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Rolf E. Soderstrom

Expertise:

Benchmarking

Total Cycle Time Reduction

Product Design/Development Loop

Customer/Supplier Partnerships

Vision/Strategy/Policy Development

Pragmatic Roadmap for TQM

Experience:

Rolf Soderstrom has 35 years of experience in operations management, including more than 20 years with Codex Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola. As an officer of Codex, he helped guide the company through dramatic market and technology changes and helped the company achieve 40% annual compounded growth over 19 years. Currently, Rolf is Senior Applications Consultant at Motorola University where he is responsible for helping companies focus on quality, design, and manufacturing issues as a means of increasing their ability to complete in a global marketplace. At Codex, Rolf helped the company grow from $1 million in annual sales and 75 associates to $500 million in sales and 4,200 associates worldwide. During his tenure, Rolf held a variety of positions, including Vice President of Manufacturing; Senior Vice President, Corporate Planning; Senior Vice President/General Manager, Product Operations; and most recently Executive Vice President. Rolf also serves on numerous boards and is a frequent speaker throughout the U.S., specializing in topics that assist organizations in their journey to Total Customer Satisfaction.

Affiliations:

Vice Chairman, Associated Industries of Massachusetts

Managing Director, The Nassau Group

IEEE

Education:

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Tufts University

M.S., Engineering Management, Northeastern University

Graduate work in Nuclear Engineering, M.I.T.

Advanced studies In Electrical Engineering, City College of New York

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