Senior Director, Sterilization Global Operations & Supply Chain, Medtronic

Former Senior Director of Sterilization Global Operations & Supply Chain at a top-three medical device manufacturer with 42+ years of industry experience across all major sterilization technologies and contract sterilizers worldwide. Led a multidisciplinary technical team managing 200,000 pallets of sterile goods annually, overseeing strategic capacity planning, provider evaluation, and make-versus-buy decisions following the 2019 industry capacity crisis. Deep expertise in EPA regulations, ethylene oxide capacity constraints, and end-to-end sterilization cost optimization across manufacturing operations.