Resume

• 1979

  MBA

  Marketing & Business Development

• 1971

  MS Physics

  Solid State

• 1967

  BS Physics w/ Distinction

  Minor: Astronomy

• Manufacturing

  Continuous Improvement

  Strategic Planning

  Project Management

  Product Development

  Leadership

  Engineering

  Higher Education

  Management

  Process Improvement

  Public Speaking

  Sensors

  Electronics

  Program Management

  Marketing

  Automotive

  Business Development

  E-Learning

  Budgets

  Adult Education

  Strachan

  Bruce

  Strachan

  Oakland Community College

  Infineon Technologies

  WyzAnt Tutoring

  Philps Lighting Electronics

  DeVry University

  VTI Inc

  National-Louis University

  ITT Technical Institute

  SSI Technologies

  On-line

  Teach undergraduate physics with lab.

  Adjunct Instructor

  Physics

  DeVry University

  Farmington Hills

  MI

  Managed marketing

  launch and field support of automotive LED Driver Modules.

  Product Manager

  LDM

  Philps Lighting Electronics

  Southfield

  MI

  Instructor for Physics 1016 including 2 lectures per week and laboratory instruction. I have developed the syllabus and schedule for this course

  course rubric

  weekly homework problems sets with soutions

  weekly in-class quizes with solutions and periodic and final exam. Desire-2-Learn is employed to publish and communicate weekly information to students and to maintain drop boxes and grading utilities.

  Adjunct Instructor

  Oakland Community College

  Local & On-Line

  Physics and Algebra instruction to advanced high school & undergraduate students

  Instructor Physics & Algebra

  WyzAnt Tutoring

  Livonia

  MI

  Managed North American marketing of automotive magnetic and pressure sensors.

  Marketing Manager

  Infineon Technologies

  On-line

  Teach undergraduate business management

  marketing and project management.

  Adjunct Instructor Marketing & Project Management

  National-Louis University

  • Saved $1.3MM in negotiating and sourcing a $4.1MM contract manufacturing program.\n• Created and implemented manufacturing processes that improved performance by more than 14%.\n• Successfully launched acceleration and pressure sensor to automotive and industrial customers.\n• Designed accelerometer self-test and frequency response compensation circuits.\n• Prevented a sensor recall by designing a solution to an ABS module vibration error in 9 days.\n• Introduced new products

  trained VTI’s sales force and assisted global sensor sales.

  VTI Inc

  Product Manager

  Reported to the VP of Sales. Managed the evolution of new electronic sensor products and carried out SSI’s strategic diversification and expansion of business.\n• Performed technical and business due diligence that established key SSI sensor business.\n• Applied technical and market expertise that grew SSI’s annual sensor business by $30MM in 4 years.\n• Audited

  qualified and recommended microelectronics suppliers in Europe

  China and North America.\n• Trained and supported the sales force in North America

  Europe

  Korea and Japan.\n• Evaluated competitive and substitute products

  competitors and technologies.\n• Investigated and matched market and technical requirements for new sensor technologies.

  SSI Technologies

  ITT Technical Institute

  Dearborn

  MI

  Taught undergraduate physics and algebra.

  Instructor

  Physics & Math