Business/Startup Consultant, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and VP/Director of Engineering & Innovation Focusing on Process Improvement, New Technology Commercialization, and Change Management.Entrepreneurial, strategic, and analytical Technology Leader with extensive experience directing operations of venture-backed start-ups and larger corporations. Hands-on experience in leading 50+ employees and budgets of $15MM+ while working on simultaneous multi-discipline projects. Broad leadership and contribution across roles coupled with demonstrated expertise in leading a start-up team through 3 sequential acquisitions, winning the Bell Labs’ President’s Award for Excellence. Proven experience in developing 2 companies from an idea to fully operational enterprises while leading capital generation, team development, operations, and finances along with handling traditional founder’s roles with customers, partners and investors. Self-driven leader known for thriving in a fast-paced environment with effective communication skills, looking forward to leveraging the years of expertise to step into a C-level Executive role with a technology-based or scientific research startup.Key contributions:• Ideated, planned, and led the company’s first internal product developments to generate recurring revenue. • Mitigated skill and resource gaps by bringing outsourcing into the operational flow.• Improved several processes in the areas of project documentation and business development cycle. • Introduced CRM, documentation standards, formal marketing planning, and other operational QA initiatives. • Brought the NCSU R&D to a product at GridBridge.• Worked with Duke Energy and NCSU to take product concepts from the lab to a test deployment at a Duke test site. • Drove previously failing prototype fuel cell product to successful government testing on time and within budget, taking leadership role within the team.• Specified, architected, and led the development of 2 new fuel cell industrial products.• Brought in to the company $2.1MM government appropriations award in 2008 and $2.4M in 2010 as well as multiple other military contract programs.• Led the company to become profitable for the first time in 2010.• Achieved all applicable MIL Specs by architecting system cooling and environmental solutions.• Set-up company from scratch: raised capital, set-up operations, hired team, and managed top level development plan with teams in the US, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, and Ireland.• Developed 3M gate ASIC to encapsulate SONET over IP networks.