Joseph BurkeFounder

United States -

Proven ability to lead, motivate, mentor, and shape large cross-functional teams of highly skilled engineers in large multi-site organizations with international locations.

➡ Strategic Thinker and Planner: Developed roadmap to recoup a one-year loss in schedule and secure a $1.5B business which was in jeopardy as a result of the slippage in schedule
➡ Game Changing Innovation: Spearheaded a first in class radar development which went on to become a $250M a year product line.
➡ Excellent Communicator: Commended multiple times for making the complex sound simple. Was requested to lead some of the toughest negotiations with customers when projects were not meeting targets or deadlines. In almost all cases got buy-in from customers to do what was needed.

Project highlights:
• Drove yield improvements from the low 20% to above 95%. These changes alone resulted in a cost saving of 20% to the overall product.
• Roadmap development targeted at 30% cost reductions, which was achieved.
• Reduce test time by more than 25% by directly supervising vendor’s production test development and packaging.
• Identified a 45% gap in capacity to deliver parts and implemented adding additional production lines and converting the facility to a 24 hour a day operation.
• Saved $1 Million by combining mask sets and thus avoided the need for buy two mask sets.