Product Development Professional

Karl R Heinze

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West Chicago, Illinois 60185

630-***-****

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Engineering professional with superior technical and leadership skills evidenced by a history of innovative solutions and outstanding achievement.

Areas of Special Expertise:

Accelerating Time-To-Market by optimizing and standardizing development processes

Minimizing costs by application of design-for-manufacture and cost/function analysis

Improving product quality through application of Six Sigma tools to reduce variance

Senior Level Project Management and Team Building

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PERKINELMER LIFE SCIENCES, Downers Grove, Illinois 1992 – 2009 Global supplier of laboratory automation systems for life science research

Principal Engineer/Project Manager (1997 – 2009)

Developed market changing new product concepts for modular laboratory automation systems. Supervised cross-functional project teams to accelerate all phases of the development cycle from concept through production. Evaluated advanced technologies for commercialization potential. Managed collaborative development activities with strategic partners.

 Generated $60 million in new revenue with development of new modular robotic product line to replace 4 legacy products. Lead project team to bring new product line from concept to production in 9 months with budget of $7 million.

 Expanded market access by Generating and organizing design history and additional documentation required for listing robotic instrument line as an FDA class one medical device.

 Saved $2.4 million in material and labor costs and reduced warranty costs 18% by managing cross functional team for redesign & strategic re-sourcing of flagship product line.

 Developed in-house processes for manufacture of micro-fluidic dispensers for new instrument product line. Collaborated with major customer to optimize dispensers for production of bio-chip type diagnostic kits for genomic screening.

 Adapted new liquid level sense technology to robotic sample preparation systems enabling applications in petrochemical analysis labs, thereby gaining access to potential $80M market. (Patent is pending)

Mechanical Team Leader. 1993 - 1997

Lead team of engineers, designers and technicians to develop mechanical systems for automated laboratory instruments.

 Managed development and production startup for next-generation robotic liquid pipetting instrument on accelerated schedule (One year from blank sheet to product ship.) with 17% cost reduction and enhanced performance.

 Resolved critical production problems and generated savings of $400 per unit by Redesign of radio-isotopic imaging system.

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Manufacturing engineer. 1992-1993

Independently identified and executed product redesign projects to reduce part cost, part count and assembly time. Applied value engineering and design for manufacture and assembly principles to improve productivity.

 Identified potential for $500k in annual cost reductions and implemented $125k in annual savings in one year.

 Organized and taught in-house class on Geometric Dimensions & Tolerances to entire engineering staff and all major suppliers.

ARVIN INDUSTRIES/ GABRIEL RIDE CONTROL DIVISION, Carol Stream, IL 1988 – 1992

Global supplier of automotive suspension components and systems

Engineering Manager - McPherson Products Group. 1990-1992

Selected by company president to develop and lead new cross functional development team. Managed staff of 15 engineers, technicians, and plant personnel responsible for new product planning, design and production launch of new applications for division's most profitable product lines.

 Generated $625K gain in profits by reorganizing into cross-functional team for accelerated development of 31 new product designs.

 Reduced tooling costs for new programs From $3M to $1M in one year by creation of innovative modular tooling program.

 Reduced warranty rate by 30% in the first quarter of 92 as chair of joint quality/productivity improvement effort between engineering and manufacturing.

Sr. Project Engineer. 1988-1990

THE FITZPATRICK COMPANY, Elmhurst Illinois 1986 – 1988

Project Engineer. – Capital process equipment for food and pharmaceutical industries

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Ypsilanti, Michigan 1984-1986

Mechanical Engineer. – Transmission component design and production

EDUCATION

Currently pursuing MBA – IIT-Stuart School of Business, Chicago Illinois

BS, Mechanical Engineering – Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Illinois - 1984

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SolidWorks 3D CAD • Cosmos FEA • GD&T • Six Sigma Green Belt

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