Robert F. "Bob" Jordan, PE

Professional Biography

Bob Jordan has been in new product development as project engineer and management for over 10 years, and has been an engineer for over 20 years. He is currently vice president of research and product development for a military and commercial survival equipment design and manufacturer. He was most recently VP of engineering for a security industry equipment design and manufacturer. Before that he was engineering manager in the commercial industrial equipment industry and was R&D Manager in the medical device and aerospace industries. His responsibilities have always been in the area of new product development, and he also has had responsibility for quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, and test.

A high-energy innovator and implementer of systems, Mr. Jordan is co-founder of eNPIProcess.com, a web-based new product introduction Design for Six Sigma enterprise. Using this process he was able to take a young engineering staff and develop and released more major products in less time than ever before in company's 30-year history. These products have suffered no recalls or field design changes and contributed $2+M in new sales in 2004 and was a backbone product line in 2005.

A strategic thinker, Mr. Jordan is a key member of his current (and was with his former) company’s strategic planning team, and is presently a volunteer facilitator of strategic planning efforts at both a four-year college and a local prison ministry. Mr. Jordan is a board member of a non-profit organization and is a leader on the finance subcommittee. In industry he is and has been responsible for all company intellectual property activity, including initiating and reviewing patents, exclusives, and royalty agreements, and even recruiting patent counsel. He has successfully led engineering organizations in ISO-9000 and CE Certifications and is known for developing staff – both professionally and personally.

Mr. Jordan has taught engineering and new product development for over 10 years at the college level. He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology and is also a degreed Chemical Technologist. He is a licensed professional mechanical engineer and holds nine patents and has eight patents pending. He is trained in both Classical as well as Design for Six Sigma (Black Belt) and has trained and certified over 50 DFSS Green Belts.