Manhattan Beach, California, United States
As a technology, engineering, and product innovation leader, I specialize in transforming ideas into scalable, commercially successful products by bridging design, engineering, manufacturing, and operations. Currently serving as Vice President, Engineering & Quality at Tiffany & Co., I lead global engineering, product industrialization, quality, and manufacturing readiness across a diverse portfolio of luxury products. My focus is on building high-performing teams, driving operational excellence, accelerating innovation, and ensuring world-class product quality while protecting the integrity of one of the world’s most iconic brands. Throughout my career, I have built and led multidisciplinary teams across engineering, product development, manufacturing, and innovation, partnering with global suppliers and internal stakeholders to improve speed to market, product performance, quality, and profitability. My expertise spans product engineering, industrial design, manufacturing strategy, quality systems, process optimization, supply chain collaboration, and organizational leadership. In addition to my corporate leadership experience, I am the Founder and CEO of Ready Grip Technologies, where I developed and patented innovative golf grip technology. This entrepreneurial journey has provided firsthand experience in intellectual property development, product commercialization, licensing strategy, and bringing new technologies from concept to market. My career has been built on a passion for solving complex problems, developing exceptional teams, and creating products that successfully combine innovation, functionality, quality, and consumer value.
- Responsible for global Engineering and Quality strategy across Tiffany & Co.’s product portfolio. - Lead product engineering, industrialization, quality assurance, and manufacturing readiness for new and existing collections. - Partner with internal manufacturing teams and a global supplier network to deliver world-class product quality, operational excellence, and scalable growth. - Drive standardization, process optimization, and technical innovation to improve efficiency, consistency, and profitability. - Ensure the highest standards of craftsmanship, quality, and brand protection across all product categories. - Lead and develop multidisciplinary engineering, quality, and technical teams while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Played a key role in creating the company’s first innovation hub from the ground up. Built and currently lead a stellar team of 60+ through end-to-end product development. Helped increase annual project capacity and throughput by enhancing design and manufacturing capabilities, aligning product and production teams, and advancing engineering methodologies and operations. Led significant improvements in product quality and cost while accelerating time to launch.
Recruited to build the company’s first innovation hub from scratch, playing an instrumental role in igniting multi-billion-dollar business growth. Provided technical leadership to enhance the design, manufacturing, and evaluation of products. Aligned the Development and Production teams while advancing engineering methodologies and operations.
Conceived and launched a novel golf grip company using proprietary and patented technology enabling rapid application of interchangeable golf grips. This technology allows golfers to customize their swing using the thickness, texture, weight, and even color of their choice. Successfully licensed the technology to the world’s largest golf grip manufacturer. Accountable for all aspects of innovation, product development, manufacturing, and business development.
Earned progressive responsibility for guiding design, manufacturing, and launch strategies for a portfolio of 250+ products across all product lines. Played an instrumental role in helping the company become top 10 globally by increasing and accelerating output through continuous process improvement, enhancing collaboration with global vendors and manufacturers, and identifying opportunities to drive margin expansion. Grew and led a team of 31 Product Development and Engineering professionals.
Rapidly progressed through multiple roles, gaining a holistic understanding of the product design, development, prototyping, manufacturing, and launch process, and played an integral role in leading the company to be top-10 globally.
Led a product development team from conceptualization through mass production, with responsibility for project management, design development, prototyping, manufacturing documentation, cost analysis, and vendor communication.
Responsible for developing new product lines within the company’s catalogue. Creating assembly drawings, including bills of materials and detail drawings for the designs.Direct contact with manufactures as all product manufacturing is carried out in-house .