Engineering Six Sigma

LETTER OF INTRODUCTION:

James Joseph Waskiel

Measurement, Statistics & Analytics

Engineer, Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Business & Engineering Organisational Process & Quality Excellence

Enterprise Architecture

Continuous Improvement & Lean Institutionalization

Capability & Performance Maturity

June 2018

Good day.

I am an experienced, senior managerial consultant engineer, certified LEAN Six Sigma Master Black Belt and SW Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model practitioner and instructor.

I provide solutions and services in the measurements, analyses and modelling of organisational behavioral change, process and product prediction and capability performance.

In the capacity of a LEAN Six Sigma MBB leader, trainer and practitioner, I have conducted and held dozens of training courses including; PMFSS (Product Marketing for Six Sigma), DFSS, DMAIC and LEAN throughout Europe as well as coached and mentored to certification dozens of GB’s, BB’s and MBB. I have co–authored the training materials as well as institutionalised the innovative practices in a multitude of highly successful global projects.

In addition to the Six Sigma discipline, I am a certified Capability Maturity Model instructor and practitioner from Carnegie Mellon University SW Engineering Institute. I had led a design center to the highest maturity level, optimising performance. I have trained and certified 200+ candidates across several geographies.

I am looking for an opportunity to share my passion for Measurement and Analysis for organisations with a goal for performance and capability maturity growth. I practice, coach, mentor and engineer data analytics and organisational performance passionately and drive change relentlessly. Process Excellence.

Below is a link to my website with which contains testimonials, skills, University accreditations and certificates, publications and a brief biography.

I was born in the USA. I was schooled (Engineering and Biophysics, University of Connecticut) in USA. I currently live in Denmark working for 20 years from contracts with intel, Motorola and Cobham SATCOM. I am currently under contract as a freelance senior consultant.

I am looking to geographically relocate, start a new chapter and meet new challenges.

Thank you.

With Kind and Sincere Regards,

James Joseph Waskiel

+45 31 75 72 75

Website: http://jamesjosephwaskiel.com/

Email: ******************@*****.***

CURRICULUM VITAE:

JAMES JOSEPH WASKIEL

Engineer, Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Business & Engineering Organisational Process & Quality Excellence

Enterprise Architecture

Continuous Improvement & Lean Institutionalization

Capability & Performance Maturity

Mobile: +45 31 75 72 75

Website: http://jamesjosephwaskiel.com/

E-mail: ******************@*****.***

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-joseph-waskiel/3/738/173

Abstract:

Provider of solutions and services in the measurement, analyses and optimization of product, process and organizational reliability, predictability and capability performance and capability maturity.

Passionate practitioner, instructor, coach and, mentor for individual and organizational maturity growth and effectively and efficiently delivering Customer Value through improved optimized throughput.

Passions and vision:

• Instantiate collaborative behavioral organizational change within and amongst geographies through innovative teaching, mentoring and coaching people.

• Apply probability and statistical tools and methods for predictive engineering and data based decision derivation. • Measure, analyze and evolve process performance for attainment and sustainment of both stabilities for prediction and capability towards business goals. Develop and implement KPI driven performance.

• Perform sensitivity and contingency analyses to maximize business return on R&D investment. E.g. Understanding the resulting interactions of Voice of customer, business, technology, capability and quality.

• Manage the organizational quality assurance paradigm from a producers risk /consumers risk balance

Tools and Methods:

• Senior Six Sigma Black Belt LEAN, DMAIC, DFSS, PMFSS (six sigma measurement and analysis of product, process and product marketing performance (predictability and capability), practitioner, champion, instructor, mentor, leader. SAS, Minitab, SigmaXL, R, JMP

• SW Engr. Institute capability maturity model (certified instructor), ITIL, ISO (auditor) - models to measure maturity and performance.

Performance Measures:

• A collection of sponsor testimonials are available on my website http://jamesjosephwaskiel.com/

Experience:

ZFR, DENMARK JAN 2014-PRESENT

Role and Responsibilities

Strategies and Tactics

Value Impact

Consultant LEAN Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Measurement and Analysis Engineering

- STORM Management House of Six Sigma, Holte DK, Master Black Belt Consultant

- Copenhagen University Medical School, Research Statistician

- Software Innovation Consortium, Mathematical Modeling Consultant

Consultant MBB Six Sigma methods and tools practitioner and instructor/coach Six Sigma; DMAIC DFSS, TRIZ, to valued STORM Customers

Providing correlation analysis methods for medical school research project.

