Tim Vik

Background

About Tim Vik

Tim has over 35 years of progressively increasing responsibility in the heavy machinery industry working for Caterpillar Incorporated in product development, product management and people development. Over his career, he has learned how important leadership is to the success of any company. This realization has developed into a passion in terms of leadership development to drive accountability and results within Caterpillar. Tim practices this passion everyday in both his professional life as well as his personal life. Tim is a highly innovative engineering manager with skill-sets covering strong people skills / team development as well as very strong product development experience leveraging the latest virtual product development tools and techniques. Strong background in manufacturing / assembly as well as marketing skills for identifying new market needs and development / alignment of product specifications to fill market needs. Specialties: Identifying new technologies and integrating them into a production system while securing valuable Intellectual Property rights. Management of large machine development programs, machine information and health monitoring, Virtual Product Development, machine structural system development, product should cost modeling, welding technologies, product assembly, training and mentoring engineers.