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John Brandes, Principal Consultant, the firm’s founder and a 25-year technology industry veteran is an
accomplished independent business and technical professional. John has extensive project management experience providing creative
and comprehensive end-to-end solutions over an impressive project portfolio. Accomplishments include diverse cross-functional
assignments in information technology, business process development, corporate program management, customer service, engineering
and manufacturing. Expertise includes organizing and managing projects from conception to completion, while meeting cost,
quality and time-to-success goals.
John’s significant accomplishments have been achieved while working in
diverse industries for premier companies, including eight years with EMC Corporation (information storage systems hardware
& software). John was a key senior contributor at EMC during EMC’s historic high growth period during the 1990’s
(from $782M revenue in 1993 to almost $9B in 2000). John held many significant roles with progressive responsibilities
at EMC and helped drive the profitable business transition to major software product provider. Previously, John worked in various new product introduction and manufacturing
engineering roles for Stratus Computer (fault tolerant computers), Bose Corporation (consumer electronics), and Cincinnati-Milacron
(machine tools). John earned EMC’s highest Product Management Excellence Award, numerous EMC achievement and performance
awards, and the Stratus Computer Significant New Product Achievement award.
John founded Brandes Consulting in
2002 to share his practical experience and ability, and to apply best practices for the benefit of business and technical
organizations of diverse types (including information technology, financial services, services outsourcing, high technology,
medical products, traditional manufacturing, and food and consumer products). John’s objective is to solve client problems
and provide added value using effective project management techniques. Client benefits include rapid technology transfer and
time-to-market for products and processes.
Recent engagements include information technology project management
for a financial services custodial company, business process definition and change management for a human resources services
outsourcing company, planning and managing customer software platform migration programs for an educational software services
provider, development and implementation of a materials change management control system for a food products manufacturer,
and providing business process advice to a medical technology licensing office and a biotechnology institute. John has prepared
and delivered Project and Operations Management courses for the WPI Graduate Management Program (MBA) at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute.
John received his MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with
a Management of Technology concentration. He also holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from
the University of New Hampshire.
Please
contact Brandes Consulting for additional information regarding John’s professional resume. Summary of
Professional Qualifications *
Founded, marketed & successfully operated an independent consulting company
- Celebrated 5th Year Anniversary in 2007
- Refer to Portfolio of Recent Projects
as Principal Consultant * Director level contributor to information technology organization
for a multi-billion dollar high technology corporation
- Organizational alignment & development
- Project
& program management methodology
- Business case justifications & project plans
- Business process development
- Enterprise applications planning - Information Technology
* Senior level corporate program manager
& business professional with project management experience in:
- Data storage system hardware & software
- Super-mini computer hardware & software
- Consumer Electronics
- Capital Equipment
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Technology transfer & new product introduction projects
- Information Technology
- Data storage software
- Network storage file server hardware & software
- Computer hardware components, peripherals, systems & software
- Noise canceling & communications headset
- High volume, high power transducer products
- Production machinery
and tooling design
* Manufacturing Planning
- Manufacturing, process & facilities engineering
- Procurement & strategic sourcing
- Production & operations management
- Customer support planning
* Additional Professional Expertise Includes (partial listing):
- Technology transfer & commercialization
process management
- Technical assessment – technology, products, processes, suppliers
- New product introduction
planning & coordination
- Relationship management, effective communications, negotiation
- Business process
development
- Project & program management methodology
- Business case justifications & business plans
* Academic Experience as a Graduate Level Adjunct Assistant Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI):
- Information Technology Project Management
- Operations Management
* Professional Affiliations
- WPI Venture Forum
- MIT Enterprise Forum
- Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce
- American Society
of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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