| Years: 2017 to Present |
Employer: Undisclosed |
Title: VP of Global Operations |
Department: Operations |
Responsibilities:
Responsible for Employer’s owned manufacturing plants in the US and China, SCM, Commodity Management, and Logistics. Spearheaded numerous parallel infrastructure projects including domestic factory consolidations and hands on strategic outsourcing of major product lines to a contract manufacturing partner in Shenzhen, China. |
| Years: 2017 to 2017 |
Employer: HP |
Title: Director, Commercial Business Segment |
Department: PageWide Industrial InkJet |
Responsibilities:
Business owner of the $150M Commercial Business Segment within HP’s PageWide Industrial Division. Responsible for end to end profitability and product portfolio serving the worldwide Direct Mail, Publishing, Transactional, and Commercial printing sectors of the market. |
| Years: 2013 to 2016 |
Employer: Presstek |
Title: COO & Chief Commercial Officer |
Department: Executive Management |
Responsibilities:
Responsible for Presstek’s $60M digital printing consumables, technical services, consulting, and equipment business with functional scope covering product management, engineering, in-house and outsourced manufacturing, SCM, logistics, marketing, sales, service, and IT. Aggregated responsibilities from prior three roles at Presstek while driving renewed plate product development and go to market efforts, structural reconfiguration of, and capital investment in manufacturing capacities, and personal responsibility for waterless plate product launch into industrial customer base in Germany. Ongoing initiation and cultivation of strategic partnerships in NA, SA, EU, and APAC. |
| Years: 2009 to 2013 |
Employer: Presstek |
Title: VP of Operations & Chief Quality Officer |
Department: Operations |
Responsibilities:
Leader of all lean manufacturing, supply chain, continuous improvement and QC functions at Presstek. Responsibilities included two US printing plate production plants, one US equipment manufacturing facility, and strategic manufacturing partnerships in Japan, Brazil, and Germany. Products included chemistry-free and waterless printing plates and digital printing presses for use in customer applications in commercial printing, packaging, and labeling. Full P&L ownership for $35M specialty plates business. |
| Years: 2006 to 2009 |
Employer: Presstek |
Title: VP of WW Service |
Department: Service |
Responsibilities:
Head of Presstek’s world wide service business with annual turnover of approx. $25M. Functions included field service, technical support, consulting projects, product management, dealer channel management, parts sales and logistics. Products included Presstek’s entire range of capital equipment from entry level plate making devices up through multi-million dollar press installations. Increased gross margins by nearly 2/3 while boosting customer satisfaction to 97% via comprehensive operational metrics, rationalized capacity, and by implementing closed loop customer feedback system. |
| Years: 2006 to 2006 |
Employer: Presstek |
Title: GM, Press Business |
Department: Press Business |
Responsibilities:
Solely responsible for Presstek’s $110M DI digital offset press and aftermarket business. Comprehensive product management ownership including market research, product specification, R&D feasibility studies, make vs. buy evaluations, pricing, positioning, channel strategy, capital funding, customer beta testing, commercial launch, and ongoing financial performance. Restructured and streamlined product portfolio, charted product roadmap, initiated strategic projects to fill market gaps and refocused the business on aftermarket consumables volume growth, high margin field upgrades for HW and SW, and expanded service and consulting offerings. |
| Years: 2003 to 2005 |
Employer: Heidelberg |
Title: Senior VP, SystemService |
Department: Service |
Responsibilities:
Leader of $125M North American technical service and parts business for Heidelberg, Managed ~500 employees in ten North American regions and was principal member of Heidelberg’s worldwide service leadership team representing the Americas. Restructured organization to optimize financial performance while developing a service contract and consulting portfolio and implementing operational metrics to maximize customer satisfaction and business results. Primary sales resource for escalated pre-sales and post-sales challenges within large, industrial customer base. |
| Years: 1999 to 2003 |
Employer: Heidelberg |
Title: VP, Service Logistics |
Department: Service |
Responsibilities:
Business Unit owner of Heidelberg’s $75M after market consumables and service parts business in the US. Streamlined business including inventory planning, procurement, supplier management, QA, PC board repair, warehousing, transportation, 3PL vendor management, 24/7 call center, promotions, sales and marketing, technical support, pricing strategy, expedited international logistics, and customer service for thousands of mission critical customer components. |
| Years: 1995 to 1999 |
Employer: Heidelberg |
Title: Director of Engineering |
Department: Sheetfed Presses |
Responsibilities:
Chief liaison between U.S. market, German R&D, manufacturing, product management, and global sales and service units throughout eighteen-month product launch phase for QM-DI digital offset press. Created, edited and published master troubleshooting database used by field service technicians worldwide, engineering and manufacturing in Germany. Designed and built a US service organization of close to 100 technicians from the ground up and served as sole sales support resource and ultimate point of escalation for all significant customer challenges in the Americas. |
| Years: 1990 to 1995 |
Employer: Heidelberg |
Title: Principal Mechanical Engineer |
Department: R&D |
Responsibilities:
Lived and worked in Germany for three years as core member of “skunk works” R&D team. Achieved fluency in the local language while personally designing 40% of the key mechanical components and sub-systems within the QM-DI digital printing press. Managed supplier selection, procurement, and prototype assembly to deliver fully functioning alpha units less than nine months after concept definition. Brought the QM-DI product to market at DRUPA ’95 on schedule and under budget; securing 330 sales contracts for the $450K printing press during a two-week period. |
