Mark Bruns Email & Phone Number

Sioux Falls, Sd, Us

Sioux Falls, South Dakota Area

* auctions, investment, trading, arbitrage and economic research including auctiontech R&D or accelerated negotiation, smart contracts and distributed trust network infrastructure for markets and exchange* startup and business process re-engineering ventures with a specific focus on market-based management, customer-driven mfg execution, on-the-job technical discipline improvement, value-added agricultural production.* asset optimization projects driven by LEAN thinking, critical chain project management, theory of constraints throughput optimization and agile product development* working in realtime bidding and social commerce recommendation engines, implementation of fault-tolerant messaging technology for improved reputation management* applying lifetime of expertise, knowledge and entrepreneurial background to the Sustain Fund project, an effort to accelerate and enhance the compassionate effectiveness of venture philanthropy and socially-engaged investing* Job are for gathering business intelligence and learning about how different humans live/work/manage; jobs are strictly a matter using time to gather intell which is best done by meeting, experiencing and learning empathetically but a professional career/status is never something to fall in love with, ie your employer does not really love you but might really enjoy effing you -- when you have a job, you should enjoy the effing or give notice.

Senior Engineer responsible for Quality, Safety and Reliability of Residential product produced by Lennox International. Led development and implementation of quality plans and tooling buyoffs with a greater emphasis on tolerance engineering and more thorough dimensional analysis of critical components and assemblies.

Garner, Ia

Assisted with business process engineering and LEAN implementation culminating in a $2M improvement in the sale price of small mfg facility.

Led project quality engineering efforts resulting fifteen successful launches of safety critical Automotive components.Led Six Sigma DMAIC/DFSS projects that achieved significant cost savings in automotive electronics assembly, warranty cost-share, software quality engineering. Additional contract assignment in 2012

Simplified STUCK mfg execution systems and removed unnecessary levels of managerial supervision to achieve a five-fold increase in mfg throughput at a $20M DoD contractor located on Objibwe reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota

Implemented ERP / EDI system with major reliability upgrade to industrial computer networkHired to completed ISO 9002 registration project necessary for company survival. This project had been delayed but was completed ahead of original schedule to provide the basis for achieving a six-fold increase in numbers of machined part numbersLed efforts to develop more solid technical discipline in GDT, tooling, feeds/speeds, etc relying upon JIT on-the-job cross-training rather than just classroom training. This led to participation in development of a General Machining curriculum at local community college to train the trainers.

Rock Valley

Developed QS-9000 compliant quality systems for a training machine shop employing developmentally-disabled adults

Ames, Ia

Economic and policy research in risk mgmt and uncertainty in production agriculture as well as food safety and animal health policy, pharmaceutical regulation.Served on ISU University Committee on Biohazards and BioterrorismISU Representative on Food Safety Policy Consortium

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Master Of Divinity (M.Div.)