ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Wayne Coker came into this world as a born polymath designing a breakthrough in high-tech manufacturing throughput, expanding the horizon for contract manufacturing in the high tech world, developing the idea of standardization in project engineering allowing a new way to measure cost-revenue recognition. And, developing a constraint theory scheduling software program. Creating the architectural design, engineering, and building two creative homes, the authoring of a historic breakthrough business theory novel, followed by an extraordinary Novel of the WWII OSS in Vietnam, and finally, a new journey, a long sought after quest, the Hydra Project…

 

Back when high-tech dinosaurs hobnobbed with each other on planet Earth during the late 1960s—Wayne Coker was one of the youngest executives in the early stages of this industry. As the Director of Manufacturing for Data Products, a major publicly held high-speed line-printer and disc-drive manufacturing company, he developed a revolutionary manufacturing process in high-tech products that produced throughput time of unheard inventory turns—now called Just-in-Time Manufacturing, and years before the Japanese took credit for it in the 1970s…

 

In parallel, he built in statistical process control enhancing quality and eliminated quality control line-inspectors—another major innovation during this period. The company shared these innovative ideas with visiting companies from around the globe. This innovation soon found its way into our high-tech world of manufacturing, and then over time, most other industries.

 

Wayne later became founder and CEO of CMI, an innovative and new type of contract manufacturing company in the early years. The company supplied products to the high-tech industry, ranging from electronic assembly, metal fabrication, industrial painting, machining, plastic injection molding, design and engineering work produced in a modern hundred-thousand square foot facility. This successful effort culminated in a sale to a robotics company. 

 

Later, Wayne offered his services as the Director of Software and Project Engineering for an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) division of a close friend and Group Vice-President of Por-tec, a major corporation. This division had yet, turned a profitable year. After reviewing the project workflow, one could see the duplication of software coding for each new customer. With some key questions answered, Wayne, encouraged the development of a library with standardized software modules eliminating eighty percent of software coding.

 

With this innovative process, Wayne convinced finance to measure cost-revenue recognition using the STANDARDIZATION OF PROCESSED EVENTS—an accurate and revolutionary idea as opposed to ESTIMATING percent complete. These changes resulted in a drastic cut in project throughput time, the birth of actual completion of projects, accurate quotes, and Income Statements…

For more on this subject, read Wayne’s Book: Change for the Right Reason: Act III - Scene Two - Revenue Recognition.

 

Wayne now finds himself as COO at Data Power, a high tech turnaround, and publicly held company. He and the President, another friend did all the right things to improve the business processes. But, the company’s original debt was so deep, and with the king demanding cash, it became a hopeless struggle.

 

Therefore, from success, we learn little—but from failure; we learn a great deal. In 1990, Wayne became a student of business theory and authored a business book in 1995. 

 

Soon after the book’s publication, he designed the architecture of a bold new idea, a CONSTRAINT SCHEDULING SOFTWARE PROGRAM for an Oklahoma foundry with another long-time friend who wrote the code. 

 

As a stimulating outlet, Wayne designed, engineered, and transformed two creative homes—with one featured in the Sunday “Home” section of the Denver Post. 

 

In 2004, Wayne knew there was only one successful business novel ever written, The Goal by Eli Goldratt, a story about system, constraints. So, he turned his attention to re-writing his previous business book as a novel based on system thinking: CHANGE FOR THE RIGHT REASON  – A NEW BEGINNING - A BUSINESS NOVEL. It’s a novel about changing organizational structures, a story with such depth; it rises above any business book ever published. 

 

In August 2014, Wayne began writing Pride and Denial—a Captain Toni Nakni novel about The OSS and Viet Minh – Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan and finished in mid-July 2018. In early 2019, Wayne published Pride and Denial along with a new updated Change for the Right Reason.

 

The author also left open for another Toni Nakni novel taking off where a Pride and Denial ends forming the Red Hawk Corporation, an intelligence, and special operations Company. In today’s world, our rules are that there are no rules. The bad guys don’t play fair, so playing dirty is our game. 

 

Wayne has no regrets and feels happy in life, but for now, there’s more to follow—the end is nowhere in sight, for the old horse in the stable still yearns to run five hundred meters.