John Herbst Visual Resume

1. John Herbst
Visual Resume
Product Development / Project Manager with extensive retail and
commercial experience
• Manage product development projects from ideation through concept
refinement, design, prototyping, engineering, tooling, production startup,
certification and on-going product maintenance.
• Achieve cost savings in product and manufacturing processes.
• Inventor of 9+ patents.
• International experience in Asia.

2. Product Types / Materials
Products
Laboratory Equipment
Office Organization
Office Ergonomics
Mouse & Keyboard
USB
Electrical Taps / Cords
PC Connectivity
Corded / RF
Sewn Storage Cases
Metal / Wire Storage
Wood Storage
Corrugated Boxes
Chiropractic
Materials / Processes
Plastics
Metal
Electronics
Electrical
Sewn Goods
Wood
Corrugated Paper
Microban
Paint
Chrome
Laser Engraving
Foam
Rubber
Packaging
Plain Box
Color Box
Blister
Clam
Displays
Retail
Commercial
Bar-coding
Assembly

3. Product Certification Experience
Regions
USA
Canada
Europe
Australia
Japan
Certification
Entities
UL
CSA
Intertek
SGS
FCC
Many others
Regulatory Experience Cont.
UL 1363
UL 1449
ISO
ISO 13406-2
ISO 9241-7
ISO 6385-1981
C-Tick (Australia)
FCC
Title 47 CFR Part 15
ICES
ICES 006
ICES 003
NFPA
NFPA 70
CSA-C22.2
California Electrical Code
California + Prop 65
Regulatory Experience
CE
CB Scheme
EN 60335
EN 60950-1
EN 60950-2
EN 61010-1
EN 61010-2-20
EC 60884
EN 2002/95/EC
EN 2002/96/EC
2006/95/EC
UL 94
UL 486
UL 498
UL 499
UL 588
UL 1278
UL 1283

4. Products Developed for GKI
Sampling of Products:
Consumer Products Holiday Products
Christmas Trees
w-Instant Power & Remote
Aqua Flame
Flameless Candle w/Timer
Outdoor Spot Lighting Outdoor Holiday Lighting

5. Products Developed for Kacelia
Sampling of Products:
Chiropractic

6. Sampling of Products:
Centrifuges
Products Developed for Heathrow
Pipette Controller Tube Racks

7. Fellowes - $7 MM Added Sales
Products developed: Sales
Under Desk Laptop Dock Support $100K
Climate Control Footrest $1MM
Letter Tray – Designer Suites $165K
Step File – Designer Suites $173K
Shelf – Designer Suites $132K
Phone Stand – Designer Suites $182K
Organizer – Designer Suites $91K
Letter Tray – PA $103K
Step File – PA $116K
Magazine File – PA $104K
Desk Side File $300K
Desk Edger $200K
Versatile File $220K
File Pocket Plus $220K

8. Products developed: Sales
Corner Shelf $499K
Shelf $499K
Corner Organizer $399K
Note Dispenser $254K
Microban Corded Mouse $149K
Microban Cordless Mouse $127K
Microban Basic Keyboard $645K
Microban Split Keyboard $554K
Microban Cordless KB & Mouse $267K
HD Corded Mouse $193K
HD Cordless Mouse $472K
Fellowes - $7 MM Added Sales (Continued)

9. Fellowes - Cost Savings
PA Note Holder – New Vendor $5,000
PA Wire – Reduced wire diameter
Wire Cart – Reduced wire diameter $53,000
Brown box conversion from retail
RF Mouse cost reductions
Corded Mouse cost reductions $288,000
Manual cost reduction
Wire vendor resource and specification $700,000
RESULTS – Total cost reductions in excess of: $1,000,000

10. Products Developed for Fellowes
Consumer Electronics Team
Sampling of Products:

11. Products Developed for Fellowes
Consumer Electronics Team (Continued)
Sampling of Products:

12. Products Developed for Fellowes
Bankers Box Team
Cost Savings:
703 Box Redesign and Labor Reduction $1,000,000
Sampling of Products:

13. Innovative Desk Accessories
Unique Mouse Shape
Mouse with Gel pad
and Microban
Non-traditional
Track Ball & Mouse
One of the first Hubs
to achieve High
Speed USB 2.0
certification
First biometric
mouse

14. Innovative Desk Accessories (Continued)
Unique Exo-Skeletal
CD Case
Unique tooling to provide a specific look
Unique use of Microban

15. Innovate by pushing barriers
Q: How do you hang a
shelf on a partition wall?
A: FEA
Q: How do you make one
product do more?
A: Multi-configurable
Q: How do you
make a wooden CD
rack inexpensive?
A: Add metal stays
Q: How do you make
an inexpensive CD
rack cost even less?
A: Specify widely
available indigenous
materials

16. Innovative Ideation
Reward failures and successes
Use different methods of idea
generation:
• Brainstorming
• Ideas to go
• Moderator
• Consumer involved
• Immersion
• Focus groups
• Customer Feedback
• Consumer Feedback
• Sales feedback
• Many more…
Use internal company resources
when a lower ideation cost is
required
Use top tier design firms
when appropriate
Use local design firms when
appropriate
Innovate when it happens
Plan specific product areas
that need innovation
Reduce resources
Think Green
Innovate where it happens
Don’t do it the same way

17. Process Innovation
Q: How do you decrease
the time it takes to create a
new product?
A: Redesign the process to
communicate what is
needed, in a known format,
at the correct time, to the
right people that need the
information.
Seems simple but rarely
done effectively.

18. Hard Work = Innovation
As the saying goes…
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
~Colin Powell
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
~Thomas Edison
“I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work
the more I have of it.”
~Benjamin Franklin

19. Products with Patented Features

20. Management Consultant
Lester B Knight, Management Consulting Division
Consulted on projects for Fortune 50-500, small manufacturers and
government entities.

21. Final
I hope you found this presentation enjoyable. If so and you want to include
me as part of your team…
JOHN HERBST
johneherbst@wowway.com
630-401-5056
Project Manager with extensive retail and commercial experience
• Manage product development projects from ideation through concept
refinement, design, prototyping, engineering, tooling, production
startup, certification and on-going product maintenance.
• Achieve cost savings in product and manufacturing processes.
• Inventor of 9+ patents.
• International experience in Asia.