About PPD Consultants, LLC

Profile: Michael T. Dominik
Certified New Product Development Professional, BSEE, MSEM, MBA
President and Principal Engineering Consultant

Mike has 27 years of experience as an engineering leader, trainer, and
product development professional, and is certified as a New Product
Development Professional (NPDP) by the Product Development and
Management Association (PDMA). By experience and examination, Mike has
demonstrated mastery of the following new product development topics:

- New Products Process
- Tools & Metrics
- Teams, People & Organizational Issues (Training and Coaching)

Mike is the founder and President of PPD Consultants. He was most
recently a co-founder and Vice President of NetIDEAS, Inc, a product lifecycle
management software hosting company. His 26 years of engineering and
product development experience also includes engineering and leadership
roles with Lockheed Martin, General Electric, RCA, and the US Navy.

Mike is currently a student for the Ph.D. in organizational leadership at
Eastern University in St. Davids, PA. His academic credentials include BS
Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, MBA from Rowan University,
and MS Engineering, Management of Technology from the University of
Pennsylvania, a joint program from the Moore School of Engineering and
Wharton School of Business, with additional post-graduate studies at Penn.

Since the late 1990s, Mike has been responsible for major Customer
consulting and training engagements with commercial and industrial
manufacturing firms and US government agencies and contractors,
including: SpectraPrecision, AIDA America, Lockheed Martin, US Navy, US
Army, US Air Force, US Coast Guard and NASA-Kennedy Space Center.
Mike has been a speaker and guest lecturer at PDM industry conferences
and seminars (DH Brown, Management Roundtable, Daratech) and at the
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. He has been
published in several media, including professional publications, conference
and symposia reports, web site s, and corporate journals. Mike is also a
member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).

See Mike's professional blog here.

PPD Consultants, LLC

PPD Consultants, LLC (PPDC) is an engineering services organization
founded in 2003, providing services for technology organizations at
work locations throughout the United States. We provide professional
engineering and technology consulting and training services to clients
in manufacturing, government, and defense contractor industries.