OBJECTIVE
Seeking a leadership position in Engineering Management & New Product Deveopment for a Southern California (Orange, LA or San Diego counties) based organization. As the technology and project leader, I would manage teams of field experts to extend the technology and performance limits of existing products and/or processes. New research opportunities would be screened for viability prior to embarking on technology maturation projects that would lead to the next generation of new products.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Research & Development director with extensive experience in new product development, new technology adoption and strategic planning. A consistent record of success with cross-functional teams and achieving results within matrixed organizations. A proven leader utilizing a coaching style, promoting innovation and exploratory risk taking, along with a focus towards continuous improvement.

Key competencies include:

• Research screening
• Technology maturation
• New product selecion management
• Project scoping, planning & management
• Patents & IP portfolios
• Sensors & signal conditioning
• Small embedded systems
• Rapid prototyping

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Managed the collaboration with NASA and the validation testing to mature a technology that enables stable, high temperature pressure sensors that can endure inside gas turbine engines
• Due diligence on IP and technology on a successful $50M acquisition
• Streamlined the new product development approval process. With improved accountability, twice as many new product ideas were reviewed for implementation annually
• Successfully reduced the physical volume of a classified underwater directional hydrophone by 50%, while adding functionality and increasing low end noise and bandwidth performance
• Championed a total manufacturing process review for top high runner products, which increased first pass yields by 20% and reduced standard labor content by 5%
• Proposed and booked +$1.0M per year in new R & D research contracts from ONR, Department of Energy, DARPA, Navy or Department of Transportation
• 7 published papers (wireless railcar monitoring, circuit breakers, amplifier systems)