Explore projects and programs spanning operations, manufacturing, systems, product development, quality, supply chain, software, defense, entrepreneurship, and education.
A large share of this record comes from Dean's 22-year run at Professional Products, Inc., where responsibility expanded from engineering and quality into operations and ultimately General Manager / COO leadership across a multi-site regulated medical-product business.
Explore six representative projects from Dean’s broader portfolio, highlighting the challenges addressed, his role, and the results achieved.
Executive-led transformation of a multi-site medical-product manufacturing operation through an internally governed custom ERP, MES and WMS environment built around the company’s actual processes.
Long-running manufacturing transformation spanning automation, tooling, process design, labor economics, planning, Lean methods, and operating-system leadership across a high-mix medical-device environment.
Emergency conversion of a regulated medical-device manufacturing operation toward reusable mask production during the early COVID-19 shortage, spanning product development, tooling, supply chain, workforce, quality, commercialization, and communications.
Cross-functional medical-device product realization spanning opportunity identification, design, testing, risk, reimbursement and regulatory considerations, product data, sourcing, manufacturing transfer, training, labeling, and commercialization.
Manufacturing-engineering leadership in a defense environment combining complex production support, customer-facing program recovery work, and a controlled transition from a legacy production system toward Visual Manufacturing ERP/MES.
Development and deployment leadership for customer-facing vertical software connecting orthopedic-practice DME inventory, par-level replenishment, product-to-HCPCS relationships, utilization reporting, dispensing, procurement, training, and post-implementation management.
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