• Proven mechanical and user interface design experience for cost-effective, reliable products.
  
• A strong track record of creative, practical solutions to product design challenges.
  
• Solid experience with Design For Manufacturing and manufacturing processes, particularly injection molding, machining and electronic & mechanical assembly.
  
• Engineering experience includes extensive knowledge of electronic design requirements in relation to overall electromechanical product design.
  
• Experience in design of products for overseas manufacturing and international sales.
  
• Exceptional design & fabrication skills with metals, engineering plastics, wood and composite materials.
  
• Management skills covering single projects to engineering departments.
  
• Superlative written communication and visual design skills.
  
• Knowledge of patent search, drafting, prosecution, patent laws and USPTO rules.
  
• Extensive vendor and contact base for sourcing components and services.

Technical

• Designed the look & feel, structural, control and display details of numerous products, with an emphasis on portable electronic products.
  
• Products designed have been market leaders in performance, cost-effectiveness and high reliability.
  
• Design work has included inventing new implementations of product features to avoid patent infringement.
• New patent applications resulted from this effort.
  
• Improved the manufacturability, usability and reliability of existing products.
  
• Produced Solidworks CAD files and drawings for clients and vendors.
  
• Specified, evaluated and refined Rapid Prototypes in a variety of materials.
  
• Designed and fabricated numerous functional and visual prototypes of new products and packaging for trade show and beta testing use.
  
• Designed and fabricated numerous electronic test fixtures for final test in manufacturing.
  
• Registered Patent Agent, working with mechanical and electronic inventions, including producing patent drawings. Registration granted January 28, 2003.
  
• Professional memberships in IEEE, NAPP.
  
  
  Managerial

• Managed R&D/Engineering department with an annual budget of over $1M.
  
• Created product development methodology for steadily growing market leader in musical instrument electronics, enabling improved forecast, monitoring and achievement of development budget and schedule goals.
  
• Wrote job definitions, interviewed, hired and trained production manager, mechanical and electrical engineers, technicians and machinists.
  
• Hired contract mechanical designers and industrial designers as needed.
  
• Sourced technical components, negotiated purchasing contracts with vendors, monitored vendor performance on key development projects.
  
• Participated in product development teams including members of Engineering, Production, Marketing, Sales and Purchasing departments.
  
  Computer
  
  
• Proficient with Solidworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Project, Word and Excel.
  
• Created websites for professional use.

  Patents Awarded
  

• 6,680,431 Violin Shoulder Rest
• 6,278,059 Electronics housing having a flexible outer flange
  
• 5,693,898 Hinged control panel for electrified acoustic guitar
  (A Correction of Inventorship is appended to the patent file.)
  
• 4,891,645 Digital-to-analog converter with on-board unity gain
  
• 4,791,318 MOS threshold control circuit
  

• Director of Mechanical Engineering, Fishman Transducers, Wilmington, MA 03/96-07/03
  
• Operations Manager, Fishman Transducers, Wilmington, MA 09/87-03/96
  
• Integrated Circuit Designer, Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA, 08/83-09/87
  
• Circuit Designer, Plessey Corporation, Hillside, NJ, 07/81-08/83

• Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH -- 1982
  Master of Science in Engineering Sciences
  Coursework in Electrical Engineering and Radiophysics, NSF Research Fellowship.

• Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, NY -- 1979
  Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
  Coursework in Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering.