Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Strategic leader with a track record in the medical device industry of developing high performance international teams, leading new product introduction teams, building global supply chains, and sourcing leadership. Extensive experience thriving in matrix organizations that place value on technical leadership, execution, and business acumen. Demonstrated leadership in the execution of production transfers, new factory setups, integrations, plant shut downs, process improvements, supplier transfers, and supply chain simplifications.
Operations leadership for a portfolio of business generating $3B of revenue that includes Sacral Neuromodulation, Deep Brain Stimulation, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Targeted Drug Delivery, and Interventional Pain. Leading through all phases of the Product Lifecyle including Operations New Product Introductions, driving fulfillment, and managing the full span of post-market product needs.
Transformed an Operations NPI organization spanning businesses with $5B of revenue. Established governance processes to elevate the voice of operations at each phase gate. Led an extended team in excess of 150 engineers, located in 12 sites supporting more than 50 active NPI programs.
Manage the teams responsible design transfer on New Product Introductions in the Magnetic Resonance (MRI) business, New Technology & Brilliant Factory launches, and Quality & Productivity enhancements in manufacturing processes. Teams located in 9 manufacturing locations in 6 different countries including; US, Mexico, China, India, Brazil, and Japan.
Developed long term supply chain strategies focusing on Make/Where Make/Buy optimization, logistics network simplification, and total landed cost optimization – impacting a network of 18 manufacturing and design sites in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Identified project opportunities and NPI supply chain designs to achieve strategies. Collaborated with key business stakeholders to reach consensus, provide resources, and launch projects. Supported integration and divestiture due diligence and project launches.
Manage a team of Project Engineers located in the US and in Monterrey Mexico. Scope of direct report ownership includes: - New product introduction of superconducting magnets for MRI. - Variable Cost Productivity projects. - Reliability improvement efforts and Warranty Cost Reduction. - Manufacturing transfers to China and Brazil.
- Led process development and industrialization activities of a consolidation furnace enabling technology. - Designed equipment platforms for chemical delivery for production and experimentation. - Determined failure mechanism of a furnace support beam, designed and implemented a preventative solution.
- Led development projects on a new chemical treatment product for the semiconductor industry. - Supervised construction and provided training during pilot production; coordinated development of control software and system integration; and supported testing of first units installed at an overseas customer facility. - Promoted to manage five Field Support Engineers, with more than 100 customers, and an installed base of over 4,000 pieces of equipment. - Performed on-site installation, training, and repair of products costing $50K - $100K. - Leveraged development experience to design and implement enhancements that met specific customer needs of improved uptime and performance.