Randy Hahn, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Served in process engineering, continuous improvement, quality, new product development and technology roles.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Manage New Product Development of high margin specialty products which utilize conductive polymer cathode system. Work closely with Technology and counterparts in commercial business units to develop and release to market new products based on emerging technologies and capabilities. Also responsible for managing process engineering group responsible for on time delivery, yields, process control and quality of specialty polymer products manufactured in the US Innovation Center.> Sponsored/led series of Six Sigma projects to address process upsets, process improvements, poor measurement capability and parts types with poor capability.> Released 1st to market line of 230C capable Ta solid electrolytic capacitors.> Released 1st to market high reliability Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) line of Ta capacitors with graded failure rate levels up to 0.001%/k component hours.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Led global team which identified, developed and introduced technologies and new products required to achieve strategic objectives of a business group with an annual R&D budget of $12M. Directly managed material, process, equipment and new product development teams and Advanced Manufacturing team in US Innovation Center. Partnered with Technical Marketing group, Field Application Engineers, and Technologists to connect what’s possible with what’s needed and incorporated these concepts in mid and long range roadmaps for new products and the capabilities required to successfully execute the roadmaps. Initiated and executed JDA's to develop new material sets to provide enhanced critical performance characteristics at reduced costs relative to current materials.> Managed IP matters for the business group including patent filing and annuity payment recommendations, competitive patent monitoring, IP infringement risk mitigation strategies, and identification of competitor infringement and cross licensing opportunities.> Co-invented a fundamental patent for a new material set resulting in annual sales in excess of $15M. The patent family was licensed to multiple suppliers resulting in royalties exceeding $3M. > Led team responsible for due diligence investigation and refutation of competitor’s trade secret misappropriation allegations allowing company to proceed with key acquisition. > Served in a lead role in integrating technology organizations after major acquisition. Arranged initial technology exchanges, identified key development synergies and process improvements, instituted bi-monthly project reviews and quarterly face-to-face management meetings.> Promoted the use of PMI based project management tools. Worked closely with staff to write and execute project plans for NPD projects, technology transfers, and projects involving significant capital investment. Invited by CTO to introduce the methodology to his staff in Global Development Meeting.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Directed a group of 25 engineers/technicians responsible for developing material/process capabilities and new product platforms for the organization’s US Innovation Center. New products accounted for >30% of the business group’s revenue with an average margin of 65%.> Restructured development group from primarily incremental NPD and equipment replication role to development of leading edge product platforms and equipment designs.> Discovered root cause for variation in reactive coating process that had plagued line for years. Led to the development of a proprietary off line synthesis process and a patented process to control bath chemistry. > Led project team which resolved quality issue with major customer resulting in retention of multimillion dollar account. Communicated project status during weekly conference calls and customer site visits.> Organized global development meetings which utilized lessons learned and best practices case studies to drive implementation of improved project portfolio management, project planning, targets and measures, design and process FMEA’s which resulted in 30% reduction in phase gate development cycle time and improved technology transfers from Innovation Center to low cost manufacturing.> Sponsored/Oversaw lean project resulting in a 50% reduction in cycle time for high priority batches.> Represented the Technology organization during ISO 9001 and ISO/TS 16949 audits. Responsible for formulating and executing corrective actions to audit findings.> Developed and coordinated training plans for US Innovation Center which included Six Sigma, DOE, Minitab, Effective Presentations, and MS Office. Instituted Technical Reading Program. Emphasized training follow-up to insure effectiveness.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Led a group of 7 engineers and scientists which developed material and process technology for new product introductions, quality improvements and cost reductions.> Released numerous first to market products.> Established competitive product test protocols and data base.> Participated on team that developed new APQP phase gate process.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Managed groups responsible for development of materials and process technology, quality improvements, cost reductions and new part type introductions for emerging high revenue product lines.> Led multi-functional team responsible for 10x improvement in critical quality performance characteristic. Failure to correct this issue threatened the viability of a product line with annual sales exceeding $100M. Communicated progress to company president on a weekly basis. > Maintained and promoted strategic relationships with key suppliers and technical partners. Numerous product improvements resulted from co-development efforts.> Developed several generations of leading edge new products for decoupling applications. Improvements resulted from organic development efforts, ESR modeling, competitive product analysis, and cooperative efforts with external partners. Annual revenue from these products was $24M.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Technology Manager (1999 – 2002)Served as lead engineer for technology transfer and commercial start-up of a product line licensed from Japanese partner. Focused on process output measurements rather than simple transfer of recipe. Managed NPD group responsible for growing business from inception to over $100M annual sales. > Developed/patented process improvement which led to introduction of 2.5 volt product.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Responsible for identifying and developing process and product improvements. Much of my focus was on reducing process variation, improving product quality, training and operator empowerment. > Designed series of experiments to systematically demonstrate mechanisms for incomplete coverage of internal surfaces of porous substrate following chemical impregnation process. Developed improved processes resulting in 10-20% increase in internal surface area coverage. > Worked with outside commercial and academic labs to develop methods to characterize semiconductor cathode material. This work led directly to two major breakthroughs resulting in a two fold increase in the conductivity of the material. > Authored internal white papers on impregnation and conversion process used to train engineers.> Developed control charts for processes subject to natural drift. Procedures calculating the control limits and making process corrections were incorporated into the organization’s Quality Operating Document. Subsequently introduced closed loop control systems to further reduce variation. These improvements led to a 4x increase in cpk for critical process characteristics.> Provided training in basic statistics and the use of t-tests and paired difference t-tests at all manufacturing locations.> Wrote SAS program for adjusting process to bring critical product characteristic closer to target value. Wrote programs that tracked process outputs by machine to identify needed process corrections. > Established Kaizen teams that empowered operators to participate in process improvement activities.

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Formulation and process development for manufacturing agricultural products.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry

Master Of Science (Ms), Chemical Engineering