GE Healthcare SurgeryProduct Surveillance Director
Aug. 2011 - Oct. 2019Salt Lake City, UTLead a Product Surveillance organization in meeting global regulations in the areas of post-market complaint handling, adverse event reporting, recalls, trending, and CAPA for a diverse and global portfolio of fluoroscopic X-Ray devices and accessories in a highly regulated consent-decree environment. • Oversee and monitor overall complaint handling and recall processes to ensure compliance with internal performance metrics and regulatory requirements. • Motivate a team of individual contributors and managers through inspiration, personal connection, example and accountability. • Drive product safety and quality improvements by providing valuable post-market insight to design teams engaged in new product introductions and risk management activities. • Communicate key performance indicators, metrics and product performance data to executive management and other key stakeholders. • Analyze changes to the regulatory landscape and define implementation strategies for continued compliance. • Directly interact with auditors and global regulatory agencies as subject matter expert during inspections, investigations, recall execution and other regulator inquiries. • Oversee Corrective and Preventive Action Actions related to customer complaints and product-related nonconformances. • Train, advise and coach business leaders on regulations, procedures and work instructions. • Develop strategy for responses to regulatory inquiries and audit nonconformances. • Lead cross-team process improvements, resulting in simple, sustainable and compliant processes.