Jim Birt Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Electrostatics Technology Business Unit at Simco-Ion (an ITW company) who provides cutting edge, innovative and customer driven electrostatics solutions for the Semiconductor and Life Sciences medical manufacturing industry.► Global Manufacturing (US and Asia)► New technology product development ► Manage multi-million dollar P&L in support of multi-billion dollar ITW Corporation► Global Sales and Business Development (direct, channel partner, distribution)► Life Sciences Medical and Semiconductor industry (front end/back end)

San Francisco Bay Area

★Work closely with customers including home owners, installers, EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) Teams, Distributors and future Sunpreme technology adaptors to ensure customer delight.★ Drove process improvements through re-engineering the logistics operations, business and field operations including warehousing strategies, packaging optimization, installation simplification, ocean freight and domestic transport focused on delivery solutions for the customer.★ Lead an extremely talented engineering team focused on developing new products and delivering value added and innovative solutions for customers.★ Ensured safe operations and environmental compliance for clean room manufacturing operations utilizing highly toxic gases and waste water management.★ Supplemented the sales organization by bringing in additional sales and proviiding leads based on establishing a centralized customer call center. The call centner ensured fast customer response and multi-megawatts of sales.

Santa Clara, Ca

★ I excelled in the opportunity to develop an entire operations infrastructure for manufacturing and field operations to support a company changing product. This included establishing a customer base from the ground up in Asia fully equipped with service and support capability. In addition, offshore manufacturing was established allowing tripling of capacity to meet customer production requirements.★ My most satisfying program was starting the "Lean Journey" which entailed changing the way the company thought about identifying waste in the organization and developing actions to eliminate. It was great to see a grass roots program be so successful. ★ My broad based experience across the operations value chain in addition to my passion for lean thinking and waste reduction have prepared me well for my next challenge.Leadership✔ Building, developing, leading, empowering, mentoring teams for high performance, cross-functionality and full accountability✔ A fearless strategic and tactical operational leader and pioneer who identifies and capitalizes on opportunities to improve and innovate, readily challenges the status quo, changing cultures and mindsets to reflect the most advantageous approaches, winning CEO trust ✔ A leader of infectious optimism and an empowering personality conducive to exceptional team performance and creativity✔ A competitive, multifaceted, people-oriented leader committed to the highest morale, who thrives on chaos amidst major transitions for company, industry, or the macro-economy

Santa Clara, Ca

Directly supported customer installed based in North America through Account Site Directors and Managers. Supported and Managed a $500M service P&L including service and spares.■ Implemented benchmark field/factory collaboration program (FPAT) in manufacturing to align field issues due to poor shipped quality systems. The process is now standard procedure for all regions■ Established several matrix teams with the field to ensure the voice of the customer and the field were driven throughout the company■ Implemented benchmark service outsourcing program utilizing resulting in margin improvement and while improving employee satisfaction■ Established customer satisfaction program in North America■ Drove and managed quality inititatives across the account teams including ISO 9001 compliance, corporate quality metrics

Santa Clara, Ca.

Responsible for overall region P&L and market share growth for Metal Deposition (Chemical Vapor Deposition and Physical Vapor Deposition) products in the Taiwan and South East Asia region. Directly managed marketing, product support, concurrent engineering.■ Grew Metal Deposition market share across the region resulting in production tool of record at top customers■ Received vendor appreciation reward for meeting fab ramp up requirements

Santa Clara, Ca.

Responsible for Global Product Support for Tungsten Chemical Vapor Deposition Products. Support consisted of process engineering, mechanical, electrical and control system problem solving. Worked directly with engineering support team to address and resolve systemic product issues.■ Recruited and trained an 8-member Global Technical Product Support Engineering team■ Established benchmark Factory Product Support Engineer role to support improvement of shipped product quality■ Managed installation/warranty cost and drove programs to reduce installation cycle time

Santa Clara, Ca

Responsible for Asia product support and technical marketing for Tungsten Chemical Vapor Deposition products. Directly supported the customer front lines support escalations and product issues.

Hsinchu County/City, Taiwan

Responsible to gain market share in the Asia Pacific Region through direct support of the installed base. Hands on process and mechanical support providing front lines support to the customers while establishing best known methods for addressing product issues. Provided support for technical marketing presentations to high level customers with the General Manager and Sr. Marketing Managers.■ Transferred best known methods to local account teams in Asia■ Personally trained and certified all process and field engineers on the intricate details of process and mechanical troubleshooting customer process issues

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Responsible for introducing first in world product for metal deposition and etch into 16Mb pilot production factory. Worked closely with the customer to address any integration issues due to the new process in the line.■ Established best known methods for process troubleshooting and high level mechanical, electrical and control system issues■ Established cleaning procedures and PM requirements■ Kept rigorous pilot schedule for the customer to successfully meet the target■ Personally selected by Division General Manager to transfer all product knowledge to Asia as the first division Expatriate

Charleston, South Carolina Area