Brian Twombly

Experience

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  Matheson Tri-Gas

  May 2006 - May 2011

  Director - Strategic Quality, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

  •Completed Lean Six Sigma Black projects resulting in cost savings of $3.5+MM over three years through elimination of process waste and rework.•Certified Six Sigma trainer. Lead the initiative to train Asian affiliates in Six Sigma concepts in China and Taiwan. Trained three Green Belt groups, one Black Belt group and co-taught Design for Six Sigma Black Belt class for engineers.•Primary quality contact for Matheson Trigas’ top selling sub-atmospheric product line generating 17% of annual company revenue.•Automated SPC charting for all manufacturing locations providing “real time access” to process data for production personnel.•Established “best practices” for Matheson laboratories using elements of ISO 17025 and TS 16949 as the benchmark for excellence. •Developed process control plans for strategic products across business units using AIAG blueprint with APQP tools including, Ishikawa, FMEA, DOE, and TVM.•Mentored Six Sigma Green Belt teams to ensure projects were brought to completion. Show less

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  Matheson

  May 2011 - Jan 2013

  Global Product Manager

  •Responsible for 4 of the top 10 margin producing products in Electronics division of Matheson. Over $60MM/yr under management.•Increased portfolio sales annually with CAGR of 8% 2010-2013 in a difficult market by defining effective tactical and strategic objectives•Increased average gross margin by 6% through quality improvement and manufacturing cost containment activities. •Introduced new products to market resulting in annual sales of $10.3MM per year at greater than 30% margin.•Strategic and tactical portfolio branding to drive market presence from 40% share to 55% share in less than 2 years, all while increasing unit margins in parallel•Global product responsibility including EU, US, Korea, Japan, China, Singapore & Taiwan.•Lead product manager for proposed 2013 manufacturing expansions in Asia. Successful presentations to Board-level planning committees Show less

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  EMD Performance Materials

  Apr 2013 - Jun 2020

  -Responsible for the Silicon Semiconductor product portfolio generating > 30% of annual revenue at >40% GM-Managed the product portfolio through 31% growth in revenue year on year 2014/2013-Drove transition of a strategic chemical precursor from development scale to high volume commercial use -Key contributor in the implementation of the product development process (PDP) to facilitate introduction of new Silicon Semiconductor products to market-Provided leadership to the cross functional product development team (R&D, Manufacturing, EH&S & Sales) to enable development and introduction of new products.-Developed the road map, marketing presentations and materials for sales training and new product introduction Show less

  • Global Head of Deposition Materials

    Nov 2017 - Jun 2020

  • Global Head of Metallic Films

    Jun 2017 - Oct 2017

  • Global Market Segment Manager - Silicon Semiconductor

    Apr 2013 - May 2017
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  EMD Electronics

  Jun 2020 - now

  Senior Global Product Management Lead - Thin Films