Albert McGovern

Past

• VP Operations at Bjorksten | bit 7 (formerly BIT7)
• Engineering Director at Charles Industries
• Engineering Director at Marconi Communications/RELTEC Corp (Now Emerson Network Power)

• Senior Engineer at Sunbeam Corporation
• Senior Project Engineer/CAD System Manager at Branson Ultrasonics
• Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Norden Systems (Now part of Northrop Grumman)

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Education

• University of Bridgeport
• Columbia University in the City of New York

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Industry

Design

Albert McGovern’s Summary

Committed Engineering professional with a diverse technical and industry background who thinks and plans strategically, yet acts tactically with a sense of urgency. A hands-on leader with integrity who builds strong teams by recognizing and focusing on individual strengths and achieving results by creating team commitments. Utilizing excellent communications skills, I empower and enable team members by leading through example, edification, empathetic listening and mentoring.

Aggressively progressed through the Design Engineering career continuum to acquire sufficient hands-on experience at each level resulting in promotions to greater responsibility throughout my career. Possess strong knowledge of electronics packaging techniques, and material types and manufacturing processes for plastic and metallic part design, including rapid prototyping and analysis techniques and tools.

Albert McGovern’s Specialties:

"Herding cats" (i.e., building and leading teams of highly skilled engineers and technicians), managing complex projects, public speaking and presentation. At the end of the day, I'll always be an engineer, with a love for solving problems and creating innovative designs, especially those requiring my plastics and electronics/electro-mechanical expertise.

Albert McGovern’s Experience

• VP Operations

  Bjorksten | bit 7 (formerly BIT7)

  (Design industry)

  June 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Drove meaningful and impactful strategic changes intended to expand the business base and increase billable hour ratio by the operational in-house staff of 30+ engineers, industrial designers, researchers, scientists and technicians.

• Engineering Director

  Charles Industries

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2003 — April 2008 (4 years 8 months)

  Strategically rebuilt and unified Corporate and remote OSP Engineering team to include 11 engineers and numerous designers and one applications engineer with annual budget of >$2M. Team developed 5 totally new OSP product families over 4 years that produced almost $45M revenue/$22M profit.

• Engineering Director

  Marconi Communications/RELTEC Corp (Now Emerson Network Power)

  (Public Company; MONI; Telecommunications industry)

  1997 — 2003 (6 years)

  Led department of 16 engineers and designers in 3 locations with $4M annual budget. Managed numerous, successful, large scale product design and development programs that produced >$100M revenue/$35M profit over 5 years, achieved 5 issued patents and 5 additional US and International Patents pending. Was recruited away by Charles Industries.

• Senior Engineer

  Sunbeam Corporation

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

  Part of engineering team rebuilt into McMinnville manufacturing facility. Served as ProENGINEER Super User and System Administrator; designed and brought into full commercialization 2 complete products in < 16 months. Loved working here, but position was eliminated as part of new CEO (Al Dunlap) restructuring.

• Senior Project Engineer/CAD System Manager

  Branson Ultrasonics

  (Public Company; Plastics industry)

  September 1994 — May 1995 (9 months)

  Replaced Cadra 2D CAD system with ProENGINEER 3D CAD system, enabling first-time use of 3D customer data for downstream analysis and manufacturing. Performed lead mechanical design of new plastic front bezel and touch panel assembly for latest generation ultrasonic welding controller/power supply. Great place to work, was recruited away by Sunbeam.

• Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

  Norden Systems (Now part of Northrop Grumman)

  (Defense & Space industry)

  June 1985 — August 1994 (9 years 3 months)

  Performed mechanical engineering and design tasks, and managed other engineers, designers, drafters and contractors in programs to develop electronics systems for use in airborne radar and ground-based military equipment. Introduced and pioneered use of ProENGINEER 3D CAD and rapid prototyping, reducing overall product mechanical design and development cycle by 25% (some parts by over 50%). Designed first plastic parts used in Norden electronics systems. My first job, where I learned from some of the best designers and scientists in the world, and learned how to work with all skill levels and capabilities. Held Secret, Top Secret and SAR clearances.

Albert McGovern’s Education

• University of Bridgeport

  MS , Management Engineering , 1983 — 1986

  Pursued this field of study at night, and chose this after trying an MSME and MBA track, but not finding professional fulfillment and salience in them.

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  BS , Mechanical Engineering , 1974 — 1978

  Learned from some of the leaders in Engineering, and also learned many life lessons from life-long friends in The Big Apple. Go Lions!

  Activities and Societies:

  Freshman Football, Varsity Football (sophomore and junior years), Track Team (junior and senior year)

Additional Information

Albert McGovern’s Interests:

Playing the drums Leadership seminars and books Public speaking, Master of Ceremony duties Digital photography, still and video, and video editing for DVD Giving back to the community, the church and those in need as a way to say thanks for the gifts I've been given.

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