Fred Ortmann is a highly experienced Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain Management, and Project Management expert for High Tech products, including very high volume Consumer items, Industrial Products, Custom Components, Medical Devices, Instruments, and Test Equipment. Fred has a proven track record of meeting objectives on schedule and under budget, making him a visionary leader. He is an out-of-the-box thinker who develops unique solutions to diverse problems. He manages both hardware and software development, Quality, and Operations Efforts in bringing highly reliable HW & SW to market. Expert in ISO 9000, TL9000, AS9100, ISO-13485, and CMMi Quality Management Systems development, implementation, and certification. Trained in ISO/TS-16949, FDA/GMP Quality, and Lean SixSigma, as well as TQM. Fred has a special emphasis on Product Quality, Supply Chain Quality, and recovering the Cost of Non-Quality and process optimization for small to large (multi-location) team efforts and start-up companies. He is a project management expert for new Product Development projects, Quality Systems implementation, and ODM/OEM/CEM external efforts.

Fred Ortmann is a professional manager with a complete understanding of the business cycle from inception to Customer Delivery and on to End of Life of the product. He is highly skilled at sourcing products with first & second-tier CEM partners both domestically in the US and externally across Asia, Europe, and Latin America. His specialties include Out Sourcing efforts (JDM, ODM, OEM, CEM & SW Dev), Quality Systems (ISO, TL, CMMi, FDA/GMP).