Richard M. Biron

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Profile

Highly motivated Executive Management leader with twenty-five plus years experience and record of management success in National and International Electronic Product Manufacturing Markets. Comprehensive, senior level experience in New Business Development, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Quality Systems, Human Resources, Manufacturing Operations with full P&L, Engineering, Marketing, Strategic Planning, New Product Introduction and Product Fulfillment.

Executive leadership experience in electronic manufacturing for Automotive, Medical, Commercial, Telecom, Aerospace, Space, Defense, EMS and Nuclear products.

Extensive high volume and low volume production experience in both small and large scale manufacturing on a global (US, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Mainland China, Malaysia, Israel) level.

Proven Operations Experience managing 150+ million dollar annualized business operations of electronic and mechanical products through aggressive growth periods. Realized 50 to 100 percent year on year revenue growth for nine consecutive years.

Extensive Experience in “Start-Up” businesses. Contributed significantly to the successful start-up of several new companies and lead many teams through aggressive growth periods. Created systems and procedures to support the growth initiatives to insure continued performance process scalability.

Accomplished several successful Greenfield expansions. Key player in a 100,000 ft. sq. new manufacturing location for Martin Marietta dedicated to the “LANTIRN” program. Also expanded business operations several times for Mack Technologies, Johnson Matthey and Honeywell from 8k ft. sq. to 15k, 25k, 50k and 140k ft. sq. facilities in local (Florida) and remote (Mexico) to support aggressive growth periods.

Proven Engineering experience in introducing and improving new processes, technologies and products in manufacturing environments. Extensive experience in Production, Industrial, Test, Design and Facilities Engineering as well as Research and Development.

Comprehensive experience in all business operations including Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Finance, ERP/MRP Requirements Planning, Program Management, Engineering Management, Production Control, Inventory Management and Quality systems.

Strong knowledge of marketing disciplines including product global use and research, Contract Negotiations, Pricing Strategies and Customer Satisfaction Initiatives.

Significant Quality Systems experience in the development and use of Six Sigma process initiatives and Design for Manufacturing/Test philosophies.

Developed comprehensive Business Operational Metrics Program providing high visibility tools for enabling real time product data and trend analysis including productivity status for all manufacturing cells, in-process non-recurring and start-up activity visibility, customer satisfaction status, supplier quality status and production downtime information.

Successfully developed programs to achieve ISO 9001:2000/2008, ISO 13485:2003, TS 16949 and Mil-Std-9858 compliance.

Experience with Kaizen, Kanban and Lean methodology implementation. Launched corporate 5S programs, Pull Line philosophies, internal supplier inventory programs and provided change agent support for major product improvement initiatives across functional departments.

Granted exclusive technology patents with a track record yielding millions of dollars in annual revenues from market introduction and the commercialization of these new technology products and concepts. Lead direct interface with Corporate Technologists, Company Owners as well as product end users. Performed market demand analysis, strategic deployment planning, product acquisition and deliverable cost margins analysis for use as key metrics for determining technology viability and acquisition feasibility.

Executive Work Summary

PRESIDENT, ORION TRILOGY, LLC, MURPHY, NC, 2008 - Present

Owner/Manager of an Electronic Manufacturing technical consulting business specializing in New Electronic Consumer and Defense product Introduction and Commercialization.

- Developed cost reduction strategies for new product commercialization in the electronic product manufacturing business sectors. Initiatives included product re-design recommendations for Cost of Goods Sold pricing reductions and target pricing achievement, ease of manufacturing and field support, design for manufacturability and testability, and on-time delivery planning. Efforts also included the provision of supply chain management strategies (including supplier selection and capability analysis), Quality Systems Implementation, make/buy determinations, pricing reviews and analysis as well as detailing build strategies and measurement systems to achieve customer quality and on-time delivery objectives.

ORION ACHIEVEMENTS –

VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS – Electro-Optical Security Screening Device Company

Consulting initiative responsible for all operational aspects of new product commercialization including cost of goods sold, time to market, manufacturing engineering and test, procurement, quality systems, supplier selection, multi-facility production and bottom line profitability. Products manufactured and procured include highly technical electronic products, custom metal and wood enclosures, custom optical lenses, air-cooling and heating systems and motorized assemblies.

Successfully launched a production readiness program which included developing a supplier base capable of providing turn-key highly technical electro-mechanical sub-assemblies. Negotiated pricing and delivery contracts to enable successful attainment of COGS targets and delivery timing. Developed key company infrastructure to insure internal production readiness support while simultaneously selecting and qualifying a contract manufacturing operation to build and functionally test system level deliverable product.

