An operator first, a consultant second

• 34 years in electronics manufacturing operations
• VP of Manufacturing — startup to $28M revenue, 125 employees
• U.S. Army Armor Crewman & Helicopter Pilot, Veteran
• FAA Certified Helicopter Flight Instructor, Instrument Rated
• Commercial Class A Semi-Truck Driver

Thirty-four years in electronics manufacturing operations, most of it spent scaling a single company from a startup to $28 million in revenue and 125 employees.

As VP of Manufacturing, responsibility ran across the full operation — warehouse, inventory control, shipping, receiving, purchasing, production, vendor selection and management, manufacturing engineering, and customer service repair. That breadth is the reason OpsVector diagnoses a plant end-to-end instead of one department at a time: waste in manufacturing usually starts upstream, in purchasing decisions, vendor terms, or how inventory moves before it ever reaches the line.

Before manufacturing, that same discipline was built somewhere less forgiving of shortcuts. Service as a U.S. Army Armor Crewman and Helicopter Pilot, followed by a career as a Rotorcraft Helicopter Pilot with an Instrument Rating and an FAA Certified Helicopter Flight Instructor, and a Commercial Class A semi-truck driver hauling freight. Aviation and the military don't tolerate 'close enough' — checklists, standard procedures, and root-cause thinking aren't optional, they're how people stay alive. That same standard gets applied to a production line: measure it, name the failure mode, fix the cause, not the symptom.

That measure-diagnose-fix discipline is now paired with AI. OpsVector's expertise is identifying where an AI solution — predictive maintenance, automated defect detection, demand-driven scheduling — actually pays off on a given line, and then implementing it alongside the team, rather than handing over a vendor recommendation and moving on.