An intelligent, dedicated Director with combined specialty of operational and financial management, within complex Information Technology environments.
Pete Lehman
Director, Engineering Operations & Planning
Executive Profile
An intelligent, dedicated Director with combined specialty of operational and financial management, within complex Information Technology environments. Aggressively exceeds goals and expectations and thrives as a leader in a constantly changing, fast-paced work environment.
Effectively leads major engineering initiatives within global operations and across multiple disciplines.
Ability to closely align multiple, dispersed work groups to strategic goals of the organization.
Excels in designing, developing and implementing standardized tools, policies and procedures.
Portfolio Highlights
Defined/directed operations, policies, procedures and guidelines for large engineering organization of 1100+.
Provided senior executive team with plans supporting R&D annual budgets from $300M to $800M.
Increased organization deliverable performance by 25% in 1 year by establishing metrics and focus on commitments.
Identified opportunity to provide outside services to other business units and external clients, off-setting unit expenses between $3M and $17M annually.
Established tooling, procedures and metrics to define and measure deliverable commitments, increasing organizational performance by 25%+.
Pete Lehman
Director, Engineering Operations & Planning
Career Highlights
Silcon Design
Defined/directed operations, policies, procedures and guidelines for large engineering organization of 1100+. Managed annual $100M budget, $25M in capital expenditures and reduced work-in-progress cash flow from $50M to $25M over 2 years.
Directed operational systems and applications, processes and policies supporting all corporate world-wide engineering, including C-level reporting, information flow and product and operational business plans.
Microsoft Corporation
Supported engineering executive staff to guide transition of diverse engineering organizations and geographical locations into a cohesive operation. Provided ad hoc data analysis and reports to senior executives.
Pixel Corporation
Managed 4 organizations: 60+ systems engineers and programmers and 4 direct reports, with $6M annual operating budget.
Leadership produced $500M annual cost savings through efficiencies leading to closure of 7 manufacturing plants.
Pete Lehman
Director, Engineering Operations & Planning
Selected Achievements
Performance Management
Provided senior executive team with plans supporting R&D annual budgets from $300M to $800M. Defined and deployed tools and procedures for engineering-wide product portfolio, which aligned with corporate goals and strategies, and consistently delivered on-time and low cost computer products and solutions.(UNISYS - Director)
Developed tooling, procedures and metrics for defining and measuring deliverable commitments by the organization. Increased overall organizational performance by 25%+.(UNISYS - Director)
Developed a common set of commodity codes for the corporation and executed a transition plan for all organizations to reduce parts inventory and multiple suppliers/vendors. Worked with all engineering, manufacturing and procurement functions resulting in a 50% reduction in vendors and $100M in costs.(UNISYS)
Business Development
Identified opportunity for engineering to provide outside services (such as custom development for special client configurations and system performance analysis), to other business units and external clients, without impacting internal commitments, off-setting annual R&D expenses between $3M and $17M annually.(UNISYS - Director)
Collaborated with engineering executives to identify development work that could be performed offshore in India and China. Established migration plans and targets to shift efforts and track progress. Over 2 year period, offshore staffing grew from 10 to 350FTEs, reducing onshore development costs by $18M.(UNISYS - Director)
Team Management & Development
Formed/led cross-functional team that consolidated dispersed/independent computer engineering disciplines, practices, policies, concepts and supporting tools across corporation. Eliminated redundancies, closed 7 manufacturing plants and enabled sharing of all activities, resulting in costs savings of $500M annually.(UNISYS)
Led a team from engineering, manufacturing and Corporate IT organizations to define, design and develop a centralized engineering database for the corporation. This enabled various disciplines to globally share information regarding the common design of components, systems and manufactured modules.(UNISYS)
Problem Solving & Results
Defined, designed and deployed planning tool to assist senior engineering management in R&D planning and tracking. (UNISYS)
Was 1st in-house development of client/server architecture utilizing PC/Windows/MS Office client communicating with Unix/Oracle database server over LANs/WANs. Eventually migrated to distributed database architecture to reduce performance issues.
System globally collected, formatted information and presented real time the R&D investment, schedules and content of all engineering programs within a $1.2 billion R&D budget, creating a complete annual product portfolio.
Process Improvement
Re-engineered and guided entire systems integration/test of computer hardware and system software and release of qualified system software to manufacturing for distribution to customers. Eliminated errors in system configuration management, reducing customer complaints by 25%.(UNISYS - GM)
Pete is trustworthy, diligent, timely, practical, and a superb manager of both people and processes.
Pete Lehman
Director, Engineering Operations & Planning
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Collaborated with engineering executives to reduce offshore development costs by $18M.