Contributing mathematical modeling concepts and approaches too an innovative SW project

DANISH ENGINEERING SERVICES, BALLERUP DK JAN 2018 – PRESENT (FREELANCE CONSULTING CONTRACT)

Role and Responsibilities

Strategies and Tactics

Value Impact

Senior Consultant - Project Management, Business Consulting Group

M TBF Reliability and statistical significance analysis for DIS Customer Danish Navy Contract tender

Six Sigma GB & BB training to Program Management and Business Consulting Group

Customer Satisfaction and award of contract

Maturing of organizational performance through data measurement and analysis tools and methods

COBHAM SATCOM, LYNGBY DENMARK 2016-2017

Role and Responsibilities

Strategies and Tactics

Value Impact

Quality Assurance Engineering - Avionics

Measure and analyze the pre-existing organizational process performance evolution to strategize and implement a goal and practice based behavioral change paradigm within and between the organizational cultures.

Quantify and mitigate process performance risk to effectively and efficiently deliver value for cost, quality, schedule and scope for a major customer in an emergent marketing vertical (Ærospace) to grow organizational capability maturity and performance.

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, GLOSTRUP DK, BASINGSTOKE UK, KRAKOW PL, CHICAGO IL USA 2001 – 2014

Capabilities

Strategies and Tactics

Value Impact

Measurement & Analysis

Contingency and correlation analyses on Voice of Customer/VoB /VoP performance measures.

Identified areas for needed performance improvements to increase revenue generation.

Application of Confidence Intervals, power of test and sample size statistical analyses, DOE and Monte Carlo of product component performance.

Provided the analysis for the balance of producers cost to consumer risk in unavoidable destructive product testing.

Develop and implement leading indicators for measures of project dynamics and front end variability.

Quantitative predictions and estimates based upon capability performance drove decisions to respond to project impacts.

Modeling & Prediction

DFSS CDOV using an optimizing DOE and Monte Carlo Simulation to model and predict optimal network server performance.

Customer product performance increased and lower customer operating expense (OPEX) realized.

Application of product marketing models against baseline performance to define predictive and measureable success parameters.

Resulted in the marketing team re-performing the market research and re-define product specifications.

Bayesian Networks modeling to optimize system testing performance to predict product reliability characteristics

Reduction of 25% product reliability defects and reduced testing effort.

Innovated and adopted System Reliability Engineering models to predict product reliability for ship release confidence measures and decisions

Used in all product certification decisions since.

Process Architecture and Changing Behavior

Drive the organization towards a “LEAN” culture (VSM, Quick Wins, Kanban, GEMBA, Kaizen) to reduce operational cost by elimination of waste and focus on customer value

Within a two year period 35 quick wins. 10 LEAN DMAIC’s and 14 Kaizen events reducing or avoiding cost to the organization.

Champion an organizational LEAN DMAIC to change behavior to efficient and affective regulatory export control processes.

Institutionalized an organizational behavioral change. Cost avoidance.

Measure, architect, define and deploy an ISO and CMMI compliant quality management system. CMMI V1.3, ISO 9001,

ISO audits: 0 major, 0 minor non-compliances. SEI SW-CMM appraisal Level 5.

Performance Optimization

Measure and Analyze the Customer Issue Resolution process performance to optimize organizational cost while maintaining customer satisfaction.

Institutionalized metrics resulted in decisions to reduce service product releases thus organizational costs

Innovate a collaborative DFMEA between the customer and the producer to quantitatively measure the characteristics of quality to balance customer/producers risk.

Mutual understanding of the maximum benefit to cost ratio and expectations for a major product release to a major customer.

Coaching & Mentoring

Introduction, application, teaching and mentoring DFSS, predictive engineering techniques and PMFSS Product Marketing modeling gap analyses.

Critical Parameter Management used to develop and deliver leading industry product portfolio. 90% trained

Instructor for Carnegie Mellon University SW Engineering University Capability Maturity Model

Delivered formal SEI course to primarily SW/IT development companies in Denmark and UK.

Mentoring LEAN Six Sigma Green and Black Belts through to certification.

7 BB, 22 GB’s, across Poland, Denmark, UK, China

INTEL CORP, LYNGBY, DK PORTLAND OR USA 1998-2001

Quality and Reliability Engineering

Silicon, Boards and Systems reliability calculations, AQL/RQL, customer issue resolution, performance measures..

Introduced a regional HALT (highly accelerated life test) program for product reliability measures.

