Bill Jameson is a well-respected technical, operations, and program manager, with over 40 years of experience in both commercial and consulting environments. His diverse background gives him a transferable understanding of what causes initiatives to succeed or fail, and what to do about it. He remains focused on commercial industries, with specific expertise in the medical device and pharma sectors. Bill works on-site, using a delivery-focused approach to become an integral part of his client’s organization, and is often brought in to keep “difficult” initiatives on track. His knowledge of new product design, manufacturing process development & improvement, strategic planning and implementation, and team critical success factors provides a foundation to ensure the high caliber of results that his clients have come to expect.
Bill has led or provided key support for over 80 client engagements over the course of his career, including:
- Structured and led a major manufacturing process improvement project, achieving an 8-fold improvement in shelf life for a $4 billion medical device product. Bill managed the team of NPD, scientific, production engineering, and QA resources to develop new production processes and controls. Led decision workshops and provided leadership development & mentoring to middle management.
- Manufacturing Engineering lead within the New Product Development group at Knoll International (office furniture). Responsible for manufacturability of new product designs including tooling, fabrication, machining, molding, and assembly for in-house manufactured products and supplier components and subsystems.
- Helped Johnson and Johnson’s Medical Device Group structure and roll-out a global program to improve production process capability. This involved implementing a common structured methodology for assessing & reducing process risk across all manufacturing sites. Bill provided SME support and training in the new methodology at various sites.
- Assessed manufacturability of a Medical Device to determine whether the proposed fabrication process could be scaled to meet the required quality and production volumes. The structured approach and analyses demonstrated that the targets could never be achieved, allowing termination of the pilot program to avoid further investment losses.
- Developed a tear-down methodology and managed the program to assess the electrical systems for two of Jeep Chrysler’s main competitors. Insights provided an understanding into the competitors design approach, innovations enabled by their platforms, and manufacturing & supply chain advantages. Findings spurred changes in Jeep’s platform strategies and electrical design standards.
- Addressed product reliability, production, and cost risks for a huge, high-precision solar energy installation. Responsible for design manufacturability and the tooling approach. Conducted product and manufacturing design reviews and detailed FMEA’s to ensure that remediation activities were identified and processes proven well in advance of the production launch.
- Provided on-site support for an organizational redesign effort at Gillette’s flagship blade and razor facility. Included program planning, decision-making workshops, leadership assessment & development, over 40 training sessions in process improvement and team effectiveness, and team facilitation. Led subsequent change-management efforts to embed new cultural norms.
- Led the change management program and over 80 training sessions for improvements at Aviall’s aircraft engine rebuilding division. This resulted in 20% greater production efficiency and greatly improved customer satisfaction. Also developed a new portfolio management process for improvement initiatives, including a formal process for prioritizing, managing delivery, and results tracking.
- Structured the program and led the technical team to identify failure modes for one of Hologic’s medical diagnostic imaging systems. Identified possible subsystem design and manufacturing process failure modes, drawing from documentation, R&D, and manufacturing engineering resources. FMEA analyses enabled a prioritized list of probable reliability issues, frequencies, and anticipated consequences, leading to the final improvement plan.
- Led all North American support for restructuring global operations for Heidelberg Druckmaschinen, a large manufacturer of commercial printing equipment. Bill led delivery planning, team facilitation, over 50 training sessions, and management coaching at 4 key locations. The resulting agile organization was far better suited to address the needs of their expanding global presence.
- Addressed product reliability, production, and cost risks for a huge, high-precision solar energy installation. Responsible for design manufacturability and the tooling approach. Conducted product and manufacturing design reviews and detailed FMEA’s to ensure that remediation activities were identified and processes proven well in advance of the production launch.
- Led a project for General Motors Safety Systems R&D team, training the team in a structured methodology to identify and prioritize emerging product technologies for development. Subsequently guided the team through an initial project to identify future product scenarios and forecast how the related enabling technologies’ cost and performance were likely to mature over time.
- Structured and managed the global program to implement product design changes to all Philips CT/AMI medical imaging systems as required by new Unique Device Identification (UDI) regulations. The program achieved early compliance even though the organization was in the midst of an FDA-mandated compliance remediation overhaul.
Bill has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He is a US Citizen and Canadian Permanent Resident living in Regina, Saskatchewan Canada, but is committed to work with his clients at their site. He holds 10 US and international patents for a variety of diverse products and production processes.