Gary Pawlas

Owner & Founder

About

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVES: -Utilize demonstrated successes in diverse product designs and engineering leadership to lead the creation of innovative solutions for challenging customer requirements -Form and grow dynamic, cross-disciplinary teams capable of developing and executing an aggressive project schedule exceeding company objectives -Expand a company’s intellectual property portfolio using experience gained from 11 issued patents and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS - Industrial product research and development • Forming a flexible platform still driving revenue after 20 years • Annual sales of over 10% of company's total revenues achieved at five years from six month project staffed by Engineering Research, Marketing, and Test Departments • Teams creating over 40 patent disclosures and 22 filed patents • Creating, funding, and leading multi-disciplinary teams (mechanical, electrical, software) ranging in size from 5 to 14 members with an experience level from technician to Ph.D -Creating sustained success within a University engineering project development center • 80% of industrial project sponsors returning year-to-year for engineering senior design projects • Responsible for obtaining, funding, and coordinating the yearly execution of 20-25 industrially sponsored design projects • Developing the professional skills of up to 155 senior mechanical engineering students supervised by 10+ faculty members -Founding my start-up company, VARIA FITNESS • Created team to design, manufacture, market, and sell products I invented and patented • Secured one licensing agreement and developed an intellectual property portfolio of 6 US patents, 3 trademarks, and trade secret manufacturing techniques

Country

United States

City

Louisville

Industry

Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering

Skill

Engineering Management, Product Development, Cross Functional Team Building, Team Leadership, Creative Problem Solving, Budget Process, Budget Monitoring, Mechanical Engineering, Wind Engineering, Statistics, Simulations, Research, Labview, Solidworks, Mathematica, Finite Element Analysis, Engineering, Product Design, Testing, Matlab

Experience

Owner & Founder

VARIA FITNESS

2013-10 - Present · 13 yrs

Louisville CO

• Created start-up company to commercialize two fitness products I invented and patented. • Formed team of 10 contractors to develop product roadmaps, e-commerce website, social media advertising campaigns, publicity events, manufacturing tooling and processes, etc. • Secured one licensing agreement and developed an intellectual property portfolio of 6 US patents, 3 trademarks, and trade secret manufacturing techniques

Director, Asst. Director & Instructor; Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science

2003-8 - 2012-8 · 9 yrs 1 mo

Boulder, CO

Solicited and coordinated execution of over 20 industrially funded design projects per year. Teams of senior mechanical engineering students led the projects, advised by faculty and industrial mentors • Secured the annual budget of approximately $300-350K from sponsoring companies • Organized the course, lectures and resources to ensure 20-25 five-person student teams working with 10-17 faculty advisors successfully developed company sponsored projects • Created an organization of sustained success measured by 80% of industrial project sponsors at university senior design projects center returning year-to-year

Director of Technology Development, Semiconductor

Emerson

2000-9 - 2002-9 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Colorado & Pennsylvania

Led collaborative & geographically distributed product development effort between teams located in Boulder, CO and Hatfield, PA. • Team produced first commercially viable non-metallic (PFA) Coriolis flow controller in 13 months and 14 patent disclosures resulting in a "family" of 6 filed patents covering application, design, and manufacture Team produced first commercially viable non-metallic (PFA) Coriolis flow controller in 13 months. Leveraged off-the-shelf and existing company electronics for fastest time to market. Additional responsibilities included technology development of family of miniature stainless steel Coriolis flow controllers.

Director of Research

Emerson

1995-2 - 2000-9 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Created and led multi-disciplinary industrial teams (mechanical, electrical, software) ranging in size from 5 to 14 members with an experience level from technician to Ph.D • Teams developed first functional non-metallic Coriolis flow controller, miniature Coriolis flow controller, Coriolis pump/flowmeter, and over 16 filed patents • Annual sales of over 10% of company's total revenues achieved at five years from a project started by a multi-disciplinary team (Research, Marketing, and Test) to determine and market gas measurement capability of current product line • Developed organizational strengths in modal analysis, digital signal processing, and electro-magnetic design through targeted hiring and training