Michael Schnee Email & Phone Number

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

Hatfield, Pa And Tuusula, Finland

Promoted to new position responsible for New Product Introductions and other major projects across all sites globally, as well strategy for future product innovation and revenue growth.• Combined separate teams into one global PMO, harmonized best practices to streamline.• Improved on time delivery of entire business unit major project portfolio (R&D, Operations, Facilities, Commercial) from <50% in 2017 to sustainably 90%.• Drove universal adoption of Visual Project Management methodology; personally led 30 project planning kaizen events, mentored teams to achieve proficiency and confirm sustainment.• Led the monthly Product Planning Group forum to prioritize and activate new projects, allocate resources, manage budgets, approve launches and monitor for achievement of revenue targets.• Led the quarterly Strategic Innovation Review forum to manage five-year plan for technical and commercial innovation; 28% of revenue from new products in 2021, up from 20% in 2017.• Led a senior team to revamp the global S&OP process. Increased monthly accuracy from 59% in 20Q3 to sustainably approaching 90% (exceeding the corporate standard of 80%).• Also led Global Procurement from June 2019 to July 2020. Exceeded VAVE and PPV targets for 2019 with $8MM savings, instituted new portfolio management and oversight techniques. Negotiated directly with key suppliers and partners through COVID market downturn in 20H1.

Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States

Role expanded to include remaining engineering functions (Electrical, Mechanical and Software Engineering, Program Management). Staff of 80 at five locations, >$5MM indirect budget.• Responsible for all hardware and software new product launches and maintenance releases.• Managed project priorities, resources and budgets, as well as performance KPIs. • Owned the New Product Development and Change Control processes (both corporate benchmarks). Made many upgrades for efficiency and usability. No major findings in any audit. • Increased Gurgaon, India staff from 7 to 30 and eliminated offshore consulting. Introduced local functional management, built state-of-the-art X-ray lab. Maintained excellent retention.• Management Representative for audit to achieve ISO 13485 compliance at the Gurgaon facility.

Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States

Promoted to manage the Design Verification and Validation (V&V) department. Role expanded twice to include Technical Publications and Compliance Engineering.• Managed all V&V activities for new, legacy and third-party hardware and software products.• Developed and implemented new Design V&V process and templates (corporate benchmark).• Managed all external laboratory testing (safety, EMC, IP, ISTA, etc.).• Led the successful effort to achieve IEC 60601-1 3rd edition compliance for all products. • Managed technical writers responsible for >700 manuals in >20 languages.• Developed a new publication review process, sustainably eliminating rework for content errors.

Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States

Led the project team in development, design verification and validation, pilot and launch of the GXS-700 digital intra-oral sensors; $64MM global sales in first three years.

Blackwood, Nj

Responsible for developing new technology concepts and working with sales, marketing and early adopter customers to refine the product concepts and value propositions.• NOVOdisplay e-paper signage: Increased wireless range from ten to fifty meters and from small to medium sized networks, designed a new general-purpose alphanumeric display.• Retail Scan Tunnel (automated checkout): Increased read rate by >10%, two successful pilots.

Blackwood, Nj

Promoted to manage all laser and vision based bar code scanning products for industrial applications. Eight product lines with twenty major variants.• Led initiative to increase the reliability of three conveyor-scanning products. Increased MTBF values from approximately 10,000 hours to > 100,000 hours each.• Developed and released the MS1890 Industrial Focus, the company’s first IP-rated scanner.

Blackwood, Nj

Performed multidisciplinary research and development work, particularly in optical design and image processing, and project management for laser and vision based bar code scanners.• Principal team member for all conveyor-scanning products (bar code scanners, dimensioners and industrial PCs). Optical and opto-mechanical design, project management.• Lead optical engineer for the MS1690 Focus, the company’s first handheld imaging scanner. Designed camera lens, triple-mode LED illumination and auto-exposure mechanism.• Invented image processing method to correct motion distortion in a handheld imaging scanner.