Peter Fisher

Sr. Industrial Engineer - Continuous Improvement

Louisville, Kentucky Area
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Current 1. PMF LLC
Previous 1. Flextronics,
2. Solectron Global Services,
3. Solectron Corporation
Education 1. Loyola College in Maryland
2.
Summary

Six Sigma Lean Industrial Engineer and Manager offering 20 years of progressive achievements with Site
Operations, National & International Logistics, New Business and Technology Transfers, and Mergers &
Acquisitions. Developed measureable process improvements, achieving customer driven business
requirements with effective capitalized solutions. A Solid history of the practical application of Lean and
Six Sigma to produce innovative, stable, process dependent results. Supported multiple sites on a
national and international basis. Operated within group organizations from large cooperative teams to
independent and informal functional associations.

Specialties:

1. IT Project Design / Management / Implementation

2. Precision Optical Fabrication
3. Electronic Repair and Assembly Operations
4. Warranty Logistics
5. Inventory Stocking Strategies
6. Warehouse Design
7. Warehouse Automatons Specification & Test

Technology & Program Transfers:

 Precision Optical Substrate Fabrication

 Aerospace Structural Assemblies
 Optical Telecom Switching Equipment
 Inventory & Supply Chain Cut Over Management
 Process Improvement and Optimization
 IE Skills:

 FPS Lean / TPS Lean / iTLS

 Six Sigma Projects
 Labor Measurement / Time Studies / MOST
 Cost Analysis and Capital Justifications
 Project Management
 Business Development
 Financial Modeling
 Site Rationalization
 RFP, SOP, Software Specification writing
 Order to Cash Value Stream Maps

Experience:
 Sr. Industrial Engineer - Continuous Improvement

PMF LLC
December 2011 – Present (4 years 5 months)

Independent consultant offering Industrial Engineering, Project Management, and Continuous

Improvement services to a variety of industries both domestically and abroad.

Swanson Industries: Oil & Gas hydraulic equipment manufacturing - New Philadelphia, OH
Swanson Industries: Heavy equipment hydraulic cylinder manufacturing - Morgantown, WV.
CTS: Electronic Repair Services and Reverse Logistics.
FMIC Guild Guitar: acoustic hollow body guitars manufacturing - New Hartford, CT.
FMIC Fender Guitar: electric guitar & amplifier - Corona, CA.
Semrock LLC: optical Filter manufacturing - Rochester, NY.
KEOC: Optical substrates and optical systems manufacturing - Seoul, Korea.
CVI Laser: IR, hardened precision optical components and optical filter manufacturing - Leicester, UK.
Advanced Thin Films: specialty film coatings for semiconductor equipment manufactures - Boulder, CO.
Precision Photonics Corporation: EDFA, beam splitters, optical filters and precision optical components
manufacturer - Boulder, CO.
CVI Laser: full line laser and optical component manufacturer - Carlsbad, CA; Albuquerque, NM; &
Covina, CA.

 Sr. Industrial Engineer

Flextronics
October 2007 – December 2011 (4 years 3 months) Louisville, Kentucky Area
  Site Facility Manager

 Site Business Excellence Manager

 Site Security Manager

 Site EH&S Oversight

 Specializing in Rapid Fulfillment and Reverse Logistics in an electronics repair environment.

Site Business Excellence Manager

Flextronics

2007 – December 2011 (4 years) Louisville, Kentucky Area

Hosted and Led Global Services SS/L Boot Camp in August 2011 at which four Kaizens were completed.
This event included the training classes for the division’s site lean leaders and the first cross site Kaizen.
Duties: training classes for front line associates; Monthly Lean Maturity Tracker; Quarterly Flextronics
Assessment Survey; Defined Improvement Projects; Mentored and trained six Kaizen Leaders; Managed
1 Lean Specialist (IE), 1 Lean Technician, and 4 Moonshine Shop associates.
The site lean program under my administration worked toward moving Lean away from the engineering
and specialists and into the hands of front line operations and hourly associates.

Site Engineering Manager

Flextronics
September 2009 – January 2011 (1 year 5 months) Louisville, Kentucky Area

Supervising fifteen (15) professional and eighteen (18) hourly staff associates. Functional responsibilities
encompass Electronic Test Stand Maintenance, ISO – 9001 & 13485 Compliance, BOM Control,
Document Control, Corporate Records Management Officer, Training Department, QC/QA Inspectors,
Material Supply Planning Priority, Process Engineering, Six Sigma Lean Site Facilitator, Value Stream
Maps, 5S Compliance, Equipment Calibration and Asset Control.

Six Sigma Lean - Sr. Industrial Eng.

Solectron Global Services

December 2005 – October 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Internal consultant and business process leader in the field of in house warehouse logistics, processes,
and procedures.
Sr. Industrial Engineer

Solectron Corporation

2001 – 2007 (6 years)

Sr. Industrial Engineer

I Photonics, LLC
September 2000 – October 2001 (1 year 2 months) Baltimore, Maryland Area

I Photonics, LLC is a startup 3rd party Optical Integration and Manufacturing services. We manufactured
DWDM's, fiber amplifiers, and optical line cards. Products were tested under accelerated environmental
testing.

* Created automated labor estimator based on an Excel Spreadsheets to speed cost and price
calculations.
* Transition Leader for conversion of the company from legacy IT systems (Quick Books) to Oracle 11i
and Agile.
* Project Manager for building move and consolidation.

