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Richardson, Tx Usa

CommScope provides infrastructure solutions for communications networks worldwide.

Lubbock, Texas Area

Bigham manufactures and markets a wide range of agricultural tillage, cultivating, and harvest equipment, helping the farmer gain maximum crop production while conserving valuable resources.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Design and manufacture of conveying, screening and separating capital equipment for process industries including agriculture, chemicals, food and wine, foundry, metals, minerals and solid waste recycling.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Directed system design, product development, field support, and manufacturing engineering for multi-million dollar airport baggage handling system projects.• Completed engineering of $20 million project for Greater Orlando Aviation Authority.• Increased engineering project capacity by 66% through recruiting and better efficiency.• Validated and refined estimating methods for Engineering’s project cost and schedule.• As interim Plant Manager, improved on-time delivery from under 50% to over 90%.

Drove best practices to improve organizational effectiveness for a new product development organization of 500 people in 12 locations across NAFTA, EMEA, and APAC. Liaison with information technology and manufacturing. Administer safety, incentive, and recognition programs.• Effectively recognized more than 40% of the organization in the first year by leading project team to design, create, and implement an innovative global recognition program.• Consolidated five regional systems into one global platform by mentoring project team as stakeholder.• Avoided over $500,000 of excess cost by effectively facilitating voice-of-customer and initial solution assessment.• Defined architecture and innovative policy balancing user flexibility with data security by leading team governing SharePoint environment.

United regional new product development groups with 350 people to leverage the diverse talents of a global organization. Directed 50 engineers and designers in Mexico and Texas.• Released over $260 million of products by facilitating stage and gate based new product development process. • Tripled cross-region collaboration over two years by leading the merger of three regional incentive programs into a single global program with common goals and metrics.• Transformed a struggling local system startup into the preferred global solution platform for product and process documentation and change management.• Reduced by 14% projected engineering change cycle time by sponsoring cross-functional team using Lean techniques.• Facilitated an “unheard of” 15% improvement on alignment with progressive corporate safety standards by assuming a leadership role to influence the local organization’s culture.

Delivered processes and systems to improve effectiveness of a 200 person new product development organization. Directed 66 engineers and designers in Mexico and Texas.• Led a cross-functional team to develop, introduce and train individuals globally on the Innovation Stage Gate process, enhancing the rigor of project selection and execution. • Implemented a system to prioritize common product development resources across six business teams in alignment with corporate strategy.• Expanded Mexico product development group by 20% and implemented a rotational training program which effectively infused critical knowledge and skills and greatly enhanced international collaboration.

Transformed an underutilized group of engineers and designers into an effective and widely sought after new product development organization of 55 people with a budget of US$2 million. • Grew the organization by 150% by budgeting, staffing, training and motivating while building capabilities and balancing demands for new products and manufacturing support.• Executed projects to fulfill strategic new product roadmaps for five business teams, winning significant ongoing fiber-to-the-home business at a major telecom company.

Budgeted and managed 700 employee operation for the largest business team in the division. Accomplished the strategic transfer and start-up of fully automated operations, enabling successful competition with China-based manufacturers in fiber optic products.

Chartered and staffed a new department for strategic and tactical capacity planning across five Caribbean and NAFTA plants supporting eight business teams with sales over $450 million.• Established division policies regarding forecasting, capacity planning, shop floor execution, and inventory management.• Resolved complex supply, capacity, and quality issues and represented the company with major customers on sensitive issues requiring exceptional diplomacy and judgment.