1. CHRISTOPHER K. WIESE (818) 324-3542 | Dallas, Texas
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SENIOR-LEVEL EXECUTIVE
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP – SOFTWARE & HARDWARE R&D – GLOBAL PRODUCT/MARKET LAUNCH
A visionary and accomplished leader offers a proven track record of driving successful research and development efforts
for technical products while defining world-class benchmarks in business operations and global supply chains. Directs
global teams of technical and business professionals with a keen ability to identify and develop high potentials.
Develops patented, high-tech/cutting-edge products that have earned hundreds of millions of dollars in new business.
Areas of Expertise:
Budget/P&L Management Global Supply Chain Research & Development
Strategic Planning LEAN Processes Technical Product Development
Product Portfolio Gap Analysis Manufacturing Team Leadership
Global Operations Inventory Control Talent Development & Succession Planning
– SELECT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS –
•At Spirent Communications, led integration of three key acquisitions from 2010 to 2012, including creating an
integrated product portfolio platform and leveraging strength of newly acquired IP to position company for growth.
•Applied LEAN Engineering principles to create the Efficient Virtual Continuous Integration (EVCI) vision and strategy;
received $4M funding approval and built/delivered a fully operational EVCI process in seven months.
•Developed innovative business processes that resulted in 10 patents that were awarded or currently pending with
the US Patent Office; LEAN processes delivered more than $1.5B in savings for Lucent within five years.
•Repositioned Lucent to differentiate them from competitors and improve profit margins in a troubled industry;
accelerated annual material cost reductions from $50M to more than $350M.
– PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW –
TEKTRONIX COMMUNICATIONS – Plano, TX 2013-2015
Part of Danaher’s Test & Measurement Group; Acquisition by NetScout to close in 2Q 2015
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
•Hired to create an engineering process for four software companies with 2,600 employees and $1B+ in revenue;
directed 650+ engineers in the US, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Moldova, China and Canada.
•Owned accountability for fundamentally transforming the Product Development Organization and creating a new
methodology for delivering software and hardware products to market through LEAN processes.
•Built and delivered a EVCI process that created a Global Command Center where real-time 24/7 Visual Management
metrics for EVCI health assessment; fully trained a 600+ person engineering team on the process.
•Deployed EVCI that was capable of continuously debugging and integrating 6,000 to 10,000 lines of code every day;
reduced defects by more than 50% as a result.
SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS – Los Angeles, CA 2007-2013

2. CHRISTOPHER K. WIESE (818) 324-3542 | ckwiese@outlook.com
A global communications company with four segments: Networks & Applications, Wireless, Global Positioning & Service
Experience, and Service Assurance. Offers solutions for testing next-gen networks and applications, data centers, cloud
computing, virtualization, application and security, high speed networks/services, and infrastructure optimization.
SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS CONTINUED…
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
•Oversaw financial performance, product development, product platform strategy, NPI/global operations, contract
manufacturing, supplier management, product quality, customer support/service, Product Marketing, and North
American Sales; also served as Chairman of the CTO (Chief Technology Office); managed a $250M and 750+ staff.
•Recruited, hired, and trained additional engineers, expanding the technical team 50% in five years as part of the
growth strategy to support increased revenue performance.
•Integrated multiple acquisitions and increased engineering capacity to successfully create products in adjacent
markets, providing $80M in new revenue streams.
•Restructured company’s global operations to transform product development capabilities 10X, including developing
new products from rapid proof-of-concept designs from the CTO council to volume production.
•Integrated business acquisitions, recruited 200+ engineers at Spirent’s R&D center in Beijing China, and fully merged
business units and recent acquisitions into Spirent’s Product Platform strategy.
ALCATEL-LUCENT – Paris, France 2003-2007
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES BELL LABORATORIES – Murray Hill, NJ 2000-2003
Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs, and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories) is the premiere Research and
Development subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent. Bell Laboratories operates its headquarters in Murray Hill, New Jersey and
has other Research and Development facilities throughout the world
VICE PRESIDENT
•Directed a growing organization as teams increased from 450 to 1,200 engineers across 12 global teams; managed
product development, operations, supply chain engineering, competitive intelligence, product realization, product
Market Based Target Costing, and global material demand planning across 42 factories worldwide.
•Handled a $230M operating expense budget while heading quarterly win-loss reviews with sales teams and
architecting a new global supply chain/logistics strategy to expedite the design to manufacturing processes.
•Reduced the number of Wireless Base Station designs from eight onto a single common platform.
•Created and implemented a new methodology to capture $350M+ annual material cost savings.
DIRECTOR, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
•Shifted an organization from an internal to an external focus, differentiated Lucent from competitors, and defined
product features and costs necessary to win competitively in the market.
•Developed a cash flow assessment tool (Phase In, Phase Out) allowing Product Development Teams to trade off
benefits of adopting a lower cost design vs. discontinuing higher cost product versions; the PIPO application
delivered $25M to $30M annually in balance sheet and P&L savings.
•Recognized by Lucent’s Chairman and CEO for substantially reducing the costs of wireless base stations, critical to
improving Lucent’s competitiveness in a fiercely price sensitive environment, and exceeding the $129M cost
reduction objective by $48M.
Career Note: Prior experience includes Senior Engineering Manager - Bell Labs Airloop Wireless Local Loop, Chief
Engineer - Bell Labs Advanced Technology Systems Group, Engineering Manager - Bell Labs, and Supply Chain &
Operations.

