Ken Siegel

Responsible for company new product development efforts overseeing all engineering aspects including: concept design, engineering drawings, rapid prototyping, engineering change orders, material discrepancy reports, customer complaints, interacting with customers to design and develop sealing solutions, processing and pricing of all customer quotes, developing and managing new molded rubber products division, specification and design of new equipment, assisting with Quality issues and root cause analysis, implementing manufacturing technology and process improvements, and material specifications (both rubber and plastic). • Manage five (5) direct reports in the execution of the Engineering departments (two locations; California and Indiana) to meet product specifications, overall timeline and budget. • Responsible for custom business growth spurt from $27MM to $60MM in sales revenue over 12 years. • Member of management team discussions in business strategy, company acquisitions, and capital equipment purchases. • Directly interact and support eleven (11) direct sales people and US/International distributor network. • Collaborate daily with cross functional department managers to meet product function, quality and delivery goals to customers. • Invented, wrote and presented business plan, developed, and patented four (4) products for use in the RV industry with potential sales of $40 MM/yr. Slide Out Seals and Fascia Board. • Invented, developed, and produced a new Tonneau Cover Hinge product for use in the Automotive Aftermarket (Tonneau Covers) industry with potential sales of $10 MM/yr. Consolidates three parts into one; reduces overall part weight, customer labor, materials, and SKU count. • Invented, developed, and patent pending of a new Fender Flare Trim for use across multiple industries (Bus, RV, Truck Bodies) with potential sales of $5 MM/yr. Reduces customer labor, materials, and SKU count.

Custom plastics product design and development for various industries. www.2n2pd.com Created and launched own plastic product development company having an Industrial designer, Tooling designer, and Product designer to be customers outsourced engineering team. www.2n2pd.com • 2N2 Product Development - lead company and design team developing products for the Packaging, Medical, Computer, Toys, Industrial, Housewares, and General Consumer products industries. One patent issued; multiple patents assigned. • 2N2 Flexible Solutions – design, develop, and manufacture proprietary line of handles and fitments for use in the flexible packaging industry. One patent issued. Developed exclusive inline and offline handle insertion equipment.

Directed division proprietary product development having eight direct reports. Managed and led cross functional project teams to design and develop a next generation spray nozzle for drip irrigation. Applied and received two utility patents. Engineering Group Manager, Landscape Drip SBU (2005 – 2007) Directed division proprietary product development having eight direct reports (two project engineers, one senior manufacturing engineer, one designer, an engineering technician, and three associate engineers). • Managed and led cross functional project teams to design and develop a next generation spray nozzle for drip irrigation. Applied and received two utility patents. • Implemented a New Product Development (NPD) idea generation mechanism to allow new internal ideas to be presented to Sales, Marketing and upper Management and receive feedback. Senior Project Engineer, Landscape Drip SBU (2004 – 2005) Created, designed and managed a next generation nozzle development project. Extensive interface with marketing and sales regarding customer/product development. Member of various project teams in the concept, design, and cost reduction of landscape drip products. Research, hire and manage all engineering interns and technicians (four interns, 1 technician) • Led a cross functional project team to design, develop, and manufacture a large scale automation project for drip emitters which increased throughput from 4 to 40 parts per minute and reduced overall labor cost by 87%.

Lead a newly formed division focusing on expanding Portola’s sales of existing products into new packaging products by developing key relationships with market leaders in the food and non-food industries. Set development budgets and schedules, obtain in-house/vendor support for prototypes/testing, and established customer pricing based on manufacturing cost analysis.

Responsible for Personal Care Products Division proprietary product development having two direct report engineers. Extensive interface with marketing and sales regarding customer development. Product Dev. manager of a cross functional team for the design, development and commercialization of a next generation low cost, variable output dispenser. Utility Patent issued. Engineering Manager, New Product Development (1999 – 2000) • Led a project team to design and develop the first functional “anticlog” fine mist sprayer. Through detailed research and analysis, pinpointed previous design failures and successfully redesigned sprayer. Received two patents. • Created and implemented new engineering/marketing cost model for estimating part cost and pricing to customers that reduced quote and estimate times by up to 30%. Senior Project Engineer, Product Development (1998 – 1999) Managed large scope product development and commercialization project. Provided technical assistance and direction to three (3) junior engineers. Managed and performed analysis of customer product complaints. • Through design of experiment testing and analysis of a fine mist sprayer, reduced average output standard deviation from .005 to .002 resulting in new customer sales. Project Engineer, Product Development (1996 – 1998) Hands-on project manager of a cross functional team for the development and commercialization of a next generation low cost, variable output dispenser. Managed the research and development team effort in all phases of engineering development. • Successful in designing, developing and commercializing an advanced dispenser (ShowerGuard) while reducing the variable cost from $185/M to $105/M. • Organized the implementation of ISO 9001 into this project, which became the baseline for all future projects

Responsible for engineering liaison support between Orient manufacturing and U.S. design and development.

A $50 million biomedical device company producing cardiopulmonary plastic disposables used on the heart-lung machine. Managed a four-member engineering team in the design, development and manufacture of a new biomedical device. Engineer, Product Development (1992 – 1994) • Executed a concurrent engineering development plan of a next generation biomedical device from concept to production. • Devised, set-up, coordinated, and wrote engineering report for 510K testing resulting in FDA approval of the device in less than 120 days. Engineer, Product Support (1990 – 1992) Supported eight (8) cardiopulmonary manufacturing product lines through line stoppage and discrepant material issues. Honor: Recipient of Best Production Support Engineer, 1991 • Engineering representative for JIT implementation, decreasing manufacturing cycle time from 17 to 5 days, and reducing Work-in-Process (WIP) inventory by approximately 42%, savings of $440,000. • Engineering representative for Product Complaint task team, establishing standardized test procedures and streamlining product flow resulting in a reduced response cycle time from 60 to 23 days.

Designed, developed and directed assembly of flat sheet brush deburring machine for C17 aircraft wing ribs and other flat parts programs that reduced manufacturing labor time from 3.6 to 0.3 hours, with savings up to $1 million per year.