Accomplished and Successful Engineering Executive with experience in research, development, manufacturing, and quality in a variety of organizations ranging in size from start-ups to $36 billion/yr., including global experience with Pfizer, Hospira, Baxter, Dionex, and Medtronic. Track Record of efficiently building high-performance technical teams, and rapidly turning-around three previously non-productive development cross-disciplinary departments to on-time completion at world-class quality levels (including ). A sharp focus on the customer’s Value Proposition results in consistently bringing commercially-successful products to market; e.g., 400% and 900% growth in company stock value after leading flagship products to market.
Specialties: Focus development processes to improve achieving business goals.
Expert in both safety and project risk management.
Risk-based, efficient integration of regulatory and business needs; e.g., stage-gate development processes.
Turned-around three distressed development environments, transitioning from no releases for years to 4-6 releases within a year.
Headed Quality at a medical product (pure device, combination device-drug, and combination device-biologic) design firm.
