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Mark A. Jehning - Acuity Dynamics, LLC
Professional Background
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Acuity Dynamics LLC based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. For the past 15 years, Mark has specialized in improving business competitiveness using Business Process Optimization (BPO), Corporate Performance Management (CPM), and Change Management (CM) techniques to assist client companies in improving enterprise-wide business processes in order to significantly improve customer satisfaction, throughput, productivity and quality with emphasis in product development and order-to-cash business processes. Prior to that, he spent 14 years in various senior management positions with leading aerospace and high tech companies in most business process improvement projects from product development, production, and delivery where his responsibilities included senior operations and program management positions, production start-ups, business process optimization, enterprise system enablers, performance measurement, and project management.
Representative Experience
As the Director Industry Solutions for C-bridge Internet Solutions and Excelon, Mark developed vertical go-to-market plans, sales delivery kits, problem specific diagnostics and delivery “iSolutions” in addition to providing Product Development and Order-to-Cash subject matter expertise to Fortune 500 client engagements to include managing an Inventory Spares Planning engagement for a leading Telecommunication Capital Equipment manufacturer that resulted in lowering global inventories by $6 million while maintaining eight hour customer service level agreements
As the eBusiness Practice Director for Compaq Global Services, Mark established their Western Regional eBusiness practice. These responsibilities included creating go-to-market strategies, strategic partner alliances, product/service offerings, and developing diagnostics and delivery capability for Fortune 500 companies. Mark also assisted in establishing an end-to-end eBusiness demonstration to showcase all Compaq’s products from wireless PDA’s to high-end business servers incorporating 43 eBusiness vendor applications.
As a Principal with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, he assisted in establishing their Western Regional Value Chain practice while providing Order-to-Cash operations expertise to several client engagements. He conducted production planning, scheduling and shop floor execution business process and systems gap analyses for various clients. As Corporate Manager –Business Process Management with Applied Materials, he assisted in reducing their product configuration process time from three weeks to one hour by developing a closed loop product configuration/quotation process to ensure timely and accurate orders to involve marketing, sales, engineering, finance, materials, production, and installation considerations in addition to “connect the dots” of numerous business process reengineering initiatives. As Director - Operations, he established a new flagship production facility and created a model participative management culture for a Fortune 50 corporation that reduced both production costs by 70% and cycle time by 55% while increasing production capacity by 75%..
Education and Training
Mark earned a Master in Business Administration - Operations Management from Regis University-Denver and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from California State University - Long Beach.
Highly trained and experienced in numerous business process optimization methodologies to include Corporate Performance Management, Time-Based Management, Lean Manufacturing/Enterprise, Theory of Constraints, Business Process Optimization, Ernst & Young’s RAPID FX, Andersen Consulting’s Architected Solutions, PriceWaterhouseCooper’s (PWC) Better Change, C-Bridge Internet Solutions’ Rapid Value Methodology, Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM), Applied Materials Zero Defect Installation (ZDI), Hewlett Packard’s Hoshin Planning and SCOR Modeling.
Highly trained and experienced in numerous IT strategies to include Business Process Management Systems Architecture (BPMS), Service-Based Architectures, Compaq Services Architecture Methodology (CSAM), Distributed Internet Server Array (DISA), Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA), Zero Latency Enterprise solutions (ZLE), Enterprise Information Systems Architecture (EISA), Compaq Non-Stop Architecture, Enterprise Commerce Management, (ECM), eBusiness (Electronic Commerce, Knowledge Management (KM), Business Intelligence (BI), Supply Chain Management (SCM), ERP (Oracle and SAP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Next Generation Networks (Internet Network Services, Storage Area Networks, Network Transport.)
Additional Coursework and Professional Development to include:
· Value Stream Mapping
· Compaq eBusiness University
· UML/VSM Business Process IT Mapping
· Change Management and Facilitation
· Project/Program Management
· Team Building
· Earned Value/Activity-Based Cost Management
· Statistical Process Control
· Operational/IT Assessment · Advanced Planning and Scheduling
· MS Office Pro Suite including Visio and Project
· ISO 9000
· Design for Manufacturability
· Balanced Scorecard/Corporate Performance Management
· Demand Flow/JIT/SMED/Kaizen/5S/TPS
He is a senior member of Council of Logistics Management, Institute of Industrial Engineers, and Colorado Internet Keiretsu
Partial Client List
· Applied Material
· NASA
· Hewlett Packard
· McDonnell Douglas
· Lockheed Martin
· ITT Cannon
· Motorola
· Cypress Semiconductor
· Smart Modular Technologies
· Southern California Edison
· Columbia Forest Products
· Iomega
· Seagate Technology
· ADAC Laboratories
· Solutia
· CPFilms
· Remington Firearms
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Acuity Dynamics LLC based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. For the past 15 years, Mark has specialized in improving business competitiveness using Business Process Optimization (BPO), Corporate Performance Management (CPM), and Change Management (CM) techniques to assist client companies in improving enterprise-wide business processes in order to significantly improve customer satisfaction, throughput, productivity and quality with emphasis in product development and order-to-cash business processes. Prior to that, he spent 14 years in various senior management positions with leading aerospace and high tech companies in most business process improvement projects from product development, production, and delivery where his responsibilities included senior operations and program management positions, production start-ups, business process optimization, enterprise system enablers, performance measurement, and project management.
