BRIAN STAEDEN
23608 Majestic Heights Trail | Sussex, Wisconsin 53089 | 262.309.1632 | BStaeden@hotmail.com
Proven track record doing Process Improvement, Quality Assurance and Change Management action oriented projects.
Proficient at getting business results and balancing shareholder, customer and employee needs. Experience includes
working with hundreds of successful teams in manufacturing, product design, service and administrative processes.
Industry background includes heavily regulated Aerospace, Healthcare and large Fortune 500 organizations. Projects
and initiative management have attained over $10 MM in financially verified productivity results. Expertise:
Process Improvement
Risk Assessment
Team Management
Change Management
Leading Through Influence
Lean Six Sigma
Manufacturing Management
Budget Responsibility
Quality System Development
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
QUADMED, Sussex WI
Provides primary health care services at 100 locations across the United States
2013 to 2014
Continuous Improvement Leader
2013 to 2014
Coordinate operations lean and quality improvement program. Lead bi-weekly War Room and develop Operation
Balanced Scorecard. Lead Accreditation (like ISO) initiative
 Implemented an electronic referral case management system that improved quality of patient care. Our
measurable objective improved getting results back for referred departments from 44% to over 60%. This
involved over 200 people at multiple locations in the United States.
 Refreshed “Lean” for the location implementing 6S Forms and Kaizen Newspapers in every department.
 Led and coordinated AAAHC Accreditation Program for organization. Worked with multiple teams in all
areas of business to meet Patient Centered Medical Home standards. Program implemented under budget and
implemented faster than industry normal durations by six months.
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, Milwaukee WI
2007 to 2013
Rockwell Automation helps manufacturers succeed and grow with industrial automation control and information
solutions designed to give their customers a competitive advantage.
Business Process Improvement Manager
2010 to 2013
Support Control Products and Solutions organization (2.5B revenues) in lean six-sigma and manage teams of up to
20 including 4 direct reports. Utilize Six Sigma Black Belt certification to find deficiencies and increase
efficiencies. Provide hands on work in product development, including design corrective action management.
 Worked with 194R team industrializing new product. This included lowest cost plant analysis, failure mode
effect analysis (FMEA), design scorecard, material cost analysis, capacity analysis and supplier risks and
design of experiments work. This resulted in having a patent pending for on the 194R product design.
 Managed product design Tools, Templates and Training Committee. Including corrective action issue
resolution to Design Templates like Lessons Learned and Phase Deliverable Checklist.
 Hired and managed contractors to support Restriction of Hazardous Substances transition offsetting the high
cost of the engineering department capacity. Collaborated with engineering teams that reduced printed circuit
material cost on average by 9% or projected $2.8M of expense reduction.
 Led cross functional team of engineers reducing the Component Engineering Group response lead time from
28 days to 12 days for new product development.
 Collaborated with Doc-n-Box program saving $1.3 million by reducing printed manuals.
 Drove best practices into Green Belt “Blended Learning” training program. This resulted in a higher success
rate of competent trainees and reduced project completion time.
BRIAN STAEDEN
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Lean Six Sigma Project Manager
2007 to 2010
Project Manager driving Lean Six Sigma projects in $300M global business unit supporting remanufacturing, field
service, marketing, quoting and contracts.
 Initiated and drove remanufacturing lead time reduction from 70 days to 21 days and eliminated repair of
excess inventory resulting in over $3M hard savings. Work included project charter development, team
formation, material forecast analysis, change management, and resultant factory capacity reduction analysis.
Led teams at seven different Manufacturing Plants coordinating with Plant Managers, Engineering, IT, Quality
and Inventory Leaders
 Initiated and drove Inventory Expense Reduction Team that change inventory purchasing model that results in
over $1 MM reduction of purchases of finished goods and maintained 96% inventory on hand availability to
customers.
 Led Field Service Engineering SAP error reduction project reducing errors by 50%.
ROLLS-ROYCE-ENGINE SERVICES, Oakland, CA
2006 to 2007
Rolls-Royce is a global provider of power systems and services to the aerospace, marine and energy markets.
Black Belt Process Excellence Senior Engineer
Led projects and mentored senior leadership in lean six sigma.
 Improved jet engine rotor blade manufacturing by implementing a laser measurement device. This resulted in
reduced labor and engine test failures that saved over $200k. The jet engine blades were being cut to size with
a lath and dial indicator. The new laser system was developed by me and my team. We purchased a laser for
$15K, developed a fixture and software with internal resources in less than three months. Equivalent systems
typically cost close to $1M
 Implemented bar code system including bar code scanners across plant
 Implemented “Lean” 5S restoring pride of workmanship and improving customer view of shop. After 5S
employees wanted to show off their work areas and welcomed customers and visitors in
CROSSBOW TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA
2001 to 2006
Founded in 1995, Crossbow Technology, Inc. is a leading supplier of low-cost, smart-sensor technology to military
programs and high-value, asset-tracking operations.
Customer Account Manager
2005 to 2006
Responsible for outside sales, marketing, Google Campaigns, public speaking, and running trade shows.
 Achieved year over year sales gains of 15% in the Western USA sales.
Operations Manager
2001 to 2005
Responsible for all companies Production, Quality, Logistics and Facilities and personally directly supervised 25
personnel. Managed capacity planning, new product introductions, and all quality issues (external and internal)
 Operations lead introducing many new products from Tilt Sensors to the AHRS500GA Navigation System.
Developed all production needs including floor layout, headcount, work instructions and training.
 Created formal training and skills testing metrics that improved performance/appraisal process and
compensation practices that resulted in over $500k savings.
 Initiated and managed programs leading to ISO 9001:2000 FAA certifications within planned budget and
schedules that enable new customer attainment to double business revenue.
 Improved customer on-time-to-order deliveries from 40% to over 95%. Personally led effort working with
sales personnel and operations to modify process with changes to order prioritization and communications.
TELEX COMMUNICATIONS, Burnsville, MN
A leading manufacturer of dependable, top-of-the-line electronic communication equipment
2000 to 2001
Senior Industrial Engineer
Global manufacturing lead for Computer Audio business acted as operations interface for engineering and
marketing. This included supporting three manufacturing sites in Mexico and US.
 Identified and led warranty program that reduced customer warranty returns from 8% to 3%.
BRIAN STAEDEN
HONEYWELL, INC., Minneapolis, MN
A manufacturer of dependable, top-of-the-line electronic communication equipment
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1995 to 2000
Senior Quality / Process Engineer Level 3
A certified Six Sigma Black Belt leading quality and cost reduction projects with cross functional teams. I
managed operations quality processes including new product introductions, engineering change orders, work
instructions and training.
 Improved laser test procedures and reduced scrap resulting in $1.2 million in savings.
 Re-designed laser gyro test procedure resulting in 50% more units passing testing.
 Re-designed production flow which resulted in increased factory capacity by over 25%.
MILITARY SERVICE
United States Marine Corps
Honorably Discharged with Navy Achievement Medal; Awarded Combat Action Medal in Desert Storm
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS
MBA, University of Saint Thomas, St Paul, MN
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt - Rockwell Automation and Honeywell
COMPUTER SKILLS
Lotus Notes, Microsoft Word, Excel, SAP, Minitab, Access / SQL