Experienced Business and People Leader with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on providing customers innovative solutions as applied to their multiple industries, including aerospace and defense, biomedical technology, oil & gas and energy, agriculture/food, and others. Drivers are ensuring that a competitive advantage is developed and delivered that is end-user useful, hits the market when and while the window is open, is cost effective and makes a significant difference. Specialized expertise in identifying "blue water" opportunities as it relates to Game-Changing and Disruptive Technological trends, situations and unmet needs, along with related solution crafting and development, market research, business planning, and new market creation. Broad basis in Corporate Development, Strategy, Marketing, Business Development, Program Management and Operations. Belief that good and thoughtful design (especially for a solution whose time has come) can create additional demand and value far beyond satisfying any base requirements initially envisioned for a product. Belief that a focus on creating things that make a real difference (determining that isn't easy of course) has the greatest probability of creating lasting value. Belief that discovering and having a purpose-driven life leads to a happy and satisfied life.Lessons learned: * Always focus on the people in your life. There’s nothing more important to do. People are resilient but need simple things like encouragement, recognition that they matter, and the resources to do what they need to do in their lives and in work. Leadership, in all aspects, is about providing that.* Everything works differently than planned; people are people, physics is physics, and relationships are complex. When things go sideways, you have to be willing to be readily change you plan and tack into the wind to move ahead and keep the momentum you've built up going. * When an opportunity presents itself, there is always a cost to it, including lost opportunity for doing one thing over another. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. You have to look ahead to consequentially ahead to see if not only does it seem to make sense, but that what you are trying to do matters.