Wes Anderson

An emerging med-tech company empowering wheelchair users with novel inventions to reclaim their time, health, and independence back.

New Venture Results:

• Secured FDA approval and MDR compliance for Class 1 Medical Device.
• Led end-to-end venture creation, including product invention, early IP strategy, regulatory FDA and MDR pathways, pilot user trials, and strategic supplier partnerships (international and domestic) for U.S. manufacturing scale-up.
• Defined company mission targeting a $26M global market and $6M US segment.
• Positioned the business for scalable domestic manufacturing, capital efficiency, and long-term impact, translating my lived-experience insight into a defensible product strategy.
• Estimated market launch is Q1-2026.

Provide selective consulting, contracted, and fractional COO engagements for small to mid-sized manufacturing and service-based organizations needing operational or process improvements, hands-on execution assistance, strategic planning, or team support.

• Lead operational turnarounds, stabilizing execution through improved accountability systems, management operating cadence, and performance visibility.
• Align strategy, data, and operations by translating executive priorities into actionable plans, KPI frameworks, and decision-ready dashboards.
• Diagnose current-state process breakdowns and architect future-state operating models, accelerating execution through rapid, focused interventions.
• Design and implement scalable operating playbooks, including SOPs, RACI models, and value stream maps, to support repeatable, and sustainable performance.

Selected Impact:

• Brings clarity, structure, and data-driven insights

• Delivers rapid, measurable improvements in 30 days or less and:

• Integrates strategy with execution
• Partners with your key players to drive orderly change
• Fixes broken processes — fast
• Bring both technical depth and leadership presence drawing from over 20 years in the field.

Internally promoted role. Partnered with global business units and PMO teams across North America, LATAM, Europe, Middle East, and Asia to lead enterprise-wide operational transformation initiatives. Designed and deployed large-scale operational improvements that reduced cost, improved execution discipline. Increased performance consistency and a learning culture across regions using technology and digital toolkits.

Business Impact & Results:

• Architected the global development and roll-out of a fully digital $95M revenue generating change order process (from excel-based to Salesforce and MS Platforms) to improve speed, financial approval protocols, commercial protection, execution, status visibility, and customer perception.
• Deployed a closed-loop lessons learned program to cultivate a new learning culture by driving concrete application of lessons into the business with a new action system, and using AI agents to quickly apply past lessons and wins to future upcoming projects. Resulted in a quantified potential cost avoidance of $9M in 10 months.
• Built cross-continental quality cost data synthesis and insight frameworks/dashboards using Power BI, consolidating fragmented COPQ intelligence into clear, visible, & actionable decision support for senior leadership to attack top problem and patterns.
• Partnered with VPs to design global strategies cutting cost overruns and quality issues in operation

Responsible for leading operational excellence and improvement initiatives across North America and Latin America regions to eliminate waste, stabilize operations, and improve quality and margin performance.

Business Impact & Results:

• Identified and redesigned critical end-to-end business workflows, reducing friction in manufacturing, quality, and execution handoffs.
• Created and implemented new cost-control and performance management mechanisms for manufacturing operations, strengthening feedback loops for cost corrections, greater real-time insights, and problem-solving. $800K savings in 6 months.
• Drove various cross-functional improvement programs that improved customer outcomes, strengthened quality systems, and protected revenue.
• Led root cause analyses (RCAs) teams and customer studies to address systemic issues and prevent recurrence.

Internally promoted role. Senior leader accountable for supplier quality, enterprise quality systems, and continuous improvement for a $100M+ revenue manufacturing site serving aerospace and defense customers.

Business Impact & Results:

• Delivered $800K+ in verified cost savings through targeted Lean and Kaizen initiatives, including automation optimization and elimination of chronic quality escapes.
• Improved supplier defect rate by 82%, materially lowering COPQ and supply-chain disruption risks.
• Led global supplier audit programs across Europe, Japan, China, India, and the U.S., strengthening compliance, reliability, and long-term supplier performance.
• Co-developed an electronic obsolescence management system recognized by Boeing as best-in-class among ~13,000 suppliers—directly reducing lifecycle risk and unplanned costs.
• Designed executive KPI dashboards and performance roadmaps (Power BI, Excel) enabling leadership to prioritize capital and improvement investments.
• Led site-level AS9100 & ISO 9001 certifications, ensuring audit readiness and customer confidence.
• Implemented and governed SAP quality modules (CAPA, audits, calibration, documentation), improving traceability and system maturity.

Technical leader overseeing new product qualifications, lab operations, supplier performance, and reliability engineering activities:

Business Impact and Results:

• Executed 100+ complex product qualifications using AS, PPAP, and APQP methodologies.
• Implemented in manufacturing and training other quality and engineering personnel in SPC, FMEA, Gage R&R, and DOE methodologies, improving process capability and reducing variation-driven defects.
• Applied advanced statistical analysis using Minitab for DOE's, six sigma projects, and data-based operational decisions.
• Provided reliability engineering deliverables for new Boeing 777 aircraft battery systems.
• Built COPQ tracking and reporting mechanisms to quantify financial impact of quality failures and prioritize corrective actions.

Internally promoted role. Owner of the quality management system for a $20M manufacturing operation, with responsibility for compliance, continuous improvement, and operational performance.

Business Impact & Results:

• Improved on-time delivery from 74% to 93%, protecting revenue streams and improving customer retention.
• Increased MRP forecast accuracy by ~70% through predictive analytics and ANOVA-based demand modeling, reducing inventory waste and expediting costs.
• Reduced sales quote turnaround time from 2 days to 2 minutes, materially improving win rates and revenue velocity.
• Led organization to ISO 9001 certification with zero findings in the first audit year.
• Redesigned assembly and manufacturing workflows using Lean principles to improve throughput and labor efficiency.

Early-career leader partnering with Sales, Marketing, R&D, and Supply Chain to launch products, reduce costs, and expand into new markets.

Business Impact & Results:

• Designed and implemented an in-house passivation system, generating an estimated $200K in cost savings.
• Developed costing, pricing, and BOM structures within SAP, improving margin visibility and pricing discipline.
• Led efforts to achieve CE certification, enabling entry into European markets and expanding addressable revenue.