• Provide guidance and consultation in electronics to executive management for investment/venture capital groups
• Identify M&A needs in electronics development, operations and manufacturing capabilities
• Define and Implement electronics strategies as new-business enabler/growth engine in traditional, ‘non-electronic’ companies
• Advise, design and start-up of electronics organizations; guidance for management transition
• Provide electronics talent definition, acquisition and recruiting support/facilitation/staffing guidance
• Provide short-term, on-site executive management of electronics organization start-ups and transitions

• Established world-class electronic engineering capability for the world’s leading home appliance manufacturer delivering electronics development leadership.
• General management of 550 engineers and technologists in 12 technology centers in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Italy, India and China. Partnered with 4,000 person product delivery organization.
• Built electronics development organization that produces electronic technology advantage for Fabric Care, Refrigeration, Cooking, Cleaning, Water, and Portables businesses.
• Executed multi-year effort that delivered an industry-first electronic product architecture – increasing focus on consumer benefits and speed of change while reducing material, inventory and capital costs.
• Led creation and implementation of new component engineering management systems for product development and interfaces between engineering, procurement, and manufacturing to drive productivity, quality, and reduced time-to-market.
• Implemented the Corporation’s business-driven intellectual property strategy for electronics, establishing means to achieve competitive advantage.

• Created, hired and managed applications engineering team and new applications and characterization labs delivering design-ins, new product definition and characterization and strategic support of customers
• Marketing Director for Industrial, Retail and Healthcare segments in Corporate Marketing
• Managed new product strategic direction and customer engineering relationships to drive direction of the discrete, power, standard logic and analog switch semiconductor portfolio for Asia, America and Europe, covering wireless/portable, computing, consumer, industrial and automotive market segments

• Led development and market introduction of a new generation of AC variable frequency inverter drives utilizing 600/1200V IGBT power åmodules in three new product lines
• Managed new product development engineering for factory automation controls, power supplies and motor controls for the Standard Control Product Division of Rockwell Automation

The Ohio State University, BSEE ‘77

• Eta Kappa Nu – Member IEEE Honor Society
• Tau Beta Pi – Member Engineering Honor Society