In the last decade of my working life, I want to help you in making our planet more sustainable using an ancient but totally fascinating material: Glass.

Head, Innovation & Technology

Instrumental role in the development and success of the company through pioneering work in lamination techniques, developing world-first production processes and studying anisotropy.

Customer focus - High-End glass fabrication - Lamination - Integrity and Tolerance - Anisotropy - IT & ERP

International Project Manager

Found the way to put the caramel in the Caramilk: prismatic glass façade for Sperone Westwater Gallery.

100 m - 300 ft printed glass wall in the Burj Khalifa Visitor Center

Specialized CNC work - Image printing - Curved glass and chemical tempering

Start-up of a glass fabrication dream plant, able to supply the largest pieces of glass in North America. All the best and largest production lines, producing oversized tempered, insulated Glass Units (IGU) and laminated glass.
Hiring, training and supervision of a 32-person production team.
Development of sales and new products to take advantage of superior capabilities.

Glass fabrication - Heat treatment - Equipment debugging

World Corporate Social Responsibility

In a global network of 245 plants (27,000 workers), revitalized and promoted three basic principles of Corporate responsibility:
• Safety leading to employee satisfaction
• Quality leading to customer satisfaction
• Environment leading to a better planet
This political function required determining and focusing on a few opportunities to steer a huge international corporation in the right direction.

Work safety - Global leadership - Japanese culture

Sales Manager Europe

Sales and production coordination of large architectural projects in Europe. Worked with architects and façade makers to determine technical specifications and product characteristics. Wrote supply contracts and, using AGC’s extensive plant network, found the best ways to manufacture the glass and synchronize fabrication.

Large building projects management

Sales Manager Europe

Sales Manager of Glaverbel’s high performance magnetron coated solar control glass. Supervised all European agents and established commercial policies for coated products used in large commercial buildings.
Participated in new product developments: extra-clear glass, low solar factor coatings, temperable coatings, silicon-argon IGU.

Coating 101 - Building envelope - Architecture - Sales network management

Emergency assignment to work on newly acquired assets of PPG Glass in Europe. In record time, I changed IT systems in five Automotive Replacement Glass distribution centers (DCs) throughout Europe. All DCs were converted successfully and we avoided the infamous Year 2000 bug!

IT world - Project and sub-contractor management - European culture

Canadian Customer Service Manager

Managed two customer teams in St-Augustin and Scarborough.

In each float plant, my teams inputted customers orders, planned production, processed $80 million in sales and shipped 150,000 tonne of glass.

Team building - Logistics

Material Control & CS Manager

In charge of all aspects of the plant outside the glass production line: customer service, production planning, stores, warehousing, packaging, shipping and transportation. Brought new life to a 40-year unionized operation.

Glass 301 - Automotive Glass - Unions - Production planning

Manager, Customer Technical service

Establishing a quality system for this greenfield plant was my first project. Satisfying customers’ quality and service demands was the next.

Glass - Quality systems - Packaging

Commercial Director

In charge of the worldwide sales network for nuclear non-destructive testing equipment. Very active in European and Asian markets.

Non-Destructive Testing - Critical mission

Sales & Marketing Director

In charge of marketing the first IBM PC sound card. In this small company, I had to develop everything, from product packaging to magazine ads, exhibitions, USA warehousing, and sales network. This was a very intense period with a lot of travelling in the USA.

Computers - Software - Marketing - Advertising - Retail logistic

Electro-optic Sales Director

International Sales for a high-energy CO2 laser and IR sensor manufacturer. Extensive market development in Asian countries: Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and India.

Electronic design and production - Trade shows - International travel