Engineering Management

PHILIP G. LEHMAN

Trappe, PA ***** ~ e-mail: ******.*******@*******.*** ~ Mobile:

610-***-**** ~ Home: 610-***-**** ~ Profile:

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global operations & finance executive ~ it development

Intelligent, dedicated DIRECTOR with combined specialty of

operational, product, and financial management, within complex Information

Technology businesses. Aggressively exceeds goals and expectations and

thrives as a leader in a constantly changing, dynamic environment.

Effectively leads major engineering initiatives within enterprise

operations and across multiple disciplines. Has keen ability to closely

align multiple, cross-functional and dispersed work groups to the strategic

goals of the organization and drive to conclusion the vision-to-reality

objectives. Excels in overseeing consolidations after mergers and

acquisitions. Skilled in both on-site and remote management of

organizations and people, utilizing exceptional interpersonal, verbal and

written skills, with all levels of staff with an executive presence.

Budget/P&L Planning & Project Management Strategic Forecasts &

Analysis Planning

Strong Analytical Skills & Operational Modeling Cultural Change

Problem-Solving Performance Management Management

Team Building & Mentoring Staffing & Personnel Business Transformation

Business Acumen & Technical Administration

Savvy Executive Reporting & Quality Assurance

Process Improvement Presentations Merger Implementation

Cost Containment &

Controls

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNISYS CORPORATION, Malvern, PA

Director, Engineering Operations & Planning (1998 - 2009)

Defined/directed strategic and day-to-day operations, policies, procedures

and guidelines for large engineering organization of 1100+, managing an

operational budget of $100M.

. Directed operational systems and applications, processes and policies

supporting all corporate world-wide engineering, including C-level

reporting, information flow and strategic, product and operational

business plans.

. Provided senior executive team with plans supporting corporate R&D annual

budgets from $300M to $800M. Defined and deployed tools and procedures

for engineering-wide product portfolio, which aligned with corporate

goals and strategies, and consistently delivered on-time and low cost

computer products and solutions.

. Developed tooling, procedures and metrics for defining and measuring

deliverable commitments by the organization. Increased overall

organizational performance by 25%+.

. Developed, tracked and maintained extensive employee skills database

(with HR). This ensured that specific skills were available for all

projects. It also improved management analysis of skill capabilities and

development planning, by redirecting training plans to meet skill

requirements and staffing needs.

. Identified opportunity for engineering to provide outside services (such

as custom development for special client configurations and system

performance analysis), to other business units and external clients,

without impacting internal commitments, off-setting annual R&D expenses

between $3M and $17M annually.

. Collaborated with engineering executives to identify development work

that could be performed offshore in India and China. Established

migration plans and targets to shift efforts and track progress. Over 2

year period, offshore staffing grew from 10 to 350FTEs, reducing onshore

development costs by $18M.

UNISYS CORPORATION, Blue Bell, PA

Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Operations ( 1990-1997)

Supported engineering executive staff to guide transition of diverse

engineering organizations and geographical locations into a cohesive

operation. Provided ad hoc data summarized analysis and reports to senior

executives.

PHILIP G. LEHMAN

. Formed/led a specialized cross-functional team that consolidated

dispersed/independent computer engineering disciplines, practices,

policies, concepts and supporting tools across corporation. Eliminated

redundancies, closed 7 manufacturing plants and enabled sharing of all

activities, resulting in costs savings of $500M annually.

. Developed a common set of commodity codes for the corporation and

executed a transition plan for all organizations to reduce parts inventory

and multiple suppliers/vendors. Worked with all engineering,

manufacturing and procurement functions resulting in a 50% reduction in

vendors and $100M in costs.

. Led a team from engineering, manufacturing and Corporate IT organizations

to define, design and develop a centralized engineering database for the

corporation. This enabled various disciplines to globally share

information regarding the common design of components, systems and

manufactured modules.

. Defined, designed and deployed planning tool to assist senior engineering

management in R&D planning and tracking. Was 1st in-house development of

client/server architecture utilizing PC/Windows/MS Office client

communicating with Unix/Oracle database server over LANs/WANs. Eventually

migrated to distributed database architecture to reduce performance

issues. System globally collected, formatted and summarized information

and presented real time the R&D financial investment, schedules, content

and roadmaps of all engineering platforms and programs within a $1.2

billion R&D budget, creating a complete annual product portfolio.

PRIOR

EXPERIENCE

UNISYS CORPORATION, Roseville, MN

Group Manager, Systems Test, Release & Support

Managed 4 organizations: 60+ systems engineers and programmers and 4 direct

reports, with $6M annual operating budget.

. Guided entire systems integration/test of Unisys Series 1100/2200

computer hardware and system software and release of qualified system

software to manufacturing for distribution to customers. Eliminated

errors in system configuration management, reducing customer complaints

by 25%.

SPERRY CORPORATION, Blue Bell, PA

Computer Technician-Programmer-Supervisor-Manager, Diagnostic Software

Started as principal computer programmer, then was promoted to various

increasing levels of management, coordinating activities remotely across

multiple locations. Had between 10 and 14 direct reports.

. Designed strategy to integrate product testing procedures to avoid

duplication of effort, reducing number of test modules by 50% for each

new computer system and development test time by 30%, as well as

reducing programming errors by 20%.

. Led team to define software development and product lifecycle (SDLC)

methodologies, unifying the development process and improving accuracy

and metrics, thereby decreasing user problem reports by more than 50% in

1st year.

EDUCATION

Associate Degree (Electronic Technology), Ryder Technical Institute,

Allentown, PA

Course work (Business Administration and Economics), Temple University,

Philadelphia, PA and Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA and Indiana

University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA (Biology).

COMPUTER SKILLS

Expertise: Desktop and Laptop PCs / Microsoft Windows Installation,

Configuration, Utilization /

MS Office / Excel / Lotus Notes / Oracle / Broad Range of Off-the-Shelf

Applications

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