Lessons from Parent's who grew up on Chicago's Southside during Great Depression.
Parents engaged to marry in August 1942, the news of Pearl Harbor during a Bears vs Cardinals game compelled them to marry earlier on New Years Eve Dec. 31, 1941.
Work Ethic Values ___ Instincts
Lessons learned first-generation college student from public schools earned with part-time jobs, pell grant until Regan* was elected , and student loans.
*The Reagan Budget: Attacks on student assistance. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40249274
Amos Alonzo Stagg HS Grad. '79 1st Part-time job '77: Library Aide Green Hills Library
Illinois YMCA Youth in Government '78 co-sponsored legislation on genetic research ethics that passed http://www.ilymcayg.org/about/history/
"Early College" Moraine Valley Community College '78 to earn college course credit during High School.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Unit One/Allen Hall Agricultural Engineering Program
Eastern Illinois University '83 Bachelor of Science Industrial Technology
College of DuPage '85 Associate in Applied Science Plastics Technology
California State University Dominguez Hills '97 Master of Science Quality Assurance
Thesis Publication - Targeting (NPD) metrics for faster development cycles.
Night school continuous college education to supplement work experience 1984-1997 with tuition reimbursement employee benefits
Lessons learned from first job after college graduation 1983-1985.
- Accepted 1st professional job as Manufacturing Engineer weeks after graduation, benefiting from Eastern Illinois University Career Service referral.
- Responsible for the largest client Matsushita Quasar and Panasonic product lines of television sets and components.
- Learned to add-value by creating bottom-line profit that exceed my base salary.
- Tool maker competitive bids for line-tooling and paint masks saved cost.
- Product Costing and Line-tooling design and fabrication.
- Began MBA Studies at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Lessons learned from living and working in Los Angeles South Bay Cities and Long Beach 1985-1999 .
- California Bungalow restoration in Willmore City Historical District of Long Beach California.
- California Real Estate Salesperson License
- Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles (4 years)
- Continuing Education within California Public Higher Education System (i.e. UCLA, CSULB, CSUDH, ECC).
- Sailing Lessons with Long Beach Marina Sailing.
Lessons learned with Fortune 500 company 1995-1992:
- Mattel Cost Engineering Manual Cost Factor preparation base financial reporting cycle data from Mattel factories located in: Taiwan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Mexico Maquiladoras in Tijuana and Monterrey.
- Mattel Standard Operations Procedures (SOP's) for Toy Product Conformance, Safety Testing and Quarantine Policy.
- Mattel Management Association (MMA 1980's): professional training and business presentations offered to employees.
- Guest Speakers.
- Interdepartmental work process presentations.
- Guest Speakers.
- Mattel Toys Industrial Engineering Certification in Predetermined Methods Time Data Procedures.
- Mattel Toastmaster Club Member.
- Product Development cost factors using dbase tools to capture labor rates.
- AACE International organization for Cost Engineering professionals.
Lessons learned with small established Global enterprise with entrepreneurial mindset 1992-current:
- Product Costing Database Coding.
- Fast-cycle New Product Development
- Global Sourcing
- Quality Assurance Plans (QAP's) .
- Hiring Third Party Product Testing Services for voluntary research testing
- At least (3) three qualified partner factories for each critical product provides
necessary leverage to enforce compliance.
Lessons learned as Hong Kong based Business Expatriate with Hong Kong Offices 1999-2001
Project management database to capture NPD metrics for cost, schedule and design.
- Should Cost Analysis with Bill of Materials (BOM) Cost Sheets.
- Time-Based Competition (TBC) Milestone Schedule Tracking.
- Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) with Fast-Cycle New Product Development.
Project Peer Review Weekly Meetings with Hong Kong staff on their project NPD metrics Plan vs Actual.
Project Management Database reports project priority for peer review:
- Green Ahead of Schedule Peer review: Optional shared learnings discussion.
- Yellow On-Time Peer review: Basic summary of immediate project risks.
- Red Behind Schedule Peer review: Detail corrective action and timeline to pick-up schedule.
Preparing toy premium factories for HACCP style audits for Fast-Food Quick Service Restaurant Client (QSR) ( 1990's).
QSR client required suppliers to implement Hazards Analysis of Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles.
Lessons learned as Hong Kong based Business Expatriate with remote offices in Shenzhen, Dongguan City, Shanghai 2002-2004.
- Project Peer Review required Daily (vs. Weekly) Meetings with Mainland Chinese staff on their project NPD metrics Plan vs Actual.
- Long-term business negotiation for sustainable profitability with partner suppliers (i.e. "the meat" vs. "the bone").
- Debug production. Inspection, Rework. Drop and Transit Testing,
- Established 'clean-room" for candy packing.
- Navigating away from Transnational Corporate Crime and Transnational Organized Crime.
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-1)
- Training on factory audits, milestone schedules, product specifications, quality assurance and quality control documentation.
- 996 working hour system
Lessons learned with sourcing, training and contract manufacturing 1992-2014:
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR, also called corporate sustainability, sustainable business, corporate conscience,
corporate citizenship, conscious capitalism, or responsible business) staff training and factory execution.
- Environmental management system (EMS) staff training and factory execution.
- Southeast Asia supply chain evaluation:Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, India, Indonesia, Cambodia
- Hire and train local staff for relationship building and trust within strategic supplier industrial clusters.
- Directed daily work assignments to mainland China staff based near Northern China industrial clusters:
- AM email to staff with the day's action items list.
- PM reply email from staff with deliverables completed from the day's action items list.
- AM email to staff with the day's action items list.
- CPSIA due diligence fraud investigation.
- Third Party Testing Services and Ethics Audit NPO due diligences fraud investigation.
Lessons learned with Fraud Investigations 2014-current
- Regulatory Capture
- Public and Enterprise Corruption
- Transnational Organized Crime.
Faith: Secular Franciscan Order
Work Ethic learned from parents:
- Always give 110 percent:. self-motivation, integrity, determination, consistency, empathy, tenacity.
- Actions speak louder than words.
- Make work fun.
- Do the right thing.
Neighborhoods: Back of the Yards, Englewood, West Englewood, Mount Greenwood,Palos Township.
St Rita of Cascia HS Grad '31,second-generation immigrant worked for A&P Grocery Stores Grocery Store Manager Chicago Southside (A&P 1930's-'40 's High Low Foods '50's-'70's).
Robert Lindblom Technical HS Grad '37 worked for Bell Telephone as Switchboard Operator. Employed as Switchboard Operator with local colleges until the 1980's.
Chicago's South & Far Southwest
Family: "Reflections" 1998, book of family memoirs. Detail memoir of how a son of Irish immigrates and patriarch of 11 siblings made his mark through life with family, arts, education and optimism. Family life during the first half of the 1900’s on Chicago’s Southside “Back of the Yards” (i.e. Union Stock Yards). Honest employment that modernized the grocery industry on Chicago’s Southside during the Great Depression and beyond.
This page is under construction
Thomas Doyle MSc.
Art & Education: Life long passion for arts: drawing, painting: oils, acrylics, watercolor, mix media, ceramics, historic mapping, poetry and writing (i.e. Reflections 1998)