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George Adamczyk

GRATECH, Consultant/Owner May 2011 – Present North Port, FL

Providing consulting in technical mergers, leadership, and product development / technical organization issues. Consulting areas: Stage gate development, product development, proposals, technical leadership development, organizational efficiency/development, Systems engineering, Six Sigma, Product evaluations and technical software evaluations.

ITT, Integrated Structures  (Currently Excelis) Director of Engineering,  2008 – 2012

Engineering Director of six former EDO National/International sites dealing in weapon systems and composite structures headquartered in Long Island, NY. Merged capabilities across 6 sites including the UK, restructuring the organization, adding robust engineering process, discipline and execution to address doubling of growth in 3 years. Introduced gated processes to control & manage resources.for research & development programs.  Provided technical and resource strategic direction for technology and organization. Implemented a gating process to carefully select the right technology & developments with limited resources. ITT Integrated Structures provides advanced composite structures and subsystems for military, space and commercial customers and the leader in the design and production of aircraft/UAV-armament suspension and release equipment (S&RE), weapons interface systems. http://es.is.itt.com/

ITT, Space Systems Division Miscellaneous 1995 – 2008

Multi-site responsibility starting as manager of the CAD/CAM organization, progressing as manager of mechanical engineering, Director of space product design, Manager of engineering, Deputy Director of the office of the chief engineer to leading the Advanced engineering group. I was responsible for the technical leadership and direction that ranged up to 370 employees, representing multifunctional area's that include: configuration management, IT, Circuit design, Modeling & Simulation, Components, Systems, Project Engineering, Model Shop, RF, IR, Analog/digital, R&D staff, Optical, mechanical engineering/analysis and the environmental lab. Typical annual financial responsibilities included control of a $5M+ capital budget and a $30M+ operating budget. A certified 6 Sigma Greenbelt and Taguchi master to insure robust and lean design development methodologies are employed in the execution of the design. Provide leadership in new program development for remote sensor electro-optical and navigation payloads, from concept to launch. Extensive electrical, E/O & IR packaging experience. Directed activities with vendors, suppliers and other functional groups to enhance success. Consistently met annual goals and objectives. Significant achievements: Streamlined the engineering to manufacturing interface, which resulted in significant reduced cycle time and increased quality. Revamped portions of the space product development process to operate with a lean commercial type mentality. Introduced focused development areas in composites and active cooling. Lead/implemented company first enterprise wide, web based, data management system (Windchill).

GRATECH,  President/Owner 1992 – 1995 Integrated services ranging from product development, systems engineering, computer consulting, solid modeling, drafting, rapid prototyping and finite element analysis. Projects ranged from development of fitness equipment, world class radiographic and fluoroscopic x-ray composite table systems to tunnel boring machinery. For commercial fitness equipment developments, coordinated and led activities with physiologists, testing laboratories, fabricators and industrial design firms. X-ray table development was the company first "world class" product developed in half the time and at one-third historical development costs

Patriot Engineering, Chief Engineer/Director 1982-1992

Warner & Swasey Research Center, Design Engineer/ Technology manager  1978 – 1982