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We are a group of executives with 20-35 years of “real-world” experience in Supply Chain, Operations and Engineering.  By levering a variable network of subject matter experts (SME's), we have over 26 different SME's in the following areas:

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Available Resources:
17 + ICRPlaybook Software

Available Resources:
4

Available Resources:
5 + eLearning Software

Supplier Development / Mfg Engineers and Lean / Six-Sigma:
  • ØHigh Tech / Electronics: 8
  • ØAerospace / Mechanical: 4
VP of Operations with 30+ yrs of Experience:
  • High Tech / Electronics: 2
  • ØAerospace / Mechanical: 1
Chief Procurement Executive with 20 yrs of Experience in Aerospace and Silicon Valley: 1
Supply Chain Program Mgrs and Contract Negotiators: 5
Operations with 15+ yrs of Experience Silicon Valley : 2
eLearning Developer and Trainer w/ 20+ yrs of Experience: 1
ICRPlaybook Software
 
Project management resources: 3

Ron Nussle, Jr,  CPM
President, ICR Enterprises, LLC
510-967-2550 ; Info@ICRProcess.com

Ron Nussle, Jr, C.P.M. founded ICR Enterprises,LLC which is currently sharing productivity solutions  and outsourcing best-practices with companies in Europe, Canada and the US. Ron is the author of Integrated Cost Reduction (Reed Press, 2004) and was recently named one of the Top30 Supply Chain “Pros to Know” in the United States by iSource magazine.  Ron has written almost a dozen magazine articles, speaks at conferences (including APICS2004 World-wide) and is also a current member of the Board-of-Directors of a NASDAQ company.

From 2001-2004, Ron was the Managing Director of Global Materials and Supply Chain at Lam Research Corporation, a $1.5B+ semiconductor equipment manufacturer located in Silicon Valley, CA. Ron reported to the President/COO and had responsibility corporate-wide for Direct and Indirect Materials, Warehouse and Logistics and Outsourcing.  Nussle oversaw the complete reengineering of Lam’s Supply Chain organization, processes and IT systems. Inventory turns went from 2.5 to 7.3, and company Gross Margin from 34% to 51%, both records for the 22 year old company. Over a 24 month period, Lam successfully underwent one of the most successful outsourcing programs in the industry: 90% of manufacturing; 100% of Logistics, IT and Facilities Mgmt; and major segments of  Indirect Materials and Services, HR and Finance.

Prior to joining Lam Research, Nussle was Director of Strategic Supply Chain Management for Cessna Aircraft Company. During his 3+  years at Cessna, Nussle was responsible to plan, organize and control the annual acquisition of $1.3Billion in production materials through leadership of 6 cross-functional commodity teams.  In addition, Nussle also lead Cessna’s supply chain new product development process, was chairman of the strategic make/buy committee, and the value analysis/value engineering process.

Before being recruited to Cessna, Ron spent 12 years and held a number of increasingly responsible positions at Honeywell Aerospace (formerly AlliedSignal) in Engineering, Operations M&A and Program Management.  Nussle’s last assignment at AlliedSignal was as manager of Operations programs for the Commercial Propulsion Enterprise, where he managed all Operations for the $970 million engine business. 

Ron has participated in over 200 VA/VE and Design-to-Cost projects in the past 10 years.  Nussle received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.  Over his career, Ron has participated in extensive professional development and has averaged 100+ hrs/year from such schools as MIT, Thunderbird International University and the Wharton School of Business.

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Michael W. Baughman,  CPM, CPIM
Outsourcing and Supply Chain Executive Consultant
, ICR Enterprises, LLC
(925) 518-7664;
mike@icrprocess.com

Supply Chain leadership and training experience and graduated from the prestigious California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, in Engineering in 1981.  Mike began his career in “the early days” of Silicon Valley working for high-tech pioneers: Apple Computer, Atari, and Sun Microsystems in the early ‘80s.  His executive level experience began in 1995 and since then has held Director of supply management positions with Watkins-Johnson,  KLA-Tencor, and Lam Research.  In addition to his “real-world” expertise in outsourcing, global sourcing, supply chain reengineering, Mike has developed training based on his 20+ years of background in contract writing, negotiation, management, arbitration and even contractual legal battles.

