Experience

IRRAS AB

• Sweden
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Product Excellence

  • Oct 2018 - Present



Uprise Energy, plumbing repair innovation, dry eye treatment & a product development tool companies

• Greater San Diego Area

• Executive Advisor

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  www.upriseenergy.com stp innovations www.ocusci.com www.devtom.ai www.upriseenergy.com stp innovations www.ocusci.com www.devtom.ai



Pathway Medtech

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Growth Advisor

  • May 2018 - Jun 2018



Fluidmaster, Inc

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Global VP of Engineering & Product Development

  • 2010 - 2018

  Executive team member chartered to annually refine corporate strategy, establish company initiatives, set and adhere to the budget, and define department performance metrics and employee goals. Responsible for research, new products, sustaining, and engineering services across seven locations. Senior Staff Member while growing company revenue 2.4 times, doubling EBITDA, and increasing unit price seven times Developed an exceptional worldwide staff >70 with matrix management influence over 1000 employees Increased Vitality Index 42% and accountable to programs worth 20% of the company’s total revenue Partnered with internal executives in six countries; defined needed technologies & competitive products; executed delivery via cross-department alliances; incrementally generated 1/3rd of company revenue Established product branding standards with integration in the new product development process Architected a tooling and molding center of excellence, included 2000 molds and six global locations Acquired ISO 17025 self-test certification for the largest shared resource laboratory; tripled testing output with no change in headcount; eliminated over three months from new product launch timelines



Alere, San Diego

• Director, Engineering & IT

  • 2004 - 2010

  Alere was a premier medical diagnostic company. Employed to transfer R&D and manufacturing to a purpose built new facility. Leadership grew to cover broad technical responsibilities, spanning technicians, product development, manufacturing engineering, and IT across four buildings and a 1200 person campus. Responsibility for a team of 30 technicians, design & process engineers and a 20 hour/day operation. Owned business applications, Client Services, infrastructure, and the MRP application; staff of 21. Opened a $500M annual market, improved performance 50%, eliminated four labor intensive & quality challenged processes, and reduced material costs 50% by leading a major product revitalization team. Established a Continuous Improvement Team (CIT) which improved yields 10%, increased line rate 20%, reduced assembly costs >$1M, doubled capacity, and reduced processes from three shifts to one. Reduced design turnaround time from months to one week from concept to molded part in hand by creating a state of the art precision Rapid Prototyping Center (RPC) for injection molding, machining, and metrololgy. Leader in the construction & validation of an FDA regulated R&D and manufacturing 400,000 sq.ft. facility and a class 100,000 cleanroom molding facility



Sun Microsystems

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Management (Senior & Staff positions)

  • 1999 - 2004

  Implemented and managed a cross functional, geographically diverse, and global business team responsible for ~$600M/quarter enterprise server revenue & increasing customer satisfaction. Accountable to the Executive Vice President, Enterprise Server Division. Coordinated Finance, Sales, Quality, Marketing, Hardware & Software Engineering, Operations, and Service with extensive indirect membership to partner business units and supporting organizations. Led quality initiative resulting in retaining top customers such as NTTDoCoMo, eBay, and Duestche Bank Chartered to create and track product line strategy, goals, project portfolio, program & business reviews, resources, competitive analysis, product quality, capital assets, excess & obsolete, and customer good will. Accountable to over 100 concurrent projects throughout the product life cycle, including factory and field product quality; directed the resulting corrective designs, customer, and field actions. Senior member of Worldwide Operations throughout an enterprise server development and launch program; maintained the position through the first 6 months of production. Collaborated in the on schedule manufacturing bring up of new enterprise server manufacturing facilites in Hillsboro, Oregon and Edinburgh, Scotland Commercially introduced dozens of innovations and accountable to a new server program worth over $10B Proposed & enabled a 2500-person business unit restructuring; aligned all functions; extended existing 50%+ margin server life five years, increased revenue >$1B; introduced new server with record setting 1st year sales



Biosite Diagnostics

• Manufacturing & Sr. Development Engineer

  • 1991 - 1999

  Started at Biosite to scale up manufacturing, launch, and stabilize their 1st product platform. Moved to R&D to develop two new platforms, their corresponding assembly lines, and the transfer to Operations. Engineering responsibility for the design and manufacturing processes of nine novel disposable medical diagnostic products and their corresponding measurement instruments; combined product lines generated $300M+ annual revenue. Developed and implemented proprietary new manufacturing processes spanning micro-fluidics, dispensing, surface modification, bonding, micro-lithography, precision molding, and micro-machining.



General Dynamics, Electronics Division

• Mechanical Engineer

  • 1989 - 1991

  Accountable for aircraft test station mechanical designs full ownership for all antenna lab projects. Responsible to author and self-manage contracts to perform and document antenna radiation pattern testing. Required the design and fabrication of ¼ and ½ scale models of missiles, rockets, and satellites. Accountable for aircraft test station mechanical designs full ownership for all antenna lab projects. Responsible to author and self-manage contracts to perform and document antenna radiation pattern testing. Required the design and fabrication of ¼ and ½ scale models of missiles, rockets, and satellites.