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Dr. Robert B. Rowen, Ph.D. |
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Skill
Summary |
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Dr. Robert Rowen is president of Piquero Insights, Inc. His expertise includes supply chain management, manufacturing systems requirements, and process definition and transformation. Dr. Rowen has held engineering, management, and consulting staff positions. These assignments have touched all areas of electronics manufacturing, such as test equipment, logistics systems, electronic card assembly, and software distribution. He has more than 30 years of industrial experience. |
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Dr. Rowen is often requested to coordinate teams of technical individuals (often from diverse or competing divisions) working on a common problem. This usually requires workshops, problem solving, and communication with senior management to develop a solution that addresses the business issues but also needing a win/win consensus within the multiple constituencies. |
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Professional
Experience |
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IBM Consulting Group (1991-2002) |
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Multi-National Project Planning – Control Center
Management |
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Rowen worked with an international corporate team to develop a transition
plan and management system for monitoring the transition of invoice and
contract programs from national currency to Euro billing. The transition of
300+ programs was executed and monitored over a 3-week transition plan. |
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E-markets –
Participant Enablement |
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With the rapid development of e-marketplaces during 2000 a great deal of product development activity took place. Bob worked with an internal corporate team to sift through the various presentations, studies, and research reports to establish a central repository for re-useable assets. This effort required Bob to work with architects, marketing and sales, and consulting personnel to develop a general story line and package the information in a modular format. The 5-week task required getting up to speed quickly, combining and condensing similar concepts, and laying the framework for on-going maintenance and refresh. |
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Semiconductor
e-business |
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For 12 of the top semiconductor and semiconductor equipment manufacturers in the world, Bob helped facilitate a workshop to identify and prioritize over 200 e-business requirements and standards for the procurement and maintenance of semiconductor equipment. Working with representatives from each company, Bob led working sessions to identify key issues and challenges, develop summarized problem statements, and create specific e-business requirements that address process, technology and standards. |
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Contract Electronic Manufacturing - Procurement and Proposals |
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Dr. Rowen worked with a team to facilitate process redesign sessions that mapped the As-Is and To-Be for proposal writing and quote generation in an electronic assembly contract manufacturing firm. This effort was preparatory for follow-on SAP efforts. The outcome was not only a foundation for the ERP efforts but also a roadmap for defining roles, responsibilities, and hand-offs between global and local procurement functions. |
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Primary Chemical Manufacture - End-to-End Mapping |
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Dr. Rowen helped facilitate the As-Is workshop sessions of a process redesign transformation project. The chemical company was mapping the end-to-end process of customer orders, procurement, manufacture, and distribution of the ordered products. The outcome of the workshops was two-fold. The end to end mapping was used to pinpoint weak areas and visually place major issues and projects. The second objective was to lay the groundwork for an Office of Change Management and clarify process owners and executives. |
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Wholesale Photographic Processing - Discrete Process Simulation |
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In a departure from normal process redesign mapping, Dr. Rowen was asked to team with a client's Industrial Engineering representative to create a simulation of a future film processing lab. This effort supported To-Be design efforts. The model was used to verify throughput assumptions, uncover flaws in the business models, and help the To-Be team visualize the flow of orders and materials through the new facility. In spite of changing assumptions and equipment plans, the model was delivered on time and provided useful recommendations. |
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Numerous Industry Engagements |
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Bob has worked with a variety of clients to formulate and address manufacturing information problems. These have included; post-press information flow and system design for major metropolitan newspapers, client server database front-end for printing chemical labels, data models for microbiology quality data in major brewing plants, process re-engineering for yellow pages publishing, and numerous design assessments for software architectures in semiconductor, consumer electronics, automotive, and aerospace manufacturing facilities. |
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Engineer/Manager, IBM Server Division(s) (1973-1991) |
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Bob started with IBM, in the manufacturing engineering function. His assignments were to design and build electronic test equipment for both discrete components and large planar card assemblies. Before leaving Rochester (a family move to Austin, Texas), he was the Manufacturing Engineering Box Manager for the System 38. This department established manufacturing procedures, processes, and released the technical data and drawings into the IBM business systems. In Austin, Bob returned to technical efforts, helping to design manufacturing control systems for large automated card assembly facilities to support the introduction of high-volume surface-mount motherboards for personal computers. |
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Education |
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BSEE , University of Wisconsin, Madison MSEE , University of Minnesota, St. Paul MBA , St. Edwards, Austin, TX PhD , University of Texas, Austin (Electrical Engineering) |
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