BRODERSEN CONTROLS, ROSKILDE, DK 1997-1998

FW Design and Development

Communications and machine controls firmware using Hitachi 16 bit and Microchip PIC microcontrollers, FLASH, C, C++, ASM, GNU OS,

Collaboratively develop, manage and verify requirements with customer for full ship acceptance

SCAN-OPTICS, EAST HARTFORD, CT, USA, 1993-1997

SW Design and Development

Document scanning, communications and machine controls software applying intel 8085, Motorola 68030 and Motorola 68040 architecture, VME backplanes, C, C++, ASM, TCP/IP

Collaboratively develop manage and verify requirements and implementation performance with customer onsite in Tokyo Japan with customer for full ship acceptance

ABB RESEARCH, WINDSOR, CT, USA, 1990-1993

System and SW Architect

Architect and design a Discrete Indication and Alarm System for Nuclear Power Generation applying Motorola 68040 architecture, VME backplane, MS-DOS,. C, C++, ASM, TCP/IP

Architect, design and manage system and SW level requirements and high and low level design across multiple systems for the US Department of Defense and US Department of Energy

EXCALIBUR INTERNATIONAL, WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA, USA, 1980-1989

HW & FW Design and Development Engineering

Machine control hardware and firmware applying intel 8080, EPROM, ASM, digital logic

Develop, code and verify product parameter performance to meet cost, quality, scope and schedule targets. Onsite customer applications engineering across North, Central and South Americas, Europe and Asia

EDUCATIONS AND TRAININGS

John Hopkins University, School of Bio-Statistics

Data Scientist Program 2014-2020

Motorola University

Six Sigma Master Black Belt Program LEAN, DFSS, DMAIC, LEAN, PMFSS, TDFSS

Productivity Measurement Systems 2012 Masters

Carnegie Mellon University – Software Engineering Institute

Certified Instructor Program in Capability Maturity Model Integrated 2003 Certificate

Thesis: “Organizational Environment for Innovation and Integration”

Intel University

Patrick O’Conner Reliability Engineering Program 2012 Graduate

University of Connecticut

Electrical Engineering and Biophysics 1979 Graduate

Individualized Program

AWARDS (2011 – PRESENT)

Management (5)

Colleague (16)

Symposium (3)

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

”Customer Experience Engineering”

Guest speaker at the Royal Society of Danish Engineers, Copenhagen Denmark Nov 2012

”Value-Based Technical Debt Model and Its Application” Paper presented at COMPSAC IEEE Symposium, Budapest, Hungary. Aug 2012

“Bridging Engineering and Business using the Six Sigma Approach”, Principle Black Belts Society, Holbæk, Denmark. Sep 2012

”Knowledge Database, Maximizing the R&D Investment” Paper presented at the Innovations and Quality Symposium, Copenhagen Denmark Sep 2011

”Changing Behavior” Paper presented at the Innovations and Quality Symposium, Copenhagen Denmark Sep 2011

“Institutionalization of Design for Six Sigma within a Process Model Framework”, Guest speaker at the Royal Society of Danish Engineers, (IDA), Copenhagen Denmark 2011

“Application of Product Marketing for Six Sigma”, Innovations Symposium, Copenhagen DK Sep 2010

“Bridging Engineering and Business” Innovations Symposium, Copenhagen DK Sep 2010

“An overview of Six Sigma Methodologies for Application in Health Care”, Malmö, Sweden University Hospital Jul 2008

“Systems Reliability Engineering (SRE)“ (Keynote Speaker Paper) CEE SET Conference, Krakow PL Feb 2009

“Applying Six Sigma Methodologies to SW and Systems Test Management”, Aalborg University, Aalborg DK 2008

”Organizational Environment for Innovation and Integration”, SW Engineering Institute, Frankfurt Germany 2005

“Optimized Testing with Bayesian Networks” EuroStar Symposium, Copenhagen DK 2005

PERSONAL

Private pilot

Guitar enthusiast

PRE-INTERVIEW:

Applicant's own CV received in docx format (Yes/No)?

yes

Contact info

- Mobile number: +45 31 75 72 75

- Email: ******************@*****.***

- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-joseph-waskiel/3/738/173

- Other info: http://jamesjosephwaskiel.com/

Background?

Why are you looking for a new job?

I am looking to geographically relocate, start a new chapter and meet new challenges.

Very briefly, I have traveled since graduation from University (the 80's). After north, central and south Americas, Asia and Europe tours I landed a contract in DK to write firmware/software, met a Danish girl, married, had 4 kids.

A decision was necessary to move forward, start a new chapter in a new location.

I have my suitcase to live out of again and a laptop full of tools and experiences and papers from being a part of the emergent world of microprocessors, PC's, networks, telecoms, internet and all that is required to make that happen successfully.

I want to share and contribute to the next level in the manifestation of technology to better our world.

What job do you want do? / What does it include? & Why?

- I am looking for an opportunity to share my passion for Measurement and Analysis for organisations with a goal for performance and capability maturity growth. I practice, coach, mentor and engineer data analytics and organisational performance passionately and drive change relentlessly. Process Excellence.

