Member Profiles

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• Terry McManus, quality systems manager at DeWAL
• Mark Nestle, global director of productivity at Praxair
• Bill Martin, director of lean Six Sigma, containerboard mills, at RockTenn
• Brion Hurley, lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Rockwell Collins
• Martin Biddenham, director of process excellence at AQUIST Consulting
• Steve Mazzone, senior process architect at Shell
• Hudson Garrett, vice president of clinical affairs at PDI
• Jay Arthur, owner, president and CEO of KnowWare International
• Omar Carmona, Black Belt at Accellent
• Aly Basyouny, project engineer, chief civil engineer and principal engineer at Power Generation Engineering and Services Co.
• Dan Conrad, engineering director of design quality, reliability and testing at Hussmann
• Prakash Viswanathan, a senior unit quality head at Infosys Ltd
• Yataiva Harris, industrial engineer at Defense Contract Management Agency
• Renzo Vasquez, process engineer at Medifarma
• John Miller, vice president of continuous improvement, Wayne State University Physician Group.
• Ray Esparza, quality manager.
• Ian Lowrie, management consultant and program manager.
• Zubair A. Khurshid, management consultant.
• Marlowe L. Wicks, senior manager of quality and metrology at the Crown Cork and Seal Company.
• Kyle Kumpf, owner and packaging and lean Six Sigma specialist at VFG.
• John Vandenbemden, ASQ fellow and consultant.
• Jim Thomson, senior supplier quality engineer at Instrumentation Laboratory.
• Diane Lippman, project manager specialist at GP Strategies.
• Cynthia Van Den Berge, manager of business process, Six Sigma and quality manager at McKesson.
• Robert M. (Bert) Perry, senior quality engineer at Emerson Network Power Connectivity Solutions
• Michael Carter, lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and president of 6ixSigma.org Inc.
• Brenda Tracy, business excellence and project quality manager, Technip
• Kandy Senthilmaran, Six Sigma Master Black Belt and senior quality and business excellence program manager, Microsoft Corp.
• Francisco Argemiro e Silva Jr., improvement facilitator, Gerdau Long Steel North America
• Harris Hoke, senior quality engineer, Anadigics Inc.
• Vidyavathi Manoherrao Kulkarni, manager of business excellence, Zeta Interactive Systems 
• Jim Johnstone, owner, Johnstone Global Consulting Services
• Marc Hamilton, senior consultant, Hamilton Management Consultants LLC
• John Gunkler, president and owner, Excelsior Group
• Titilola Louisa Natasha Awogboro, principal management consultant, Sigma Qualitas Ltd.
• Rachel M. Delisle, senior lean Six Sigma Black Belt, KARL STORZ Endovision Inc.
• John Adkisson, business process lead for logistics and lean Six Sigma Black Belt, NASA Kennedy Space Center
• Steve Osborn, vice president of quality compliance and improvement, Saint Vincent Health Center
• Craig Fox, senior quality engineer, new product development, FCI
• Cindy Butler, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, U.S. Navy
• Larry Hillyer, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, quality engineer.
• Yaakov Sharon, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Dead Sea Bromine Group (DSBG)
• J. Ravichandran, quality unit head, Amrutanjan Health Care Ltd.
• Dave Harry, Black Belt, Rolls-Royce Energy Systems Inc.
• Alex Garcia, Master Black Belt, Flowserve Corp.
• Steven R. Ormsby, president and chairman of the board, Alpha-Omega Change Engineering Inc.
• Diego Mondragon, program manager, Motorola
• Bruce Bader, continuous improvement manager, Little Rapids Corp. 
• Ondina M. Castillo, lean Six Sigma project manager and Black Belt, Intradeco Apparel Group
• Joe Basala, lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, consultant and owner, QI Sigma Consulting Inc.
• Dave Strong, continuous improvement director, Lawson Products
• Tom McCleary, quality engineer, SVTC Technologies Inc.
• Sanjay Tambe, quality manager, Nokia Siemens Network
• Shane Hunnicutt, plant manager and Six Sigma Green Belt, West Troy Tool & Machine
• David Hammond, director of process improvement, WesleyLife
• Mike Jolly, quality manager, Instrument Sales and Service Inc.
• Wanda R. Sturm, consultant, Resources Global Professionals
• Terrill Paradise, senior corporate trainer, Master Black Belt and program chair for advanced manufacturing, Ivy Tech Community College
• Teresa Whitacre, quality assurance manager, Bolttech Mannings Inc.
• Manuel Caminero, operational project leader, Eaton Corp.
• George Dramowicz, vice president of quality, Merix Corp.
• Scott Thor, vice president of organizational excellence, Lortz Manufacturing Co.
• Yolanda Yantz, process improvement manager, Associated Hygienic Products
• Sharyn Mlinar, quality engineer, the Boeing Co.
• Arvind S. Tripathi, IT Master Black Belt, Flowserve Corp.
• Carlos Heldwein, Master Black Belt and quality services supervisor, John Deere Brazil
• Todd McGowan, strategic development project director, CitiMortgage
• Carrie Fohr, quailty engineer and Six Sigma Black Belt, Seaquist Closures
• Jerold Schlegel, director of quality assurance and food safety, Dawn Foods
• Gabriel Varela, quality assurance, Wrigley Co., Silao, Mexico
• Dana Mullarkey, KellyConnect professional services lead, Kelly Services
• Dean Christolear, senior quality engineer, Norwood Medical
• Govindarajan (Govind) Ramu, senior director, global quality management systems, SunPower Corporation
• Aseem Sharma, managing director, "apps" Management Systems and Consultants
• Shailesh Chopra, vice president of operational excellence, Deutsche Bank
• Cecelia McCain, director of corporate quality, ER-One
• Pallab Bhattacharya, team lead for the IT project management office and software engineering process group and head of lean Six Sigma for Morgan Stanley India in Mumbai
• Dave Sullivan, senior quality technician, DeWAL Industries Inc.
• Rama Shankar, managing partner, Delta Management Associates