Chuck Stack Email & Phone Number

Reno, Nevada, Us

Power-Sonic, Inc. is a world leader in the sale of lead acid and lithium batteries for industrial and commercial applications. Responsible for driving growth through new product introduction, marketing, strategic supplier development and price management. Managed marketing, product marketing, application/quality engineering, supply chain and logistics, and information technology.Key Accomplishments• Lead the transition of Power Sonic as the market leader in lead acid batteries to a market leader in lithium batteries. Launched five new product platforms increasing the lithium product offering from 3 batteries to over 50 batteries. Increased percentage of customers purchasing lithium batteries from less than 5% to 50%.• Increase Power Sonic internet marketing presence, as measured by traffic, tenfold to over a million visitor annually through the website redesign, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of all pages and educational blogs.• Developed Power-Sonic’s ecommerce channel utilizing an in-house website, a network of partners and traditional ecommerce platforms.• Developed several business processes to support new product introduction including a stage gate development process, engineering change process and supplier qualification reducing time to market from years to months.• Develop a sales and operational planning process based on a custom forecast method to optimize inventory and improve cash flow. Develop purchasing tools to streamline the purchasing process.• Develop all Power-Sonic analytic tools using internal and external sources to produce internal business metrics (sale, margin, cash flow, etc.) and assess business impact of external influence (market prices, batter imports, inflation, etc.) to optimize business performance.

Consultant helping customers achieve aggressive profit, operational and engineering improvement by developing custom analytics, strategies and training on the application of best practices. Key Accomplishments • Develop strategies and software tools to drive improvement in price management, sales forecasting, operational planning and supply chain logistics. Results included an annualized profit improvement more than $2M and a past due reduction more than $3M.• Application of Design Failure modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Fish bone diagrams and Design of Experiments (DOE) to reduce high warranty failure rates.• Expert witness on intellectual property matters.

Birmingham , Gb

Chief Operations Officer for a $30M company with 140 team members designing and manufacturing pumps, valves and syringes for global life science OEMs. Functional responsibility including human resources, operations, quality, engineering and finances, including sole responsibility for the P&L.Key Accomplishments • Transformed the company culture from family business to international corporation while increasing operating profit from 21.6% to 25.9%.• Established key customer relationships resulting in long term agreements valued at over $20M to deliver 5% growth reversing four years of declining revenues.• Implemented lean best practice improving on time delivery from 70% to over 98%, increasing inventory turns from 4 to 8 and reducing average daily past due backlog for $300k to zero.

Birmingham , Gb

Marketing and Engineering executive responsible for Norgren America’s product management, marketing and pricing. Managed all site engineering activities and provided engineering and process mentorship to sites throughout the Americas. Key Accomplishments• Improved custom engineering opportunity assessment, forecasting, and sales processes resulting in $43.5M increase new opportunities, $16M in new product sales and $1.9M in cost reduction projects• Developed pricing tools and strategy for Norgren Americas that increased annual price gain from 1-2% to greater than 4% generating $10M annual profit

Birmingham , Gb

Led Norgren’s new product introduction team consisting of technical and marketing directors from the United States, Germany, China, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Founded and chaired the intellectual property committed responsible for managing Norgren’s global intellectual property portfolio.Key Accomplishments• Developed a global product management and development system to standardize, measure and optimize the activities of 400 engineers at 11 technical centers in 6 countries. Increased the new products as a % of sales from less than 4% to greater than 6% by increasing the project win rate.• Increased capabilities in the Norgren engineering community through the targeted rollout of training on the principles of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Design of Experiments (DOE), Project Management, and Advanced Simulation Tools including Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Led engineering research efforts to advance state-of-the art of Coriolis technology and directed product marketing efforts to define and maintain Coriolis sensor product roadmaps. Managed all product development and product support activities for Coriolis sensors.Key Accomplishments• Decreased the time-to-market for new product development from 36 months to 18 months using advanced engineering analytical tools and an APQP based new product development system. Released five new or redesigned platform products on-time and on-budget resulting in over 40% increase in new product sales.Decrease warranty failures by 20x through the effective use of FMEA’s, analytical and experimental tools.

Research engineer responsible for supporting the redesign of the space shuttle rocket boosters through the use of finite element analysis. Accomplishments include validating the analytical techniques used in the redesign of the failed o-ring joint of the Callenger.