🌟 Highly entrepreneurial with a strong reputation and extensive experience in sales engineering, business development, and executive leadership within the [compounding, foaming, extrusion, injection, thermoform heavy and light gauge, foam molding, testing] plastics industry. 🔍 Career highlights:- Foam Fabrication: Launched and managed a foam fabricating facility, expertise evolved in design, technology, and manufacturing assembly. Notable examples include Nerf toys, industrial insulators for Raytheon/MKS Instruments, medical device packaging for Johnson & Johnson.- Regional Sales and Engineering: Created market leadership in regional sales and engineering for Storopak, a global EPS molder. Responsible for start-up of 2 US facilities. Developed high-tech packaging solutions for Digital Equipment, Wang Labs, Data General. Expertise in sustainable initiatives.- Innovative Solutions: Led a business JV between PI / JSP / ARCO focused on innovative EPE EPP foam solutions for EA’s for Ford and Mitsubishi. This technology is the global EA management technology standard used in passenger cars today. The JV eventually was sold to Sonoco.- Entrepreneurial Leadership: 1991 Founded EDS Group, Inc a successful engineering and distribution firm with notable achievements in medical device packaging for BD, Seimans Medical, Baxter; inline automated heat sealing; and automated pick and place packaging. Co-named in a patent for a plastic incubator, now assigned to Organogenesis. Invented a thermoform process for Bose Wave Radio, significantly reducing cubic space compared to foam cushions. Established EDS Package Testing Lab- specifically for research and engineering in shock, vibration, and peel testing. - Bioplastics Development: Invented novel bioplastic PET materials for extrusion, blow molding, injection molding processes. Parts produced meeting key ASTM D5338 Aerobic Biodegradation Standards. The Sierra Resins brand was utilized by global hotel market, such as Hyatt, Hilton, Ramada, etc. - Business Growth and Packaging Initiatives: Award-winning Sales Producer for 5+ years forging substantial business growth (exceeded budgets during Covid) and spearheaded packaging initiatives for Nelipak, a global leader in medical device packaging.💎 Current Focus: Director and Founder of DaVinci Molding focused on medical and food markets, which has achieved quadrupled sales growth in the first year. Supplying rebuilt medical grade heat sealing equipment with integrated automation, blow molded containers, thermoformed cushion sustainable and cost- saving packaging