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| Name: |
Jerel Walters 74 |
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| Brief Desc: |
Leader in product development seeking position in product or engineering management. |
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| Long Desc: |
Results-oriented leader and manager with proven experience in achieving results through team-oriented leadership and effective project management.
Extensive experience in product-development management combined with experience in supplier management, quality assurance management, marketing, and sales provides unique breadth and expertise in understanding the needs of multiple functional areas and effectively developing cross-functional teams.
Product Development and Engineering Management:
· Reduced product development cycle time by 50% through implementing best practices, including stage-gate development processes.
· Successfully managed new product development program for creating the next generation of a product line of water quality monitors and hand-held data displays.
· Reduced material and labor costs up to 85% on numerous products by implementing effective engineering design principles, including design for manufacturing, testing, and servicing.
· Improved interdepartmental communication and productivity by implementing concurrent engineering and house-of-quality product development programs. This resulted in shorter development cycle time and products that could be manufactured and serviced at a lower cost.
· Transferred designs to manufacturing using concurrent engineering and team-based techniques.
· Improved process efficiency and productivity by developing and implementing database applications for engineering product data management, final testing, and equipment repair.
· Managed product certification process to achieve conformance to the Electromagnetic Compliance Directive for European sales.
· Managed product verification and validation testing to ensure product conformance to design requirements and to measure customer product acceptance.
· Improved customer-service repair processes to achieve and maintain on-time delivery performance of 99.98%. Improved repair quality to reduce the equipment return rate to less than .01%.
· Managed engineering department including engineers, designers, drafters, technical writers, and technicians.
· Created and managed a technical-support center serving over 400 domestic and international customers. |
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| email: |
jbwalters74@yahoo.com |
| Mobile: |
431-6917 |
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