Rob Holcombe Email & Phone Number

Noblesville, Indiana, Us

Based out of IDI's Global Headquarters.Ownership of IDI's new and legacy brands.Development of future brands and opportunities for IDI and the Composites Industry as a whole.Alignment and Collaboration of IDI Composites International global locations, development efforts, product overlap.

Noblesville, Indiana, Us

The NumbersCharacterization, launch, and maintenance of 3 key brands for the Automotive Market.New Revenue Programs resulting from New Products: $500k-5MM/yr.Engineering Projects: Typ $50k-100k budget.Serving to align customer engineering needs with the product portfolio, creating an offering of high value and meaningful results. Cutting through the challenge of ambiguous or uncertain design requirements with deep analytical consideration, patient and attentive discussion, and targeted collaboration at all levels. Employing Engineering, Project Management, CAD Design, and Quality Planning principles to solve the next generation of composite design challenges.

Noblesville, Indiana, Us

The NumbersKey Outcomes from Designed Sales and Project Management Systems, August 2018 (start) to December 2020 year end:New Business Conversion Rate: +177%.New Business Velocity: +85%New Business Sales Revenue (YOY): +61%Project Backlog: -40%.Company EBITDA: +25%Staffing Changes: 0.Defining and implementing a project management plan and infrastructure for new business and technology solutions. Seeking a lean flow of project information and innovation practices using IDI's 3i approach. Evaluating and developing customer needs and expectations, internal and external, to support the most efficient delivery of innovation to the plastics and composites marketplace. Design and implementation of IATF Project Management (Product Development) Plan; Design of Project KPIs, Reports, and Lauch/Kill metrics; configuration of Product Attribute Database and Reporting tools; Implementation of Dynamics CRM solution.

The NumbersProject Size: $50k-2MM.Project Duration: 3-18Mos.Project Volume: ~14 projects per yr. personally, 14/yr/PM in my dept.Project Teams: 4-8 - Sponsor, Project Manager, Tooling, Quality, Production, Purchasing, Sales, Customer Service.Staff: 3 Direct Reports (Project Managers), 1 InternHaving started with Mursix in Quality, overseeing the middle and end of the product lifecycle, the company's needs opened an opportunity for me to move to the front end with Program Management for new product launches. Now I split my time between continuing to serve our customers as a Program Manager, and leading that department. Not only do we seek continued improvement in project outcomes, we are now implementing a continuous action plan to improve our department as a matter or course, not simply in discreet projects. By innovating the way we treat improvement, integrating it into our daily work, we drive the company to higher potential.

Project Management for the New Business Development team. Lead teams on new projects from kickoff, through conceptualization, APQP, Engineering, FMEA, initial trials, and ultimately PPAP and product launch. Responsibilities include customer interaction, critical path mapping, risk mitigation, cost and resource management, advanced quality planning, and statistical analysis for manufacturability. Serve as key customer contact point through the entire launch process. Auxiliary tasks include involvement in specialized breakout teams working toward plant-wide improvement, and technical reviews and research on new business prospects with our sales team.

Albertville, Alabama, Us

Test Engineer for Progress Rail Manufacturing, a Caterpillar company. My duties included testing of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems aboard various models of locomotive. Each locomotive is built to a client's particular specifications, and it was to those exact specifications that I was responsible for holding the final product.

Mukilteo, Washington, Us

I was hired as an Intern to work with a chief engineer on the transition of archived Catia v4 and v5 files from their servers into a KeyTech parts database. Though I proved proficient with this task, the engineer under whom I worked decided to put my mechanical skill to work on a more pressing matter, pushing forward with prototypes of certain tooling. I spent the middle half of this internship building prototypes; one a full-scale A350 wing section, another a lifting mechanism for the composite wing skin. For the latter, I performed tests to collect strain data for heavy straps, and mathematically modeled it to anticipate sag in the lifting action. Through this internship I became acquainted with product database software, machining methods (Lathe and Bridgeport), forklift and 20 ton overhead crane safety and operation, metric standards, and more that I can't begin to list. Beyond technical skills I also picked up some understanding of corporate structure and chain of responsibility, which I believe to be almost as important as the engineering skills I was able to develop further.