Background

Hands-on Engineering and Manufacturing Leadership; commercial, industrial, and scientific products, from table-top devices to capital equipment.

Job experience

• 2019 - present
  Program Manager
  Sensata Technologies, Inc.
  

  Carpinteria, CA

  - Spearheaded new product development and introduction of products for Porsche with revenue of
  $1MM in 2019 and $5MM expected in 2020.
  - Leveraged influence across entire operations (350 people at the location) to increase capacity from 1000
  to 2400 units per day on the production line supporting Porsche – at 1500 per day as of 11/01/2019,
  expected to be 2000 per day in Q1-2020.
  - Launching materials cost reduction program to yield $1.5 million savings per year, on a product sold to
  Tesla.

• 2017 - 2018
  VP Engineering
  TriFoil Imaging
  

  Chatsworth, CA

  - Hired to rightsize/expand the engineering team to get the flagship product manufacturable.
  - Updated/re-created all of the mechanical drawings for the $500k product so assemblies could be
  manufactured by new quality suppliers.
  - Transitioned from a major supplier suffering from quality and delivery problems to new vetted
  suppliers. $50k assemblies had been arriving with parts missing and with unauthorized changes, and
  deliveries would be months late.
  - Rolled out electrical engineering fixes so the $500k products would stop failing in the field.
  - Re-energized company to get the flagship product to market, projected at $12 million for the first year.
  - Promoted from Director to Vice President after 6 months for successes with the turnaround.

• 2009 - 2017
  Director of Laser Systems - Engineering and Manufacturing
  Ecotec Solutions, Inc.
  

  Colton, CA

  - He was the one person included in the Laser Product acquisition from Viaspace. CEO acquired him to
  expand their product portfolio with innovations not present in their markets.
  - Successfully transitioned the business unit that was acquired, with production fully operational within
  30 days of deal acquisition.
  - Created the new division to expand the high end of Ecotec’s product portfolio for customers such as
  Waste Management.
  - Developed the first new products within one year of the acquisition.
  - Implemented collaborative communication to get buy-in with the C-suite, the internal team, and
  external suppliers to achieve the one-year new product development milestone.
  - Increased sales revenue by 6% with this new product line.
  - Launched innovative product variations to break into new markets.

• 2006 - 2009
  Director of Engineering and Operations
  Viaspace, Inc.
  

  Pasadena, CA

  - Recruited by CEO to establish a new Instrumentation Division developing cleantech equipment.
  - Spearheaded the successful launch for the division’s first product, from conceptualizing,
  engineering, and transferring into production within 8 months.
  - Created all engineering, manufacturing, materials systems to showcase the new product at a major
  Japanese tradeshow.
  - Built the manufacturing group from zero by establishing all systems to manage purchasing and
  inventory, and vetted and onboarded all material vendors within the first 8 months.
  - Awarded a patent for infrared absorption spectroscopy product (U.S. Patent 7,499,169; Fuel Cell and
  Product of Combustion Humidity Sensor).

• 2003 - 2006
  Director of Operations
  Universal Switching Corp.
  

  Burbank, CA

  - Hired to organize engineering, manufacturing, and materials to correct the out-of-control product
  delivery times for our engineered-to-order customized products.
  - Organized the engineered-to-order projects in a simple living spreadsheet, allowing all departments to
  see and be involved with all deliverables and priorities. 0% On-Time-Delivery shot up to over 90% On-
  Time-Delivery.
  - Cleaned up operations to increase efficiency and achieve 60% annual revenue growth from 2003 to 2004,
  without increase of headcount.

• 1998 - 2002
  Director of Engineering and Operations
  Plexus Medical
  

  San Dimas, CA

  - Mandated to keep internal pace with the forecasted rapid sales growth of 33% per year.
  - Spearheaded internal operations growth to achieve 33% annual production YOY growth for 3
  consecutive years without increasing headcount.
  - Generated finished goods cost savings of 35-50% through lean/continuous improvement, switching to
  injection molding for some parts, and offshoring some materials sourcing and assembly operations to
  China.
  - Implemented the first ERP system for the company. Company had plateaued and growth would have
  FAILED without an ERP system. Received C-suite approval after getting team buy-in on the
  demonstration version.
  - Dropped underperforming suppliers and vetted/onboarded quality vendors while negotiating material
  cost savings.

Education

• University of Southern California
  MBA
  

  - present

  MBA - concentrations in Operations and Finance
• California Institute of Technology
  BS Applied Physics
  

  - present