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​The professional roles and life in general afforded me opportunities to grow, develop, and to hone my skills over the

~27-year career. These skills, attributes and relevant life experiences are detailed below and are employed to strategize innovation and growth for B2B companies and for them to achieve best-in-class. 

Perspectives from others are summarized on the ‘About’ page to include access to my LinkedIn profile. 

Should you have thoughts or questions, please reach out via ‘Contact’.

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Key Interpersonal Skills & Attributes

  • Transferable Skills: ideation, communication, organization, critical thinking, analytical reasoning, multi-tasking, conflict management, active listening

  • Personal Attributes: integrity, visionary leadership, collaborative, emotional intelligence, curious, creative, resilient, self-motivated, cultural competence, adaptable

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Organizations (domestic, international)

**Current and past industry participation by activities since Mar2025.

  • Current: ASTM F17 (various subcommittees) and ASTM (D02, D20, E07), NSF, ISO TC138, CSA Group (B137)

  • Past: Plastic Pipe Institute Hydrostatic Stress Board (PPI HSB) Chair, PPCA Board of Directors (non-voting), PPCA Organizing Committee (OC) Chair, PPCA OC Co-Chair/ Technical Program Chair, AGA (exofficio member), PPI Technical Director, PE100+ Association Advisory Council, ASME (BPV III, NPPS), SPE ANTEC SIG021, ASTM F17 Executive Committee, ASTM F17.38 Subcommittee Chair/ ISO TC138 USA TAG Chair, ASCE, PPI BOD (voting), select PPI divisions (MID, PCD), ASABE.

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International

  • Participation in industry conferences, seminars and/or meetings span 25 countries.

International Standard Organization (ISO TC138 and respective subcommittees): As a former USA Head of Delegation:

  • defined the USA positions/ strategies with the delegates

  • represented the USA during ISO TC138 Plenary and in the subcommittees

  • ensured compliance with the ISO directives, USA national accrediting body (ANSI) requirements and USA Technical Advisory Group (TAG) relevant to ISO TC138 (ASTM F17.38, former Subcommittee Chair)

  • for initiatives impacting USA projects/ products, worked to minimize/eliminate and/or resolve differing positions, of the competing national delegations or within the USA delegation

  • communicated and solicited input from USA stakeholders on potential actions/ initiatives impacting USA products

  • cultivated professional relationships that helped formed strategic allies with other national delegations

  • implemented structured training to ensure a cohesive within the USA delegation and compliance to the directives/ requirements.

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Knowledge Areas

**This extensive range of knowledge enables me to apply various elements to numerous products, processes, and teams.

  • Identified, presented and defined value propositions for products, initiatives and/or companies or organizations. The approach is applicable for many industries to include those mentioned below.

  • Product/ new business, process and team development (concept through realization); technical service/ customer interfacing.

  • Patenting of intellectual property.

  • Chemical manufacturing (batch, continuous – thermosets, gaseous), operations, various unit ops, QA/QC and more.

  • Thermoplastic pressure pipe materials, thermoplastic solid wall and composite pipe listed in PPI TR-4 and range composition ingredients listed in PPI TR-2 and/or with NSF.

  • Thermoplastic pressure pipe applications and, geomembranes, micro irrigation (tape, tubing), steel pipe coating and conduit.

  • Long-term strength methodologies to include analysis (ASTM D2837, ISO 9080/ ISO 12162, ASTM F2018, ASTM D2992).

  • Extrusion: profile (pipe, conduit, micro-irrigation tape/ tubing), co-extrusion, cast and blown film.

  • Assessment of written work (e.g., technical journal articles/ papers, presentations, training modules, messaging, etc.)

  • Nondestructive testing (NDT - ultrasonics and microwave technologies) for the inspection of thermoplastic pipe and fittings.

  • Six Sigma and Apollo Root Cause Investigation processes.

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Instructional Design

Identified the need for, designed, implemented and refined:

  • courses/ workshops delivering foundational knowledge and used to connect industries

  • auxiliary resource courses complementing the in-house onboarding process of various companies

  • processes that focused resources/ gained efficiency while allowing innovation to flourish and improving transparency, which in turn, reflected the integrity of the organization.

  • the structure of technical and non-technical information, which facilitated learning and understanding of the "layers" and their intra- and interconnections

  • team structure(s), which gained efficiency, improved collaboration and communications internal and with stakeholders.

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Meeting Planning

  • Planned/ executed small group meetings (25 - 30) to global technical conferences and exhibition (300 – 400 registrants 3-dys).

**NOTE: The global conference was a shared responsibility within the 3-person core team and PPCA BOD.

 Up to 40 countries (55% host region, 45% outside); 100 technical presentations; up to 30 exhibitors.

  • Established, tracked and adjusted budgets to address the planned (e.g., F&B, pick-ups, meeting space, AV, WiFi, etc.) and unplanned (e.g., pandemic, inflation, etc.)

  • Reviewed and negotiated contracts to include NDAs and hospitality related (e.g., hotel, exhibition, meeting space, dinners, etc.)

  • Designed, structured and delivered messaging targeting respective technical and non-technical audiences.

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