Keith L. Van Brocklin
Skills
Oracle SQL/PL |
MS Project |
MS Access |
MS FrontPage |
MS EXCEL |
SAP/R3 |
MS Query |
UNIX |
WindowsNT |
SADT |
Strategic Decisioning |
Visonary Leadership Planning |
Facilitation Skills |
Team Building Skills |
Learning Organizations |
Visual Basic |
Visual J++ |
Program/Project Management |
CAD/CAM/CAE |
Data Warehousing |
Organizational Development |
Business Process Management |
Quality Function Deployment |
Voice of the Customer |
Functional Areas of
Expertise and Industry Experience
Industries: Aerospace;
Airline; Automotive; Computer Hardware and Software; Consumer Electronics; Department of
Defense; Department of Energy; Discrete Manufacturing; Electronics; Health Care; NASA;
Public Utilities; Semiconductor;
Areas: Business Process Reengineering; Business
Consulting; Enterprise Integration: Manufacturing Engineering; Research & Development;
Program & Project Management; Software Development; Organizational Development
1993 - 1998 Texas Instruments --
Plano, TX
Senior System Manager
- Manage business process development of 200 gigabyte Data
Warehouse.
- Develop and integrate data warehousing concepts with
marketing communications, new product development and operations.
- Identification of business requirements, business
processes, and technical database architecture
- Investigated YEAR2000 problems and impact on business
operations and legal liabilities in facilities, hardware, software, and commercial
products.
- Taught seminars on YEAR2000 awareness and impact
Manager System Architect
- Manage/Mentor/Coach Information Technology System
Architects in business process alignment, service level agreements and business value
consulting.
- Performed heuristic based analysis to determine growth
areas for Senior Members of Technical Staff.
- Facilitated development and training plans for senior level
technical IT to increase contribution in adding business value by developing consulting
skills.
- Member of Center of Excellence (COE) Operations Team
(Governance) responsible for organizational development, productivity metrics, and
motivation for COE organization.
Business Process Reengineer
- Facilitated the Reengineering of "Core (Worldwide
Supply) Process" to achieve 65% reduction of cycle time in less than two months,
while the 95th percentile of goods shipped on time from over six days to two days.
- Developed and taught Business Process Methodology for
internal and external groups; and on-sight Train the Trainers for Bell Atlantic.
1987 - 1992 Digital
Equipment Corporation -- Dallas, TX
Business Management Consultant
- Provided expertise as business process and organizational
consultant for revenue integration projects by mapping customer needs into training and
process changes. Resolved customer satisfaction issues for large programs that went into
"Red" status or were involved in litigation procedures.
- Business Process Reengineering and Organizational
Development Consultant.
- Trainer for facilitation workshops including Vision
Setting; TOP Mapping; and Critical Success Factors
- Designed new division using Visioning and Quality Function
Deployment (QFD) methodology to compete in high-energy physics superconducting magnet
production with Westinghouse. Facilitated visioning sessions, process mapping, conceptual
redesign and initial prototype project for Brooks Army Medical and Wilford Hall (USAF)
Hospital utilizing Metroplex Area Network (MAN) and Optical Laser Cards for Admission,
Scheduling, and Patient Record retention.
1985-1987 NV Phillips --
New York, NY
Manager, Corporate Staff
- Managed corporate staff of hardware and application
engineers in implementing corporate programs.
- Designed and taught strategic integration programs to
corporate executives involved with integrating design facilities in the Netherlands with
27 manufacturing division in the US.
1978- 1985 Control Data
Corporation -- Minneapolis, MN
Software Manager, CAD/CAM/CAE
Research & Development
- Redesigned and reengineer software development process to
achieve higher quality release versions reducing cycle time by 50% and increasing
application functionality
- Reduced cycle time of space tile manufacture at Rockwell
International’s Space Shuttle Program from 3 weeks to 3 days.
- Responsible for development and implementation of software
application in 3 Department of Energy manufacturing facilities
- Manager Customer Support Services for Mid-West and Western
United States for all Engineering and Manufacturing customers.
- Develop requirements and specifications for training
documentation and courses for CAD/CAM/CAE applications.
1976 - 1978 FMC/NOD --
Minneapolis, MN
Supervisor of Manufacturing
Engineering
- Supervised manufacturing engineers and production planners
for DOD manufacturing facility
- Implemented Just-In-Time for Numerically Controlled machine
shop
1975 - 1976 Eclipse Fuel
and Combustion -- Rockford, IL
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
- New facilities design in redesigning production flows in
reduction of 750,000 to 250,000 square feet increasing inventory turns from 1 to 3 per
year
Education
1968 - 1972 UW, College of
Engineering Madison, WI
BS, Nuclear Engineering (Minor Studies in:
CS, EE, Physics, and Mathematics)
Short Courses
SMU - Edwin L. Cox School of Business
Mini-MBA
Stanford Research Institute - Strategic
Decisioning; Decision & Risk Analysis
Hammer Workshops - "Reengineering -
The Implementation Perspective" & "Reengineering - Advanced
Implementation"
Edward de Bono - "Six Thinking
Hats"
Eliyahu M. Goldratt - "Cycle
Time" & "Constraint Theory"
Peter M. Senge’s - "Learning
Organizations"