Ernesto Staroswiecki

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is a global company with over 90 years of experience, focusing on healthcare through discovery, research, and more. It currently develops and manufactures a variety of high-complexity laboratory instruments supporting biopharma, academic research, clinical laboratories, and physicians. Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is part of the Danaher portfolio of companies.

(www.beckman.com)

• Lead a global, multifunctional medical device R&D organization of over 60 professionals, including direct oversight of engineers and scientists across the U.S., China, India, and France. Provide both strategic and operational leadership for new product development, post-market support, and organizational design in a matrixed environment.
• Product Innovation & Launch: Led development and successful launch of CellMek SPS, the industry’s first fully automated sample preparation system integrating liquid handling, incubation, cell washing, refrigeration, and reagent/sample tracking into a single hands-free workflow.
• Global Team Leadership: Built and scaled sustaining engineering teams in China, India, and France; created the Suzhou, China site from scratch and operationalized in under 5 months.
• Organizational Design: Spearheaded transition from site-based to globally integrated, function-based R&D organization. Broke down silos and aligned global teams under unified processes.
• Customer-Centric Leadership: Serve as point of escalation for customer complaints across the business unit. Own and lead external quality metrics; interface regularly with internal/external customers to gather feedback and drive improvements.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to drive changes from voice-of-customer into product definition and sustaining efforts.
• Operational Excellence: Maintained top-tier engagement scores (above 75th percentile company-wide). Avoided any manufacturing line stoppages for over two years through proactive support. During my leadership team on-time delivery improved from 50% to 90%.
• Leadership Development: Directly manage and mentor managers and senior leaders; developed next-level leadership in technical and program disciplines.
• Strategic Decision-Making: Introduced sustainment cost metrics into obsolescence planning and lifecycle management. Contributed to the design and implementation of the infrastructure used to propose and manage new products across the full development lifecycle. Serve as an active member of the portfolio governance committee, evaluating business cases, forecasting budget and resource requirements, and selecting projects that align with strategic and operational priorities.

Exponent is a scientific and engineering consulting firm dedicated to helping its customers solve the most difficult technical problems. They have over 30 offices around the world, and over 20 practice areas, supporting industrial companies, as well as the legal profession through forensic services.

(www.exponent.com)

• Delivered scientific consulting and engineering services across a wide range of regulated industries, including medical devices, electronics, and industrial systems. Specialized in high-stakes projects involving failure analysis, product liability, risk assessment, regulatory support, and early-stage product development. Led global, multidisciplinary teams and managed technical programs from concept to execution.
• Managed 5–20 concurrent technical projects ranging in scale from $3K to $1M+, balancing scope, budget, and client expectations across global teams.
• Advised clients on FDA, FCC, and other regulatory pathways; supported submissions and compliance reviews.
• Investigated and improved product reliability, safety, and efficiency across diverse domains: active implantables, diagnostic devices, robotics, and consumer electronics.
• Built custom test protocols and executed technical due diligence across hardware and software systems.
• Provided expert input in litigation, patent, and intellectual property cases involving high-tech products.
• Mentored engineers and led cross-site teams across the U.S., Asia, and Europe.
• Served as primary client interface, including with C-level stakeholders, legal counsel, and engineering executives.

• Contributed to production yield and external quality improvements by developing simulation-based models for test quality analysis and defect prediction.

• Created yield learning algorithms and ran early defect analysis using quiescent signal analysis.

• Developed and maintained IC design workflows, and evaluated best-in-class EDA tools contributing to design toolchain improvements.

• Launched and managed early web-based applications, online commerce tools, and Internet media platforms.