Barris Lotterer Management Consulting

Ronald R. Barris:

Mr. Barris is a founding Partner in Barris Lotterer Management Consulting specializing in High Technology Marketing, Sales, and Operations. He has over 35 years of Business Experience in applying the techniques of marketing and planning strategies, the proper application of automation techniques using Siebel, delivery systems strategy, product development, service and software offerings, and the design of overall corporate systems. Mr. Barris also has a wealth of experience in Product Development and Product Fulfillment Processes. He was the Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Semiconductor Industry Practice, and more recently, a Strategist and SVP for Cadence Design Systems. He also spent a significant portion of his career with General Electric’s Power Generation Business in both marketing and sales.

Mr. Barris has held most of the business roles in high technology marketing and sales functions, including VP-Marketing and VP-Sales with an international focus, and as a consultant focused on improving the return on marketing dollars...often shortening the time to complete a sale through more targeted marketing, and increasing the awareness of what needs to be focused on in the marketing and selling process.

Mr. Barris has held functional and management positions in General Management, Operations (manufacturing and engineering), Marketing, Strategic Planning, Sales Engineering, Services, Manufacturing and Project Management. This experience spans both international and domestic projects and includes the development of multinational business relationships. This cross-functional experience enables Mr. Barris quickly identify process improvements that can increase business performance within and across business functions.

He is considered a thought leader in the design and implementation of Collaborative Product Commerce; the doing of business between global teams and across enterprise boundaries, and in the development of the design chain, the supply chain and the management of those relationships over the product life cycle. He has particular experience in developing business and operational strategy that results in significantly reducing the amount of lead time and investment required to bring new products and service offerings to market and establishing the delivery of products/offerings as a strong strategic element of the Enterprise.

Mr. Barris was a founding member of the Material Handling Research Center at Georgia Tech University and a founding member of the Assembly Automation Manufacturer’s Association. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona and a Masters of Science degree in Operations Research from Union College.

James F. Lotterer:

James F. Lotterer is a founding Partner in Barris Lotterer Management Consulting specializing in Operational Excellence and Change Management, with a focus on the Product Development and Product Fulfillment Processes. He is a former Partner in Coopers & Lybrand's Center for Operations Technology, and has extensive experience applying the techniques of strategic planning, corporate restructuring, turnaround, and implementing world class operational tactics and systems. More recently, he was the Partner in charge of Computer Science Corporation's Aerospace and Defense Consulting Practice, where he helped Aerospace Manufacturers apply e-business and information systems technologies to reengineered processes in order to improve responsiveness, flexibility and cost.

Mr. Lotterer has extensive experience in High Technology, Commercial, and Industrial Manufacturing. He has held both functional and executive positions in General Management, Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality and Business Development. Specific industry experience includes Automotive; Aerospace and Defense; Communications Equipment; Contract Manufacturing; Electronics Assembly and Test; Hybrid Integrated Circuit Manufacturing; Medical Electronics; Metal Fabrication; Machine Tools; Metals Processing; Office Equipment manufacturing; Sports Equipment and Telecommunications.

Mr. Lotterer combines his extensive industry, management and consulting experience to help companies increase competitiveness, through operational restructuring and turn around. He and his partner have restructured over 50 companies in the last 12 years to a lower base cost and competitive basis, and 8 of those clients have saved over $100 million on the bottom line 12 to 18 months after they started.

Mr. Lotterer began his career with Motorola in the communications sector, and went on to lead the quality revolution in Motorola's Automotive Electronics Business Unit. He was instrumental in the development of the six-sigma process and took a leadership role in driving a ten times improvement in overall quality. He held senior manufacturing management positions with Pitney Bowes Electronic Meter and Scales Division, where he was responsible for implementing Just-in-time Manufacturing and Total Quality Management programs; He was an Executive Vice President with Connell Limited Partnership, a $1.5 billion industrial manufacturing company, where he led an operational restructuring effort that resulted in increasing the value of the precision metals division. He was also a Partner in Coopers & Lybrand's Center for Manufacturing Excellence; and Partner in charge of Computer Science Corporation's Aerospace and Defense Consulting Practice.

Mr. Lotterer is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University with a degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration, with emphasis on General Management.