David Murray

David Murray is an affiliate with Schaffer Consulting. He has over 25 years of experience working with a wide range of industries and managing organizations throughout the United States, Asia Pacific, and Europe. David is a proven operations and technology executive with a background rich in all areas of information technology management, business operations, large-scale program management, software engineering, business process re-engineering, product development lifecycles, and acquisition integration. David has delivered process improvements, cost reductions, revenue generation, operational efficiencies, and technology solutions for customers with a focus on alignment of business and technology.

Transformation leadership became David’s specialty with such high-profile initiatives as business process development for lean manufacturing, global supply chain management and rationalization, M&A technology integration, and enterprise wide global system deployments. David’s information technology career included leadership for applications, infrastructure, information technology outsourcing, and overall executive information technology leadership for Applied Materials and JDSU, two high technology companies.

David led Applied Materials’ GE-style WorkOut program establishing the internal methodology and competency that drove the capability for business units to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes to deliver business results. He has recently led major GE-style WorkOut programs with Wells Fargo, Clorox, AppliedMicro, and HP with the Haas School of Business MBA students as a part of their Institute for Business Innovation.

Prior to Applied Materials, David held various information technology management positions at Lockheed Martin and Cooperative Computing, Inc. He has served on the Oracle Services Business CIO Customer Board, the RosettaNet Semiconductor Manufacturing Board, and on Advisory Boards for start-ups.

David holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University.