Supply Chain Sales

perry denning

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City: San Antonio

State: TX

Zip: 78255

Country: USA

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Skill Level: Senior

Salary Range: $160,000

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Perry A. Denning

Organizational Leadership - Global Operations - CEO/COO/GM/Executive Management

High energy and high integrity with the innate ability to quickly assess and effect business and operational excellence.

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Hi-Tech Industry - Turn-Around & Start-up Leadership

SEMICOA Corporation Celeritek, Inc. Insilica FyreStorm VLSI Technology, Inc. Texas Instruments

Comprehensive executive leadership and management of technology, business, manufacturing, engineering, finance, projects, processes and systems. An innate abiity to quickly assess, analyze and evaluate the constraints enabling revitalizing change in business, manufacturing, engineering and financial systems.

Orchestration of entire start-up of business and remote site major manufacturing facilities including recruitment, construction and services as well as proactive management of agency and government requirements and environmental disciplines.

Abilitiies to control and mitigate capital intensive requirements. Demonstrated innovation business development practices to create continuous improvement methodologies with measurements and controls focused on EBITDA performance and operational excellence.

Proven successful skills at hiring and leading A+ people, creating a common vision forged with teamwork that brings businesses to new levels of efficiency, productivity, profitability and operating excellence. Brings skilled leadership for transformational change for any business and operational specialty.

Technically diverse and savvy leader who focuses evolutionary and revolutionary R&D efforts on implementing "customer-centric" strategic planning that drives sustainable market presence and creates customer driven solutions.

* Customer-Focused Leadership. High growth operations management experience in the turnaround, rapid growth and start-up of mid-size corporations and divisions of up to 1,000 employees across the US, Asia and Europe. Held engineering leadership roles across every discipline in the high technology industry, raw materials to finished goods.

* "Best in Class" Operations. Highly adept at structuring and aligning organizations instilling best practices of management metrics, advanced IT & ERP systems, quality, (Lean methodologies), total cycle-time (TCT), strategic planning, financial control and constraint modeling. Data driven management style using comprehensive measurements and benchmarking. Perceptive and skilled with insightful organizational restructuring.

* Established Vendor and Customer Relationships across Technology Industries. Built trust partnerships with companies that included Fortune 500. Outstanding at setting aggressive yet attainable goals, establishing the right measurements and building shared vision with the team to create a passion for success.

Capabilities and Skills

* Team Leadership Mentoring & Coaching

* Business Plan Development & Implementation

* Environments of Collaboration & Accountability

* Rapid Development of Customer Pipeline

* Trust Relationships with Fortune Companies

* Organizational Development & Revitalization

* Expertise in Strategic Planning & Start-ups * Consensus Management / Employee Empowerment

* Lean, Six Sigma & Constraint Discipline Expertise

* Manufacturing Facility Design & Construction

* Semiconductor - Engineering / Manufacturing / Operations / Supply Chain / consumer products

* Architecture of Real-Time Processes & Systems

* Total Quality & Total Cycle Time Coach

Career Creating Sustainable, Innovative Companies that Grow Shareholder Value

Managing Director, Perry Denning & Associates - Providing assessment and advice on international technology, facility and management practices.

Projects include:

GLG: Operations Best Practices (current); Front Runner Private Equity: Acquisition Strategy for Confidential Client (current); Gerson Lehrman Group: O2-Micro and power semiconductor markets (February 2012)

Century Epitech, ShenZhen China, Site Selection, Facility Design, LED and RFIC Manufacturing. (2011)

Confidential Client: Defense Electronics (2011); Confidential Client: HiRel Rad Hard IC's (December 2011)

While in this past year I have doing consulting in a semi-retired mode, I find that I am at a career junction or crossroads where I am seeking to continue an aggressive business career. I want to use the skills, experiences to contribute in a leadership role. I bring organizational clarity, passion and drive and establish accountability for achievement of objectives regardless of the specific industry or technology.

SEMICOA CORPORATION, Costa Mesa, CA

Established military aerospace & radiation hardened discrete semiconductor company with ~$20M in annual revenues. Semicoa was a privately-held company (180 employees) that was sold to competitor MicroSemi in 2008 and reformed by DoJ in 2009

President & COO - Semicoa Corporation (2009 - November, 2011)

Acquisition Advisor - Vance Street Capital, LLC (2008 - 2009)

President and CEO - Semicoa Corporation (2007 - 2008)

Recruited in 2007 as CEO to lead turnaround of privately-held Semicoa in 2007. The company was operating with a negative EBITDA resulting from a flawed business plan and operational inefficiencies. Key was recognizing the constraints and creating continuous improvement measurements to effect changes to the enterprise that were holding back growth.

* Focused on the core capabilities, re-established, reorganized and grew company's revenue to 40-year high of $14.7M and EBITDA to a record $3.3M in an 11-month run up restoring manufacturing and reducing costs.

* Increased GPM from 36% to 68%; reduced 6-month delinquent customer deliveries and replaced the archaic ERP and implemented true MES. Instituted financial budgeting/control with strict operational disciplines and forecasting.

* Crafted 3-year strategic plan. Initiated/negotiated buy-out of underperforming Opto-Business to a European Group.

In 2008, initiated engagement with private equity group Vance Street Capital to restructure debt and fuel growth; owner chose to sell to competitor MicroSemi. In 2009, Vance Street Capital acquired assets through customer sponsorship aided by DoJ and DoD in a forced divestiture to reform SEMICOA. Worked as acquisition advisor on SEMICOA acquisition and in 2009 named President and COO of newly formed SEMICOA; promoted to Chairman in August 2011.

* Completely rebuilt Semicoa operations, financial and sales organizations from the ground up (2009-2011). Invested ~$30M in a series of cycles. Totally restaffed financial, sales, marketing, engineering and manufacturing functions.

