I started my manufacturing career in 1966. I went to work for a job shop in East Hartford CT, Beacon Industries. They produced jet engine components for Pratt & Whitney, GE and Hamilton Standard. I started there as a junior Process Engineer and at 28 eight years of age I earned the position of Vice President of Operations and had responsibility of over 400 employees. During my 15 years at Beacon I was given the responsibility to convert the entire plant from manual machines to completely CNC machines tools.

During the conversion of the plant I was introduced to Lee Morris, and once I had the conversion completed, I joined The Robert E. Morris company as Vice President of Operations. which included the following locations: Farmington CT, Cinrock NJ, Newton MA, and East Granby, CT. During my eight years there, I expanded the service and applications engineering groups, started an automation group, as well as being assigned total sales responsibility.

After spending 8 years with the Morris company, I was recruited away and joined Figgie International, a company that employed 13,000 people and had factories located all over the world. I was given the position of V.P. of Manufacturing world wide and reported directly to the CEO, Mr. Figgie. My responsibility was to consolidate and retool the final plants. During the retooling and consolidations the corporation ran into serious financial problems.

After 5 years I was recruited away by Okuma America Corporation and joined them for my last 19 years involved in manufacturing. I started there as VP of Operations and later became President and COO of one of the finest machine tool builders in the world. I had the pleasure of working with the finest group of distributors in the world. My area of responsibility was all of North and South America.