Robert Hansen Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

Corning, New York, US

Bethesda, MD, US

• Provided process selection and tailoring support to programs and projects across the business. Led teams of subject matter experts in the creation and documentation of processes used for program management and system.
• Transitioned programs from several acquisitions and mergers so that all programs were using a common consolidated process set.
• Participated in the simplification of process documents by reducing page counts and removing extraneous requirements; reduction was between 41% and 60% for those areas addressed.
• Designed and implemented web site that provides access to process assets (policies, procedures, training, etc.) for the business.
• Member of process document review board that plans, reviews, and approves all changes to business processes.

CH

• Product engineering and commercialization of new products. Led team to analyze, identify, and address customer problems. Developed strategies for new product development. Specified content and layout of user.
• Investigated and resolved mysterious computer lockup condition resulting in consistently reliable operation.
• Conceived and created product costing tool to eliminate tedious spreadsheet work and increase accessibility to product development.
• Assisted customer in analyzing data collection system to resolve observed inconsistencies.
• Designed flexible software/database architecture that decreased development time and provided more consistent user interface.

Corning, New York, US

• Designed and implemented sub-systems used for manufacturing improvement.
• Developed vision inspection machine that reduced cycle time from 30 minutes to 1 minute, improved consistency and contributed to cost savings of $812K per year. This machine identifies and characterizes glass defects.
• Identified manufacturing line improvements that yielded 10% material savings, 50% fewer defects, and 50% less downtime.
• Defined and developed functional software modules to automatically customize products during manufacture.
• Developed software modules to support flexible automatic test system.
• Proposed and organized company-wide machine vision users group to encourage interaction between professionals from different divisions.

• Project leader and system designer of computer-based industrial inspection equipment for glass container industry. Responsible for all phases of product development and project management. Prepared project plans.
• Facilitated team that reduced production lead-time from 6-13 weeks to 2 weeks.
• Developed network gateway to simplify customer access to data from proprietary inspection equipment.
• Led team that developed Mold Number Reader product, which was awarded Emhart’s Technological Innovation Award.
• Created hardware/software system architecture for entire range of inspection products. Design was flexible enough to use on any machine and with any inspection type.

Bs, Computer Engineering

Bs, Information And Communications Science

Mba