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Phil Danner is President and CEO of SageCourse Enterprises, LLC, a management consulting company.

Senior Executive role managing $2 Billion annual budget covering thousands of projects. Delivered well over $150 million in productivity annually.

Senior Executive role with over 5000 employees and $1 Billion annual budget. Managed rapid growth ( hundreds of new hires) and delivered double digit % productivity.

Head of signaling department including over 2000 employees and $500 million budget delivering design, operations, innovation, and standards for positive train control and capacity projects.• Created and shared vision and strategy, then cascaded aligned metrics to rally team.• Achieved record service, reducing delay over 60% and failures over 40%.• Improved Safety to new record levels each year in personal injury and false proceeds while hiring over 500 new employees and delivering record numbers of projects.• Increased Output over 100x on Positive Train Control.

Led global engineering (450+ engineers) as well as mobile computer products (~$400mil P&L).• Introduced transactional lean, improving development cycle time more than 50%.• Achieved on time execution and increased product development output more than 400%.• Led the Mobile Computer product line & commercial strategy to year-over-year share gain.• Improved Gross Margin >5pts via new product development & introduction.• Market assessment and partnership with matrixed sales force on new business development.• Created strategic partnerships with Qualcomm and Foxconn.• Improved engineering quality >400% while reducing sustaining cost 8%/year.• Upgraded talent, developing significant bench strength.

Energized Engineering, taking it from a non-integrated, disparate team that routinely finished programs years late and millions of dollars over budget to a motivated, globally integrated team that delivers on time and budget.• Responsible for world-wide development including 250+ engineers, across 6 countries, and 3 continents.• Successfully integrated teams from multiple acquisitions.• NPIs drove 20% annual growth via new market penetration.• Introduced transactional lean processes. Reduced TTM > 50%.• Developed & deployed first wireless signaling solution in mountains of Tibet.• 25 point increase in GE Employee Satisfaction Survey for organization.• Full hardware and software development life cycle including application SW, firmware, UI, EE, ME, test, Industrial Design, quality, certification, and sustaining engineering.

• Led fulfillment “Ship Complete On Time” (SCOT) initiative and uncovered $700 Million cash flow opportunity• Executed projects driving a 5 point improvement in SCOT• Developed and implemented customer needs survey worldwide.• Led Scrap initiative to $6 Million OM savings and a 9 pt. yield improvement

Direct report to GE Cisco CEO responsible for business development, strategic partnerships, alliances, and branding as well as technology vision and execution. GE Cisco is a JV between GE Industrial Systems and Cisco Systems.• Created business plan and IP protection for new RM&D Product line.• Directed the creation of solutions for customers using IP and Ethernet based technologies. For example:• RM&D using VPNs, Data Hosting, networking, enterprise architecture, and software.• Real-time data connectivity from machine to the MES and ERP.• Increased influence in industry groups. Plenary speaker at ISA2001

Increasingly responsible Engineering leadership roles of Industrial Hardened PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) leading to a P&L Leadership role.General Manager, ServicesManaged global support organization of 50+ engineers for a $700million company.• Customer Satisfaction taken from below 20% to above 95% in 12 months.• Drove initiatives improving quality 400% and revenue over 90%.• Shifted paradigm from phone support to Internet application.• Initiated Customer Centric Measurements: Time to Solution.• Made >100x improvement in time to resolve problems.• Eliminated backlog of cases, worked directly with major customers.• Created pricing and roll-out plans for new service offerings.• Designed paid support packages and sales incentives to drive revenue.• Redesigned processes from a customer centric perspective.Staff Project Manager, CPU FirmwarePlanned and led business critical projects through entire development lifecycle.• Led Team of 12 software engineers.• Total net income of projects reached over $70million.• Managed international sourced development with Japan and India.Senior Project Manager, Series 90-30 CPU Firmware• Managed team of 7 software engineers in embedded & networking developments.• Total net income of projects reached over $50million.• Primary field contact for technology dept, CPU Firmware.• Improved product quality and release cycle time via 6 sigma tools.Software - Senior Software Engineer • Led critical control, redundant PLC development.• Devised and implemented a diagnostic scheme for TUV Certification.• Authored specifications, high level designs, embedded development.• Developed a thorough knowledge of PLCs and automation control products.