Summary:  An innovative leader with a broad international experience in Disposable Medical Products, Health and Hygiene, and non-profits. I have an entrepreneurial character proven through a 15 year career of repeatedly initiating new programs and teams to carry projects forward to achieve meaningful impact to the enterprise. I am an inventor that has created new concepts, products, and business process that led tangible value to organizations. I am a proven leader that has employed an open and empathetic approach on several multinational teams- guiding them to success.

• Kimberly-Clark Professional Health Care, Roswell, Georgia: November 2006 – June 2009

•  Perimeter Global Associates, Budapest Hungary: May 2002 – November 2006

 Served as the director of research for the ASCP in Budapest Hungary, overseeing the development of research across the 27 nations of formerly Soviet Eurasia.

• Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Roswell, Georgia and Neenah, Wisconsin: June 1994 – April 2002

Led the design, development, and implementation of materials technologies for numerous Kimberly-Clark products to improve performance in absorbency, fit, and customer value.

EDUCATION

• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, GPA: 3.4 / 4.0

BACHELOR OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING WITH HIGH HONOR (TOP 10% OF CLASS)         

MINOR IN HISTORY

•  University of Georgia, Athens Georgia: Currently Enrolled

KEY SKILLS

ENTREPRENEUR

While leading the sterilization products new product development platform, I created a method of creating a strategic product development roadmap for this category by combining best practices from medical device strategy and road mapping from other industries. This methodology involves systematic analysis of qualitative customer data to produce customer and product requirements. The product development roadmap for sterilization packaging has produced three new product development projects in this category representing a net present value of more than $200 million. Furthermore, this methodology has become a template that I have used to lead similar road mapping strategies for Kimberly-Clark’s surgical drapes, surgical gowns, and exam gloves businesses.

While serving as the research director of the ASCP in Budapest Hungary, I collaborated with colleagues in Berlin and Barcelona to create the European Missions Research Group (emRG).  Creating this group required extensive and proactive networking across national and cultural boundaries to define common grounds for the formation of a multi-national team. This community of practice is the first of its kind providing a place for researchers across a spectrum of organizations and backgrounds to create and implement meaningful projects in their specific geographies.

INVENTOR

I created many new inventions during my time at Kimberly-Clark as a research leader and scientist. This has resulted in 2 patents (Patent 6,767,852 - Stretch edge elastic laminate, 27 July, 2004 and Patent 6,248,097 - Absorbent article with more conformable elastics, 19 June, 2001), 4 filings (Application 20020128626 - Body fluid sealing extensible gaskets for personal care products, Sept 12, 2002 , Application 20020095129 - Body fluid sealing gaskets for personal care products, July 18, 2002, Application 20020086602 - Stretch edge elastic laminate, July 4, 2002, and Application 20020007164 - Garment having gasket with integrated zone of elastic tension and/or stretch, January 17, 2002) and two additional applications from recent work to be filed this year.

In 2005, I employed a Wisdom of Crowds approach to generate a statistical estimate of the spiritual beliefs Europeans. This involved networking broadly within Europe’s religious community to invent a research instrument and analysis method to produce meaningful and accurate results. This first of a kind study was recognized broadly in the French and Dutch media generating a great deal of attention in that this study replaced the traditional academic approach to research with a marketing research approach.

LEADER

I guided three project teams as the platform leader for Kimberly-Clark’s sterilization products. I ensured that each of the project leaders and the brand manager stayed true to the strategic product development roadmap and intellectual property strategy that had been developed from extensive Voice of the Customer Research. My oversight of these three projects provides protection of Kimberly-Clark’s global leadership in this category while creating opportunities to expand this business into relevant adjacencies.

From 2004 – 2005 I trained and coached the first national research team for the Ukrainian Church Planting Movement. This required the development of cross-cultural and cross-lingual tools from a broad range of sources to guide team members with no previous research experience. This team now has oversight of research for the fastest growing church planting movement in Eurasia.  

From 1998 – 2000 I led the product launch for Kimberly-Clark’s first multinational value diaper Huggies® Dry Comfort. This involved coordinating the activities of my technology team in the United States with the regional business teams in Manila and Bangkok. Furthermore, I coordinated the harmonization of designs across manufacturing platforms in China, India, Thailand, Philippines, and Malaysia with the operations teams in each of these nations. The multi-national Huggies® Dry comfort Product enabled Kimberly-Clark’s separate Southeast Asian businesses to better coordinate against the challenges of aggressive local and global competitors.