Jim is a member of the ISIS Business & Technology Advisory Board with extensive experience in fields of engineering and management in domestic and international operations. His areas of expertise include: product design, manufacturing, business planning, facility design, outsourcing, quality improvement programs and organizational development.For 30 years, Jim held top-level management, engineering and operations positions with Fortune 200 world leaders Hasbro Inc. and Mattel Inc., the world's two largest toy manufacturers. For Hasbro, Jim was Senior Vice President Manufacturing & Sourcing and Vice President Engineering Far East. For Mattel, Jim was the General Manager for Mattel Toys Ltd., Hong Kong; the Engineering Director for Mattel Toys (HK) Ltd. Hong Kong; and Product Engineering Manager for Mattel's Standard Plastic Products Division.
During the preceding 8 years, Jim held product management and engineering, and production engineering positionings with Mego Corp, Berkey Inc, Van Dyke Research and Remco Industries.
This career puts Jim on a world-class level in such in-house and outsourcing disciplines as:
- Product development: concept to production
- Design engineering: product designs that pass DFM and FMEA reviews ready for tooling
- Product costing: managed cost control, vendor selection and product cost records
- Model shop: generation of breadboards and engineering models
- Quality: integration of a total quality system philosophy throughout an organization
- Tooling: procure plastic mold tooling for use at global manufacturing sites
- Contract manufacturing: component supply to complex electro mechanical products
Jim fully appreciates the need for top line profitable growth derived via well planned and implemented operations procedures from product inception through in-house or outsourced manufacturing.
Jim holds a B.S. degree in Management from Rutgers University. He is married with 2 adult children and a citizen of the United States.
