PETER CZECHOWICZ

• Responsible for entire site success through management of all manufacturing departments, NPI, EH&S, security, and facilities. Encompassing 100 employees through 11 departments.
   Developed full manufacturing processing for each department from plant layout through procurement of equipment and hiring / structuring team.
   Increased sales of specialty optics and crystals by 1000% over 7 years.
   Daily interactions with CTO and COO to illustrate successful product introductions, review of targeted revenue and management metrics ensuring timely deliveries.
   Created site QMS: Including implementation of Defect manuals, performance management metrics such as KPI’s, OBQ, and OTD enabling team to make continuous improvements.
   Actively lead NPI process through engagement with sister site product development teams, providing critical to success parameters ensuring required performance.
   Initiated and control an internal PDM system utilizing Solid Works Vault providing life cycle management for 3000 unique parts and for all new products developed.
   Determined and supplied costing for all NPI parts.
   Actively interact with CFO and US controllers providing accurate pricing for products, controlling Inventory turns and levels, cycle counts and counting schema, site reporting P&L. Responsible for controlling budget of $25M.
   Developed internal MRP system, resulting in significant lead-time reductions. Direct and set strategic sourcing goals for risk mitigation guiding procurement team actions.
   Built capacity models for each department to understand resource capacity constraints. Implemented appropriate structure and equipment for both low volume high mix departments and high volume low mix departments.
   Partnered with trade compliance ensuring integrity regarding legal and regulatory guidelines.

Direct manager of Fabrication, Polishing, Coating, Quality Control, and Assembly Departments. Project manager for improvement projects that encompassed all manufacturing departments.
 Managed Coating Department and drove production and development of dielectric coatings on crystals and optics.
 Identified cleaning issues as a major defective with crystals performance in the field. Developed and deployed new cleaning processes.
 Transferred from Engineering into Operations. Managed all production aspects of Crystal Growth, Fabrication, and Polishing Departments.
 Enhanced planning set up Min Max sourcing and Kanban pull system; implemented lean manufacturing principles and optimized product flow.

 Implemented functional structure of Quality Control. Standardized quality values in each department, implemented cleaning and inspection techniques, inserted quality operators at critical process steps.
 Principle Investigator and point of contact for infrastructure Manufacturing Execution System.
 Led intra company initiative to create a front-end system for tracking the execution and progress of sales/work orders by combining ERP system Oracle, PDM system Agile, and electronic travelers into an easy to use UI.

 Manager of Crystal Growth, Pilot Fabrication, Polishing, NPI, and Metrology Group.
 Conducted Failure Analysis and generated Process Improvement reports.
 Led creation of world’s largest LBO and BBO boules.
 Established the first and only US process of growing Nd:YVO4.

• Managed Crystal Growth, Fabrication, Polishing, NPI
• Championed several lean six sigma projects, such as bulk absorption of Vanadate crystals
• Development lead for all rapid prototyping engineered crystals
• Coordinated work with all engineering groups of Coherent Global
• Developed strategic sourcing plan for externally supplied crystalline materials.

• Managed Crystal Growth, Fabrication and Polishing departments with up to 20 direct reports
• Led successful technology transfer and sale from Coherent to II-VI
• Transferred growth, fabrication, and quality control processes for 3 major products: CaF2, Nickel Sulfate, and filter glass
• Analyzed and presented quality and production data to a customer government agency
• Built manufacturing site’s first capacity model.

• Managed Crystal Growth Department with 6 direct reports
• Transferred growth Department into a new building
• Led new infrastructure build up including electrical, control, and ventilation for new growth room while maintaining production
• Designed and implemented electronic record keeping and travelers.

• Responsible for crystal growth production
• High temperature solution growth, crystals such as KTP, RTA, KTA, CLBO.

• Synthesized chemical compounds for all Crystal growth
• Analyzed properties of raw materials
• Performed all functions of crystal growth from starting powder to crystal characterization