Results-driven Engineering Executive simultaneously develops innovative products AND creative teams through leadership into disciplined processes. Technical expertise in mechanical engineering, electrical / software controls, and manufacturing fortified with hands-on management experience in large scale manufacturing, and in a job-shop / prototyping environment, provides an empathetic ear highly effective at listening to internal and external customers, and turning requests for changes into opportunities for innovation and collaboration. Extensive international experience, combined with past P&L responsibility motivates manufacturable, innovative designs that capture the imagination of the customer, resulting in increased sales and profits.
- Builder / Fixer of teams. Hire, coach, and develop staff. Deconstruct siloed organizations.
- Process driver. Create disciplined processes so teams are freed to be more innovative, resulting in customer driven solutions. Innovation is a learned skill, and can be taught.
- Innovator. Salvaged faltering customer accounts by identifying problem areas and implemented processes to create and insure customer satisfaction.
- Lifetime Learner. Always asking “why?” Always taking things apart to see how they work. Seeking to understand customer’s problems and communicate company’s unique solutions.
- Door opener. Over 20 years of international experience, including Europe, Asia, and the Americas. A real solution for a real problem is a universal language.
- Communicator. Spoke / taught at trade shows, distributors, and professional organizations. Wrote and published many technical articles for trade magazines, journals, and conference proceedings. Trained sales people, and service people.
- “Street smart” and “book smart” engineer. Eight years of hands on managing of welding, fabrication, machining, and assembling experience, fortified by theory and discipline, result in innovative build-able products.