We are pleased to present our next Colorado Springs LDS Business Lunch on Thursday, February 16th from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at The Warehouse Restaurant and Gallery located at 25 W. Cimarron Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs.
This month our speaker is Bob Wolski, Program Director for Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology (CAMT). He will be speaking on Revitalizing Manufacturing and Technology in the US and Colorado.
CAMT is the Colorado Affiliate of the US Dept. of Commerce’s NIST/MEP Agency. As a consultant to CAMT, Bob is currently managing several federally funded programs that are intended to help revitalize manufacturing and technology in America. Current programs range from a very specific pilot activity with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, which is intended to assist Veteran Owned Small Businesses with fulfilling critical procurement needs for the Government, to a major new initiative for building up a domestic only supply chain with the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration’s High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program.
Robert S. Wolski
Program Director
CAMT
With over 36 years of experience in the global high-tech industry, Bob is a senior level executive with well diversified expertise in design engineering, quality, manufacturing operations, sales, marketing and business management. During his 14 years with Digital Equipment Corporation he was a key contributor to the success of several major programs, which included worldwide sourcing initiatives. Bob’s many roles at DEC covered a progressively upward rise through the ranks of design engineering and manufacturing operations management.
Following DEC, Bob worked as a professional consultant; then founded DevTek, an engineering and manufacturing services company. DevTek grew and quickly became a key supplier to several major companies within the computing/data storage industry. He created a unique global business model that allowed for low cost turn-key EM services, ranging from rapid prototyping of new products to manufacturing fulfillment, which produced continuous market share growth and profitability. Bob also managed the overall architecture, design development, manufacture and market launch of numerous innovative and highly-complex test equipment products for various sectors of the global electronics manufacturing industry. He led DevTek’s initiatives for acquiring strategic global business partnerships and developed new strategies for economical replication in low cost regions that were located in close proximity to his international customer site locations.
At the peak of DevTek’s success, Bob successfully orchestrated the sale of his company. Then, following the acquisition he stayed on to manage the local operation and start-up processes for the transitioning of his privately held company to a major publicly traded US based Electronics Manufacturing Services Corporation with multiple international facilities. In the years following Bob continued to work in the global EMS industry, with companies such as Benchmark Electronics (fka PEMSTAR, Inc.) and Plexus Corp. For over a decade Bob worked as senior level business development executive gaining an extensive background and experience in the global Defense/Security/Aerospace, Consumer Electronics, Test/Measurement Equipment, Computing/Data Storage, Industrial Process Equipment, Factory Automation Systems/Robotics, and Medical Device markets. Following Plexus Corp., Bob worked as an independent business and economic development consultant to the high-tech industry, with a few select clients, such as the Colorado Association for Manufacturing & Technology (CAMT). Currently, Bob is the Regional Director for CAMT’s NIST/MEP Buy American / Supplier Scouting Programs in the Southwest US. Bob is also managing several other key economic development initiatives that are intended to help revitalize, grow and sustain the manufacturing industry in Colorado.
Bob has a proven track-record of success in providing efficient and effective engineering/manufacturing consulting services for multiple clients. Bob’s strategies and solutions for a wide variety of products, manufacturing processes and highly-complex capital equipment reflect his strength as well accomplished entrepreneur, engineer and manager. With special expertise in the areas of product and process equipment design development for high-precision electromechanical applications, Bob has designed and developed several unique and innovative new products, including: power transmission systems for center-pivot irrigation equipment, computer disk drive head/disk assemblies, rotary and linear actuators, rotating spindles, removable disk media cartridges, air filtration systems, and subsystems with advanced power/packaging. Other previous work experience includes a variety of design and manufacturing engineering responsibilities in the aircraft/aerospace and agricultural equipment industries. Bob holds several US Patents that have been used in a variety of successful test equipment products for the computing/data storage industry.
Bob holds a MBA from University of Phoenix, with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from the University of Southern Colorado (aka CSU-Pueblo), and as A.S. degree in Mechanical Design Technology from Pikes Peak Community College. Bob has been a long-standing member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
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