{"id":1203,"date":"2014-04-17T22:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2016-05-13T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:44:44","slug":"rob-porterfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/2014\/04\/17\/rob-porterfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Porterfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2014\/04\/Porterfield-Rob.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2507 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2014\/04\/Porterfield-Rob.png\" alt=\"Porterfield, Rob\" width=\"154\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vice President, Manufacturing and World Wide Operation of National Instrument<\/p>\n<p>As vice president of manufacturing for National Instruments, Rob Porterfield oversees the worldwide\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">manufacturing organization including purchasing production, operations, and services. Porterfield\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">and team focus on continuously improving customer satisfaction and production efficiency, lowering\u00a0<\/span>material costs, reducing quoted product lead times, managing inventory levels, and ensuring the timely\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">release of new products into production.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Since joining NI in 1993 as a warehousing supervisor, Porterfield has held positions including materials\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">manager, planning manager, director of international operations and global planning, and director of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">international operations and global supply chain. Prior to joining NI, Porterfield worked as a design\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">engineer at General Dynamics.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Porterfield holds a master&#8217;s degree in business administration from The University of Texas at Austin\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">and a bachelor&#8217;s degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President, Manufacturing and World Wide Operation of National Instrument As vice president of manufacturing for National Instruments, Rob Porterfield oversees the worldwide\u00a0manufacturing organization including purchasing production, operations, and services. Porterfield\u00a0and team focus on continuously improving customer satisfaction and production efficiency, lowering\u00a0material costs, reducing quoted product lead times, managing inventory levels, and ensuring the timely\u00a0release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","entry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"grid-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"asche","author_link":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/author\/asche\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Vice President, Manufacturing and World Wide Operation of National Instrument As vice president of manufacturing for National Instruments, Rob Porterfield oversees the worldwide\u00a0manufacturing organization including purchasing production, operations, and services. 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