Michael is the Vice President of Growth and brings 25 years’ of experience in the design and development of sophisticated, high-tech systems serving a broad range of industries including semiconductor, consumer electronics, apparel, industrial automation, and robotics.  He has led both sales and engineering teams and contributed to both revenue growth as well as development efforts having led large hardware engineering teams to meet challenging, seemingly impossible technical challenges.

Expertise

• Engineering Management
• Sales Management
• Metrology
• Project Management
• Brainstorming
• Servant Leadership

Experience

• Chief Operating Officer at Lab0 – Led HW engineering and operations to design and deliver an Autonomous Robotic Container Unloading System
• Chief Hardware Engineer at CreateMe – Led all HW/Robotics engineering for state-of-the-art apparel automation system
• SVP of Sales/Eng at DWFritz Automation – Led both Sales and Engineering teams developing over 120 custom automation solutions/systems for Fortune 100 companies.
• Mechanical Engineering Manager FEI Company (Now Thermofisher) – Led Mechanical engineering teams in the design of electron microscope systems used in the semiconductor industry.
• Mechanical Engineer MIT Linear Accelerator – Designed and built a 50ton particle detector system used at MIT for fundamental physics research. Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid
• College internship – Designed a large dome structure for Universal Studios Florida

Education

• MBA Technology Management, University of Phoenix
• BS Engineering Technology, University of Central Florida
• AS Mechanical Engineering Technology, University of Maine

Patents:

• US11969981B2 – Single and dual parallel webline assembly
• 11730219 – Continuous in-line fabric joining
• 11666109B1 – Conveyor with configurable three-dimensional topography
• US11566368B1 – Vision systems and methods for locating fiducials in manufacturing fabric articles
• US11512423B1 – Methods and systems for 3D folding of garments and other articles
• US11439195B1 – Apparatus to manufacture a garment from a single web
• US8399864 – Dual beam systems
• US8357913 – Method and apparatus for sample extraction and handling
• US8013311 – Dual beam system
• US7511282 – Sample Preparation
• US7161159 – Dual Beam System
• US6661009 – Apparatus for tilting a beam system

Interests / Obsessions

• My wife and I have 5 kids, 4 grandkids and enjoy camping, hiking and time either in the mountains or at the beach.
• Mushroom picking in the fall is a fun time of year for the family.
• We support Habitat for Humanity, the SW WA Humane Society, and the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society on an ongoing basis.  In addition, we lead a local Green Bag pickup group to help families in the local area.

Favorite Quote

“Carpe Diem, Sieze the day “

~ John Keating, played by Robin Williams