Who you are hiring
The operator a founder calls when the prime letter lands.
I trained as an engineer and ended up running the company. Advanced manufacturing, specialty sensors, PID controllers, automation, and then the parts of the business engineers usually avoid: the P&L, the payroll, the audit chair, the board.
The path here
I have been the CEO of a manufacturer and the general manager of a foreign subsidiary's North America operations. I have run an MRP cutover on a live floor and signed the front of a paycheck. That is the difference between an operator and an advisor, and this audience can tell which one is standing in front of them.
I ran the North America operations of GEFRAN, an Italian sensor and automation multinational, so I have stood on the exact ground my market-entry clients are walking onto. I have been the foreign parent's operator in the US, and I am one now, standing up a compliant New Hampshire manufacturing facility for a global OEM of asset-tracking equipment with Canadian and US R&D: ISO 9001:2015 audit-ready in three months, with an ITAR-grade data border between international R&D and the US enclave. That engagement is documented in the resource library's onshoring case study. When an allied manufacturer lands in New England to win DoD work, I am the operator already standing where they are landing.
I started taking engagements because I kept meeting founders with excellent parts and bottlenecked operations, surrounded by AI consultants who had never owned a number. I built Standard Work 2.0 to give those founders the operating system I wish I had been handed. In practice I am the resident Fractional COO and systems architect who de-risks the facility layout, sets the ITAR and CMMC data borders, and builds standard operational DNA with zero administrative waste.
What I believe
The operating principles behind every engagement.
Foundation before transformation. Clean, secure data and documented process come before any new technology.
Problem first, technology second. I map the value stream, find the constraint, then build the system that removes it.
Human-in-the-loop integrity. In a regulated environment, automation augments verified human judgment and never replaces it.
Scarcity is honest. Four engagements is the real limit of doing this work at depth, so four is the number.
Proof of operating role
An operator, not an advisor.
CEO and division GM history
Signed payroll and owned the P&L as a manufacturer's CEO and as GM of a foreign subsidiary's North America operations.
To ISO 9001:2015 audit-ready
A global OEM's New Hampshire facility, taken from stand-up to audit-ready in one quarter. In progress at a client engagement.
Software cost avoidance identified
At a defense ATE contract manufacturer: $75K in migration fees bypassed and roughly $55K a year in ERP license savings identified.
Operational triage to written plan
A defensible written plan in roughly five weeks at twenty hours a week, not a deck.
Foreign-parent onshoring, active
Standing up a compliant New Hampshire manufacturing facility for a global asset-tracking OEM with Canadian and US R&D. Engagement in progress.
Maximum concurrent, by design
Capacity is the constraint and the proof. Engagements under NDA.
I am an engineer who has operated. I speak P&L and shop floor in the same sentence, because I have stood on the floor at 6 a.m. and answered for the number at the board the same week.
Who I serve
You already recognize your shop in this.
You are an allied advanced-technology, aerospace, or semiconductor manufacturer, often Canadian, UK, German, or Italian parented, turning a prototype into a secure, on-shore US production line to capture high-priority DoD contract work, against a gate your prime set.
You own or run a 5 to 75 million dollar contract manufacturer serving defense primes, build-to-print or build-to-spec.
You are engineering-led, technically excellent, and operationally bottlenecked, with a backlog that will not convert to cash.
You are a PE operating partner who needs forensic operational diligence before the LOI hardens.
Why an operator, not an advisor
- Real floor-level engineering depth combined with CEO and GM P&L experience, not a slide deck and a certification.
- Defense industrial base specialization: ITAR, CMMC 2.0, AS9100, CUI handling, and a secure digital thread.
- Compliance hardwired into the daily workflow, so the auditor finds it running rather than bolted on.
- A scarce single operator who runs four engagements at a time, not a roster you get matched into.
Credentials
The discipline behind the method.
Named prime relationships
Engagements with suppliers across the New England defense base are held under NDA. Named prime relationships are added here as each client clears them for publication.