WESLEY A. WHITTAKER
In 1984, Wes Whittaker was tapped by Siemens Transmission & Distribution to be the CAD Manager in their Atlanta-area operation. A senior staff level manager, Whittaker authored an organizational restructuring that eliminated his own position but improved division productivity and revenues by nearly twenty percent. He was rewarded by being made Manager of Special Projects and was responsible for facility planning and managing the relocation of the Automation Group from Boston to Atlanta. After six years with Siemens, Whittaker moved on to Chicago to do field engineering forensics work on nuclear plants. He stayed in the electrical engineering and construction field for the next seventeen years as a senior level designer, project manager and design-build group manager. Highlights of his career include:
- Nomination for General Motors’ Presidents award for electrical design on the GMX130 Robotics Assembly project at Oldsmobile
- The Level(3) Quality award for being Lead ISP project engineer on the Detroit and Chicago phases of their nationwide SONET project
- Working as the Field Client Liaison for Chicago-based engineering giant MWH at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus where he built a reputation for innovative and forward thinking design solutions
- Lead Electrical Designer for the renovation of the historic Hotel Wisconsin in Milwaukee
Throughout his engineering career, Whittaker supplemented his design talents with his writing talents by authoring reports, creating marketing materials, editing and revising specifications, and writing numerous business plans. In 2005, he assisted Milwaukee electrical contractor Phoenix Electric by authoring a progressive and equitable Mentor-Protégé agreement between Phoenix and Wisconsin-based Town & Country Electric. Wes formally left engineering in the fall of 2007 when he joined INNERmedia Coaching & Consulting Associates as a Sr. Business Development Consultant.
Whittaker holds a BA in Management and Organizational Development from Spring Arbor University. He has written business and marketing plans for several startup firms around the country including Ionic Water Technologies of Reno, Nevada, and GluLam International of Kalispell, Montana. Most recently, he spearheaded acquisition negotiations for a high tech transportation firm in Atlanta.
He is an officer in the Grand Blanc Area Toastmasters club, vice-Chairman of the Greater Flint chapter of Automation Alley’s ConnecTech organization and is working on an historical novel in his spare time.