I am a strong proponent of the business leverage gained by a focus on product quality, starting from the design stage. I have experienced the prototype-to-manufacturing transition twice, utilizing planning, collaboration and problem solving skills. My leadership style is that of a highly committed team player who leads by example.Most recently, I have been the Senior Director of Product Quality at Heliotrope Technologies, a nano-technology start-up in the electrochromic windows space in Alameda, CA.Prior to that I was the Director of Field Quality with View, Inc. where I had a bird's eye view of electrochromic window performance in the field, ensuring that learnings were shared throughout the organization and actions taken for customer delight.Previously, I was with Applied Materials in progressive roles in Chemical Vapor Deposition, Rapid Thermal Processing, Applied Global Services, and Thin Film Solar divisions, contributing through process and technology development for scale-up and transfer to production, and field service management.Specialties/Skills: Technology development, operations, management of innovation, scale-up to high volume manufacturing, continuous improvement, product life cycle. Quality improvement, field performance monitoring, metrics, customer success. Hiring high quality people, team building, training. Supply chain contract negotiations, intellectual property.