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Gary Hinkle is a Senior Consultant with DRM Associates, a
consulting and training firm focusing on helping companies improve
their new product development process. His experience includes 20+ years
in a broad variety of management and staff assignments with small,
medium, and large companies involved in the development and manufacturing
of high-tech products. His primary mission as a consultant is to help
product development companies achieve well-rounded, world-class excellence
in their engineering operations. His core competencies include engineering
functional management, leadership, project management, technical teambuilding,
product development project planning, and interpersonal skills development.
He has helped many businesses become more productive and collaborative. His
design and management experience spans the electronics, mechanical and
software engineering disciplines.
Gary led several high-profile projects including:
- Managed a $30 million project to improve U.S. Army vehicle maintenance worldwide (CTS-ICE program)
- Directed research and development of mission-critical telecom products
at PlantCML. He directed the development of embedded systems used in the
majority of Public Safety Answering Points for 9-1-1 call processing. There
he led initiatives to improve manufacturing processes and improved response
time for resolving escalated customer issues. Directed cost reduction program
resulting in FY01 savings in excess of $1 million.
- Directed research and development for test and measurement product line
with $170M annual revenue at Tektronix. He led the hardware development for
the world’s best selling oscilloscope product line at Tektronix, the
Tektronix TDS1000/2000, TPS2000, TDS3000B, DPO4000 and TDS5000
oscilloscopes.
- Directed R&D for leading manufacturer of industrial radio control products,
Remtron. There he was project manager for medical ECG telemetry system,
a 900 MHz radio control system for material handling and construction, and
a low-cost RF control system for concrete pumping applications.
- Assisted with business strategy development and creation of product and
technology roadmaps in several organizations and managed contracts for
engineering services.
- Conducted workshops and trained personnel in a wide variety of areas
including:
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- Business skills training for 200+ technical employees at The Boeing Company.
- Project planning and leadership training for entire engineering staff at
Yamaha Motor Corp. America.
- Leadership development and teambuilding for engineering and customer service teams at Sage Software.
- Leadership development for Escalation Engineering staff at Microsoft.
- Interpersonal skills development for technical staff at Texas Instruments.
- Leadership development for entire engineering staff at CyberOptics
Semiconductor.
- Leadership development for engineering staff at Intel Corp.
- Leadership development for IT and engineering staff at Opsware, Inc.
- Leadership development for engineering management staff at LSI Corp.
- Leadership development for management team at DealerTrack, Inc.
- R&D performance measurement and leadership training for multi-national
corporations with operations in China.
- Led critical design validation and cost reduction programs at
Serveron Corp.
- He developed system architectures, designed products, and developed
firmware for products such as telephony applications, RF control and
telemetry products, a data acquisition subsystem, a SAE J1708 interface
for military vehicles, portable military computer systems, and circuit
boards for a military aircraft.
Gary is active in professional organizations such as IEEE and he currently,
Gary serves as Chairman for the IEEE Oregon Section and on the Program
Management Forum board of directors. He is a regular contributor of articles focused on R&D productivity and R&D leadership for IEEE-USA and the
International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Gary has spoken at
conferences and meetings on a number of topics related to engineering
management.
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