James C. Sizemore Email & Phone Number

United States

Product development and program management.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Global Robotic Technology Development Company, focused on multi-domain product development around hardware, software, firmware, sensors, computer vision, and beyond.

Billerica, Ma, Us

Global pads engineering director of product development and technology innovations.

Aurora, Il, Us

Clackamas, Oregon, Us

Wilsonville, Oregon, Us

•Oversaw domestic and India based engineering, PMO/project management, cost estimating, resource planning, and the respective budgets.•Weekly cadence leading directors across multiple project and programs to finical performance goals, resource allocation and gap management, while achieving a balance across changing scope, schedule, and strategic priority. •Collaboration across the engineering functional area with marketing and sales, expanded the business portfolio across consumer electronics, semi-conductor, medical, and EV automotive markets. Resulting in a successful 20% revenue growth year over year for DWFritz, a global, engineering to order custom precision automation company. •Introduced project and BOM life-cycle approach, with detailed work breakdown structure estimating and project management phase gate deliveries. Incorporated 1st and 2nd level KPI’s, with monthly progress through Power BI. Exceeded or met minimum thresholds allowances for P&L performance.•Lead across engineering and project management, strategic initiatives to improve estimating accuracy, and cost performance to budget. Critical transition included improving business practices from no change management philosophy, to a change management procedure managing customer driven impacts for scope, schedule, and resources. Record performance to budget and schedule in the 45-year company history.•Developed and coached 1st and 2nd level directors and managers, while multi-disciplined engineering resources expanded 100% year over year through hiring and internal promotions, and collaborated with OD&T improving individual competencies and technical skills, while administering salaries and annual performance plans.•Sr. manager for P&L and steering committee member for IT, BPI, supply chain management, and OD&T working across a matrix organization.

Lake Oswego, Oregon, Us

•Brought on board to innovate and revitalize long-standing assembly methods, engineering procedures and processes at Precision Castparts Corporation a global market leader with large parts investment castings across aerospace customers in the defense and commercial sectors. Managed technology innovation and new product development across four engineering and services departments with 50 plus employees, 6 program managers, 36 customers globally, and two major manufacturing facilities with a combined 1200 employees.•Incorporated risk management planning, enabling customer based engagement and decision making for design for manufacturing (DFM) during early phases of new product design with existing processes, increasing yield with reduced rework and scrap, and first article deliveries on-time and under budget.

•Joined HP Inkjet division contributing to the hyper growth with double digit growth and revenue across global sites and simultaneously launching multiple new products. Increasing yields and reliability performance with early proto products through product launch and release to production.•Managed and lead 15+ multi-disciplined engineers through early product designs for manufacturability (DFM) to production release of tooling, processes, and manufacturing requirements. Introduced new methodologies, processes, and materials, setting new levels for product yield performance at each sub-assembly step, cost per unit, and reduced operational labor for hands-off assembly and inspection.•Core Mfg member across multiple management product development teams, collaborating across a matrix organization with engineering based peers from R&D, SCM, finance, and product marketing, launching one of the most successful products with best in class reliably, print quality levels, and user experience for cost per page.

•Lead 30 engineering team member improvement project, reducing $1MM/month scrap loss, cross factory calibration methods and hardware for sustained performance and product and/or hardware/software change management. Team consisted of electrical engineers across the site from FAB processes to final product packaging assembly.•Sr. technical lead for new product introduction engineering team consisting of ME, EE, SE, and process engineers.•Subject matter expert for a class-4 LASER based pattern and tack process providing lifetime protection and adhesion for multiple print head product lines within the inkjet division of printer products. Supported 24X7 operation, providing technician and operator level instructions for safety, operation, maintenance, product acceptance criteria, and troubleshooting manual on specific processes.•Collaborated with material suppliers to stabilize and manage changes, and capital equipment firms to expand worldwide capacity across four other globally located sites.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Emphasis On Materials Science

Pre-Engineering

A.S., Metallurgy Technician

Associate Of Science - As, Metallurgical Technology/Technician