John Walker

Current

Program Director at Business Enterprise Mapping Inc. (BEM)

Past

VP Engineering & Quality at TechniKrom Inc.
Senior Engineering Manager at Hadco Corp.
Director of Advanced Manufacturing at US Robotics

Senior Manager at Nortel
Development Engineer and Section Leader at Lucas Aerospace

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Education

Coventry University
Coventry University

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Industry

Management Consulting

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John Walker’s Summary

Trusted advisor and coach; passionate about creating high-ROI from enterprise transformation.

Qualities: Expert, High-integrity, Personable.

I have 30+ years of experience in defining, develping and deploying best-in-class, 'disruptive', high performance processes and hardware into highly-regulated industries. e.g. silicon chips, electronic sub-systems, or bio-therapeutics such as customized DNA or protein fragments.

For the last 12 years Business Enterprise Mapping's best-in-class, integrated methodology has been the foundation of the business transformations I have driven.

John Walker’s Specialties:

Enterprise Maturity Engineering, Change management, Cultural Management, Operational improvement, Performance Improvement, Business process reengineering, Organizational development, Business performance management, Turn-Around Management, Troubleshooting, Corporate recovery, Corporate Restructuring, Operational Excellence, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Programme management, Simultaneous Compliance or Registration to multiple standards (ISO, FDA, SOX etc.)
Value Stream Analysis, QbD, PAT, GAMP.

John Walker’s Experience

Program Director

Business Enterprise Mapping Inc. (BEM)

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

August 1996 — Present (13 years 4 months)

Only now is process-based business management (BPM) becoming widely acknowledged to be ESSENTIAL to the efficient and effective management of 21st century enterprises. Most (80+%) enterprises are still managed traditionally, i.e. as collections of siloed departments, and not as networks of inter-related processes.

BEM is a 15 year thought-leader in BPM.

BEM's proprietary, process mapping-based methodology offers a proven, business-centric (not IT-centric) approach. We GUARANTEE the rapid, sustainable transformation of both enterprise performance and culture while delivering at least two sequential, 'disruptive' quantum leaps in business management maturity in rapid succession. As opposed to being 'just another quality project' this is tantamount changing the enterprise's DNA to create a new state-of-control as the foundation and framework on which to deliver continuous improvement and/or confidently define and drive significant strategic enterprise projects (e.g. M&A, outsourcing, enterprise IT implementations (ERP, CRM, etc), global strategic alignment, compliance to regulations and standards etc..)

Our signature "We teach YOU to fish!" approach guarantees sustainable gains via a fully-engaged and trained workforce. Cultural/morale transformation then complements the inevitable performance transformation.

The fully-integrated BEM methodology provides clients with one-stop shopping for:
- JIT delivery of training
- facilitated sessions to apply the new material.
- skillfully balanced integration of popular BPI tools - (e.g. Lean, Six-sigma, Value Analysis etc.)
- fully-integrated program coordination management
- performance guarantee not possible with disparate vendors
- guaranteed pricing
- distillation of 15 years of proven best practices
- minimum 5:1 first year ROI

Over 200 successful clients, many household names, from over 60 different industry segments, bear witness to the power of this methodology.
VP Engineering & Quality

TechniKrom Inc.

(Industrial Automation industry)

2002 — 2007 (5 years )

Positioned this small, privately-owned supplier of custom-designed, highly-sophisticated pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment for significant growth and eventual acquisition. Supplied leadership to a broad range of organizational, marketing, operational, quality and engineering disciplines involved. Created a Quality Management System that invariably 'aced' external client audits, thereby allowing us to compete against much larger competitors whose quality audit results were invariably much lower. Designed and delivered a fully-bespoke oligonuclueotide synthesizer which may still be the most sophisticated piece of automated pharma equipment delivered to GAMP standards.
Initiated the strategic partnership that led to Asahi Kasei Medical acquiring TechniKrom in March 2009.
Senior Engineering Manager

Hadco Corp.

(Public Company; Consumer Goods industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Architected the transformation of this $50M, contract PCB assembly start-up with ‘teething problems’ into a $200M+ full-service designer/assembler of complete electronic systems. Soon after this unit was acquired by Sanmina Corp.
Director of Advanced Manufacturing

US Robotics

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

Defined and coordinated the cross-divisional adoption of validated manufacturing processes in order to achieve predictable high yields and to prevent inter-divisional duplications of effort.
Introduced design for six-sigma (DFSS), FMEA and other rigorous quality and engineering tools.
Normalized corporate PCB specifications and supply chain service levels to achieve an immediate 25% cost reduction ($7million/yr) in purchase price and assure security of supply.
USR was acquired by 3Com Inc. in early 1997.
Senior Manager

Nortel

(Public Company; NRTLQ; Telecommunications industry)

1979 — 1995 (16 years )

1985-95: Internal Technology Consultant/Change Agent.
Hardware division's representative on all the BNR exploratory product (time horizon - 1 to 10 years out ) development teams. Identified, forecasted and defined winning, advanced hardware technology strategies that drove and maintained Nortel's leadership position in digital telecommunications.

Active member/sponsor of several standards and National Roadmap committees and consortia (JEDEC, SEMI, ASME, NEMI, MCC) . Thought-leader/pioneer in several, nationally-strategic technology development thrusts. e.g. Quad Flatpack silicon packaging (QFPs), Design for Low Power, Very high density Surface-Mount Technology, Integrated Passives, Multi-chip Modules (MCMs).

Re-defined and transformed several technology departments to become key strategic assets rather than passive support groups. (e.g. Reliability Engineering, Thermal Engineering)

1979-85: Directed IC packaging engineering activities for the semiconductor group. Designed and patented the low-cost, proprietary chip-package technology that allowed Nortel to deliver key IC chips that gave it a 2+ year lead over the competition in the digital telephony revolution.
Development Engineer and Section Leader

Lucas Aerospace

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

1971 — 1979 (8 years )

Design, development and manufacture high-reliability Aerospace and Military electronic hardware.

Engineer and, later, Section leader in Micro-circuitry Joining Group.
Developed, verified, validated and sustained in production a number of novel, high-reliability joining process used to manufacture engine control systems for jet aircraft.

John Walker’s Education

Coventry University

M Sc , Engineering Manufacture , 1978 — 1979

Essentially an MBA-based course with emphasis on a systems approach to the manufacturing of highly-engineered products.
Coventry University

B Sc (Hons) , Applied Chemistry , 1967 — 1971