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Pete Cornish is a Senior Consultant with DRM Associates, a
consulting and training firm focusing on helping companies improve
their new product development process, and a Principal
in PD-Trak Solutions, a firm providing NPD project/process management
software. He is responsible for the development and support of the
PD-Trak system. Pete has over twenty years of experience working with
companies internationally. As a consultant, he specializes in helping companies
define and improve the product development process, plan and manage
development projects, and measure their performance. He also focuses on
helping companies improve the manufacturability of their products. Pete's
design and development experience includes software development,
RF/microwave circuits and systems, fiber optic components, and
systems for telecommunications applications. His experience includes
the following:
- Helped several organizations to develop and define improved product
development processes, establish a stage/phase-gate process, improve their
project management capabilities and implement portfolio and pipeline
management processes.
- Guided and supported the implementation of a corporate-wide design for
manufacturability initiative at Toro Company. This initiative covered
design groups and plants in six locations. Pete helped plan the initiative,
developed executive management support, addressed staffing issues, defined
the DFM process, and conducted DFM workshops. He facilitated DFM reviews
and identified DFM improvements to product and subassembly designs.
- Implemented the PD-Trak product management system at Kohler Power
Systems and Holley Performance Products. He helped define and configure
their product development process, installed the PD-Trak software, and
conducted training on the product development process, managing projects,
resource management, gate reviews, and portfolio management.
- At Anritsu Corporation, he conducted an in-depth assessment of
the NPD methodology in use and made recommendations through a series
of management team workshops to redefine the NPD stage-gate process
to improve overall effectiveness and quality. Developed an NPD
process handbook. Developed training materials and trained >100 product
development personnel in an interactive workshop environment. Developed
project tracking tools to improve management visibility of project
status. Established and led an NPD "core team" forum with the purpose
of regularly reviewing the organization's NPD effectiveness,
identifying opportunities for improvement and making associated recommendations
to the senior management team. Established metrics for measuring NPD
performance. Assisted the organization through the process of achieving full ISO
9000 registration. Similar services were provided for four separate
divisions of Anritsu Corporation during this four-year period: Microwave Measurements
Division (Morgan Hill, CA), the European Measurements Division (UK), the
Applied Technology Divisions (Richardson, TX) and the Telecom Division (Morgan Hill, CA).
- Developed a Corporate business plan structure for Anritsu that defined
complimentary planning documents from the business team level up to the
division level. Led a series of workshops aimed at assessing the business
situation and defining the strategy for future success. Developed a complete
set of business plans following the defined structure. Established a planning
calendar to monitor the implementation of the plan and to keep the plan current.
- For Power-One Corporation, he provided implementation, configuration and
training services associated with the deployment of PD-Trak software at Power-One's
new semiconductor division based in Morgan Hill, CA. As part of this
effort, Pete worked with the management team to define a phase-gate
process to manage next generation product development, enhancements to
existing products, small maintenance projects and technology development
projects; define task plans for each process type, based on best practices;
define the gate review process; define documentation templates; assist
the management team with initial portfolio and pipeline management analysis.
- Created specifications and developed a resource planning and management
system for Peregrine Semiconductor to support pipeline management. This was
used to balance resources and projects across multiple business units and
better respond to customer needs.
- Developed and implemented a performance measurement system and dashboard
system for Inphi Corporation, a semiconductor developer. Integrated a process
costing system with an NPD project management system to support financial
justification of a business case for a new product.
- At Harmonic Lightwaves, he set up a series of workshops to define a product
development methodology (stage-gate process) for this start up. In addition
to defining the stages and gates of the project lifecycle, stage deliverable
checklists and standardized document templates were developed to help guide
the development teams based on best practices knowledge from previous projects.
Developed and implemented a training program and on-line support tools.
- Developed instructor-led and online training programs to teach principles of
effective New Product Development (NPD) and project management.
Led NPD and project management workshops in various locations
in the US and abroad.
- Developed the PD-Trak software tools designed to help project teams
manage their projects effectively while providing management with
the information necessary to manage the overall portfolio of projects
within their organization.
Pete received a BSEE degree with honors from the University of Bath, UK in 1978.
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