Kevin Schwartz Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

I serve as a general Board Member and sit on the Finance Committee (with likely plans to take over as Treasurer next year) of this amazing, fast growing not-for-profit organization, focused on decarbonizing large school systems while simultaneously providing career pathways for their students into "green economy jobs" of the future.

San Francisco Bay Area

Leading the definition and delivery of an integrated set of services to help clients upskill their workforce and realize tangible value from the promise of Intelligent Automation.

Led a team of ~100 partners and consultants providing business transformations spanning Supply Chain, Product Innovation, Shared Services and Intelligent Automation, focused primarily on High Tech and Telecommunications clients. Drove strategy through execution on major process improvements driving both cost takeout and top-line revenue growth for dozens of clients ranging from late stage startups through Fortune 100 corporations.

Practicing what I preached, I took a 12-month career break to be at home with my family and allow my spouse to fully pursue her career. I will be forever grateful to the PwC leadership team for supporting me in this move. Best thing I've ever done!

San Francisco Bay Area

Partner in PwC's management consulting practice, focusing on a combination of client delivery and thought leadership across High Tech and Retail & Consumer industry sectors. Co-lead of PwC's global Innovation and Product Development practice area, including involvement in relationship management activities with major Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system vendors. Lead for Retail & Consumer management consulting team in Northern California, with responsibility for a handful of major client accounts.Joined PwC in 2011 as part of the acquisition of PRTM Management Consultants.

Mountain View, Ca

Rose from entry-level consultant to partner, actively delivering and leading more than 20 major client transformation engagements over the course of 12 years, in addition to dozens of smaller projects. Served as part of the global leadership team for PRTM's Product and Cycle-Time Excellence (PACE) practice and drove thought leadership that led to new product and service innovation capability improvements at dozens of clients. Sample projects include: * Reinvention of new product development and R&D portfolio management practices at a $6B consumer products company, leading to a 2X increase in annual growth from new product launches within two years; client has seen sustained benefits 10 years later * Redesign and change management of the cross-functional design-to-manufacturing process for a marquee sporting goods and footwear brand, focused specifically on improved collaboration between US-based marketing & design teams and China-based supply chain teams and manufacturers; project reduced time-to-market by ~20% and practically eliminated delays in new seasonal product line launches * Evolution of operating model for a multi-billion dollar software company to enable movement to open source development and cloud services enablement * Selection and implementation of a PLM system for a global leader in the semiconductor industry, enabling faster new platform development and improved collaboration across globally dispersed R&D teams

New Jersey

Drove component and systems-level design for liquid apogee engines, orbit maintenance thrusters, and propellant management systems on multiple commercial telecommunications and scientific satellite programs, including the A2100 satellite platform. Served as program manager for multiple multi-million dollar sub-contracted development programs of spacecraft thrusters from TRW and other vendors. Supported launch operations at spacecraft launch facility in central China.

New Jersey

Held four positions over a 2-year rotational period on GE's highly selective technical leadership training program. Rotational assignments were all based in the commercial satellite business and included roles in Mechanical Design, International Marketing and Business Development, Quality Assurance, and Propulsion Systems Design. Completed GE training curriculum at Crotonville. Received the Edison Engineering Award for Outstanding Achievement.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Semester Abroad Program -- Mba

Ms, Systems Engineering

Bs, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering