Technology executive in a startup company and key partner and supplier to the manufacturing industry. Built and led engineering teams to develop advanced hardware and software solutions for the consumer product goods sector.
• Automation & Robotics: Executed the planning, design, fabrication, and testing of manufacturing equipment.
• Digital Transformation: Drove the software development of next-generation machine interfaces and cloud-based platforms, creating an ecosystem of networked equipment and remote access to web applications (SaaS) and real-time data and reporting across multiple lines and factories.

Advanced rapidly across increasing levels of oversight in a long-tenured career at a leading technology corporation. Coached, led, and developed a 100-person team of managers, engineers, and technicians at the Substrate Packaging Technology Development factory.
• Engineering: Directed oversight in system design, installation of new equipment, and execution of preventive and corrective maintenance.
• Project Management: Oversaw planning and conducting of complex repair, overall workflows, scheduling, and coordination in large-scale buildings/facilities.
• Continuous Improvement: Facilitated implementation of safety, quality, and ease-of-maintenance projects, business processes, and documentation of equipment specifications and operational/maintenance procedures.
• Contractor & Supplier Management: Served as a diligent manager in budget development/management, staffing, training, inventory management, and material/resource allocation.

Functioned as the on-shift engineering leader, directing a 15+ person, cross-functional team of engineers and technicians focused on factory support.
• Process Improvements: Solidified control and workflow management by leading process and equipment troubleshooting, complex problem-solving, equipment recovery, and the disposition of production material.
• Efficiency: Directed multifaceted and effective cost savings projects that reduced chemical consumption and optimized preventive maintenance.

Coached and directed an 8-person team of engineers and technicians that focused on the polymeric etch process.
• Industry Partnerships: Drove development and implementation of advanced technologies, implemented new chemical processes in a production line by engaging materials and equipment suppliers, fostered solid relationships, and led process improvements.
• Analysis: Strategically conducted multiple process characterization and optimization tests on new materials.

Led efforts as a project manager for new factory construction, overseeing sourcing, installation, and qualification of first-of-a kind equipment, factory start-up, new product introduction, revenue production ramp, and general manufacturing operations.
• Vendor Relations: Recognized as a relationship partner/liaison, aligning external business partners while establishing new supplier-customer relationships.
• R&D: Systematically organized and coordinated research and development efforts that drove innovation in chemical and materials engineering.

Directed the overall safety, quality, and output of semiconductor and microelectronic substrate processing equipment.
• Equipment Processes: As an electroplating & wet etch process engineer, consistently ran experiments in conjunction with external industry partners and suppliers. Effectively optimized equipment processes for copper electroplating, increased throughput, and solved surface roughness, microscopic structural, dimensional, and uniformity issues on micron-scale copper features for optical recognition, laser processing, photolithography, and etching.
• Lean Manufacturing: While serving as a dielectric thin films process engineer, gained significant semiconductor fabrication expertise in a high-volume, lean manufacturing environment, specifically regarding process optimization, statistical methodologies, process controls, feedback control systems, data analytics, predictive modeling and simulation, and yield analysis.

• Naval Science Instructor at NROTC Unit Vanderbilt University, 1999-2001.
• Division Officer onboard fast attack submarine USS Bremerton (SSN-698), 1996-1999.