John J Schussler Email & Phone Number

Bellingham, WA, US

Calgary, AB, CA

This role serves as a key strategic leader responsible for overseeing complex programs and ensuring alignment with organizational goals in the following capacities: 1. Program Oversight and Coordination: Managing the lifecycle of multiple programs across departments or business units, ensuring timely completion within scope and alignment with strategic.

• On-site and remote services in the development of products, processes, people, and organizational structures in full alignment with company purposes.
• Achieve fast implementation of robust methodologies to improve cross-fertilization, collaboration, and productivity.
• Manage engineering teams from concept through to production, applying Agile program/project processes to hardware and software developments.

• DIRECTOR, BUSINESS OPERATIONSRan Program Management Office (PMO), Configuration Management, Business Process, and Software Tools teams to serve the Design, Make, and Sell pillars for a150-person company.
• Instituted foundational, streamlined, end-to-end Product Development Process (PDP) that resulted in administratively light inter-departmental processes suitable for a fleet-footed startup.
• Audited all on-going projects that dramatically reduced their quantity/scope, enhanced clarity of objectives, and established achievable plans.
• Redesigned the company’s VMS (visual management system) which resulted in at-a-glance KPIs and business operation improvements.DIRECTOR, ADVANCED DEVELOPMENTRan Program Management Office (PMO), Configuration.
• Redesigned the company’s VMS (visual management system) which resulted in at-a-glance KPIs and business operation improvements.

• Managed a department of 55 software, firmware, test, mechanical, electrical, and firmware engineers.
• Expanded the use Agile methodologies to electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines thereby establishing a consistent project management methodology throughout the entire department and resulting in better.
• Led the merge of the corporate stage-gate structure with Jira to better align engineering projects with corporate milestones and reporting.
• Created managerial and individual career path matrices to bring consistency to performance reviews, professional development milestones, job descriptions, salary scales, and titles.

Olathe, KS, US

• SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER Taipei, TaiwanDeveloped and managed a Core Engineering & Design (CE&D) department of 60: Industrial Design, Product Management, Mechanical Engineering, User Experience, Technical.
• Established new organizational structures, industry-competitive department-wide salary bandings, and job descriptions/titles for all.
• Refashioned the consumer engineering and product management structures and processes to result in a “One Garmin” global engineering resource pool and the harmonization of disparate global engineering departments.
• Created Garmin’s first hybrid wearable multi-year product roadmap to inspire a next generation of wearables.
• Completed on budget and schedule the design of Taiwan’s new 30,000 sq. ft. engineering facility conducive to greater productivity, top talent recruitment, employee retention, collaboration, and morale.
• Enforced a functional chain-of-command and the creation of real priorities, leadership development, and a “focus-and-finish” milieu.ADVANCED SOLUTIONS MANAGER Olathe, KSDrove continuous improvement of new processes.

Irvine, California, US

• Researched and developed in-vehicle future generation technologies.
• Created a novel infotainment HMI (human-machine interface) called TouchVIEW HMI and initiated and led the three-year engineering effort (a Mazda-Garmin partnership), resulting in fully functional in-vehicle prototypes.
• Created the Mazda Data Dummy – a general purpose, compact data acquisition system for dynamic in-vehicle testing, acquiring digital and analog signals (e.g., CAN Bus, GPS, audio, video, temperature, pressure.
• Designed, programmed, and managed the development of numerous HMI simulators, evaluation ensembles (LabVIEW), and prototype next-generation actuators (SolidWorks), consistently earning top annual performance review.
• Created an audio reference room and a novel radio reception testing methodology to quantify vehicle audio performance -- also used for NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) investigations.
• Initiated a new Mazda technology development process, ensuring that concept development, prototype evaluations, and North American market trend analyses occur prior to creating new vehicle specifications and selecting.

• Conducted engineering program management audits of Stanton DJ controllers and Cerwin-Vega subwoofers, directly reporting to company president and VP of engineering.
• Directed numerous critical system engineering reviews that dramatically reduced standard cost, product complexity, and manufacturing effort.
• Managed and developed a Canadian engineering team of five while coordinating US product development and Taiwanese manufacturing to ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Engineered and designed (SolidWorks) a unique turntable spindle actuator based on a magnetic encoder, resulting in significantly lower cost, greater ease of manufacture, and increased durability and reliability (final.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• SENIOR ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGER Framingham, MALed in-vehicle ampducer program development and received my second patent for an integrated self-cooling speaker-amplifier design.
• Defined project scope, design direction, detailed program schedule, standard cost model, and initial product specification for a new low-profile, self-cooling, low-cost integrated transducer/linear amp (ampducer) –.
• Matrix managed cross-functional team (engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, and validation) to design for manufacture, to develop a new integrated (electronics and mechanical) final assembly line, and to.
• Developed a severely cost-reduced, more highly integrated ampducer in close cooperation with outside design resources from prospective vendors (both foreign and domestic), reducing projected standard cost by 33%.
• Managed German and Japanese customers and Italian supplier technical issues, communications, expectations, and relations during a significant long-term manufacturing crisis, helping to restore customer confidence in.
• Managed the construction and daily operation of Bose ASD’s new Los Angeles office to provide local engineering, business, marketing, and technical educational outreach to southern California’s automotive manufacturers.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Led the US-based ion-beam prototype laboratory and the UK-based cost reduction team.
• Assembled and managed a team of engineers and technicians to build the first prototype of a single wafer implant tool as well as managed, designed, and developed new SWIFT laboratories.
• Developed and managed a cost reduction program, generating over $1.0M in material cost savings in the first year. Built a highly motivated, cross-functional team of eleven, comprising engineers, buyers, assemblers, and.
• Managed a budget of $2M in applying parametric analysis techniques to identify cost reduction opportunities (both engineering and vendor based) and to develop vendor partnerships to leverage external manufacturing.

US

Led the Japan-based high-energy ion implanter reliability engineering program locally at Mitsubishi’s Seijo fab.

Dublin, Ireland, IE

Designed, fabricated, and tested electronical and mechanical R&D gear and received my first patent for a real-time ion implanter beam profiler.

Developed real-time dosimetry for electron beam processing equipment

Bs, Math And Physics

Physics Graduate Programe

Master Of Education (Med), Math And Physics Education