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Global Markets

Contracts -Testing Partners LLC - Midwest Project Manager - Global Compliance NetworkDigi International - Wireless Design Compliance Homologation

As a Technical Specialist Consultant at TestingPartners, I specialize in consulting, outsourcing, and global market access to ensure compliance and testing for your products. We understand that companies don’t have a department which is dedicated to this service so we are an extension of your engineering team. Our focus is your best interest which is to get the product into the market so you can generate the profits you have been working towards.

Worldwide Support

Regulatory Compliance Specialist (2005 - 2017)• Expert regulatory compliance resource for life safety/fire & security system wireless design engineering group. • Liaison for approvals with ETL, UL, CE, FCC, ACTA, RTTE Directives, RoHS and others

Lakeville, Mn

• Developed international vendor relationship resulting in savings of over $100,000 per month while dramatically improving raw material quality.

Lakeville, Mn

• Designed a vacuum pump interface system for high speed pumping. The pump manufacturer has incorporated the design in their new products.• Created a design modification for a gate valve system resulting in an increased valve life of 500% (from 200,000 cycles to over 1,000,000).• Liaison with both Taiwan and China customer engineering groups in the development of high vacuum systems.

St. Paul, Mn

• P&L responsibility for the production of Memory in support of the AN-UYK-7 military computer. Production/Engineering Group, including Engineers, Technicians and over 50 Union Assemblers covering 3 shifts, 7 days a week.

Palo Alto, Ca

• Leader of the department, increasing the credibility and usefulness to Design Engineering.

Palo Alto, Ca

• A competitor came to us to assist in making an amplifier to meet the needs of a high profile project as our basic design was more conducive to meeting the specifications. After much iteration of the electronics, I designed a magnetic field that allowed the amplifier to more than meet the specifications. This amplifier was at the heart of what we now call the AWACS Radar System (I was not involved in the initial concept or design.... I just made it work...).

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