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Rick brings to JMD over 14 years of manufacturing engineering and supply chain management. He has held manufacturing engineering positions at Ford Motor Company, Honeywell/Allied Signal, STATS and most recently at Conexant Systems, responsible for Quality, Failure Analysis, Reliability, Process Development, and Operations. At Conexant, Rick managed Business Systems development for outsourced Operations, aiding Conexant's transition from predominantly internal factory manufacturing to entirely fab-less contract manufacturing. Rick also was responsible for IC packaging and assembly for its $600 million a year business divisions, including recommendations for new products, technology development, strategy, managing overseas assembly contractors and successfully reducing costs. Rick received his BS and MS in Ceramic Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. | 