Todd Hutcheson Email & Phone Number

Cedar Falls, Iowa, Us

ADVANCE IOWA provides targeted solutions, guiding small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) as they seek to thrive, grow and succeed. At ADVANCE IOWA, I work with an experienced team to develop business growth and innovation solutions for SMEs. This role allows me to combine and leverage the use of the corporate experience gained over 32+ years in a wide-variety of roles in the aerospace & defense industry, 13+ years of higher education experience and 7+ years of independent consulting with SMEs. The common threads in my experiences, and the areas I emphasize and strive to develop in the businesses I work with are continuous improvement, underlying strategic leadership, operations/supply chain management and project management. My purpose is, simply put, to "value others while assisting them to become (even more) successful."Roles:Director, July 2024 - PresentExecutive-in-Residence, August 2022 - July 2024

Cedar Falls, Iowa, Us

Continuing my passion to teach, I will also remain in an adjunct professor role at UNI that I started in the Spring of 2021. I am currently teaching Policy & Strategic Management, having also previously taught Supply Chain and Operations Management for UNI. Very excited to be continuing my passion for teaching! #passionforteaching #universityofnortherniowa

DSB Consulting is an organization dedicated to providing targeted training and educational experiences, hands-on consulting and facilitation and business coaching guidance to customers in need of assistance in the areas of strategic management, project management, continuous improvement, creating successful collaborative teams, and quality assurance/customer service. DSB’s third-party, independent perspective is valuable when examining and analyzing the inner workings of an organization. That perspective allows a company to draw from the expertise of a consultant with a diverse business background that reaches beyond the own experience and expertise, while at the same time allowing key personnel to actually “participate”, rather than manage or lead key activities. DSB’s services will be customized to each individual customer’s problem and needs.DSB is ...• Developing targeted training solutions for organizations tailored to individual business' needs, including practical project management, strategic planning, continuous improvement, quality assurance, customer service and other areas of subject matter experience and expertise. • Consulting with organizations, leading the application of the techniques taught in these areas of experience and expertise in a broad range of industries and functions.• Directing coaching engagements with emerging leaders and executives, focusing on professional development toward achievement of business and personal objectives. • References, examples and detailed proposals available on request

Duluth, Georgia, Us

Series 6/63/65 and Iowa Insurance Licensed.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Teach courses in a wide range of business functions, including Strategic Management, Project Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Quality Management, Organizational Ethics, Systems Thinking, Sports Marketing, Organizational Behavior and the Global Business Environment. • Have taught 100+ class sections and served over 1200 advanced degree students in these subject areas, as well as advising students towards the completion of their degrees and performing the many functions required to coordinate the program within the University.• Worked with the administration team, developing an accelerated version of these 3 courses that focuses on student-led, instructor supported learning.• Working with external development professionals, developed the online offering for undergraduate Strategic Management and graduate Business Capstone, Project Management, Quality Management and Operations Management.• Experienced teaching in a variety of mediums ... face-to-face, on-line and remote/virtually. Have developed skill-sets and altered teaching methods to match material to the teaching and learning styles required by these mediums. • Adjunct 2011-2017

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Program Manager, APQP Implementation 2015 – 2016Led team in creating the internal schedule for implementation, including process realignment, communication, change management and training setup. Controlled schedule, cost and quality parameters for the program. Defined program requirements to implement the new Aerospace & Defense AS9145 (APQP) standard, focused on new product introduction and applicable to all products.• Initiated and led a large, cross-functional program for a $5.5B, 20K employee aerospace and defense company, implementing a customer-driven enterprise standard proven to dramatically improve product quality and life-time value to customers.• Transitioned team from plan to execution in 2016, ensuring auditable implementation by 2017.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Collaborated with executive leadership team and Commercial Systems (a $2.5B business segment of Rockwell Collins) as a “lean thought partner” to develop plans for the continuous improvement of business process and products. Led Life Cycle Management Governance Council and Rockwell Collins University School of Business.• Led action and advisory teams, achieving lean savings goals and resulting in $75M in savings from 2012 – 2014.• Created and directed a strategy and action plan, institutionalizing concurrent development as a standard practice.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Directed an enterprise cross-functional executive team to develop strategic actions and achieve Quality strategies.• Initiated execution against a 3-year action plan to achieve business results, focusing on reduction of corporate cost-of-quality measures.• Integrated the Enterprise Quality Process Optimization project into effected business units and shared service lean plans by implementing collaborative concurrent engineering.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Created and successfully achieved strategic and tactical operating results for over 70 Human Resources professionals.• Realigned and achieved service delivery greater than national benchmarks for customer satisfaction and timeliness by identifying and focusing on customer identified needs.• Reduced the total cost footprint of benefits administration by 48% over 5 years by utilizing continuous improvement methods and automating the outsourcing administrative functions.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Led Rockwell Collins’ over 900 employee eastern Iowa plant and service base including receiving / warehouse / distribution, circuit board and sub-level assembly and test, microelectronics room assembly, and high volume end-item military top-level delivery.• Developed and maintained a high degree of partnership with strong International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union, receiving the 2004 AFL-CIO Labor-Management Award for results achieved at the Coralville site.• Successfully implemented Lean continuous improvement methods to analyze and eliminate waste and improve customer value throughout, resulting in receipt of a 2005 Shingo Business Finalist award.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Prior Titles Held:* Director, Material & Supply – Subcontracts, Indirect and Logistics* Program Manager, Build Core Process Optimization* ERP System Program Director, Operations & Service* Director, Business Integration and Application Delivery* Manager, Production/Material Planning & Control* Manager, Process Design Engineering & Production Cost Administration* Procurement Technical Specialist* Process Design Engineer

Professional Certificate In Industry 4.0, Industry 4.0_Smart Manufacturing Technology

Mba, Executive

Graduate, Leadership And Business W/I The State Of Iowa

Bs, Industrial Technology (Minor: Operations Mgmt, Mathematics)