Representative Experience
As the Director Industry Solutions for C-bridge Internet Solutions and Excelon, Mark developed vertical go-to-market plans, sales delivery kits, problem specific diagnostics and delivery “iSolutions” in addition to providing Product Development and Order-to-Cash subject matter expertise to Fortune 500 client engagements to include managing an Inventory Spares Planning engagement for a leading Telecommunication Capital Equipment manufacturer that resulted in lowering global inventories by $6 million while maintaining eight hour customer service level agreements
As the eBusiness Practice Director for Compaq Global Services, Mark established their Western Regional eBusiness practice. These responsibilities included creating go-to-market strategies, strategic partner alliances, product/service offerings, and developing diagnostics and delivery capability for Fortune 500 companies. Mark also assisted in establishing an end-to-end eBusiness demonstration to showcase all Compaq’s products from wireless PDA’s to high-end business servers incorporating 43 eBusiness vendor applications.
As a Principal with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, he assisted in establishing their Western Regional Value Chain practice while providing Order-to-Cash operations expertise to several client engagements. He conducted production planning, scheduling and shop floor execution business process and systems gap analyses for various clients. As Corporate Manager –Business Process Management with Applied Materials, he assisted in reducing their product configuration process time from three weeks to one hour by developing a closed loop product configuration/quotation process to ensure timely and accurate orders to involve marketing, sales, engineering, finance, materials, production, and installation considerations in addition to “connect the dots” of numerous business process reengineering initiatives. As Director - Operations, he established a new flagship production facility and created a model participative management culture for a Fortune 50 corporation that reduced both production costs by 70% and cycle time by 55% while increasing production capacity by 75%..
Education and Training
Mark earned a Master in Business Administration - Operations Management from Regis University-Denver and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from California State University - Long Beach.
Highly trained and experienced in numerous business process optimization methodologies to include Corporate Performance Management, Time-Based Management, Lean Manufacturing/Enterprise, Theory of Constraints, Business Process Optimization, Ernst & Young’s RAPID FX, Andersen Consulting’s Architected Solutions, PriceWaterhouseCooper’s (PWC) Better Change, C-Bridge Internet Solutions’ Rapid Value Methodology, Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM), Applied Materials Zero Defect Installation (ZDI), Hewlett Packard’s Hoshin Planning and SCOR Modeling.
Highly trained and experienced in numerous IT strategies to include Business Process Management Systems Architecture (BPMS), Service-Based Architectures, Compaq Services Architecture Methodology (CSAM), Distributed Internet Server Array (DISA), Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA), Zero Latency Enterprise solutions (ZLE), Enterprise Information Systems Architecture (EISA), Compaq Non-Stop Architecture, Enterprise Commerce Management, (ECM), eBusiness (Electronic Commerce, Knowledge Management (KM), Business Intelligence (BI), Supply Chain Management (SCM), ERP (Oracle and SAP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Next Generation Networks (Internet Network Services, Storage Area Networks, Network Transport.)
Additional Coursework and Professional Development to include:
· Value Stream Mapping
· Compaq eBusiness University
· UML/VSM Business Process IT Mapping
· Change Management and Facilitation
· Project/Program Management
· Team Building
· Earned Value/Activity-Based Cost Management
· Statistical Process Control
· Operational/IT Assessment · Advanced Planning and Scheduling
· MS Office Pro Suite including Visio and Project
· ISO 9000
· Design for Manufacturability
· Balanced Scorecard/Corporate Performance Management
· Demand Flow/JIT/SMED/Kaizen/5S/TPS
He is a senior member of Council of Logistics Management, Institute of Industrial Engineers, and Colorado Internet Keiretsu
Partial Client List
· Applied Material
· NASA
· Hewlett Packard
· McDonnell Douglas
· Lockheed Martin
· ITT Cannon
· Motorola
· Cypress Semiconductor
· Smart Modular Technologies
· Southern California Edison
· Columbia Forest Products
· Iomega
· Seagate Technology
· ADAC Laboratories
· Solutia
· CPFilms
· Remington Firearms
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