I believe in making a difference; in breaking the status quo and transforming the way technologies serve us. I believe I can help you to improve the lives of your customers, consumers, and employees.Goals: To be effective, successful and valuable in everything that I do; To be an irreplaceable asset to my employer and my clients; to be trusted and respected by my peers and managers.Though my experience is deep and broad, I am an innovator and a builder of solutions. I have consciously grown from an extremely strong academic basis of engineering, with specialization in mechanical dynamics and weapons effects, and added large amounts of experience of product and services development from a multitude of industries. With this I have blended a business approach and expertise, and culminated with skills and expertise in innovating products using both classical and 21st Century Open Innovation methods.For the past 20 years I have been a manager of highly skilled and educated product engineering and technology teams, and have always striven to get the best from them while assuring they get the most from their work. I have been a consultant to many engineering organizations and their management to our mutual benefit. Specialties: 1. Innovation & business transformation leadership2. Product design, development, and evaluation3. Business growth via targeting the intersection of consumer needs, technological possibility, and commercial imperative.4. Open Innovation implementation, methods and practice5. Applied science and simulation in mechanical engineering