A. Kessler Consulting, LLC provides professional management services for improving engineering operations, technical program management and general business development. Programs range from definition of product design and development processes through manufacturing implementation, including supplier identification and qualification. Programs are prioritized to meet business needs and plans with coordinated product, capital and implementation strategies that achieve manufacturing and marketing objectives. The design and development process improvements focus on specification documentation, program scope, resource requirements, standardized Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and lean thinking concepts with critical attention to details required for Total Quality Management (TQM) and requirements of 6s, assuring safe reliable products. Also provides expert support for investigation and litigation involving HVAC, major appliances and related products and components.

Executive Management responsibility for Engineering and Quality on all product lines – residential and commercial water heaters, residential split & packaged systems, furnaces and commercial split and packaged systems including technology and support services – Advanced R & D/ support, electronic controls, design documentation, laboratories, model shops. Operations management responsibility also includes Air Conditioning & Water Heater Division Quality.

Engineering design and order management of the low volume, large and special valves manufactured world wide – custom-engineered process control solutions for specific application needs that typically have major operational impact on customers' critical processes. Order management included quote and pricing support, order entry documentation, procurement and production scheduling of special designs manufactured in Marshalltown plant. Valves ranged from several thousand dollars up to a million+ each, depending on the temperature, pressure, capacity and control characteristics required primarily for the chemical, petroleum, pulp and paper and power industries.

A sole proprietorship providing professional management services for improving engineering operations, technical program management and general business development. Programs range from definition of product design and development processes through manufacturing implementation, including supplier identification and qualification. Programs are prioritized to meet business plans with coordinated product, capital and implementation strategies that achieve manufacturing and marketing objectives. The design and development process improvements focus on standardized Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and lean thinking concepts with critical attention to details required for Total Quality Management (TQM) and requirements of 6s, assuring safe reliable products.

VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, (1999-2001) VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING AND QUALITY, (1997-1999)Responsible for Technology and Government Relations on all appliance product lines, product safety/liability including expert litigation support, patents and licensing, product development procedure and process, purchasing/supplier cost analysis and major contract reviews. Company representative for industry and trade association activities/participation. Responsible for Engineering and Quality on all Amana Appliance product lines. Managed $21 million budget and over 200 Engineers & Technicians. Member of the Executive Steering Committee, following partial sale of company by Raytheon to Goodman Mfg. Co.VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING, (1993-1997)Raytheon Appliances, Chief Technology Officer, Executive Management responsibility for Engineering and Quality on all product lines. Responsible for $32 million budget and over 400 Engineers & Technicians – multi-plant international operations. Chairman, Product Safety and Liability and Patent Committees. Management Advisory Committee Member, Board of Directors for Raytheon Appliances Asia, Inc. VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING, (1992-1993) Amana Refrigeration, Inc. Management responsibility for Engineering on all product lines and support services-Industrial Design, documentation, laboratories, model shops, and materials processes and C.I.P. Managed $11 million budget, 200 Engineer and Technical personnel.

Management responsibility for Engineering, Topton Facility Operations (700,000 SF.) and Corporate Environmental Compliance. Engineering design responsibility included product development, visual design and production support of gas and electric cooking products.

Amana Refrigeration Inc. Responsible for the design, development and production support of Heating and Cooling Products-included engineering, drafting, model shop and laboratory testing.

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER to MANAGER UNITARY DESIGN 17 years of progressive technical product development, program management and administrative management designing residential and commercial HVAC equipment for multiple/branch plant domestic and international manufacturing. Included basic heat transfer surface development, computerized system design/optimization, integrated circuit (IC) software and hardware controls and multiple major programs. Established the standardized unit design concepts for split system product lines having significantly improved manufacturing and design flexibility to meet future changing market requirements, first phase was implemented into production on an accelerated schedule with interim tooling. •This product design was recognized in 1998 (12 years after first introduced) for exceptional customer value and was still in production over 17 years later until tooling replaced with minor redesign/styling changes.