about me

Experienced business professional who has led and accomplished significant quality improvements, developed customer relationships, and launched new products. With a strong engineering background, I am a technical problem solver with strengths in process development and work flow improvement.

ASQ CMQ/OE

American Society for Quality’s Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence facilitates and leads team efforts to establish and monitor customer/supplier relations, supports strategic planning and deployment initiatives, and helps develop measurement systems to determine organizational improvement.

 

Prosci Change Practioner

Prosci’s Change Management Certification Program provides the tools, know-how and support needed to drive successful change going forward.

PMI CAPM

Project Management Institute’s Certified Associate in Project Management is a certification for project practitioners. This certification provides the fundamental knowledge, terminology and processes of effective project management.

Professional Experience

  • Chief Manufacturing and Quality Officer – Established safety culture, built capacity model, led initiatives to increase cross-training to get more utilization from existing staff
  • Lean/Continuous Improvement Manager – Implemented ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 integrated management system
  • Vice President of Quality – Led quality staff through various continuous improvement tasks related to systems for record storage, use of semi-automated inspection equipment, and control of documentation.
  • Senior Mechanical Project Engineer – Led product development teams for vehicle accessories and armor systems, including spare tire carriers and tow bars
  • Project Engineer – Led design and production launch activities for transparent armor window
    safety systems used in military vehicles
  • R&D Engineer – Supported the development of headlights using LEDs. Responsible for design,
    drawings, prototype builds and testing.