Mark J. Cortazzo

*ProfessionalProfile

*Overview• Executive Summary• Positions Held• Industry Experience• Areas of Expertise• Strengths/Skills•Major Accomplishments• Guiding Principles• Education/Certifications•Why Hire Mark Cortazzo

*Executive Summary• High performing executive with a consistent record of achieving

best in industry performance. Consistent success with driving performance and achieving customer/corporate standards of performance. Hands on executive who believes in the value of the team. Visionary, big-picture manager who has an open door and likes to walk the floor.

• Fiscally responsible and wholly accountable with the ability to adapt to changing market conditions in order to achieve P&L goals. Managed budgets as large as $250 million and a staff as large as 900. Reduced costs by 10% per year. Adapted to customer and material vendor cost pressures while achieving 20% OI. Achieved record revenues/profits with no capital infusion and the use of lean practices.

• Continuous Improvement and operational excellence expert. Combined years of hands on experience in a variety of industries with lean and six sigma practices to achieve best in industry results. Awards for Supplier of the year, Best in Industry Performance, and Business Excellence awards.

• Technical Expertise in order to overcome complex engineering challenges. First hand experience as a designer and a process engineer enable me to understand technical challenges and how to overcome them quickly and in a cost effective manner.

• Experience in new product and new process development. As part of business acquisition, product development, and growth opportunities designed & introduced new products, developed processes, developed lean factories, and developed new operating capabilities in the electronics, cable, shipbuilding, Utility, Oil & Gas, Security, and technical ceramics industries.

Executive Leadership

Vision and Strategy Formulation and Execution

Big Picture Management

Change Agent

Turnaround Manager

Continuous Improvement

Operational Excellence

Business Process Development

Supply Change Management

Manufacturing Expertise

Technical Expertise

P&L Focus

Team Builder

International Operations

Risk Management

Product Development

New Process Development

*Leadership POSITIONS HELD*Program Manager*Director Continuous Improvement & Manufacturing

Operations*Director/VP Manufacturing Operations*Director Integration Laboratory and New Technology

Development*RF Communication Project Design Manager*Sr Manager, Wafer Fabrication Operations*Technical Manager, Global Operational Excellence

(Continuous Improvement)

A Wide Breadth of Experience spanning Design, Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, Lean/6σ (Operational Excellence), Business Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management

*Breadth of Industry Experience

Leadership Managemen

t Performanc

e Results

Power Utilities• Nuclear• Fossil Fuel

National Border Security• Command & Control• Sensors

Highly Engineered Cables• Signal• Power• Fiber• Copper

Oil & Gas Industry• Shale Oil

Refining• Revamp/Recon

Ship Building – Littoral Combat Ships• Production• Test• Trials

Advanced Electronic Ceramics• Dielectrics• Ferrites

Semiconductors•Assembly & Test• Wafer Fab• HPIC, Bipolar,

CMOS, NMOS, MEMS, SiGe, Optolectronics

Electrical Connectors and Medical Cables

*Areas of Expertise (in black)

Warehousing• Raw Materials Kittin

gManufacturing/TEST

Warehousing• Finished

Goods

Customer Delivery• Logistics

Purchasing

Material Mgmt

• Support:• Process Engineering• Product Engineering• R&D• Facilities• Maintenance• Machine Shop & Machine Design• Industrial Engineering:

Lean/6σ, simulation, plant layout, capacity planning, labor models, cycle time reduction, value stream analysis, kaizens.

Production Control/Planning

Other Areas:• P&L Management• Stakeholder Mgmt• Turn Around Mgmt• Risk Management• Cost Reduction• Global Mfg Mgmt• Yield Improvement• Quality Assurance• Product/Process

Development

Largest WorkForce Managed: 888Max Budget: 245M$

Specs

Design

Prototyping/Models

Gate Reviews

Total Order Management

Customer Feedback

New Product Introduction

Planning Factors

Order Entry Sales

BOM

• Finance• IT Mgmt• ERP• Metrics

*Strengths/Skills OUTCOME: BEST IN INDUSTRY RESULTSSTRENGTHS

SKILLSAdaptabilityStaying Power

LeadershipPeopleSkills

Creativity

Breadth ofExperience Depth of

Knowledge

InternationalOperations

Lean/6σEngineering

ManufacturingOperationsManagement

Turn AroundManagement

New ProductIntroduction

Design

P&L Management

Plant Operations

Strategy Formulationand Implementation

Risk Management

Program Management

Communication Skills (Oral & Written)

Finance/Budget Mgmt Technical

Expertise

*Major AccomplishmentsGrew operating capability by 40% while achieving 20% operating

income Achieved new revenue heights through the use of Lean practices at

a highly engineered cable facility#1 and #3 best performing wafer fabrication plants in the industryBest in industry cycle time in assembly & test operations in the

Fareast.50% reduction in prototype/models cycle time after improving

business planning processesReduction in end-to-end cycle time from 13 weeks to 4 weeks at a

semiconductor manufacturer.Yield improvements of 5 to 30% at a advanced electronic ceramics

facility. Supplier of the year award from the Navy.Achievement of world class delivery performance of 98% or greater

Thinking ahead is great, planning ahead is exceptional. Don’t be defensive, be offensive.

All great teams fail. The great teams learn quickly from their mistakes and make sure they don’t happen again. Don’t try to hide or be defensive about issues…..expose and fix them.

Keep it upbeat. We should enjoy what we do and the people we do it with. Celebrate your accomplishments. Stay focused on the goal and a successful outcome. Keep your eye on the ball. Don’t get lost in the weeds. Know what is important and keep moving forward.

Take time to carefully form and build the team. Lack of a team dynamic is the #1 reason teams fail. Be approachable. Attack problems and issues….not people. Communicate up, down and across and do it often. Make communication easy. Equally share the good news as well as the bad. Listen and you might learn something.

*Guiding PrinciplesThroughout the course of my career, I have found that people are the success

to any great company. Cultivating the right set of skills in a team is key to mission success. These skills include:

Avoid assumptions or opinion. Gather the data and get to the facts. Be honest with yourself and others. Deal in facts and analysis. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.

• Build a Team Dynamic• Communicate• Keep it Factual• Keep it Positive• See the big picture• Lean from your mistakes• Be Proactive

Have a sense of purpose every day. Your purpose on the job is to beat the competition and keep your customers happy. Do that and you will succeed.

• Be Results Oriented

Goal: Mission Succes

s

*Education/Certifications*Degreed Programs

*Masters Electrical Engineering Johns Hopkins University*Masters Mechanical Engineering Lehigh

University*Bachelors Mechanical Engineering Drexel

University*Executive Education*University of Pennsylvania (Wharton): Fundamental of

Business Management *Columbia University: Strategy Formulation &

Implementation*Harvard University: Building Competitive Advantage

Through Operations*Certificates*PMP*Black Belt – Lean/Six Sigma

*Why Hire Mark Cortazzo?

*I would welcome the opportunity to further discuss my skills and qualifications and to demonstrate how I would be an asset to your company and your customers.