Rick Wenger Email & Phone Number

Cary, Nc, Us

Cary, North Carolina, United States

At atlas602 we are working to bring realistic Scope 1 decarbonization roadmaps to our clients. Over my 20 years of working in industry, I have heard the same two questions over and over: - Where do we start? - How we we achieve our goals over time?We recognize throughput, safety, and quality are your top priorities, and we will put together a plan with you and for you to meet your needs. We aren't selling you a silver bullet.

Cary, North Carolina, United States

Founded PhoenixGK in 2023 to give young goalkeepers professional level data-driven tools to improve their performances.We take your goalkeepers game video, create a highlight film and log every action your player makes - saves, passes, pick ups...everything. We deliver to you in-depth data visualizations that allow you to better understand your game and translate that understanding into improvement.

A commercial/technical role where I worked with large manufacturing sites to identify, install, and fund large scale carbon reduction projects using an Energy-as-a-Service business model· Conducted site audits to identify 2-5 large scale carbon reduction projects. Each project would reduce carbon emissions by at least 10%, with full-decarbonization options· Lead the process to get large manufacturing sites signed on to support Skyven’s federal grant application, which was selected and awarded $145 million dollars in April 2024 and will reduce CO2 emissions by over 400,000 MT· Conducted over 100 virtual site audits using Skyven’s proprietary Galileo software· Lead site-wide stakeholder alignment sessions to ensure all proposed projects met with site and corporate emissions, financial and process goals

Park Ridge, Il

Conducted on-site natural gas and electricity energy efficiency audits at large manufacturing facilities in the US and Canada.· Identified between 7 – 35% savings per site· Worked with site management to develop cost-effective roadmaps for energy reduction based on site and corporate ROI targets· Identified and costed large capital projects for energy reduction· Worked with local utilities to understand billing and incentive programs

Time off split between caring for my two young children, volunteering at local school, and learning R programming and statistical analysis techniques.

Rockford, Il

Actively recruit & lead company’s first structured product development teams composed of scientists, engineers and designers. • Implemented Lean Startup practices resulting in product introduction to market 100% faster (1 year vs 2 years) with 60% savings ($300,000 vs $800,000) compared to previous release methods• Increased number of product releases by 250%, from a rate of 0.4 products/year to 1 product/year• Increased efficiency and output of innovation cycle by 80%, from 150 days to 30 days• Implemented online tools and procedures to document all hypotheses, tests,conclusions, potential customers, quotes and orders• Worked closely with product management on identifying product needs and suitable outside development partners, resulting in a 2 year development partnership• Obtained and incorporated customer feedback to product development and implemented on-site customer testing for newly released products

Rockford, Illinois Area

Managed a special project to develop the next generation of energy efficient burners for the Eclipse product line. Handled responsibilities for project schedule, design, testing, sourcing, quality and first piece manufacturing.

Suzhou, China

6 month assignment to manage the engineering team in APAC including 10 reports including electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and CAD designers• Worked closely with manufacturing and purchasing to develop and implement a strategyfor better resource planning and prediction of future resource needs which resulted in 100% on-time delivery and ~15% decreased overtime

Rockford, Illinois Area

Designed low temp & high temp burners & addressed in-service product issues though on-sitejob diagnosis and resolution with customers• Wrote macros and designed Excel-based user applications for engineering team to analyze and utilize non-standard gaseous fuels in Eclipse products• Integrated all product lines from a newly acquired company (Laidlaw Drew) working closely with manufacturing, purchasing, outside vendors, sales and marketing departments• Developed and led training of the worldwide engineering staff on all Eclipse products, including system components• Developed engineering knowledge-sharing database based in Microsoft SharePoint.