Leadership
Kinetic Leadership
Kinetic Engineering is led by Ted Flittner, who brings his professional engineering knowledge and experience and combines it with his unique global perspective of people, society, environment, and resource sustainablity.
My Story
I have walked numerous paths in my life and professional career. In 1999, I stepped away from my 9 year span in hi-tech to study the planet we live on. Nearly three years later, after visiting 6 continents and over 50 countries, I returned with a renewed energy and focus.
I created Kinetic Engineering to allow me to bring my skills and energy to companies in my local community and to also allow me the ability to spend more time as a volunteer and an advocate of better practices. Along the way I’ve served on the board of Earth Resource Foundation, co-founded the nation’s leading advocacy group for electric transporation, Plug In America, and have continued to learn and teach more about green practices that people and companies can adopt everyday.
Through Kinetic Engineering, I am focused on realizing positive results to your bottom line by improving the processes you use everyday and those you are developing. I believe that improvments can be made in all areas and that continual forward motion is vital to be competitive in today’s environment. And most of all, I believe in having fun.
Biography
Industrial Engineer & Operations Management
Ted Flittner has ten years experience leading teams to achieve greater profitability. He has proven his effectiveness in developing cohesive, world-class teams and in dealing with cross-cultural barriers and interfacing all levels of organizations. His strong international experience follows from working in Asia and in supporting foreign operations from the U.S, as well as travel to over 50 countries on 6 continents.
Ted has led numerous teams to implement SPC, work cells, Kanban methods, cellular manufacturing, process standards, setup time reduction, and yield improvement. He has extensive experience in developing cost models, managing capital, process mapping, space layout, workstation design, time standards, line balancing, and computer simulation. He has taught the methods of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Team Building and Facilitation.
Ted is on the board of directors of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Los Angeles Chapter. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering with a strong emphasis in Management Systems. He is software certified with Arena Simulation programming and AutoCAD drafting programs. He has extensive experience all the software tools of MS Office, MS Project, ProModel and SLAM simulation, @Risk Sensitivity Analysis, and HumanCad Ergonomic Modeling.
