Ray is president and founder of Product & Process Innovation, Inc. and is a veteran business leader with over 25 years of executive, project management, and engineering management experience. Ray has worked in several industries including aerospace, electrical distribution and utilities, biotechnology, appliances, electronics, machining, medical devices, pharmaceutical, automotive, and financial services. He has held executive management positions in a Fortune 500 company and has been involved in entrepreneurial startup organizations.
Ray is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute, a certified Scrum Master with Scrum Alliance, and certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with IASSC. He is a member of the Project Management Institute and the Product Development Management Association.
Ray has spoken at regional symposiums of the Project Management Institute, corporate programs for project management instruction, and provided expert witness testimony on several lawsuits involving project management and weapon system production on government programs.
Ray provides training and consulting in all aspects of Project Management, Product Development, Innovation Management, Strategy Formulation, Process Design & Setup, Design for Manufacturability, Poka Yoke, Lean Manufacturing, Product Line Strategy and Finance for Engineers through universities such as Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Clemson University, and the University of Winnipeg.
He is also an instructor at the China Institute for Innovation. His recent consulting clients include General Electric, Medtronic, Covidien, Tyco, Johnson & Johnson, Dominion Power, NSTAR, American Superconductor, Draexlmaier, Kaman Aerospace, Endologix, Nypro, and Instrumentation Laboratory.
Ray has managed projects for both government and private organizations. He prepared and reviewed hundreds of business cases when he worked at General Electric — both as a member of corporate staff and as an engineering executive within GE's Industrial Systems business.
He holds engineering degrees from the US. Air Force Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his family reside in South Carolina.