Bio

Senior R&D Manager and technologist with strong leadership skills and a passion for implementing world-class processes, systems, and associated technical tools to drive efficient product/system development. Expertise: • Change Management with ability to drive technology solutions across functional domains in a Medical Device setting. • Experience in managing global teams and dynamics/challenges of offshore/onshore work distribution, outsourcing and insourcing, and building partnerships with external consultancies. • Significant experience in Project Management with a focus on Agile, Scrum, and DevOps methodologies. • Innovator with a solid track record of reducing ideas and processes to practice, with a keen ability to move projects across the goal line. • Rapid root cause analysis and problem solving • Product owner of Global Risk and Requirements Management system and Global Design Systems (MCAD/ECAD and CAD data management) across all BSC sites. • Management of global teams including North America, APAC and Central America • Merger and acquisition specialist First half of career: • Laser process development of metals/polymers • Custom Machine Design/Robotics/Product Design U.S. Patents • 8,057,534 • 7,589,297 • 7,476,034 • 6,874,789 • 5,994,667 • 8,816,244 Machine Design/Engineer & Build: • Patented stent tube guiding system • Patented Low Mass Rotary Assembly • Patented inverted stent cutting machine • First I.R. controlled laser welding system • First Vision based stent/SDS crimper • First drug/stent spray coater (CE marked) • Fiber laser micro welder with integrated motion • Laser beam delivery and optical systems • Polyimide tubing production line • Optical modeling and ray tracing • Advanced 3D CAD modeling • Machine design with integrated vision C.S.W.P. Certified SolidWorks Professional C.E.P.A. Certified PDM Professional Administrator