Core Competencies
Product engineering
Program management
Technical team management
Chemical process engineering
Problem solving, technical and non-technical, strong technical aptitude
Programming, robust approach
Financial analysis
Lean manufacturing
6-Sigma, statistical approaches (mentored Blackbelts)
FDA GMP, change management
Work Experience
Carestream Health (spin-off of Kodak's health imaging business in 2007), Windsor CO
May 2007 to current
Current position: Technical Project Leader; Prior positions: Product Engineering Manager, Technical Leader
• Protect core business by identifying, transferring technology where appropriate, qualifying, and implementing alternative suppliers for specialized materials.
• Managed site Product Engineers and Product Quality Technicians. Member of site management team.
• Manage Product Development group cost budget and production experiment cost analyses.
• Managed and technically led transfer and qualification of set of core products from one manufacturing site to another, on time and within budget, resulting in a multi-million dollar per year cost reduction.
• Prioritize and drive product development activities required to maintain competiveness of core products.
• Resolve technical issues and coordinate qualification for manufacturing unconventional products on existing assets.
Eastman Kodak, Windsor CO
Until May 2007
Positions: Product Engineer, Process Engineer
• Coordinated resolution of product raw material, product and process design, manufacturing, quality measurement, and specification issues.
• Directed activities to improve product quality, productivity, and to manage product formulation while adhering to FDA requirements for medical devices.
• Coordinated qualifications and implementation of new products into manufacturing.
• Developed a new design for critical reactant delivery to a batch process reactor which ended up being the prototype for a worldwide common design to reduce site to site product variability.
• Developed robust PLC logic for new state-of -the-art controllers for complex batch processes. These were used as prototypes for worldwide common designs to reduce waste and improve site to site product variability.
• Researched chemical structure of surfactants to select range of surfactant to test for product interaction in the lab which quickly resulted in selection of an appropriate surfactant for manufacturing the product.
• Enabled a multi-million dollar productivity improvement by persistent investigation which resulted in identification of a cause for product variabilit...
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