Tech Core Skills (Top #30. The strongest Skill first)? (Skill 1, Skill 2,

http://jamesjosephwaskiel.com/skills-and-experience/

SW Reliability Engineering Prediction

Instantiated SRE, quantitative and mathematical modeling to support high cost ship and deploy decisions for telecom infrastructure systems/SW. Ship or continue testing? Cost balance.

Technical Debt Assessment and Management

Innovated and implemented techniques used to quantitatively determine when to say when and migrate a legacy software platform to a new paradigm. stop the spaghetti code quagmire, all about cost, CoQ/CoPQ

Data Analytics, R, SAS, Minitab, JMP, SigmaXL

Tools mastered and taught

Simulation, Monte Carlo, DOE Optimizations

Tools mastered and taught

Predictability and Capability Performance Measurement and Analysis

Drove and implemented the UK, Poland and DK design (infrastructure and subscribers) centers to an ML5 optimizing performance, assisted Chicago IL USA design center to ML 5

Organizational Quality Assurance Practices and Management

Introduced an innovative quantitative automated means to approach quality assurance in SW from a consumers/producers risk perspective of cost, quality, schedule and scope Voice of customer, process, market impact analyses

Product Marketing, Development and Realization Journey

Co -authored and implemented an innovative product marketing for six sigma training course and assessment tool that was used to stop a multimillion USD marketing project due to poor performance risk to ROI. deployed across EMEA, NA and APAC

Problem Solving and Quantitative Risk Assessment/Mitigation

risk management

Innovated a quantitative DFMEA for the 2012 summer OL in London, facilitated program of F2F sessions with met police (old Scotland yard) and O2 airwaves (provider) for risk mitigation for public safety communications in London during the OL games. Wild experience! fighting terrorism using my brains

Organizational Behavioral Change Instantiation and Management

introduced a collaborative, web based Wiki user owned and emergent quality and business management system. ISO and CMMi approved

Software Development Practices and Management Processes

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ISO Auditor and Continual Improvement Paradigms

Certified and leader/driver in CI

Key Performance Indicator Program Management

Architect and developer of useful metrics to drive goal driven behavioral change, highly visibility throughout an organisation

Requirements Development, Analysis, Management and Optimization,

one of the most often experienced poorly performing process areas in SW development. costly to the organisation, erosion of ROI. Drove and delivered training courses to architects SW, HW and systems.

Cross-functional Collaborative Team Leadership and Strategic/Tactical Planning

Establish and Maintain Agile Methodology

performed (as the leader of a team of 4 black belts) a global analysis of agile/scrum methods paradigm versus legacy V /spiral model SW and systems development emergence across EMEA, NA and APAC SW design centers, used quantitative and performance measures to determine predictability and capability performance. surprising results, cultural analyses

Design for 6σ Team Leadership

Trained, mentored and coached GB and BB design centers engineering projects to use predictive (quantitative) engineering methods to reduce risk to predictability and increase capability

Coaching/Mentoring/Teaching

FUN I love to teach and coach and mentor a passion to share.

Trained, mentored, coached and certified GB, BB and MBB design and product marketing centers engineers to use predictive (quantitative) methods to reduce risk to predictability and increase capability DMAIC, LEAN, DFSS and PMFSS

Quality and Business Management Systems Architect

see above with the wiki >QMS/BPM systems evolving to new paradigm replacing legacy flat database

Salary expectation (EUR/month)?

cost living for the local expenses and competitive in the industry

what I had written in the question below about what is important to me in a job reflects the answer I write here

Location options (mention locations

- APAC

- Continental Europe, UK, Scandinavian

- The Americas

Passport:

USA

DK residence and work permit, permanent

Readiness for travelling?

Yes

Up to 100%

Language Skills?

English (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Danish (Professional working proficiency)

Spanish (Elementary proficiency)

References (at least 2 persons) (Name, Email, LinkedIn profile, Mobile)?

http://jamesjosephwaskiel.com/testimonials/

- Niels Rasmus Bruun Pedersen - Global Service and Support Manager, Head of Office of Airworthiness - Æronautical, Cobham SATCOM, Lyngby DK

- Jens Kristiansen, Former VP TETRA Engineering, Motorola Solutions, Glostrup, DK

- Jan Füssel, Program Management Office for Tetra Business Unit, Motorola Solutions Inc., Glostrup DK

In my webpage (linked above) testimonials are a listing of past senior level sponsors all willing to speak 1:1 and phone numbers can be provided

What are the most important things for your next job decision?

honesty and truth, compassion and empathy, fortitude and resilience, fun and humor, knowledge and understanding, community and collaboration

What is your resignation time (weeks)?

(2) calendar weeks upon contract

When could you start in new job (d.m.)?

target 01jul18

Do you have other job searches?

yes

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