Jake Herwaldt Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, OH, US

Led cross-functional team in the Office of the CTO Innovation Residency greenfield program, focusing on developing reference architecture aimed at enhancing the developer experience. Created and standardized example repositories and comprehensive how-to documents. These resources were designed to streamline development processes, establish best practices.

Grand Rapids, MI, US

- Established Product Metrics: Implemented usage analytics to quantify engagement and churn insights.- Customer-Centric Insights: Championed needs through feedback and analytics, improving product alignment.- Boosted Engagement: Fostered synergy between products, increasing customer engagement with X-Rite services.- Data-Driven Decisions: Developed.

Grand Rapids, MI, US

- Customer Insights: Facilitated customer feedback sessions to inform product improvements and document CX.- Global Team: Cross-functional teams across multiple regions to prioritize features, architecture and data reuse.- Idea to Production: Secured executive sponsorship and funding through compelling business case and PoC.- Redesign: Successfully.

Grand Rapids, MI, US

Jan 2021- Sept 2021- Cloud Computing/Formulation Software – BtoB software – Team in Europe- Owned development and drove alignment between 3 teams for shared library for common components to drive reuse.- Owned creating, connect to front end and maintenance for REST API. Designed for reuse across multiple projects.Jan 2020-Jan 2021- Pantone Connect – BtoC.

Grand Rapids, MI, US

- Business operations leadership development program (BOLD)- Lead cross functional project outsourcing PCBA (50+) to China, moved to Malaysia due to tariff cost increase. Responsible for inventory during transition (burn down and switch), quality, BOM changes and inventory obsolescence.- $12.7M annual spend. $2.35M of on hand inventory reduced to $1.4M.

Detroit, Michigan, US

- Led a cross-functional team of 8 that developed an online website/dashboard- Dashboard identified $35 million in logistical cost for one of GM's assembly plants- Project can simply be scaled to 17 other assembly plants and 30 component plants- Times savings of 50% - from 2 weeks per plant down to 1 week for one associate

-Self-taught engineering GDNT standards-Developed standard work and production cell layout for previously undocumented process -Improved quality 20% first pass yield to 100% first pass yield -Process speed improved by a factor of 5. From 5 a week to 5 a day

East Lansing, MI, US

Working under Barbara Schneider. - Received first-place award for Undergraduate Research (UURAF).- Identified and responded to gap in process for counterpart in Finland, traveled to Finland with a week notice and resolved issue in 4 days that was crucial to the success at Michigan State. - Developed new process to program and upload technology resulting in.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

- Saved Buyer 2.25 hours a day by reducing lead time by up to 90 days on over 150 parts- Identified reduction of average on-hand inventory by $116K with supplier agreements - Developed process for inventory accuracy which eliminated line-down risk and removed work around process that risked poor quality products- Removed $306K committed dollars to supplier.

Lansing, MI, US

- Identified and automated 11 manual processes using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) saving over 6000 hours of associate time (over $80,000) annually. Needed to understand/observe each manual process to create a unique solution.- Created ROI template for the purpose of prioritizing projects and/or quantifying the effectiveness of the project. It helps.