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Thursday, 15 February, 2018
Joel Kramer
Friday, 9 March, 2018
In 2014, Marty accepted a new role with Tower Optical Corporation as its Director of Strategic Alliances focused on shoring up existing business relationships in this industry and expanding Tower’s business footprint with new, strategic relationships. “From my operations management perspective, Tower Optical Corporation has exceptional capabilities to address both the defense and commercial markets and I am excited to help foster this company growth in this role.”
Marty began his 36 year career in optical fabrication at Litton Airtron in Morris Plains, New Jersey in 1982 as its Optical Shop Supervisor fabricating crystalline laser components (Nd: YAG, Er: YAG, GSGG, Nd: YLF, Alexandrite, and KTP). In 1989, Litton acquired Allied Signal’s crystal division which became Litton Airtron Synoptics. Marty transitioned the New Jersey operation to Charlotte, North Carolina as its Operations Manager integrating both shops to the new Charlotte facility. His key responsibilities in this role were providing leadership and oversight to 4 optical fabrication departments focused on Litton’s strategic growth in the materials markets.
In 2001, Marty accepted a new role as Operations Manager at DRS Technologies—RSTA Division in Melbourne, Florida and guided operations that provided hardware to support the warfighters during the war in IRAQ. His primary responsibility was supplying components to multiple internal programs (Apache, IBAS, TOW, LRAS, GAS, ITAS, TWS, DVE, and MMS/Kiowa OH-58) with annual revenues of $600 million.
Marty earned both a BS in Management and a MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix and holds a Six Sigma Green Belt Certification from the DRS Institute.
Marty resides in Palm Beach, Florida with his wife Kathryn, dog Murphy, and is the father of five children and grandfather of six grandchildren. He enjoys family time, golfing, marksmanship, motorcycling, boating, Florida beaches, and playing guitar in his spare time.
Tower Optical Corporation is a Service Disabled-Veteran Owned Small Business (SD-VOSB), ITAR Compliant Cage Code 1N2U3, and is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company and SAE 9100 Rev. B compliant.
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