GENERAL MANAGER – EMS Contract Manufacturing Facility

Responsible for plant management of a 75k sq. ft. facility with seventy direct labor personnel and a direct support staff of five. This company was an electronic contract manufacturing facility specializing in printed circuit board assemblies and electromechanical box builds for the LED lighting, Medical and nuclear industries. Included in scope of position were P&L responsibility, EH&S, new business, quality systems development, technology development and facility capitalization.

Performed staff re-structuring efforts to improve operational capabilities. Successfully shipped 7 consecutive months of on-target to goal revenue. Initiated employee motivation plan to improve morale and return company profitability. Prepared and developed a quality system for ISO 9001:2008 and 13485:2003 certification compliance.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

VICE PRESIDENT OF MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS, BRIJOT IMAGING SYSTEMS, ORLANDO, FL, 2004 - 2008

Responsible for all strategic manufacturing and operational initiatives for highly complex millimeter wave weapons detection systems. Brijot Imaging Systems is a start-up initiative launched in May of 2004 consisting of designing and producing a millimeter wave camera capable of concealed weapons detection. The product utilizes highly complex radiometric circuitry, sophisticated dithering scanning systems, optical lenses, on board computers and various electronic modules.

- Successfully executed aggressive simultaneous product launch, engineering release and operational start-up supporting 50 systems per month in a sixteen-month timeframe.

- Developed a Supply Chain Qualification Program and selected key product supply partners.

- Performed extensive make/buy analysis and developed a production strategy to utilize contract manufacturing services in lieu of a production facility start-up.

- Launched production build on time with zero late deliveries and a scrap rate of less than one percent and met full scale production cost targets from first production unit build.

- Developed tooling and build methodologies to insure scalability in processes and enable transition from a Tier 2 supplier to a Tier 1 organization should production volumes dictate.

- Provided real time engineering and developed product changes to improve ease of manufacturing as well as functional performance.

- Implemented 5S manufacturing philosophy and employed Lean tools to minimize inventory and process time.

- Managed liaison activity between contracted Design Engineering Development (Lockheed Martin) and Manufacturing Operations infrastructure.

- Performed extensive risk analysis enabling early product first piece fabrication of highly machined and complex electronic product to ensure manufacturing readiness prior to formal product release.

- Reduced first piece cycle time from 6 weeks in the engineering lab to 3 days for improved non-recurring cost associated with product design.

- Negotiated multi-million dollar manufacturing agreements with strategic technological and production partners as a key contribution to successful cost positioning at a very early product stage.

- Designed and positioned manufacturing capabilities to effectively produce projected 300+ million dollars in annualized revenue within a two year period from start-up to product realization.

VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS, SOLECTRON, MELBOURNE, FL & JUAREZ, MEXICO - 1990 - 2004

Responsible for General Management of Contract Manufacturing business operations in Melbourne Florida and Juarez Mexico facilities (68 professional and 800+ DL employees) with full P&L responsibility. Products manufactured included turnkey mechanical and electronic assemblies. Key executive member of the company start-up staff providing support to a global “Blue Chip” customer base. Products produced were for the handheld and infrastructure telecom market, defense, medical and automotive industries. Customers included Motorola, Compaq Computer, IBM, Nokia, Qualcomm, Delco, Harris Corporation and Hewlett Packard.

- Managed corporate growth from 2 million dollars annually to revenues in excess of 150 million dollars annually.

- Assembled a management infrastructure capable of supporting 50%+ targeted annual revenue growth.

- Managed facility growth, expansions and relocations from 8k square feet to 200k square feet while simultaneously improving revenue and quality performance.

- Introduced and incorporated Kaizen (Lean, Kanban and Five-S manufacturing) concepts.

- Developed, marketed and licensed intellectual property consisting of flexible and printed circuit fabrication technologies (EZ Flex ® and EZ Hardboard ®) with annual sales exceeding 10 million dollars.

- Introduced and integrated automated high-speed electronic component placement technologies including double-sided micro-BGA and Flip Chip (hardboard and flexible substrates) technologies to support high volume OEM applications.

- Developed RF, Fiber Optic Connection capabilities, GPS high volume clean room assembly and test capabilities.

- Developed management metrics and achieved ISO 9000-2000, AS 9000 and Mil-Std-1567A Certifications in US and Mexico facilities.

- Managed successful Juarez Mexico facility/business start-up.

- Researched and implemented multi-facility ERP/MRP II System – 4th Shift.

- Awarded Motorola Supplier of the Year for on-time delivery and quality product.

VICE PRESIDENT OPERATIONS, CMAC INDUSTRIES, INC./MACK TECHNOLOGIES, 2000-2004

Re-organized the company during downsizing period to enable continuance of the business units and re-positioned the company for renewed growth.

- Developed lean initiatives to reduce production costs.

- Reduced variable and fixed costs wherever possible.

- Resumed annual growth rate of 15% in 2004.

- Key Player in several M&A initiatives resulting in business expansion

VP TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY, JOHNSON MATTHEY PLC. / HONEYWELL / ALLIED SIGNAL, 1995 -2000

- Launched major new technology initiatives to support the Intel Pentium II Program.

- Developed new bonding processes and tooling concepts to enable high volume rate production in Melbourne - Florida, Juarez – Mexico, and Wichita Falls - Wisconsin facilities.

- Developed and patented three new EZ Hardboard © technologies.

- Introduced high-speed pick and place technology.

- Developed clean room processes and capabilities for optical assembly and fiber optic termination techniques.

VICE PRESIDENT ENGINEERING AND QUALITY, ADVANCE CIRCUITS, INC, 1993-1995

- Developed and patented EZ Flex ® technology and supported a global marketing campaign.

- Added defense, aerospace and space assembly business unit for continued growth.

- Performed seminars globally and supported large corporations including Motorola University (Florida, Malaysia, Singapore, Israel and Texas), General Dynamics, Harris Corporation, Qualcomm (California, Taiwan), Compaq Computer, IBM, Honeywell, Seagate and Iomega.

VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS, TARG-IT-TRONICS, INC. 1990 - 1993

- Introduced automated assembly including Wave Solder and Surface Mount Assembly capability.

- Developed new tooling methodologies for high volume flexible circuit assembly fabrication.

- Secured an 8 million dollar purchase order from Compaq Computer Corporation.

- Developed and introduced new manufacturing technology processes.

TECHNICAL OPERATIONS CHIEF, LOCKHEED MARTIN (MARTIN MARIETTA), ORLANDO, FL 1986 - 1990

Responsibilities included directing manufacturing, test and industrial engineering organizations during program produce-ability review, full-scale engineering development through initial product delivery and rate production of a major U.S. Air Force Night Vision Program (F-16, LANTIRN).

- Managed a team of sixty Manufacturing, Test and industrial Engineers.

-Key player in the design and expansion of a Greenfield 100k ft. sq. facility to house turnkey build and test of “LANTIRN” power supplies, Scan Position Sensors assemblies, Surface mount assemblies, Cables and Harnesses and Product Return Repair Depot located in Ocala, Florida.

- Introduced new Manufacturing Integrated Process Planning System (MIPPS) and APECS MRP system.

- Successfully launched MOST time standard system.

- Achieved Martin Marietta’s first zero finding audit resulting in a highly desirable Air Force Blue supplier rating.

- Supported “LANTIRN” with a 40 million dollar cost avoidance

Patents

- US Patent Number 6,691,408 - Printed Circuit Interconnect Method of Manufacture

- US Patent Number 6,603,079 - Printed Circuit Board Electrical Interconnect

- US Patent Number 5,306,874 - Electrical Interconnect and Method of its Manufacture

- ROC Patent Number 493,361 - Printed Circuit Board Interconnect and Method of Manufacture.

Academia, Certifications, Courses of special study & Publications

Bachelor of Science, Engineering Technology – Pacific Western University 1999

Master of Science, Business Management – Pacific Western University 2001

Six-Sigma Black Belt Certification – Expert Rating Corporation - 1773701

Total Quality Management Certification – Expert Rating Corporation - 1773702

Project Management Certification – Expert Rating Corporation - 2390373

Electronic Data Interchange Certification

4th Shift MRP Certification

Flexible Circuit Design Training Seminars – Motorola University, global speaker

Guest Speaker and White Paper publication – IPC (EZ Flex Interconnect Methodologies)

Universal Equipment Consortium – Development of Fiber Optics Technology

Soldering Technology Certification

Quality Systems Implementation Certification

Skills

Well versed in Microsoft office software suite including Excel, Word, Project Manager and PowerPoint. In depth experience building and mentoring teams to achieve successful results. New Product Introductions that are on time and within budget.

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