At Watkins-Johnson, Palo Alto, CA a ($400M/yr.) manufacturer of Microwave Communications and Test Equipment Mike managed both internal and outsourced supply chain operations including operations in Palo Alto, CA,  Bangkok, Thailand, Manila,  Philippines, and Shanghi, China.  Mike implemented long term enterprise wide contracts with all outsource providers.

With KLA-Tencor a ($1.5B/yr.) manufacturer of semiconductor inspection equipment, Mike was Director of Materials for the Reticule Division, managing Purchasing, Planning, and Inventory Control for NPI and Production. Mike helped implement Lean Manufacturing both internally and with suppliers, and outsourced 30% of manufacturing to local tier one suppliers during this period. 

Mike was Director of Outsourcing Supplier Management with Lam Research a ($1.5B) company during the period where Lam re-engineered the materials organization and outsourced 90% of manufacturing.  Inventory turns increased over 250% to over 7,  margin increased from 34% to 51%, and manufacturing output capability increased 300% with 50% less factory space.

Mike began his career designing and installing high volume manufacturing and warehousing facilities.  During this time Mike designed and installed over 3 million sq. ft. including the games facilities of Atari in Limerick and  Raheen, Ireland (1983),  the Macintosh automated facility in Fremont, CA (1985) and the Sun Microsystems Milpitas, CA automated facility that was on the cover of Modern Materials Handling (Aug. 87).  

As Sun Microsystems began to outsource non-core operations,  Mike transitioned from Engineering Management into Outsourcing Supplier Management to create new outsource processes and manage outsourced global operations for Input / Output Devices,  Fab - PCBs,  Software Duplication,  and OEM PCBA products.  Mike was the architect of the outsource RFQ process and assisted in the development of the “Total Cost of Ownership”  scorecard process still in use by Sun today.

Mike is currently a training and consulting associate of ICR Enterprises.

Bernie Jenkins
Director of Business Development
, ICR Enterprises, LLC
(209) 832-9566;
bernie@icrprocess.com

Bernie Jenkins has over 26 years of marketing , business and product development experience in the semiconductor market. Bernie began his career in Silicon Valley in 1980 working for such giants as US Philips (Signetics), TRW-LSI Products Division, Fairchild Semiconductor, Cadence Design Systems, Actel Corporation and National Semiconductor where he spent over 20 years in Business Development, Senior Technical Marketing, and Program and Product Line Management positions.

As a Marine NCO, Bernie was selected for the Naval Enlisted Scientific Education Program or NESEP. After a grueling ten weeks at the Naval Academy Preparatory School, Bernie attended Purdue University, graduating with  a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1976 and commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the USMC where he served in various Supply, Contracting, Finance and Logistics Staff Officer capacities for over 18 years on both active duty and the reserves.

During his time at National Bernie was instrumental in initiating a high growth rate market doubling the revenue of a P&L over $60M with a PBT in excess of over 25%.  This accomplishment also included restructuring the pro-forma P&L database, developing  new cost models to reflect the true cost of manufacturing to management giving them the highest visibility into the operation.

As the  ASIC Front End Product Line Manager, Bernie helped innovate outsourcing models, today, that are very common in the semiconductor and fabless semiconductor industries between wafer fabs, assembly and test, EDA service vendors (technology standard cell libraries, design methodologies and design services) etc. thus creating the concept of a" virtual product line” with a high return on investment with minimum human assets invested. National was a common name in many early outsourcing and supply chain management success stories.

As the business development and foundry program  manager Bernie was responsible for initiating the development of National’s and the industry’s most advanced, lowest power, lowest noise BiCMOS process (ABiC IV) in the industry. This 15 GHz Ft process had transistor characteristics ahead of the industry of the day. This project became a  joint business venture between the Department of Defense, key contactors that included Unisys and Hughes Aircraft Company (now Boeing Aircraft). This technology later led to the formation of a new division at National, the Wireless Division that latter had revenues that exceeded $200 M per year.

As a senior product marketing manager at National, Bernie has launched several very successful products into the military/aerospace market segment which included every ASIC technology from 2.0 um down to .18 um CMOS. While at Actel Bernie launched the first truly radiation hardenened FPGA , the RTAX-S Family of designed-for-space FPGAs with Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) SRAM. Electronic Design Magazine rated the RTAX-S as one of the Top 100 Products for 2003.