John Wlassich, Phd Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca

Sold in more than 90 countries, Rain Bird is the world’s largest manufacturer of irrigation products. The company designs, develops, and manufactures drip irrigation, high efficiency nozzles, and cloud-based electronic controllers. • Increased output and quality by implementing Lean in manufacturing. • Led manufacturing programs which doubled capacity. • Generative Design with physics-based simulations in product design. • Machine Learning to improve process quality. •… Show more Sold in more than 90 countries, Rain Bird is the world’s largest manufacturer of irrigation products. The company designs, develops, and manufactures drip irrigation, high efficiency nozzles, and cloud-based electronic controllers. • Increased output and quality by implementing Lean in manufacturing. • Led manufacturing programs which doubled capacity. • Generative Design with physics-based simulations in product design. • Machine Learning to improve process quality. • Product development intentionally designed for additive manufacturing• Led Design Sprints and hack-a-thons to rapidly create physical prototypes. • Awards for Innovation and effective team leadership.• Learning to get LLMs to cough up valuable answers. Show less

Long Island, Ny

Joined as employee #5 to recruit and manage a team to develop and manufacture a wholly new laser medical device and smart disposable for wound healing. Company reached sustainability and was sold in late 2015 to a large medical device company.• 90% margins and greater market penetration achieved by transforming the business from pay-per-use to "razor/razor blade" model with a novel, smart disposables.• 33% sales increase by executing a product line extension from concept to… Show more Joined as employee #5 to recruit and manage a team to develop and manufacture a wholly new laser medical device and smart disposable for wound healing. Company reached sustainability and was sold in late 2015 to a large medical device company.• 90% margins and greater market penetration achieved by transforming the business from pay-per-use to "razor/razor blade" model with a novel, smart disposables.• 33% sales increase by executing a product line extension from concept to introduction.• 25% time-to-market reduction realized by aligning product development with clinical testing and regulatory compliance.• Won the Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation of Year Award. This contributed to driving market awareness of our product prior to launch.• Led a team to create and implement a Quality Management System to establish the company as competent manufacturer of medical devices. Passed FDA audits, ISO 13485 certification, and CE Mark. Show less

Boston, Ma And Reading, Uk

Led groups in engineering, quality, and life sciences in the Blades and Razors Division of Gillette.• Increasing levels of responsibility; project engineer, program manager, and research manager. • Formed an interdisciplinary team to build fully functional prototypes for performance testing of a future billion-dollar male razor brand.• Led a manufacturing scale-up team to deliver a high volume manufacturing process.• Successful 5 year expat assignment as manager of an advanced… Show more Led groups in engineering, quality, and life sciences in the Blades and Razors Division of Gillette.• Increasing levels of responsibility; project engineer, program manager, and research manager. • Formed an interdisciplinary team to build fully functional prototypes for performance testing of a future billion-dollar male razor brand.• Led a manufacturing scale-up team to deliver a high volume manufacturing process.• Successful 5 year expat assignment as manager of an advanced technology group in the premier corporate research laboratory in the UK.• Led a clinical research group of physicians, nurses, biochemists, and clinicians to comply with FDA and ISO 13485 and 9001 requirements.• 33% reduction in turnaround time by uniting five corporate machine shops into a "global shop” that increased design flexibility using rapid prototyping while retaining secrecy of new product concepts.• 50% decrease in concept testing time by creating an open innovation project to build variations of a key element in two consumer products which both become billion dollar brands.• $7 million saved in the first year by linking engineering simulation groups from across the company to test complex, expensive steel molds in a computer before building them.• Selected for the Next Generation Leaders program (top 5% of managers). Show less

Boston, Ma

While a student at MIT, recruited a five-member team, completed corporate contracts, and implemented a new, highly efficient materials processing technology. The technology reduced cost while improving quality of mission-critical metal components for more than a million cars manufactured in U.S. annually. • Started the company and grew it to 25 employees. • Sold company in 1995 and delivered 4x ROI for shareholders.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

First mechanical engineer in the company to work jointly with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Information Technologies. • Increase the yield of a materials manufacturing process with sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms. • Saved millions of dollars for a government agency by showing a low-cost alternative solution to a complex problem in aircraft operations.

Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Vice President MIT Chapter of ASME, Sigma Xi Majored in Control Systems and minored in Design and Materials. PhD.

Sm, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Learned to sail and row single person shells. • Built robot test beds from scratch. Designed systems.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi Graduated Summa Cum Laude. One of first 3 undergraduates to earn.

Quantum Computing, Professional Certificate