and driving sales tracking and forecasting across differing regions and industries. • Created a Continuous Improvement culture across the organization that produced quarter over quarter savings. • Architected the creation of a new class of automation control by combining the capabilities of motion controllers with traditional Programmable Logic Controllers and creating a Programmable Automation Control (PAC) product line that energized Rockwell Automation.• Drove repeated innovation through the annual creation of patentable intellectual property that yield disclosures and awards in areas ranging from motion control to distributed information and network security.