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Tim Jackson, senior vice president, technology and general manager, Asia Pacific, is responsible for maintaining the company's global manufacturing and engineering leadership and directing the company's original equipment and aftermarket business operations in China, Thailand and Australia.
Prior to assuming his present position, Mr. Jackson served as senior vice president for global technology and manufacturing. In that capacity, he had global responsibility for ensuring products were designed for ease of manufacture and for leading efforts to standardize the company's worldwide engineering and manufacturing processes, including the incorporation of Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principles.
Previously, he served as senior vice president of the company's North American original equipment business with full profit and loss responsibility and operational control of design, engineering, manufacturing and distribution facilities and directed the company's global original equipment strategy.Mr. Jackson joined Tenneco Automotive in 1999 after more than 20 years of management experience, including 14 in the automotive industry. Before joining Tenneco Automotive, he was president of the Automotive Fluid Handling Division of ITT Industries with responsibility for the unit's worldwide business operations. He served also as chief executive officer for HiSan, a joint venture between ITT Industries and Sanoh Industrial Company that had annual sales of $100 million to Japanese automakers. Prior to joining ITT Industries, he held management positions at B.F. Goodrich Aerospace and General Motors Corporation.
Mr. Jackson received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a master's degree in Manufacturing Management from GMI Engineering and Management Institute. | 