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John began his career at Ford
in the Chassis Engineering Department where he suggested and implemented
several new programs. Soon he joined the Lincoln-Mercury Division as the
Accessory Product Planning Manager. Within a matter of months he moved into
the L-M Car Product Planning Office just before the Lincoln-Mercury and Ford
Division Product Planning offices were merged into the Ford Product
Development Office, Car Product Planning Group. In this Division, he became
a Chief of Program Evaluation (responsible for budgets, piece costs and
tooling costs) for several car lines.
He became known for his
innovation and ability to argue successfully for new product programs.
Mr. Eilertsen then joined Ford's Customer Service Division, Service Research
Center as the center's Business Planning Specialist where he was involved in
the industry's first electronic in-vehicle testing diagnostic system
developed for Ford’s several thousand car dealerships.
Product Planning, Marketing
and new product innovations eventually became Mr. Eilertsen’s
expertise. Just prior to leaving Ford to form his own business, he was a
Chief Product Planner for Ford's Diversified Products Operation. His last
assignment was the China Project where he led a group that provided
the Chinese with a detailed presentation guide for developing a new vehicle.
Mr. Eilertsen was personally
involved in several unique products while at Ford including: the conception
and implementation of the industry's first computer engineered ride;
computerized program timing schedules; the development and introduction of
the Cougar XR7, Cyclone, Lynx, Mercury Grand Marquis car lines, the Boss and
Mach1 Mustangs and Cougar Eliminator models racing components, the
industry's first production racing mirrors, rear deck spoilers, hood scoops,
hood locks and body-side tape stripes; and America’s first production sun
roof in a domestic vehicle (Cougar XR7 Dan Gurney Special).
He also spearheaded many
other engineering and corporate wide product programs such as Complexity
Reduction Studies, Option Business Studies, Corporate Steering Wheel
Programs, the industry's first plastic instrument panels and the industry's
first high-luster aluminum ornamentation in the US to name a few.
In addition, he evaluated and
determined the proper course of action with respect to ensuring company /
product compliance with the French Language Services Acts in France and
Quebec.
John also served as the liaison
between Engineering, Marketing and Financial operations, synchronizing
functions to activate new programs and features, including new products,
expense reductions, warranty improvements and related initiatives.
After leaving Ford, Mr.
Eilertsen was granted several patents for the worlds fastest electronic
solenoid actuators (called Multinoids™ because of their unique
multi-coil configurations). At the same time he started a consulting
business (Consulting Technologies) in addition to a financial investment
firm called Capital Funding Group. Acquiring Ford Motor Company as
his #1 client, he performed special consulting assignments for Ford's Car
Engineering activity, the Ford Controller’s Office and Ford's Truck
Product Planning and Development offices.
Drawing on his impressive career
with Ford, John is now President of Consul-Tec Inc, a high-tech
development and management consulting firm he founded and built from the
ground up. His firm provides general and specialized business consulting
for startups, midsize, and Fortune 500 clients, ranging from simple market
research questionnaires to in-depth multi-year marketing analyses for
global enterprises. Here are some of John's accomplishments:
During the early years of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), Mr. Eilertsen
was hired as interim President for American Business Computer (a small, in
debt, software company) where he reorganized the company and introduced EDI
software into the supplier base of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler
Corporations. ABC became one of the very successful "big 3" EDI
software companies in the U.S. and was eventually acquired by Sterling
Commerce.
Once this assignment with ABC
was completed, Mr. Eilertsen acquired the Master Distributorship from a
specialized communications company involved with IBM’s 3780 bisynchronous
file transfer technology for EDI and captured an astounding 90% of the
Automotive EDI market. At this time, his company became known as CTI
Communications and subsequently introduced several new and unique
communications software programs and related synchronous hardware products.
Mr. Eilertsen developed,
engineered and patented a multi-protocol synchronous/async modem that was
widely used by Chrysler and Toyota suppliers. One of Mr. Eilertsen's
innovations was designing and implementing a PC/Unix based store-and-forward
mail boxing system (that could replace a mainframe system) used to transfer
the engineering drawing (CAD) files between Toyota and their large supplier
base (two systems were available a 3780 BSC version and an Internet HTTP/s
version).
CTI’s services include
Organizational / Corporate Development, Restructuring, and Crisis
Management Strategies, short and long-range Strategic Planning, New
Product Planning and Introductions, and Business / Systems Analysis,
Design, and Implementation. John offers Senior-level executives Creative
Marketing concepts and Merchandising Strategies, Complexity and
Cost-reduction Programs, Market Research, Financial and Budget Analysis
planning, and associated management and business development functions.
Prior to his work with Ford Motor
Company, John had served as Technical Systems Analyst and Sales
Representative for the Standard Register Company of Dayton Ohio, in their
Detroit District Sales Office. Within his first year, John received
the President’s U.S. “Salesman of the Year” award.
John regards himself as a
seasoned "doer" combining technical and entrepreneurial business
orientation with the necessary "people skills" to organize resources for
the profit-oriented results, he is at his best undertaking P & L
responsibilities in a results-focused environment.
Mr. Eilertsen is currently in
semi-retirement while still working on his newest market for Mexico where
electronic invoicing is becoming mandatory for many automotive companies;
in this regard his company is marketing his
EBMX
file transfer software system that is based upon the Internet's HTTP/s
(secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol).
John holds a Bachelor’s
Degree from the University of Detroit, supplemented by Post Graduate
coursework in Business Administration. Further engineering
coursework included credits from the University of Wisconsin’s
Engineering Extension Center and several Kepner-Tregoe courses.
He is a proud veteran
of the United States Air Force, a former State and NCAA Fencing
champion and currently lives with his wife in Sparta, New Jersey
where he is also member of the New Jersey Technology Council. His
company web site is
www.cticomm.com
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