Gerald McNerney
New Product Development Leader: VOC, Innovation, IoT, Technical Leadership, and Portfolio Mgmt
- Role
- Chief Innovation Officer at Duravent Group
- Location
- Madison, WI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gerald McNerney
As a certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP) with the Product Development and Management Association, I am an experienced global manager in new product development: Over 20 years of international experience, multi-million dollar projects, advanced development and innovation, Intellectual property, strategic planning, robust product design.Specialties: New product development, department management, new product development process, robust design governance, intellectual property, strategic planning, budgeting, and project management.
Experience
Chief Innovation Officer
Feb 2026 — Present
Lead the Innovation team, consisting of Product Management and Engineering, and continue to drive innovative products that meet customer needs and solve real world problems.
Education
Purdue University
MSME, Mechanical Engineering
1997 — 2000
Kettering University
BSME, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science
1991 — 1995
Anderson University
MBA, Leadership
2000 — 2002
Skills
- Budgets
- Lean Manufacturing
- Value Stream Mapping
- Cad
- Budgeting
- Spc
- Design for Manufacturing
- Project Management
- Finite Element Analysis
- Continuous Improvement
- Department Management
- Engineering
- Business Development
- Fmea
- Engineering Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Kaizen
- Strategic Planning
- R&D
- Intellectual Property
- Program Management
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Leadership
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Product Development
- Product Design
- Six Sigma
- Product Launch
- Management
- Process Engineering
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