Chad Gonser

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About Chad Gonser

Product and Business Development Leader with Mechanical Engineering background and diverse experiences, including medical device R&D, development, manufacture and scale up for mass production. Consumer product experience in engineering, testing, development and manufacture. Responsible for multiple facets of leadership including organizing and aligning Product Line Management, Design, Engineering, Marketing and Sales in the product creation process. Demonstrated ability to stimulate, harvest and create implementation plans to achieve strategic objectives through cross functional collaboration.Accrued knowledge of the product process (conception through life cycle) enables strong collaboration to build internal teams’ alignment and communication, while driving efficiencies and bringing solutions to inter departmental challenges. Contract manufacturing experience with international assembly line operations and USA based complex clean room systems, resulting in an ability to operate in outside business modules with varying cultures and environments.Specialties: Cross-functional team management within a matrixed organization, Product specification to meet specific consumer needs, Voice of the customer product placement, MX and Bike Helmet and Protection development, mass production factory experience, performance testing and in-line optimization, Bioengineering, Design, R&D/ PD, Process Development/ Optimization, Manufacturing, Inventor, Biomaterial Interactions, pFMEA, FDA/ ISO standards, Lean/ cGMP