Research and Development position which provides visibility, potential for advancement, and an opportunity to positively and effectively impact corporate bottomline. I am an experienced entrepreneur and technical leader with extensive corporate-customer liaison experience, system reliability, safety, risk, and cost-benefit analysis. I possess strong program management (WBS, Pert & Gantt charts) skills, and technical background in process equipment, high technology chemicals and powders, household and consumer products, composites, biotechnology, and aerospace market segments. I have unique talents in powder and chemical formulation, their testing, and scale-up to manufacture. I am an astute troubleshooter with exceptional hands-on and technical skills in systems engineering, risk and reliability, root cause analysis, product and process development, chemical formulary, materials processing, and scale-up to manufacture of composites, coatings, adhesives, and polymers. Outstanding command of plant layout/set-up, process equipment selection, acquisition, and installation. Exceptional program manager with solid experience in conducting cost-benefit and value analyses, risk, reliability, feasibility, and validation studies, proof of concept, business commercialization, and business management experience, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Concurrent Engineering, Six-Sigma and lean manufacturing practices, GMP, Continuous Process Improvement, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), JIT, and the vision to marry novel technologies with new market opportunities. I am a multi-industry, profit-generating program manager with hands-on and leadership skills in risk, reliability, quality, and safety engineering analyses (FTA, FMECA, FTA; PRA, RBD, MTBF/MTTF, DOE, Six-Sigma, GMP, HAZOP, HA, PHA, PRACAS) for aerospace, chemicals, household, building and construction, and consumer products industries.