Director, Product Development

Douglas Beethe is one of the top technical experts in product test - with more than 20 years of developing innovative high-level manufacturing solutions to meet evolving customer demand and global supply chain pressures for competitive Global 2000 companies.

Beethe is currently the director of product development for CIMTEK. He is responsible for the advancement of the company's leading Magellon quality lifecycle management (QLM) solution - which is optimizing test for dozens of electronic, automotive and medical manufacturers today, delivering the fastest market speed, lower operational costs and high levels of product
reliability/quality.

His broad technical background has been instrumental in the development of numerous additional large-scale test data management systems for ERP, MES and DSS environments - across a wide range of operating systems, computer languages, databases and applications.

Prior to CIMTEK, he spent more than 13 years as a process analyst and senior system architect at Hewlett Packard, where he served in numerous technical executive, leadership and project management positions.

Doug holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University [need photo]