3. CHRISTOPHER K. WIESE (818) 324-3542 | ckwiese@outlook.com
– EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS –
MS, Mechanical Engineering / BS, Mechanical Engineering – UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
Completed most coursework towards a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

4. CHRISTOPHER K. WIESE (818) 324-3542 | ckwiese@outlook.com
– SELECT PUBLICATIONS, US PATENTS, & AWARDS –
Danaher Conference of Innovation – September 2014
First Place Award for the most Impactful Innovation with Potential to affect all Operating Companies
London Stock Exchange - Financial Directors Excellence Award – 2009 and 2010
Recognizing Spirent Communications as one of the top performing companies on the FTSE 250
Seven (7) Selected Articles on the Restructuring of Spirent Communications – April 2008
Purchasing Magazine, 3G Newslett, Telecom Pape, Circuitnet News Compilation, Evertiq, EMS Now, i-Connect 007
Ten (10) US Patents Pending or Awarded for Innovative Business Processes – December 2006
US Patent #7280882 – Systems and Methodologies Forecasting Demand for a Subcomponent
Recognition Award for Delivering >$1B of Material Savings – August 2006
Lucent Chairman’s Award - Breakthrough Business Tools creating competitive advantage for Lucent Technologies -
January 2006
The Supply Chain Networks Leadership Award “A True Leader Who Inspires People to Accomplish What They Thought
Was Impossible” Senior Presidents Award – December 2003
Flexent ModCell Compact Wireless Base Station “Innovative Product Development to Capture Low Cost Emerging
Markets” Bell Laboratories Presidents Award – December 2003
Warranty Expense Reduction Program “Innovation Business Processes to Proactively Reduce Product Quality
Conformance Warranty Costs” - Bell Laboratories Presidents Award – December 2003
CDMA ModCell Base Station Platform Evolution and Cost Reduction Project “Innovation Business Processes to Improve
Time-to-Market and Identify Product Cost Competitiveness and Significant Gross Margin Improvements”
Bell Laboratories Presidents Award – December 2002
Recognition Award by Lucent’s Chairman and CEO “Leadership Award for substantially reducing the costs of wireless
base stations, critical to improving Lucent’s competitiveness in a fiercely price sensitive environment, and exceeding the
$129M cost reduction objective by $48M” – November 2002
Rapid Development and Commercialization of Products – A Business Imperative
Bell Laboratories Technical Journal Volume 5, Number 4 October – December 2000
Fixed Distributed System–Under Water Segment (FDS-UWS) Fiber Optic Cable Connector Process Quality Results
Bell Labs Federal Systems Advanced Technologies Technical Paper - February 1992
Transition Torque Relief Device (TTRD) Bending and Shear Transfer – A Theoretical Treatise
Bell Laboratories Technical Paper - July 1991
Theoretical Stresses of Helically Wound Load Carrying Members in Tension, Torsion, and Bending
Bell Laboratories Technical Paper - June 1991
Analysis, Design, and Test Results of the Transition Torque Relief Device
Bell Laboratories Technical Paper - June 1991
Modeling of the Fiber Optic Cable Connectors to Express the Transient Temperature Distribution
Bell Laboratories Technical Paper - May 1991