Expertise

Quality & Regulatory

Quality systems work best when compliance is built into the operating process rather than added as a separate layer around it.

How I approach it

What this means in my work.

My quality and regulatory work has been closely tied to operations, product development, manufacturing, suppliers, and systems. That includes QMS architecture, ISO 13485, EU MDR, CAPA, risk, documentation, traceability, supplier controls, validation, and post-market requirements.

I tend to approach quality as an operating system. The objective is to create controls that are rigorous enough for the regulatory environment and usable enough to survive real production, product change, supplier variation, and day-to-day decision making.

In practice

Compliance has to survive contact with daily operations.

The work below connects quality-system discipline to manufacturing, product development, suppliers, traceability, and regulatory change.

12 projects represented here

Across these examples

The recurring pattern.

Across these examples, quality became stronger when it was integrated into the work itself: product decisions, supplier controls, manufacturing processes, data, change management, and acceptance.

More related work

The broader record.

7 additional examples connected to Quality & Regulatory.

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Environmental Stress Screening Buildout & Connector Reliability ImprovementST Keltec, now part of Crane Aerospace & Electronics · December 1982–April 1986

Built and supervised an environmental stress-screening function and led a connector-reliability improvement that reduced environmental-test failures.

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EzySplint Product-Line Commercialization & Practitioner TrainingProfessional Products, Inc. · 2006–2013

Led commercialization and operations for the EzySplint orthopedic splinting line, bringing together product variants, dispensers, accessories, practitioner training, sales support, supply, pricing, fulfillment, and brand protection.

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Federal Market Access, DAPA / FSS & Government Sales TraceabilityProfessional Products, Inc. · 2010–2020

Federal-channel operating leadership connecting market-access infrastructure, DAPA and FSS processes, solicitation response, proposal support, product and pricing controls, and nationwide sales traceability.

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FirstICE Cryotherapy Product Development & Commercialization ProgramProfessional Products, Inc. · 2002–2021

Leadership of a regulated cryotherapy product platform from licensed technology through product realization, manufacturing integration, quality controls, commercialization, and a broad family of cold-therapy products.

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HCPCS / PDAC Coding, Application & Reconsideration GovernanceProfessional Products, Inc. · By 2009–April 2021

A sustained medical-product market-access program connecting HCPCS research, PDAC applications, product evidence, executive authorization, DMECS maintenance, adverse-decision review, and controlled reconsideration across an orthopedic portfolio.

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Patent, Trademark & Intellectual-Property Portfolio GovernanceProfessional Products, Inc. · March 1999–April 2021

Executive intellectual-property governance integrated with product development and commercialization, including patent-filing coordination, trademark management, licensing, attorney coordination, infringement support, and patent-marking controls.

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Sensor-Enabled Orthopedic Treatment & Compliance SystemProfessional Products, Inc. | Partner program · 2008–2011

Connected-medical-product leadership spanning a physical orthotic, compliance sensing, chip-reader software, digital reporting and web workflows, study support, field training, and commercialization implementation.

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