Leading the shift from prototype to repeatable production.

I'm a senior manufacturing leader focused on new product introduction (NPI) and production scale-up — leading the teams and programs that carry complex hardware through the messy, high-leverage stretch between a working prototype and a line that ships thousands of good units a month.

These days that means leading people and programs as much as process: building and mentoring engineering teams, owning NPI programs across design, quality, and supply, setting manufacturing strategy, and managing the contract manufacturers and suppliers a ramp depends on — while staying hands-on enough to define assembly flows, qualify processes, and drive root-cause when it counts.

I've done this across very different hardware — optical transceiver assembly, lidar sensors, and electric-machine / PCB manufacturing — which taught me that the fundamentals travel: observe carefully, isolate variables, build the feedback loop, and grow the team that keeps it running before you scale the volume.