FARO Technologies, Inc.

Kennett Square, PA

World leader in portable, high-accuracy, 3-D coordinate measuring & imaging instruments with revenue growth from $36M to $209M from 2001- 2008

www.faro.com/product.aspx?ct=us&content=pro

Led six engineering teams concurrently in three US states and Germany

Drove the formation of Global Product Management team reporting to the CEO to optimize performance relationships between Engineering, Sales & the customer

Initiated collaborative Product Development & Release Process; hosted Engineering & Product Management teams at MIT to study under Dr. Steven Eppinger, Deputy Dean, Sloan School of Business http://web.mit.edu/eppinger/www/

Mobilized FARO’s Merger & Acquisition team that strategized the optimum use of FARO’s strong cash holdings

Principle investigator in the acquisition of 30+ patent portfolio from MIT’s Lincoln Labs & Dimensional Photonics, Inc.; formed an interdisciplinary team in the Boston area to engineer a new product family

Sponsored the Software Engineering team’s transition to the Agile/Scrum methodology, revolutionizing their development approach

Led three product teams to release the world’s most accurate 3-D measurement instruments in their respective fields

Strengthened company’s IP position, resulting in a historically high level of patent activity, both offensive and defensive

Led team to ship over $150M in Laser Tracker revenue in seven years, while continuously improving product quality

Launched the V2 Laser Tracker that cut product cost by over 40%

Developed TrackArm & TargetCAM product enhancements which led to dozens of additional aerospace orders

Co-led company with the CFO after departure of the CEO, up to the acquisition by FARO

Served as chief architect of the 5^th generation of Laser Trackers which captured the attention of FARO, a perfect suitor for SMX, given their global sales force

Recast image of the company which helped drive it to profitability with $15M in ’00 revenue

Led total redesign of the 4000/4500 Laser Tracker product family, resulting in a 400% increase in the MTBF of these highly complex instruments

Asyst Automation, Inc.

Wilmington, MA

Start-up manufacturer of robotic silicon wafer cassette storage & conveyance systems

Grew revenues from $5M/quarter to $9M/quarter and world-wide staffing from 80 to 140+

Reorganized company to include Systems Engineering to support its transformation from a product provider to an integrator of fab-wide automation systems

Created Software Engineering department and discipline, growing staff from 4 to 20+ in recognition of the substantial software backlog the company had accumulated

Launched Business Process Engineering program to infuse discipline and predictability, resulting in reduced product cost and shorter inside lead time

Key Technology, Inc.

Walla Walla, WA

World leader in food processing automation, particularly color machine vision sorters

www.key.net/products/tegra/tegra-sorter/default.html

Directed Product Development, Project Engineering and Document Control departments

Created highly functioning teams from traditionally dysfunctional engineering groups

Innovated concept of “Application Packs” – a family of graphical UIs providing customer-class specific control, allowing complex machines to be easily operated by migrant labor

Spearheaded development of a totally new, high speed color sorter family called “Tegra” that has since put Key in world leadership, with revenues nearly doubling

Led development of the AccuScan Color Quality Monitor, launching a new generation of technology that served as the foundation of the Tegra family

Applied TQM principals to reduce by 20% the engineering labor invested into sold orders

Helped the company make a successful initial public offering

Robot Aided Manufacturing Center, Inc.

Red Wing, MN

Manufacturer of advanced robotic systems for assembly & packaging, including innovative robotic CD dispensing, French fry cooking systems for McDonald’s & other automated retail concepts (this business was acquired by Schwan’s Foods)

Directed Engineering, Finance/Administration, Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing, plus Systems Assurance & Support

Led in identifying over $8.6M in potential orders for robotic systems, with bookings exceeding $3.7M, an 81% increase over the prior year

Spearheaded the development and sales of a new, inexpensive robot for machine tending

Established proposal format, quotation process, and improved job costing for Sales

Unisys Corporation

Plymouth, MI

Maker of business machines incorporating image capture, display & archiving technologies

Led a rapidly growing team to develop image-oriented archival products for bank automation

Completed early design steps for the Image Archive Processing System as part of a four year, $23M development program with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Participated on an eleven person, plant-wide Quality Improvement Steering Committee that launched over 25 Quality Improvement Teams in a span of six months

Perceptron, Inc.

Farmington Hills, MI

Manufacturer of advanced machine vision systems for non-contact gauging & robot guidance

www.perceptron.com/manu.html

As one of three founders, led this now public company’s development of DataCam, Visual Fixturing, Flexible Measurement & Hand Held Sensor products

Directed team of subcontractors to develop a family of Laser Radar sensors utilized for both robotic bin picking and autonomous vehicle guidance

Led the Software Development team to create user-friendly, graphics-oriented application software for the MV-300 Laser Gauging product line

General Motors Manufacturing Staff

Warren, MI

In-house R&D group dedicated to innovating advanced manufacturing technologies

Co-established the Machine Vision Laboratory to facilitate pioneering development of low cost machine vision and robotic solutions; designed and installed the CONSORT high speed visual sorting system for foundry finishing rooms, first ever to incorporate a Color CRT, light pen and menus for operator control

Personally implemented system and application software for the CONSIGHT, KEYSIGHT and GAGESIGHT vision systems, each an early landmark in the industry