Kenneth Nesteroff Email & Phone Number

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Houston, Texas Area

Businesses include Smart Meter Connectivity, Remote Water Actuation, Pre-Press Graphic Arts Imaging Products, and Contract Manufacturing ServicesKey clients include: Badger Meter, Mueller, Heath, Aker Solutions, and thousands of printers in the Graphics Arts Industry.I am responsible for operations, development and expansion of business opportunities including new products.

Houston, Tx

I led the Smart Meter Connectivity Business and Robotic Automation Steering Team.Key clients include: Neptune, Aclara, Fanuc and ABB▪ I worked to complete a robotic machine tending project, resulting in a 30% increase in throughput, 60% labor cost reduction, and 100% automatic inspection.▪ I established new factory automation leadership, enabling our team to double the project portfolio.▪ I developed a strategy for the smart meter connectivity business, launched new products and strengthened customer relationships .

Houston, Texas Area

Statoil Permanent Reservoir Monitoring ProjectI led the execution of a $160M Permanent Reservoir Monitoring project.Key clients include: Aker Solutions, Kongsberg, Teledyne-ODI, and DeepOcean▪ I worked to establish a new HSE and quality leadership team, resulting in compliance to ISO9001 and NORSOK S006 standards.▪ I expanded the project control of Executive Communications, enabling more effective reporting.▪ I was able to successfully interface with the project subcontractors to ensure clear specifications, resulting in on-time delivery of all subcomponents.▪ I personally oversaw the installation of the riser umbilical in the North Sea, resulting in timely and proper placement of the key subsea structures.

Houston, Tx

Medical ▪ Industrial Imaging ▪ High-Performance ComputingI managed and defined company business plans, marketing strategies, and forecasts for product lines.Key clients include: GE Healthcare, Siemens, Sonosite, and Mindray Medical.▪ I increased the embedded processor medical and industrial imaging revenue 34% YOY and directed initiative of high-performance computing accelerator solution to reduce client energy costs by 50%.▪ Secured $50M multi-core processor design at leading digital X-Ray manufacturer as well as $200K for the University of Illinois Beckman Imaging Institute for 2-year research and implementation of optical coherence tomography on portable ARM+DSP based system platform.

I led the Program Management Office (PMO) and Application Engineering Team for Automotive Microcontroller business.Key clients include: Bosch, TRW, Continental Teves, and Visteon.▪ I guided a team in release of 30 microcontrollers with embedded flash memory, ensuring compliance with industry standards.▪ I realized more than $1.2M in R&D cost savings by performing quarterly needs assessments for projects and achieved 50% improvement in number of programs realizing targets, while reducing design errors through promoting decision to put U.S. design team lead on-site in India.▪ I implemented a lessons learned process training using Toyota Lean Manufacturing methods and successfully passed TS16949 audit recertification.

I worked to foster business growth, as well as execution of custom embedded processor solutions that drove profitability.Key clients include: Seagate, Maxtor, Fujitsu, Iomega, and Garmin.▪ I controlled $175M NR hard disk drive controller business with over 26% profit from operations and negotiated a $1.2M settlement with Fujitsu to acquire cancellation of penalty fees to honor contract commitments; otherwise would have been lost revenue.▪ I achieved embedded processor business extensions at Maxtor and Fujitsu through incentives and upside support and drove DPPM to less than customer target by resolving silicon metal quality concerns.