Kurt E. Email & Phone Number

Carpentersville, IL

• Joined company in February as 1st program manager. Developed and instituted release processes for the introduction of 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) content for architects.
• Responsible for developing and managing Smartsheet schedules for 20+ projects to ensure on time delivery to clients.
• Manage and assign resources to projects and identify gaps in headcount to Sr. Management that could impact project schedules.

Schaumburg, IL

• Managed Service NPI team, through 50% headcount reduction, resulting in team’s successful completion of all Service NPI deliverables for 25 – 30 projects per year without reduction in scope.
• Acted as Service Project Manager for introduction of next generation mission critical Public Safety Long Term Evolution (PS LTE) system releases. Defined Motorola service delivery strategy and prepared service delivery.
• Represented Service in contract negotiations with 3rd Party suppliers, ensuring suppliers were contractually committed to provide mission critical support.
• Held duties as Service Readiness NPI Program Manager for release of Next Generation 911 solutions, resulting in Motorola service delivery teams providing best-in-class support.

Schaumburg, IL

• Established Service New Product Introduction (NPI) process, providing support for service offering set-up and solution maintenance.
• Documented service NPI roles, streamlining process and reassigning deliverables.
• Acted as key member of team tasked with making Service NPI processes ISO9000 compliant, resulting in successful internal audit with perfect score and no findings.

Schaumburg, IL

• Performed as Maintainability Engineering New Product Introduction Program Manager for ASTRO 6.1/6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5 public safety system releases, ensuring Motorola support organizations provided first class service to.
• Developed box and system level support strategies and plans for ASTRO 4.1/6.0/6.1/6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5 public safety system releases, making certain Motorola support organizations had information and tools required for.
• Utilized Voice of Customer (VOC), refining and standardizing Maintainability Engineering's process documents for new product / system releases.

Schaumburg, IL

• Acted as Manufacturing Lead on cross-functional team, designing low cost, high quality Smart Card Access Device (CAD).
• Held duties as New Products Engineer, overseeing release of CAD product line in Schaumburg manufacturing facility, resulting in product line being released on schedule and ready to meet first customer commitments.
• Generated 23% cost reduction by developing manufacturing strategy and reducing CAD manufacturing cost at lower outlay facility.
• Directed transfer of CAD manufacturing product line from Schaumburg production line to Motorola Computer Group in Tempe, resulting in product being manufactured in higher capacity, lower cost facility.

Schaumburg, IL

• Served as Manufacturing Project Leader for introduction and ship acceptance of 2.0.3 Zone Manager and Omnilink 3.5 systems, resulting in Customer Center for Solution Integration being prepared to stage and provide.
• Leader of cross-functional team, improving order quality for Central Controller product line, resulting in 38% improvement in order quality.
• Generated 26% cost savings by serving as Cost Reduction Team Leader, responsible for reducing scrap and excess material shipping to customers.
• Supervised Industrial Engineering Analysts with responsibilities that included process documentation, software upgrades and resolution of manufacturing issues.

Schaumburg, IL

• Acted as Manufacturing Project Leader for introduction and ship acceptance of Quantar, YOGI, DSS III base stations, conventional / trunking comparator, EPIC control board and MRTI phone patch.
• Designed and implemented expansion of iDEN factory, ramping up production and achieving increased customer demands.
• Served as Manufacturing Team Leader for ISO9000 certification of base station product line.
• Performed as Cross-Functional Team Leader, improving base station manufacturing cycle time and reducing delinquencies. o 78% reduction in delinquencies. o 10% reduction in cycle time.
• Designed and implemented relocation of 25,000 sqft base station factory, resulting in 33% reduction in manufacturing space.
• Served as New Product Engineer, successfully introducing MSF10000 base station product line.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Institute of Industrial Engineers

Masters Certificate, Project Management