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Winter Park, Fl

As $6M company entered growth phase, rigorously recruited for multiple-hat-wearing role. Drove high-end residential business and grew department by 3 while juggling sales, quotes, design, and engineering functions. Leveraged systems control/design background to expand business within residential and commercial sectors. Stayed abreast of IoT trends, sales & marketing, and high-level relationship building. ● Cut lengthy sales-to-project-installation timelines in half by developing first-ever Project Development Process (PDP) and related documentation.⇢ Accelerated PDP lifecycle—plus added team structure and accountability to prevent job overlaps and duplication of efforts—by defining much-needed job titles and functions for each phase. ● Triggered increase in business efficiency and profits by joining operations principal to write ZIO’s new business strategy; incorporated fundamentals from Gino Wickman’s Entrepreneurial Operating System.● With customer experience improvement a top priority, spearheaded design and construction of ZIO’s state-of-the-art Experience Center after identifying opportunity to remodel wasted IT-parts storage facility.

Orlando, Florida

Fast-tracked from part-time engineer to general manager, situating company for YoY growth while outperforming struggling competitors during economic crisis—realized a 30% spike in revenue growth in 2009. Worked alongside President to establish new direction; introduced company-wide engineering and quality control processes and documentation; built autonomous technical team; created value-added partnerships; and project managed and engineered top-tier accounts to expedite construction.● Supplemented revenue by $500K with addition of lightning and surge protection services. ● Proved instrumental in growing MSD from $250K and 4 employees to $2M and 11 staff members. ⇢ Created significant recurring revenue by refocusing strategy from small, one-time projects to higher-margin projects.⇢ Enhanced portfolio by leading foray into lighting control systems, personally taking on designing and programming functions.● Spiked average project revenue from $17K to $122K and realized 300% upsurge in projects valued at >$200K by evolving expertise in construction management and engineering into trusted partnerships with builders, architects, and designers.

Orlando, Fl

Tapped to stay onboard through myriad company changes, culminating with role as Senior Member of Technical Staff and manager of process engineering department until shutdown of semiconductor manufacturing facility. Managed and intelligently allocated a $15M budget, overseeing a staff of 60 including engineers, sub-contractors, and support field engineers in product development, procurement, manufacturing, engineering team development, and quality control. ● Drove continuous improvement of manufacturing processes while ensuring product superiority. Mentored and coached engineers while inspiring continual career development.● Maintained yield and production targets during facility shutdown phase while cutting 30% in maintenance trouble-shooting time with new patented calibration process.

Orlando, Fl

Maximized 18-person team and $15M budget to integrate next-gen disk storage process into manufacturing. Expedited production ready dates while running up to 6 concurrent projects.● Figured prominently in winning multimillion-dollar contract win by slashing 50% from process qualification and product introduction time, thereby shattering drop-dead date by 2 months. ● Realized 35% increase in process throughput and 200% in yield—plus lowered process variation 28%—by focusing on growing R&D while optimizing for manufacturing.

Dallas Tx

Hired to join R&D team and earned 3 promotions to assume responsibilities as technical assistant to CTO. Highlights include:● Optimized $10M in project P&L while maintaining 97% on-time delivery schedule. Served on team that positioned AT&T Power as first US company to win coveted Deming Prize. (Project Manager).● Improved on-time delivery to 95% and cut defects 30% and cycle time for model building from 2 weeks to 24-48 hours. (Manufacturing Supervisor).

Dallas Texas

Worked on F/A-18 FLIR Project for Texas Instruments Defense Systems Electronics Group (1 yr.). Performed FMA on Navy returns and reduced field failures by redesigning high-failure parts and assemblies. Reduced downtime via modifications to materials and assembly / manufacturing processes.

Mba

Ms Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

Bs Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering