Engineer Manufacturing
Resume:
Lawrence G. Wigbels
Carlisle, PA 17015
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Business Development / Product Management / Manufacturing & Materials
Management
A versatile, experienced customer and product development management leader with extensive
background in all aspects of business. Committed with proven experience in aggressively
growing revenue and market share of product and value-added services by using new methods
and ideas that could be considered “out of the box”.
Signature skills include:
Strategic Thinking and Planning
Market/Account Development
New Product/Customer Development
Managing Multi-National Teams
Successful in Problem Resolution
Materials Requirements Planning
Manufacturing Planning
Statistical Forecasting
Extensive Financial Analysis
EXPERIENCE:
TYCO ELECTRONICS, Middletown, PA
Cable Systems Division
Customer Development/Product Manager (5/1/2003 – 3/8/2013)
• Global customer responsibility for Contract Manufacturing, Consumer, Industrial, Test &
Measurement, and Distribution accounts. These accounts include, but are not limited to,
Jabil Circuits, Flextronics, Sanmina, Celestica, Sony, Arrow, and Avnet. Managed major
programs for diverse end customer and products such as IBM, Agilent, Teradata, Oracle,
and Coca-Cola.
• Grew revenue greater than $1 million year-over-year by designing and introducing new
products specific to these customers’ applications.
• Managed all aspects of the business including designing and quoting new cable
assemblies, qualifying them and releasing them into production.
• Managed material issues such as expedites and customer liability as well as oversaw the
resolution of quality issues.
Senior Product Engineer (5/1/2002-4/30/2003)
• Product development and support for IBM, EMC, and Thomson.
TyCOM (now TE-SubComm), Eatontown, NJ
Senior Member of Technical Staff (10/1/2000 – 10/18/2001)
• Managed product portfolio including the release schedule of all hardware and software
for undersea fiber optic cable systems.
AMP Inc./Tyco, Harrisburg, PA
Customer Development Manager (5/1/1999 – 9/30/2000)
• Global responsibility for Hewlett-Packard managing new and existing programs.
• Managed the transfer of all cable assemblies that were manufactured in our Mexico
facility to China.
Team Leader (5/1/1997 – 4/30/1999)
• Managed a diverse team of ten engineers supporting cable assembly development and
manufacturing.
Industrial Engineer III (5/1/1991 – 4/30/1997)
• Coordinated all facility-related tasks supporting cable assembly manufacturing in
Harrisburg, PA, and Hermosillo, Mexico.
• Managed certain cable assembly manufacturing at outside vendors including material
and quality issues.
Manufacturing Analyst (5/1/1986 – 4/30/1991)
• Implemented Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) in PACOM and Wiring Products
divisions.
• Forecasted every part for the MRP (updated monthly).
• Implemented Cycle Counting inventory management within AMP eliminated one physical
inventory annually.
• Developed an Activity-Based Standard Costing system.
• Assisted in the development of the AMP Manufacturing System which managed
manufacturing in the company from 1988 to the present day.
Industrial Engineering Supervisor (5/1/1984 – 4/30/1986)
• Managed a diverse team of eleven Industrial Engineers supporting three manufacturing
plants that stamped and plated metal contacts, molded plastic housings, and assembled
these components.
Industrial Engineer (9/24/1979 – 4/30/1984)
• Supported manufacturing systems and manufacturing plant projects.
Education:
Masters in Business Administration, Penn State University
Bachelors of Science in Industrial Management/Engineering, Purdue University.
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