Relevant Experience

Deming Background
  • Participate and support The Deming Institute since its inception in 1994
  • Advisory Council - The W. Edwards Deming Institute®
  • Selected as one of 12 people to revise The Deming Institute’s flagship training course. Named as a ‘Education and Training Representative’ by The Deming Institute
  • Co-conducted eight of The Deming Institute’s Four Day Video Seminar for Advanced Studies
  • Introduced to Dr. Deming’s ideas in 1985 while working as a Manufacturing Engineer at Borg-Warner Automotive
Deming Scholars MBA Program
Fordham University
- Class One -
Adapt Deming's Four-Day Seminar
to The Institute's
Two and a Half Day Seminar
Business
  • Selected for a Process Improvement Task-Force at General Dynamics - Missile and Electronic Group
  • Contributed, by invitation, to the creation of the ‘Lean Certification’ program sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Association of Manufacturing Excellence, and the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing
Author
  • How To Compare Six Sigma, Lean and the Theory of Constraints: A framework for choosing what’s best for your organization, March 2002 ASQ - Quality Progress
  • Strategy Made Visible, Tangible, and Indispensable: A Strategy Story Board System. {coauthor} (Book) Amazon, February 2020
  • And More
Other
  • BS in Manufacturing Engineering Technology, University of Southern Colorado
  • Certified Manufacturing Engineer (Life) by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers

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Each provides new understandings and leads to new patterns of action.

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