Wyley Kitzmiller

Educational Background: Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering - University of California at Los Angeles Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Johns Hopkins University Contract Management and Intellectual Property Law - Cal Western, USIU Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering - San Jose State University MS Management of Technology - New York University (NYU) Oceanography - Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professional Career: New Product Development and Manufacturing Start-up Sr. Design Engineer Engineering and Production Management Career History: All through junior and senior high school I maintained a visual goal in my mind of becoming a successful product designer, or an architect, or even an aerospace engineer. Until that first summer after graduation from high school, I was unable to settle on which career path to take - so I let fate make that choice for me. But first I tried to do some decision making on my own, visiting with the registrar counselor at the Art Center School, which in 1966 was located in West Los Angeles. After viewing some of the student portfolio work that was required for admission, I went home crushed by a deep sense of inadequacy to meet that challenge - their work was so incredibly beautiful. So, I grabbed a copy of the newspaper classified in search of a summer job - hoping to put off my decision making until I could re-think my career strategy. I came across an ad for an apprentice training opportunity with an aerospace manufacturing company in Van Nuys - "aerospace" - good enough. I applied and was accepted. The one-year program trained me to be a fully qualified machinist. After the year was up, I asked for further training in quality assurance as a precision machined parts inspector. Two years later, I was certified by the FAA, USAF, Navy, and NASA - which gave me the opportunity to work on some very challenging projects involving electro-hydraulic servo systems for aircraft, submarines, and spacecraft. During this period, I was attending college full time to earn a degree in mechanical engineering at UCLA. Then I was caught up in the military draft, threatened with induction into the Army. Instead, I enlisted into the Navy. After four years of military service, I went back to school to study electronics and industrial engineering. My career path eventually led me to Silicon Valley for nine years - working for Honeywell, Advanced Micro Devices, Perkin-Elmer, and several systems integration companies working on various projects involving industrial lasers, machine tools, robotics and ROVs (Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles). At the "top of my game" in engineering management, I left the Valley for new opportunities in Mexico and China. This eventually led to managing a consumer products engineering development company in Hong Kong for four years. Inventing new product ideas was fun, and setting up manufacturing plants in China was very challenging, but I needed to come back home and get involved in product development for U.S.-based manufacturers. By now, I was fully settled into the field of domestic consumer products - my days of work in the defense industry were over. As a product designer, I was doing work for several major appliance and housewares brands. Many of my products could be seen on the shelves at retailers like Target (under the brand names of LaLa and Michael Graves), Kmart (under the 'Martha Stewart' brand), Bed Bath & Beyond, and Walmart (Kaz, Honeywell, Mr. Coffee, and Sunbeam appliances). After a successful and personally gratifying forty-five year professional career, I retired to write books on the subjects I had become familiar with - new product development, the economics of start-up manufacturing, and historical recollections on some of the people and places I was fortunate to have h

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