Ontario, California, United States
Proven international sales & marketing leader with technical & sales education and experience, as well as multi-lingual communications skills. Work has included senior management, operations, manufacturing, research and development, new product development, materials engineering and metallurgy, business systems, technical writing and editing, cost accounting and estimating, and strategic business planning and forecasting, with success at every level. Now seeking to apply these wide-ranging skills and extensive experience to challenging new projects with customers around the world.
Innovative problem-solving for customers in the materials manufacturing and fabrication businesses, as well as materials-related research in fusion energy, fission test reactors, opto-mechanical systems, and aerospace-defense end-uses. Also offering native English language technical writing and editing for research papers and books. • Consulting on business assessment and recovery plan for a sheet-metal fabrication company in California with current sales of $7-8 million per year. • Submitted freelance contract proposal to a national research institute in Europe to lead an effort to transition production of fusion reactor blanket materials from laboratory to industrial scale for ITER Europe TBM (Test Blanket Module) and beyond. • Above contract proposal also includes work on publication of a book about the properties of irradiated beryllium in fusion applications with responsibility for writing one complete chapter, editing the entire book, and finding and securing a suitable publisher.