Engineer Manager

RANDY WETTSTEIN

Franklinton, NC ***** • adbnif@r.postjobfree.com

330-***-**** • linkedin.com/in/RandyWettstein/

MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING LEADER

A driven manufacturing operations and engineering leader with extensive experience within electro-mechanical assembly operations. Well versed in manufacturing techniques and continuous improvement processes inclusive of Six Sigma, TPS, Kaizen, and Lean. A visionary leader that has successfully driven projects improving costs, quality, and delivery schedules. Effectively communicates and collaborates across organizations to resolve challenges, problem solving, facilitation of cross-functional teams, cost management, and mentorship of talent globally across design, manufacturing, quality, and material supply chain.

Process Mapping & Controls Team Leadership Distribution

Quality Control & Regulatory Team Facilitation Project Management

RCA & Process Improvements Inventory Management Capital Investments

Budget Management New Product Introduction Acquisition Integration

Product Data Management (PDM)

Quality & Manufacturing Methodologies: Lean/Theory of Constraints • Six Sigma • TPS • 5S • Kaizen • SMED • TPM • Design of Experiments (DoE) • Time/Motion Studies • Just-in-Time (JIT) • FMEA • SPC• Value Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Supply Chain Manager: Currently Unemployed October 2019 to Present

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., Morrisville (RTP), NC September 2008 to October 2019

Technical Leader, Corporate Central Product Operations, May 2013 - Present

●Successfully program managed corporate RoHS C compliance, with a $40M budget, across 54 business entities in advance of EU expiration of 7/21/2016

●Facilitated and program managed senior managers in the creation of over 45 KPI’s of Cisco’s monetized HW/SW/Service costing model for use in quarterly executive business performance reviews

●Actively managed Business Unit sustaining KPI’s and RCA for quarterly presentations to Supply Chain executives

●Created an operational technical council for technology and industry sensing

●Drove operational team to address high-profile customer packaging issue encountered with new release shipment providing process governance and early engagement during NPI.

●Orchestrated the creation of Supply Chain salaried labor tracking (BOST methodology) and visualization

●Subject matter expert (SME), liaison for a Supply Chain community of nearly 200 electrical and mechanical product engineers, in all CtB transformational and RtB activities

●RtB owner for mechanical Dfx tools such as DfmPro and aPriori cost modeling

NPI Product Engineering Manager for Wireless Product Unit, September 2008 – May 2013

●Drove DFx - Design for Assembly, Reliability, Test, Quality, and Cost, of RF wireless products

●Collaborated with Engineering, Marketing, Manufacturing, and Operations on conceptual designs, customer requirements, supply chain development and execution enabling remote manufacturing operations in Asia, Russia, Mexico, and Brazil

●Championed Value Engineering and “Green” initiatives achieving over $20M in savings in 4.7 years

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●Engaged with Business Unit leaders to ensure total legacy and new product conversion to RoHS C compliance by end of 2012 in advance of 2016 deadline

HARRIS RF COMMUNICATIONS, Rochester, NY May 2007 – August 2008

Principal Engineer

●Led team with the divisional development, training, and implementation of Valor PCB validation tool for new product designs

●Championed team in the development and introduction of package-on-package (PoP) component technology and process for new product designs in effort to gain valuable PCB real estate for complex mobile products

BIRD ELECTRONIC CORPORATION, Solon, OH May 2002 – May 2007

Product and Process Engineering Manager

●Directed team of 21 in support of NPI, and manufacturing of RF measurement devices within two divisions of $50M annual sales

●Implemented full SMT capability within the facility to eliminate outsourcing and improve quality

●NPI, design-to-order custom product support, VE, factory layout utilizing cell and lean techniques, in-house prototyping, document control, component and product engineering

●Successfully program managed the release of two new products with a third in process with a $3.5M budget

●Coordinated complete factory layout to improve product and material flow.

Additional Relevant Experience

Mid-South Industries,

●Manufacturing Engineering and Facilities Manager

Glenayre Electronics,

●Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Motorola, Satellite & Space Technology Group, Computer Group, Tactical Electronics Division:

●Senior Manufacturing Engineer

●New Product Introduction Engineer

●Senior Production Supervisor

●Product Quality Engineer

●Manufacturing Engineer

Intel Corporation

●NPI Product Engineer

●Quality Inspection Lead

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Operations Management and Finance,

University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

Associate of Applied Science, Construction Engineering

Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ

Dale Carnegie Management Development

Management and Leadership

Huet-Cox-Johnson Team Facilitator Training

Lean and Six-Sigma principles – Green Belt

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