Mercer Island, Washington, United States
* Unique qualities of innovative analysis to discover gaps in technologies, products or systems. * High ethical standards and a demonstrated commitment for the betterment of others. * Life long learner and unique skills developed by starting initiatives in large corporations, small business and nonprofit. * Exceptional bra designer. The bra has been wrong for over 100 years. Attained numerous awards including: Seattle Health Innovator 2015, an Entrepreneur grant, and has a US utility patent. * Enjoy transforming ambiguous situations/discussions into structured outcomes and communicate complex analyses to a variety of audiences. Adept at collaborating with cultural diverse teams in multi-industries, academia and government agencies to achieve objectives. * Travel enthusiast and enjoys experiencing new cultures and places. An outdoor gal that loves to walk, hike, bike, ski, or any water activity of boating, swimming, etc.
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Voting member in Exoskeleton/Exosuit and Textile committees to drive new standards. • Ascertained the need of a new biomechanics product and viability with gap analysis then engineered the solution. • Forged partnerships with ten different Universities (at no cost to Posture Wings) to write Grants and White Papers. • Conducted all aspects of commercialization for the Posture Wings brand including the definition of market verticals, future trends and consumer motivation. Then created the business strategy and marketing plans with forecasting and pricing. • Assembled diverse, happy, and productive teams. • Data mining of large government data sets and attained the knowledge and conducted all the steps for federal government contract eligibility and Berry Amendment compliance. • Invited to the competitive HAX incubator in Shenzhen, China to lead the team in manufacturing of smart apparel with proprietary components in an Agile/Lean environment. • Created the supply chain for multiple distribution channels and managed & negotiated the vendors and professional consultants. • Awarded a US utility patent (# 8047893) for biomechanical apparel, an entrepreneur grant and performed subsequent bio-mechanic study and translated the research findings to evolve the product design • Co-taught a Senior/Graduate level product development class at N.C. State University. • Ranked #1 Forbes Future in Focus podcast • Member US Women’s Health Innovation Coalition
Collaborative research and education on sports, women's health and breast tissue support.
Commited to driving Anthropometric data to include female anatomy.
SEDAS • Project Coordination between engineers and software teams. o Change Control Board and Analytics Enterprise Working Group (Security Lead) – Boeing Design Practice Tool (BDPT) • Gov-WG, BDP tool assigned lead for the Security team. o Cybersecurity Assessments Intelligence Remediation Orchestration (CAIRO) tool - discovered multiple non-compliance issues. Led a weekly compliance meeting and reported to Senior Management. o Led the team with successful collaboration across multiple divisions of: Global Trade Controls, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Engineering, BDPT core team, and IT&DA in the US and India. BCA Structures Community of Practice (CoP) • Team creation of the Access Control Policy (ACP) document (ESCLIB Struct-DE-Functional-22-001) for BCA • Structures engineering 16 CoP Knowledge Management sites and managed the ongoing ACP requests, approval/denials and documentation. • BCA Structures Wing Technical Council (TC). Maintain Gannt schedules, PPT, and Agenda's. • Mentor engineers and support staff regarding compliance. • Managed the CoP Live! events (300-500 participants), including communication and scheduling, PPT slides, leads the What to Expect Meetings, survey requests and analysis, track pride points, attendance, etc. • Email Blast to 12K engineers to create awareness of the BCA Structures 16 CoPs – result of +235% growth.
Managed company wide initiatives in training and project management process improvement. Ad-hoc analysis for all companies and departments within the Sazan Group. Managed the CEO's personal real estate companies, and accounting for personal business requiring a high level of confidentiality.