Mark Cortazzo is a high-performing executive with a consistent record of achieving best-in-industry performance across various industries such as electronics, utilities, oil and gas, and shipbuilding. He has expertise in operational excellence, continuous improvement, manufacturing, engineering, and turning around underperforming businesses. Cortazzo has managed large budgets and staff, implemented lean practices, and reduced costs while improving profits. He holds degrees in engineering and business management and certifications in project management and Lean Six Sigma.

1. Mark J. Cortazzo
*

2. *
• Executive Summary
• Positions Held
• Industry Experience
• Areas of Expertise
• Strengths/Skills
• Major Accomplishments
• Guiding Principles
• Education/Certifications
• Why Hire Mark Cortazzo

3. *
• High performing executive with a consistent record of achieving best in
industry performance. Consistent success with driving performance and
achieving customer/corporate standards of performance. Hands on
executive who believes in the value of the team. Visionary, big-picture
manager who has an open door and likes to walk the floor.
• Fiscally responsible and wholly accountable with the ability to adapt to
changing market conditions in order to achieve P&L goals. Managed
budgets as large as $250 million and a staff as large as 900. Reduced costs
by 10% per year. Adapted to customer and material vendor cost pressures
while achieving 20% OI. Achieved record revenues/profits with no capital
infusion and the use of lean practices.
• Continuous Improvement and operational excellence expert. Combined
years of hands on experience in a variety of industries with lean and six
sigma practices to achieve best in industry results. Awards for Supplier of
the year, Best in Industry Performance, and Business Excellence awards.
• Technical Expertise in order to overcome complex engineering
challenges. First hand experience as a designer and a process engineer
enable me to understand technical challenges and how to overcome them
quickly and in a cost effective manner.
• Experience in new product and new process development. As part of
business acquisition, product development, and growth opportunities
designed & introduced new products, developed processes, developed lean
factories, and developed new operating capabilities in the electronics,
cable, shipbuilding, Utility, Oil & Gas, Security, and technical ceramics
industries.
Executive Leadership
Vision and Strategy Formulation
and Execution
Big Picture Management
Change Agent
Turnaround Manager
Continuous Improvement
Operational Excellence
Business Process Development
Supply Change Management
Manufacturing Expertise
Technical Expertise
P&L Focus
Team Builder
International Operations
Risk Management
Product Development
New Process Development

4. *
*Program Manager
*Director Continuous Improvement & Manufacturing
Operations
*Director/VP Manufacturing Operations
*Director Integration Laboratory and New Technology
Development
*RF Communication Project Design Manager
*Sr Manager, Wafer Fabrication Operations
*Technical Manager, Global Operational Excellence
(Continuous Improvement)
A Wide Breadth of Experience spanning Design, Development,
Engineering, Manufacturing, Lean/6σ (Operational Excellence), Business
Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management

5. *
 Leadership
 Management
 Performance
 Results
Power Utilities
• Nuclear
• Fossil Fuel
National Border Security
• Command & Control
• Sensors
Highly Engineered
Cables
• Signal
• Power
• Fiber
• Copper
Oil & Gas Industry
• Shale Oil Refining
• Revamp/Recon
Ship Building –
Littoral
Combat Ships
• Production
• Test
• Trials
Advanced
Electronic
Ceramics
• Dielectrics
• Ferrites
Semiconductors
• Assembly
& Test
• Wafer Fab
• HPIC, Bipolar,
CMOS, NMOS,
MEMS, SiGe,
Optolectronics
Electrical
Connectors and
Medical Cables

6. *
Warehousing
• Raw Materials Kitting Manufacturing/TEST
Warehousing
• Finished
Goods
Customer
Delivery
• Logistics
Purchasing
Material Mgmt
• Support:
• Process Engineering
• Product Engineering
• R&D
• Facilities
• Maintenance
• Machine Shop & Machine Design
• Industrial Engineering: Lean/6σ,
simulation, plant layout, capacity
planning, labor models, cycle time
reduction, value stream analysis,
kaizens.
Production Control/Planning
Other Areas:
• P&L Management
• Stakeholder Mgmt
• Turn Around Mgmt
• Risk Management
• Cost Reduction
• Global Mfg Mgmt
• Yield Improvement
• Quality Assurance
• Product/Process
Development
Largest Work
Force Managed: 888
Max Budget: 245M$
Specs Design
Prototyping/
Models
Gate
Reviews Total Order Management
Customer
Feedback
New Product Introduction
Planning Factors
Order Entry Sales
BOM
• Finance
• IT Mgmt
• ERP
• Metrics

7. * OUTCOME:
BEST IN
INDUSTRY
RESULTS
STRENGTHS
SKILLSAdaptability
Staying
Power
Leadership
People
Skills
Creativity
Breadth of
Experience
Depth of
Knowledge
International
Operations
Lean/6σ
Engineering
Manufacturing
Operations
Management
Turn Around
Management
New Product
Introduction
Design
P&L Management
Plant Operations
Strategy Formulation
and Implementation
Risk Management
Program Management
Communication
Skills (Oral & Written)
Finance/
Budget Mgmt
Technical
Expertise

8. *
Grew operating capability by 40% while achieving 20% operating
income
 Achieved new revenue heights through the use of Lean practices at a
highly engineered cable facility
#1 and #3 best performing wafer fabrication plants in the industry
Best in industry cycle time in assembly & test operations in the
Fareast.
50% reduction in prototype/models cycle time after improving
business planning processes
Reduction in end-to-end cycle time from 13 weeks to 4 weeks at a
semiconductor manufacturer.
Yield improvements of 5 to 30% at a advanced electronic ceramics
facility. Supplier of the year award from the Navy.
Achievement of world class delivery performance of 98% or greater

9. Thinking ahead is great, planning ahead is exceptional. Don’t be
defensive, be offensive.
All great teams fail. The great teams learn quickly from their
mistakes and make sure they don’t happen again. Don’t try to
hide or be defensive about issues…..expose and fix them.
Keep it upbeat. We should enjoy what we do and the people we
do it with. Celebrate your accomplishments. Stay focused on
the goal and a successful outcome.
Keep your eye on the ball. Don’t get lost in the weeds. Know
what is important and keep moving forward.
Take time to carefully form and build the team. Lack of a team
dynamic is the #1 reason teams fail. Be approachable. Attack
problems and issues….not people.
Communicate up, down and across and do it often. Make
communication easy. Equally share the good news as well as
the bad. Listen and you might learn something.
*
Throughout the course of my career, I have found that people are the success
to any great company. Cultivating the right set of skills in a team is key to
mission success. These skills include:
Avoid assumptions or opinion. Gather the data and get to the
facts. Be honest with yourself and others. Deal in facts and
analysis. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.
• Build a Team
Dynamic
• Communicate
• Keep it
Factual
• Keep it
Positive
• See the big
picture
• Lean from
your mistakes
• Be Proactive
Have a sense of purpose every day. Your purpose on the job is to
beat the competition and keep your customers happy. Do that
and you will succeed.
• Be Results
Oriented
Goal:
Mission
Success

10. *
*Degreed Programs
*Masters Electrical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
*Masters Mechanical Engineering Lehigh University
*Bachelors Mechanical Engineering Drexel University
*Executive Education
*University of Pennsylvania (Wharton): Fundamental of Business
Management
*Columbia University: Strategy Formulation & Implementation
*Harvard University: Building Competitive Advantage Through
Operations
*Certificates
*PMP
*Black Belt – Lean/Six Sigma

11. *
*I would welcome the opportunity to
further discuss my skills and
qualifications and to demonstrate
how I would be an asset to your
company and your customers.