Kenneth Crow is
an experienced trainer and recognized consultant in product
development and manufacturing. In addition to assisting many
clients improve their product development process and manufacturing
operations, he has conducted over 200 workshops publicly and for
individual clients. He has been a frequent speaker and moderator for conferences
on new product development, manufacturing, information technology and
cost management. He is past President of the Society of Concurrent
Product Development and is a Certified New Product Development Professional.
Pete Cornish is
a Senior Consultant with DRM Associates and a Principal in
PD-Trak Solutions, a firm providing NPD
project/process management software. He has over twenty years of experience in product
development, design, and project management. He is responsible for the development
and support of PD-Trak. As a consultant, he specialize in helping companies
define and improve the product development process, plan and manage development
projects, and measure their performance.
Jim Ayers focuses on target costing;
design-to-cost; product cost models; manufacturing process design; and supply
chain strategies, planning and management. He is a frequent speaker and has written
books and articles on supply chain planning and management and new product
development. Some of his supply chain management
papers and articles
can be found on his site.
Tom Brinkoetter is a consultant with 30
years experience in the marketing of high tech products. He has successfully launched
over 24 new products with 16 meeting their growth estimates and 5 greatly exceeding
their estimates. Tom has worked in all areas of marketing; strategic planning, market
research, product planning, product launch, customer support, and marketing communications
in both Fortune 500 companies and in new ventures.
David Daniels
is an expert in the area of product launches and product marketing.
He is the architect of the Product Launch Framework. He has an extensive
software development, sales, product management, product marketing and
executive background which provides a global perspective of the product
launch process from end-to-end and from all perspectives within an organization.
Ken Erickson is an ethnographer and market
researcher who help companies understand consumers and develop new products. He
has worked with major consumer product and service companies globally to understand
the voice of the customer and develop new products, new retail
spaces, and targeted advertising campaigns.
Gary Hinkle is a senior consultant in the field of
engineering management, project management, product development. His core competencies
include engineering functional management, leadership, project management, technical
teambuilding, product development project planning, and interpersonal skills development.
He has over twenty years of experience planning and managing large and small development
projects.
Gene Kania
is an expert in portfolio, project and resource management systems. He
focuses on constraints management principles, critical chain project management
(CCPM), finite capacity modeling techniques and other risk-management
approaches to realistically and effectively manage the risk, uncertainty and
flux inherent in product development environments.
James Rains
is an internationally recognized consultant that specializes in value analysis /
value management, target costing and lean manufacturing. He has over thirty years
of experience in automotive and other industry segments. He is a Certified Value
Specialist through SAVE and has a proven track record in help clients reduce costs
improve value.
Leland Shaeffer
helps companies design, develop and market their solutions. His expertise includes
improving the product lifecycle management and development processes, implementing
and improving the product management and product marketing functions,
conducting "voice of the customer" campaigns, strategic business and product
planning, market segmentation, product management and product/service marketing.
Wayne Taylor
is an expert in the field of quality and statistics with over 24 years of experience.
He consults and provides training on the Six Sigma approach and tools, Tolerance Analysis,
Design of Experiments, SPC, Acceptance Sampling, and Statistics. He previously was
Director of Quality Technologies at Baxter Healthcare.
James Wixson
is a highly experienced system engineer, project manager, value engineer, and
manufacturing/industrial engineer. He also has experience in pricing and contract
administration, design to cost and maintenance management. He has dealt with
large complicated programs in aerospace, nuclear energy and other fields.
In addition, DRM Associates has a number of strategic operating partners
to extend our range of skills and expertise and provide additional resources
to support large projects. Our strategic operating partners include:
Goldense Group Inc. headed by Brad Goldense. GGI has extensive experience
successfully applying concurrent product development (CPD) practices to
a wide range of companies with an emphasis on high technology and medical
products. They bring a strong focus on metrics and process.
Project Executive Group
(PEG) headed by Paul Allen. PEG provides advisory and execution services for clients
in projects, operations, finance and automation in normal,
crisis and troubled situations; and targeted training for
projects - enabling outstanding project team performance.
Technicom headed by Ray
Kurland. Technicom analyzes and reports on the mechanical CAD/CAM
market, conducts CAD/CAM audits to ensure client's effective use of
their design automation, and assists its clients define requirements for
design automation systems and evaluate and help implement CAD/CAM systems.