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| Richard S.Hendricks Business Consultant |
Richard.S.Hendricks@ank-consulting.com
Cultural background
Nationality: American
Language Fluency: English
Academic background
BS in Industrial Engineering;
Post Graduate work in Business Administration
Over 30 years manufacturing and new product development experience with a large multi-national company including assignments in Europe and Asia.
Accomplishments include several turnaround situations, process design & negotiation of a successful Chinese-American Joint Venture, operational management assignments in USA and Europe, technology acquisition and new product & process development including two US patents.
| • | Training in and application of process improvement methodologies – lean manufacturing, six sigma, statistical process control, strategic planning. |
| • | Successful operational management assignments in union and non-union environments on two continents. |
| • | Executive level responsibility for rapid international expansion of a business unit including manufacturing site location & acquisition, process equipment specification & sourcing, management recruitment and training. |
| • | Executive level responsibility for new product and process development for two different business units including new technology acquisition and negotiation of joint development agreements with international partners. |
| • | Comfortable with travelling and functioning in different cultural environments. |
| • | Co-leader of a symposium on issues of control and ownership of Intellectual Property arising out of industry sponsored university research. |
| • | Industry Fellow for the Center of Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) – a consortium of industry partners sponsoring research on the management of the innovation process with sponsorship from the National Science Foundation. |
| • | Corporate representative to the Industrial Research Institute. |
| • | Instrument rated private pilot – high performance SEL. |