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Responsible for program development of all products for top 2 major customers in the company.Responsible for delivering programs on time to budget including end responsibility for product, contribution margins, gross margins, and EBITDA. Managed development and purchased finished goods programs that were manufactured and designed using cross functional.

Oak Brook, Illinois, US

End to end responsibility for New Product development utilizing Agile development methodologies. Responsible for delivering programs on time to budget including end responsibility for product Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value and Gross Margins. Managed development and purchased finished goods programs that were manufactured and designed using.

Managed multiple commercial and military programs for flight control systems development and delivery. Programs spanned US, Canada, Germany, France, and Russia.

• Multinational experience in avionic integration and program management of Russian regional Jet cockpit controls, and sensing systems. Including FAA approval of systems supplied. Responsible for Contract and government.
• Provided reliability consulting services on commercial and military aerospace projects. Clients included: Lockheed Martin, Northrop, Honeywell, Nasa, Hispano, Airbus, Sikorsky, Boeing, Liebherr, Thales, Sukhoi, and.
• Managed programs for A380, C5, JSF, Russian Regional Jet, Blackhawk, CH53k, Honda business jet, Hawker Beechcraft business jet, Gulfstream G500/G600 and Nasa Sofia Program.
• Reviewed and negotiated projects with international aerospace companies (Germany, France, Russia, Canada and US). Responsible for reducing liability exposure due to performance of supplied systems and milestone.

Provided program management, organizational and process consulting and evaluation services. Delivered engineering product development projects. Performed transitional management, management capability evaluations, reliability and quality consulting services, and company growth and strategy planning.

• Responsible for bottom line performance, strategic planning, executive level staffing, customer relations and strategic partnerships. Responsibilities were for the following line functions: Finance, Marketing, Sales.
• Led a group created a business plan that was cash positive in the second year of operations. The plan generated an estimated 10 times the sales level per employee and 8 times the profit level per employee than the.
• Integrated GEC Marconi Information Systems Ltd., the RF research arm of the GEC Marconi parent organization in the UK and a chemical technology development group from Marconi Data Systems. These groups generated over.
• Sold the idea for Marconi Data Systems to GEC Marconi Corporate in London. The plan was identified as one of the best progressive plans and prospects delivered within the company.

Wood Dale, IL, US

• Acting Site Director of Elmjet, responsible for a 30 million dollar P&L, financial operations, marketing and sales, program management, purchasing, logistics, manufacturing, engineering and technology.
• Organized and sponsored a multinational, multifunctional team that eliminated field warranty issues associated with the product. The team consisted of members obtained from engineering, manufacturing, customer service.
• Within 3 months the team was able to make the operation profitable. Headcount was reduced by 20%, production capacity was increased by 300%, profit contribution per unit was increased by 40%, and receivables were.

Wood Dale, IL, US

• Managed Global Quality organization with sites located in Wood Dale Illinois, Bar Hill UK, Dublin Ireland, Utrecht Holland, Frankfurt Germany, Mississauga Canada, and Tokyo Japan.
• Instituted six sigma quality metrics and quality tools, and training throughout global operations.
• Managed Global Program Management organization which delivered products jointly developed by our UK and US operations in partnership with our global customer base located in 27 countries.
• Obtained and maintained ISO 9001 and QS 9000 certifications on a global basis.
• Proactively resolved major quality issues with a major customer and retained multi-million dollar business.
• Reduced hardware field warranty expenses by over one million dollars using data mining techniques and a cross functional team from engineering, manufacturing, customer service, and information systems that was able to.

• Responsible for global quality operations ( US, Germany, UK). Corporate quality policy management and implementation across the domestic and international operations.
• Established and Coordinated a team that obtained ISO certification for U.S. and European facilities in 6 months allowing company to continue operations outside of the United States.
• Developed a warranty tracking system based on Weibull analysis that was capable of accurately projecting warranty costs, and identifying clients that were taking advantage of the warranty system.
• Established offshore quality inspection and acceptance system in Taiwan. Was instrumental in setting up production in Taiwan.
• Established a Life test laboratory that effectively evaluated designs for performance and wear without having to do field trials.

• Responsibilities included: Quality Assurance, Reliability Engineering, Calibration and Maintenance, Document Control, and Process Optimization groups globally. This encompassed 6 locations throughout the world (Lisle.
• Lead the team that obtained the first perfect rating from Bellcore auditors against the telecommunications quality specification in the Round Rock Tx.
• Responsible for Quality improvement program training across all locations of the organization.
• Implemented a Taguchi based DOE method for optimizing electrical and mechanical design and production optimization. The method was utilized on high volume production lines to reduce cycle time and improve first pass.
• Established a set of consistent corporate level quality policies that allowed for flexible implementation of quality procedures at the divisional level. Then led a team of individuals that implemented those procedures.
• Established global quality training programs for US, Canada, Puerto Rico.

Mba, Marketing/Finance

Bs, Physics/ Mathematics