Boigraphy — Dr Vinny Sastri

Biography — Dr Vinny Sastri

Vinny Sastri, Ph.D., is the President of WINNOVIA^® LLC. His firm provides customized, sustainable solutions, strategies and training in new product development, quality management and high performance materials. His areas of expertise include design controls, process validation, and FDA and ISO Quality Systems for medical devices, quality management, manufacturing and material selection. WINOVIA LLC employs the Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma philosophy with the goal of strategic market penetration, improving product and process quality, streamlining business processes, reducing operational costs, and increasing revenues and profits for its clients.

Prior to starting WINOVIA LLC, Dr. Sastri held global leadership positions in technology, quality, manufacturing and marketing in companies like BASF, AlliedSignal and General Electric Plastics. He is a certified Six Sigma black-belt. He has helped clients institute and implement growth and quality initiatives into their organizations around the world, resulting in new product sales, manufacturing efficiencies and improved quality. His 25 years of experience span technology, manufacturing, marketing and quality in markets like medical devices, automotive, consumer goods, packaging, and textiles.

Dr. Sastri earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, and completed post-doctoral work at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He was an Adjunct Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He has over 20 publications and 6 patents and has presented at many international conferences and Webinars on new product development, high performance materials, Design for Six Sigma and the FDA Quality Systems Regulations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Dr. Sastri is on the faculty of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) that provides training on the FDA Quality Systems Regulation and Industry Practice to the medical device industry.

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