Bruce Hayes

Experience

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  Motorola

  Apr 1979 - Jul 1998

  Senior Director

  Served in Plant, Division, Group and Corporate operations and quality leadership positions, which innovated, created and operationalized the companies quality and business system. Served as Executive Member of the Corporate Quality Steering Committee and led the integration of the company quality system (QSR) with ISO9000 and QS9000. Led the companies quality audit process, personally trained all auditors, and participated as team leader of several dozen Division, Group and Supplier quality audits. After successfully leading the business unit that innovated “push to talk” cell phone services, was recruited from Operations to lead a key corporate quality initiative through Motorola University, training 60,000 global employees in Six Sigma, in 24 months. Show less

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  Six Sigma Qualtec

  Jul 1998 - Jan 2002

  Managing Partner, President

  Co-Founder and President of Lean Six Sigma and Quality Management Training Company. One of the first major entries into the Six Sigma Consulting and Training market. Led major Six Sigma deployments at a number of clients including Bechtel, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Ebara, NEC, and others.

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  Executive Advisor Group / Six Sigma Advantage

  Feb 2002 - Feb 2010

  Managing Partner, Quality Practice Leader

  Provided technology based performance improvement training and operational consulting (Quality and Six Sigma) to several dozen clients in multiple industries including Electronics, Software, Medical Devices, Control Systems and others. Clients included SAP, Boston Scientific, The Mathworks, Motorola, H&R Block and others.

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  Savant Systems

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2015

  VP Quality and Operations

  As a member of the Executive team, helped this Smart Home hardware, App and IoT Start Up company advance to the number 3 position in the market by developing people, processes, products and services to serve one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the technology marketplace. Directly managed 6 departments and 75 employees including Software & Hardware Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics, Customer Support & Service, Training and Manufacturing Engineering. As a result of company performance and growth, a $90 Million investment was secured from a nationally known technology investment firm. Show less

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  Executive Advisor Group

  Jul 2015 - now

  Managing Partner, Quality, Maunfacturing and Supply Chain Practice

  Working with multiple technology client teams to provide quality, manufacturing, supply chain & logistics, process and management consulting services. Specialized in helping to rapidly scale new products and processes for both early stage and growing companies. Facilitates design reviews for quality, cost and manufacturability to assure business objectives are met throughout product lifecycles. Strategically aligns global supply chain partners to optimize cost, quality and delivery requirements. Deep experience with off shore manufacturers. See below for key assignments. Show less

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  Russound

  Jul 2015 - Jan 2024

  Senior Consultant, Product Development, Process Optimization, Supply Chain,

  Reporting to the CEO, assesses operations, product development,sales and supply chain processes to identify strategic improvement opportunities and implement process optimizations. Works directly with Executive team leaders to define and prioritize actions, goals and process measures, to assure sustainable performance and growth.

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  Heatworks

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2022

  Senior Consultant, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality

  Reporting to the CEO, provides strategy, leadership, guidance and activities to lead the transition of the Heatworks MODEL 3 and other new emerging products from the Product Design phase to Volume Manufacturing. The Heatworks MODEL 3, Tetra and DUO were all recognized as innovation award winners at 2018, 2019 and 2020 CES events.

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  SimpliSafe

  Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

  Senior Consultant, Process Improvement

  Working with the VP of Operations and extended teams analyzed quality / service processes and measurements, to identify and drive improvement opportunities.

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  OhmIQ

  Apr 2023 - now

  Chief Partnership Officer

  At Ohmiq, we are striving to change the way the world heats liquids and license that technology for implementation in products to drive cleaner, more efficient and more precise heating and control. We are forming important strategic partnerships with Manufacturers, Customers and Critical Component Suppliers to meet our growing requirements, drive business growth and help fuel decarbonization and green initiatives. Please contact me or visit OhmIQ.com to learn more…This patented energy-saving technology – known as Ohmic Array Technology – is a solution that had evaded some of the brightest scientific minds in the world for more than a century. Until now. OAT works by direct electrical stimulation of molecules and is designed to never need maintenance or replacement due to scaling. Ohmiq heaters can be integrated into almost any device that requires precisely controlled, efficient heating of liquids. Show less