Sr. Industrial Engineer

Middle River Aircraft Systems - Div of GE Aircraft Engines

April 1996 – September 2000 (4 years 6 months)

Sr. Industrial Engineer - National Logistics

Montgomery Ward
December 1990 – May 1997 (6 years 6 months)

National Industrial Engineer for Montgomery Ward Logistics. “Wards” was a major big box retailer with
~$8.2b at cost inventory serving ~360 stores. I was responsible for industrial engineering in 18 BTDC, 2
RDC, and 2 Import Centers and ~3,800 full time employees. My role included warehouse layout, Sorter
Conveyor Specifications and Testing (Rapist an and Alevi using Accuser Readers and Allen Bradly PLCs on
ladder logic & OS9), Office Layout and Furniture procurement and set up, Telephone System design and
Set Up (Lucent Definity G3 Switches), and warehouse move team logistics. Industrial Engineering and
managerial duties comprised time studies for warehouse tasks, on site P/C skills training and support,
office automations, weekend site manager, property inventory & management for site closures, and Site
Process Compliance auditor.
Career Highlights:
•VBasic Programing of P/C Based Dialogic cards for automated Home Delivery outbound messaging and
scheduling.
•Installation, Configuration, Training, Help Desk Support, Network Design, and Integration of Datamatics
TC1 Time and Attendance P/C based automated access and time clock system in a LAN / WAN network
nesting 18 Novell 4.11 NOS inside DECnet WAN for seamless payroll transmissions into IBM Payroll
software. This included hardware acquisition and configuration.
•Proof of Concept, Design, Deployed, Trained, and maintained second tiered standalone P/C based
X,Y,Z, ZZ locator system on Informix Db.
•Home Delivery routing matrix to maximize route delivery – New Stanton.
•Took the eastern HQ for MW logistics from one P/C in 1991 to 32 deployed and supported P/C’s by
1996.
•Installed & configured 3rd party P/C based software to do call accounting and security over PBx
resulting in accountability for communications costs and loss prevention.
•Four warehouse startups and move campaigns.
•Property Manager for Montgomery Ward Tower in Baltimore.
•Inventory Redistribution Manager: Baltimore.

Sr. Industrial Engineer

Lockheed Martin
1988 – 1991 (3 years) Baltimore, Maryland Area

This was a contract engineering position at the Middle River, Maryland site. Programs Supported during
this period include: Titian II; Titian III; Titian IV stage 2 and conduit; CF-34 Fan Reverser; PW-4000 Fan
Reverser; Spares program for C-141, C-5, C-130, S-3; F-16 Bracket Transfer; Patriot Launcher; Patriot
Canister; Patriot Seal; VLS Launcher; VLS Canister; and Bell Eagle Eye hull fabrication. Technologies
supported were: Machine Shop, Sheet Metal Shop; Plating & Painting Shop; White Room Layup for Pre-
preg Carbon Fiber Assembly; Gerber Fabric Cutter; and Assembly Shops. Highlights for the period
M.O.S.T. deployment for MilSpec-1567A; authored the Shop Audit Program for Data Compliance; and
weight reduction by minimizing hull internal paint. Martin Marietta merged with Lockheed Corporation
during this period.

Sr. Industrial Engineer

American Electronic Laboratories, Inc.

April 1990 – May 1990 (2 months)

Generated Time Studies, Labor Standards, Standard Data, Manufacturing Process Plans (MPP), and
routing sequences for a MRP Start Up. This was a contract position. I was brought on board to help the
local team recover schedule for the MRP start up project.

Sr. industrial Engineer

Hartford Systems, Inc.

May 1988 – September 1988 (5 months)
 Harford Systems is a job shop, custom stainless steel and sheet metal fabrication making build to spec.
engineered and architectural products, walk in freezers, and laboratory fixtures and equipment. I set up
a balanced welding assembly line with Standard Work and a zero WIP pull system. I worked as a
contracted consultant.

Sr. Industrial Engineer

Martin Marretta
1987 – 1988 (1 year)

Sr. Industrial Engineer

Roper Eastern - a division of Roper Corporation

1981 – November 1987 (6 years)

Industrial Engineer

Koppers - Piston Seal & Ring Div.

1980 – 1981 (1 year)

Industrial Engineer Tech

Kirk Stieff Company

1979 – 1980 (1 year)

Industrial Engineer Tech

Samual Kirk & Son

1979 – 1979 (less than a year)

Skills

 Financial Modeling
 Management
 Business Development
 Warehousing
 Inventory Management
 Technology Transfer
 Cost Benefit
 Lean Manufacturing
 Project Management
 ISO
 Supply Chain
 Supply Chain Optimization
 Continuous Improvement
 Process Improvement
 MRP
 Operations Management
 Cross-functional Team Leadership
 Manufacturing
 Kaizen
 Supply Chain Management
 Logistics
 Process Engineering
 Six Sigma
 Integration
 Supply Management
 5S
 Industrial Engineering

Education

 Loyola College in Maryland

B.A.
1975 – 1979

 St. John the Baptist DHS

Regents Diploma, Math & Science
1971 – 1975

Interests

 Anatolian Shepherd Dog Enthusiast - "They keep me!"

 Lean
 Sustainable Agriculture & Small Scale Organic Gardening
 & Six Sigma
 iTLS: Integrated Constraint Theory