* Created core capabilities that grew business revenues from $500K/month to $2.5M/month.

* Developed and launched two complementary Rad-Hard product lines with 6 quarters of rapid growth.

* Advised Vance Street Capital on acquisitions of Radiation Assured Devices, ON Semiconductor, Solectron and SSDI (2008 - 2009).

FYRESTORM, INC., San Jose, CA

Privately-held mobile power management IC manufacturing company; $10M in annual revenues

Vice President - Operations & Quality (2005 - 2007)

Recruited to establish volume commercial supply chain and quality organization, redesigned the power management chip product line into cost effective packaging preparing for rapid growth of the hi-tech start-up.

* Successfully built a customer service driven, volume manufacturing supply chain that supported revenue growth from zero to $10M in annual revenues.

* Built a test engineering/manufacturability design team that resolved product flaws and production challenges.

* Envisioned and produced a cost reduced solution by collaborating with marketing, design and sales.

INSILICA, INC., Santa Clara, CA

Privately-held, specialized SoC ASIC Fabless COT start-up

Vice President - Operations & Quality (2004 - 2005)

Led creation of a world-class operation, quality and supply chain organization that supported a leading-edge technology capability. Worked alongside VP of Sales on business development efforts.

* Key player in growth of sales revenues from zero to $20M annually.

* Developed pipeline of 22 active customer engagements and closed major deals with Flextronics, Stream Processors, Adtram, Flextronics and Colorific by leveraging technical design talent and operations structure.

CELERITEK, INC. (now M/A-COM Technology Solutions, Inc.), Lowell, MA

Publicly-traded Hi-Tech Integrated Device Manufacturing Company with three divisions (antennae, RF and consumer products); ~$90M in annual revenues; acquired in 2003.

General Manager and Vice President - Semiconductor Division (1997 - 2003)

Recruited to establish volume manufacturing capabilities and grow business. Built and staffed the consumer products division from the ground up as a newly business unit of Celeritek's existing systems to grow markets and capabilities. Took an archaic laboratory scale GaAs RFIC Fab and die-sales only environment to a high-volume production, high-growth technology business winning large volume contracts with companies that include Motorola, Mitsubishi, Rockwell and Ericsson.

* Developed and executed product sales and marketing strategic plan that grew revenues from $1M/Quarter to $15M/Quarter with new products.

* Upgraded and transformed the manufacturing methodology from pure domestic, vertical structure to a combination supply chain with 50% external foundry with low-cost in-house pilot production and off shore subcontract assembly and test.

* Established and negotiated a game changing material cost reduction through supplier partnership. Defined a strategic thrust for new products to reduce the tactical, reactive management style.

* Built and led team in developing the new hi-tech process technology for commercial power amplifiers with 10X better reliability, which has become the standard of the industry today. Took the company through a 2nd round public offering raising $110M in capital.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE AND POSITIONS

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYSTEMS (ICS), INC., Valley Forge, PA

Publicly-traded Fabless Clock Chip and Network IC Company; $100M in annual revenues

Vice President of Operations (1995 - 1997)

* Drove cohesiveness and quickly increased volume production by 300%. Established and consolidated long-term Fabless foundry agreements with significantly lower costs and higher yields at a superior technology.

VLSI TECHNOLOGY, INC., NOW A DIVISION OF NPX/PHILIPS SEMICONDUCTORS, San Jose, CA 1982 - 1995

Vice President of Support Operations & Corporate Facilities (1990 - 1995)

* Expanded contract services operationally worldwide as key technical advisor/marketing in strategic programs. Traveled extensively working on manufacturing projects, technology transfers and partnerships with Philips-Hamburg, Raytheon-Boston, Hitachi-Japan, and EMM-Switzerland.

Director of Operations, San Antonio Wafer Operations (1987 - 1989)

* Created and defined the revolutionary, conceptual architectural design, executed site selection, entire staffing, startup and operation of sub-micron totally paperless facility utilizing innovative CIM for industry leading cycle-time and advanced process technology. Integrated Lean methodologies and produced products 13 months from groundbreaking.

Director of Operations, Strategic Programs, Wafer Fab Expansion & Subcontract Fab (1982 - 1986)

* Selected to build a new Advanced factory and to establish subcontracted wafer manufacturing strategy. Consulting manager for manufacturing excellence, initiated relationships and worked on the floor with the start-ups foundries of Taiwan based TSMC and Singapore based CSM factories, as well as factory start-up in Nuechatel Switzerland.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (TI), INC., Houston, Texas

Director of Operations, MOSII and MOSIII Production Facilities (1976 - 1982)Public Semiconductor Company with $2B+ in annual revenues

* Chosen by President and CTO as "one of TI's best engineering managers" to join the team for state-of-art factory start-up for advanced fabrication. Promoted in rapid advancement to Director of advanced fabrication facilities, HMOSIII, and continued management of HMOSII, factory. As youngest-ever director in TI, installed TI-Japan Quality System in US, oversaw 650+ people and $200M+ in production revenue. Member of high potential program.

Education and Industry Expertise

MBA Coursework, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX ~ B.A. Chemistry, Austin College, Sherman, TX

"Product Customer Center, (PCC Management), Methods & Strategies": Fundamental Business Structures of Texas Instruments, Inc.; "Front End Training Program:" Texas Instruments Comprehensive Process & Product Engineering Training College; "Constraint and Cost Modeling", Texas Instruments Training College; "Total Cycle Time: Lean Manufacturing", The Thomas Group; "Total Quality Management (TQM)" & "The 10 Prerequisites for Successful Measurement," W. Edward Deming Institute.

Published in articles in publications that include Solid State Technology, Computer Manufacturing and Manufacturing Excellence; References and Patents available upon request.

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