Dean Nienhuis

Current

• Project Manager at Motorola
• 257th XO at US Army
• Training and Operations Officer, Major at Army National Guard

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Past

• Product Line Manager at Motorola Mobile Devices
• Product Line Manager at Motorola

Education

• DePaul University - Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business

Connections

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Industry

Railroad Manufacture

Dean Nienhuis’s Experience

• Project Manager

  Motorola

  (Public Company; Wireless industry)

  Currently holds this position

• 257th XO

  US Army

  (Wireless industry)

  2008 — Present (less than a year)

• Training and Operations Officer, Major

  Army National Guard

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Military industry)

  September 1998 — Present (10 years 4 months)

  * Responsible for day-to-day operations and plan execution for 505 soldier Field Artillery Battalion.
  * Commanded 106 soldier Battery. Planned and executed all logistical aspects of Field Artillery Battalion as primary staff officer. Led field training exercises. Responsible for $18 million of equipment.
  * Academic Honor Graduate, Officer Candidate School, Michigan Military Academy.
  * Responsible for over $82 million in equipment and supplies. During tenure, no losses in equipment.
  * Responsible for training dollar management/forecasting and ammunition tracking/forecasting.

• Product Line Manager

  Motorola Mobile Devices

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  2003 — 2007 (4 years)

• Product Line Manager

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Wireless industry)

  January 2002 — July 2005 (3 years 7 months)

  Product Line Manager – E1060 Cell Phone, D1000 Data Card, Test Mode Software
  * Responsible for E1060 program from sketch to working prototype; first product to be developed with 3 different exteriors simultaneously.
  * Created Business Case for 1 million phones with revenue of $238M, margin of $25M, R&D budget of $15M.
  * Managed engineering team in Turino, Italy; prototyping in Flensburg, Germany; manufacturing in Singapore.
  * Decreased size of previous phone by 12.4%.
  * For D1000, managed mechanical, electrical and software engineering team in Tel Aviv, Israel, including $8.8M R&D budget and $12M material budget.
  * Conducted solo sales visits to all major UMTS customers including; H3G (4 countries), Siemens, Vodafone (6 countries), Nokia Networks, DoCoMo, UTStarcom (China) and Telefonica. Assisted regional business development managers with other sales to Motorola Network Infrastructure (3 countries), Nortel, and Lucent.

Dean Nienhuis’s Education

• DePaul University - Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business

  1998 — 2002

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