Jeff Thomas
TEN PROJECTS HALF FINISHED IS NOTHING! A PHILOSOPHY OF BRINGING PRODUCTS TO MARKET
Jeff Thomas is Vice President of Instrument Development at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a $1B Nasdaq company in southern Maine, that develops, designs, manufactures and distributes products for veterinary, and food and water testing markets. In his organization, Jeff manages a wide range of engineers, including mechanical, electrical, optical, reliability and systems engineers. His remarks at the Summit will center on his philosophy of what it takes to bring products to market. His central theme is that the critical issue is matching the organization’s capacity to its projects. Jeff will tell attendees why he abandoned spreadsheets as a method for managing capacity planning, and how another approach has yielded results in allowing IDEXX to determine which top projects can be completed successfully.
Jeff Thomas is currently Vice President of Instrument Development at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a $1B Nasdaq company, where he leads a team of engineers and scientists in development of diagnostic instrumentation for veterinarians. Jeff previously held the position of Director of R&D Flow Cytometry Instrumentation at Dako (previously Cytomation) from 2002-2006. Jeff also worked at Hewlett Packard from 1994-2001 where he served as a strategic alliance manager for a number of years and as an ASIC designer in their computer systems group. Jeff holds a bachelor's and master's degree of Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah, with a focused study in medical imaging. Jeff and his wife have six children and enjoy spending time in the outdoors, hiking, boating, and skiing.
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