The Interface

Another special edition of The Interface where I chat with Perry Vandepeer from Amphenol Limited in the UK, Brandy Gosselin from Times Microwave Systems, and Braden Ishaug from the Amphenol Mil/Aero engineering center in Pasadena, CA as together we, along with many others in Amphenol, continue to work from home as the result of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. These special editions are meant to share this experience with one another and to get a quick glimpse into what it’s like to work from home – the good, the not-so-good, and the daily challenges – as together we navigate through uncharted territory. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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A conversation with Adam Norwitt, Amphenol’s President and CEO, as we both work remotely from our home offices during the current COVID-19 outbreak. We talk about the early days of the outbreak in China and how our amazing leadership team there helped lead the way for how the rest of the corporation responded, we talk about balancing the entrepreneurial management style of Amphenol with the need for high-level corporate leadership at a time like this, we talk about some of the great success stories at our divisions, and we talk about what the new normal may look like once this is over. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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Another special edition of The Interface where I chat with Catey Cavender from Amphenol Pcd, Lacey Weiss from Amphenol’s corporate headquarters, and Franco Minatel from Amphenol Canada as together we, along with many others in Amphenol, adjust to working from home as the result of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. These special editions are meant to share this experience with one another and to get a quick glimpse into what it’s like to work from home – the good, the not-so-good, and the daily challenges – as together we navigate through uncharted territory. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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In this special edition of The Interface, I chat with Kelley Nall from SV Microwave and Jeremy Williams and Megan Kinter from Amphenol Aerospace, as together we adjust to working from home as the result of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.  While a number of our factories are still manufacturing products, many of our employees, who are capable of doing their jobs from home, are adjusting to this new work environment in their own unique way.  These editions of The Interface are meant to share this experience with one another and to get a quick glimpse into what it’s like to work from home – the good, the not-so-good, and the daily challenges – as together we navigate through uncharted territory.  This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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A conversation with Sean Zimmer, Engineering Manager for Amphenol Aerospace in Mesa, AZ. Sean worked at Amphenol Aerospace in Sidney, NY for four years, most recently as Manufacturing Improvement Supervisor, before becoming one of the first employees at the brand new facility in Arizona. We talk about the daily challenges and lessons learned while helping start a brand-new Amphenol facility. We talk about the adjustment of moving from rural, upstate New York to the busy desert life of Arizona. We talk about the differences between working at a wind turbine startup and starting up a new Amphenol facility. And we talk having the job he always wanted but never knew he wanted. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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A conversation with Kurt Whitcomb, Director of Marketing and Product Engineering for Amphenol Printed Circuits in Nashua, NH. Kurt has been with Amphenol for 19 years. We briefly talk about the Coronavirus pandemic and its effect on APC's business. We talk about what a printed circuit board actually is, how they're designed and manufactured, and the challenges to building them. We talk about the unique manufacturing capabilities that allow Amphenol Printed Circuits to do so well in the industry. We talk about the ever-changing technology improvements in printed circuit boards that place a premium on his team to be at the forefront of design. And finally, we talk about working with fellow Amphenol divisions to bring turnkey solutions to the market that no other interconnect manufacturer can match. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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A conversation with Mark Joseph, Business Development Manager for the Amphenol Military and Aerospace Group. Mark is based out of New Jersey and has been with Amphenol for over a year. He and I mainly talk all things Navy as we exhibited at the AFCEA West Navy Show in San Diego, CA this week. We talk about his work in trying to increase Amphenol's share in the Navy market. We talk about how some of his former jobs, specifically at one of our competitors and at one of our biggest customers, made him appreciate the importance of interconnects when designing major weapons systems. We talk about the major differences between the military world and the commercial world and he confesses that, even though he has great respect for the Navy, he does not want to stay overnight on a Naval ship anytime soon. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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A conversation with Tom Czernecki, Global Operations Director at Amphenol TCS in Nashua, NH. Tom has been with Amphenol for 14 years and with TCS for almost 3 years. We talk about the challenges of leading a global operations team where the majority of the manufacturing is not in Nashua and how different it is from his previous work at Amphenol Aerospace. We talk about his tremendous work in Sidney after the floods in 2006 and 2011 including being the program manager for the new Amphenol Aerospace facility. We talk about the vast differences between working in the defense and aerospace markets versus the commercial markets and we discuss how he's combating the Coronavirus effect on his operations in China. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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A conversation with Gordon Vinther, General Manager of Ardent Concepts in Hampton, NH. Gordon founded Ardent Concepts in 2003 and the business was acquired by Amphenol in 2018. We talk about the events that led to him taking a leap of faith and forming his own company based on his developments in compression mount connector technology. We talk about the challenges of leading his small team in the first couple years and about finding an early adopters in one of his ideas with Teradyne. We discuss his courtship with Amphenol leading up to being acquired and how he's now utilizing the power of Amphenol to open new doors for the company. And finally, we discuss why he named the company Ardent Concepts. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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A conversation with Jared Sibrava, High Speed Solutions Business Unit Director for Amphenol Aerospace in Sidney, NY. Jared has been with Amphenol for 8 years after spending time learning the industry while working for Lockheed Martin and Curtiss Wright. We talk about his early desire to be a pilot in the Air Force and how he found his love of engineering from an influential high school teacher. We talk about his insatiable thirst for knowledge, the power of knowing you don't know everything, and how important it is to challenge one another. We talk about how much he learned about the needs of the market in his previous roles and how that benefited him when starting at Amphenol and we talk about some of the amazing high speed products his team is developing. This is The Interface.

Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed.

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