Ownership of social media accounts (Facebook and Instagram). Increased outreach and event attendance thru electronic and in person advertising. Schedule and organize events.

Manage engineering and quality personnel within our manufacturing and design group. Completed the move and consolidation of plastics testing equipment into one lab.Identified additional equipment needs for additional in-house QC capability.Assisted Senior Engineering Director in transitioning the company from R&D to a commercial engineering strategy.Developed plastic film material specifications for our unique application with Senior Polymer Engineer.Implemented templates for for various documents (SOP, Work Instruction, Prints and Drawings).Formed Documentation group and implemented an electronic product data/document management system. Implemented standard work practices and product line flow work that increased quality of output from rates in the 60% range to 92%+. Set up and ran experiments on new equipment and consulted with equipment suppliers for next generation improvements. Performed factory acceptance testing for new equipment at overseas supplier. Developed and implemented a quality reporting system and tool for our commercial pilot plant.Performed audits of potential suppliers for various raw components including plastic films and extrusions. Member of company wide cross-functional teams: 1) deploy a pilot scale system overseas at an investors site, and 2) for our commercial pilot plant project and troubleshooting team where I led cross functional teams.Member of ERP implementation team and development of commercial and R&D build systems.Performed and trained the proper use of MOC's, RCA's and problem solving methods to employees that have not used these techniques or tools previously.

Support daily operations of plastics extrusion, injection molding, center-less grinding and metal/fiber braiding technologies of less invasive medical devicesManaged team of 12 Engineers and TechniciansDepartment Subject Matter Expert for regulatory audits and tours (FDA, TUV, ISO, Japanese and Chinese Ministries of Health)Drove NPA (New Product Alignment) with PD and R&D for Manufacturing pull of new components and devicesTechnical lead for transfer activities of extrusion and braiding products from closing sister plant to my site.Led cross functional team for multi-sourcing resins for cost reduction and yield improvements for an annual savings of $800kLed selection, purchase and implementation of $2M increase in equipment for capacity increase Implemented real time scrap reporting for department Decreased department material usage and scrap month over month by 50%Member of Talent Acquisition Team for collegiate intern program Worked with both US and foreign suppliers for cost reductions and improvements

Competitive Benchmarking and analysisMaterial Database Development