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XONITEK Recognizes Colonel Robert Morris
& Anit Mahjika
At the
WCBF's
4th
Annual Global Lean, Six
Sigma and Business
Excellence
Summit & Industry Awards
At the WCBf’s Global Lean, Six
Sigma and Business Excellence Summit and Industry Awards, the
joint winners of The Platinum Award for Process Excellence Project, sponsored by XONITEK
Corporation, were Distributed Learning Directorate, US
Army and Miami Children’s Hospital. On October 14 during the Gala Awards
Ceremony and Dinner at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort in
Orlando,
XONITEK’s Rick Hulse, Director of Business Development, had the opportunity to present
Colonel Robert Morris with the Best
Project Achievement in Innovation or Product Development.
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| XONITEK’s Rick Hulse, Director of Business Development, presents Col.
Robert Morris with the Best Project Achievement in Innovation or Product
Development. |
Rick Hulse, XONITEK’s Director of Business Development presents Anit
Mahjika of the Miami Children’s Hospital with the Platinum Award for
Process Excellence Project. |
About
the Summit:
Positioned
to be the largest gathering for those who are passionate about achieving process
and business excellence, this summit presented an unrivalled speaker panel
headlined by top business authors Al Switzler and
Norman Bodek. These successful authors were
complimented by an outstanding speaker panel of industry leaders, CEOs and
first-class Deployment practitioners addressing Lean, Six Sigma and process
excellence for innovation and outstanding performance.
WCBF
currently averages over 250+ senior-level attendees at its Six Sigma
Conferences. This is the highest number of senior-level attendees per a Six
Sigma niche focused conference than any other organization.

Featured
Headliners:
Al Switzler
Bestselling Author and Award-Winning
Instructor - In the past twenty-five years, Al Switzler
has helped hundreds of organizations achieve measurable change with his broad
knowledge of leadership, teamwork, quality, and communication. Al is coauthor of
three New York Times bestsellers, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything,
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High, and Crucial
Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and
Bad Behavior.
Norman Bodek
President, PCS INC. - Norman Bodek discovered and published the
works of the truly great Japanese manufacturing geniuses: Dr. Shigeo Shingo and
Taiichi Ohno, the inventors of the Toyota Production System now called JIT and
Lean manufacturing and many others. From his numerous trips to
Japan
he introduced to the western world the Kaizen Blitz, SMED,
TPM, QFD, Hoshin Kanri, Poka-Yoke, Visual Factory and other new manufacturing
methodologies that have helped companies improve their quality, and
productivity. In 1988 he initiated the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence
with Professor Vern Buehler at Utah State
University . Most recently
he co-authored a book with Bunji Tozawa titled The Idea Generator - Quick and
Easy Kaizen.
Plenary
Addresses:
Robert Weiner
President and CEO, PAS TECHNOLOGIES INC - A recognized expert in Lean Six Sigma
production strategies, Mr. Weiner has successfully implemented six sustainable,
worldwide programs. He has more than 26 years of solid experience implementing
global Lean-production systems at respected companies. He has published over 12
articles in various magazines and books including the Harvard Business Review
and James P. Womack’s best seller, Lean Thinking. Under his leadership, PAS
Technologies has transformed its sub-par performance into industry
best.
Lee Campbell
LSS Deployment Director and
Strategic Planning Officer, US ARMY MILITARY DISTRICT OF
WASHINGTON
- Mr. Campbell led Lean Six Sigma
Implementation for the US Army Corps of Engineers from its inception and
developed the Value Stream Analysis Template in use across that 34,000 person
organization. A trained Master Black Belt, he has led numerous LSS projects and
now manages a program intimately tied to implementation of strategic
directives.
UNPARALLELED SPEAKER
PANEL CONSISTED OF:
Westy Bowen
Vice President of Quality and Six Sigma E-Z-GO
Steve
Bonacorsi, MBB, PMP,MBA,
MS-CIS Deployment Leader and
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt XONITEK CORPORATION
Julie
Brignac President QUANTUMSIX SOLUTIONS, INC.
Jerry L .
Calvert MBB, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business Process
Services SUNTRUST BANKS, INC
Mavis Chisholm Head, Process
Excellence RBC ROYAL BANK
Marie Costantino Manager -
Training & Development ACCENTCARE
Joe De La
Cruz Director, Lean Six Sigma WORD AND BROWN
Deron Ertel
General Manager - Process Excellence EMBARQ
John C.
Evelyn President TRIDENT LEVERAGE, LLC
James Eynard Lean
Six Sigma Master Black Belt INTEL CORPORATION
Lisa
Fuller Director of 6 Sigma OSF SAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL
CENTER
Phil Geyer Director, Lean Six Sigma PRAXAIR
INC.
Amber Gravett FVP Enterprise Programs, MBB JP MORGAN
CHASE
Praveen Gupta President ACCELPER
CONSULTING
Adam Hallet Quality Leader ING
Fadel
Hamed Associate Director, Global Operational
Excellence GENENTECH
Victoria Hughes Statewide Director,
Performance Excellence, California Member Services KAISER FOUNDATION
HEALTH PLAN, INC.
Jim Kubus Master Black Belt PRAXAIR
INC.
Dalchand Laljit VP - Global Six Sigma HEXION SPECIALTY
CHEMICALS
Richard Lam Lean Six Sigma Corporate Deployment
Leader BMO FINANCIAL GROUP
Manny Laveria QE, CI
MBB NORTHROP GRUMMAN, LASER SYSTEMS
Robin
Lawton President INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES,
INC.
Neal Mackertich Founder of Raytheon SS Institute &
Systems Engineering Fellow RAYTHEON INTEGRATED DEFENSE
SYSTEMS
Fabrizio Majorana Chief Quality Officer UNICREDIT
GROUP
Mary McDonald, CQA, MSIA CEO/CTO MCDONALD CONSULTING
GROUP
Nancy McDonald Lean Facilitator DENVER HEALTH AND
HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
Ben Mellett Vice President, Program &
Project Management CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE
(CIBC)
David M. Miller Professor of Management Science, University
of Alabama and Director ALABAMA PRODUCTIVITY CENTER
Rob
Miller Director of HR Global Services and Delivery INGERSOLL
RAND
Rick Morrow Director of Business Excellence, MBB THE
JOINT COMMISSION
Kim Mueller Director - Business
Excellence DOMINION
Roger Noble Corporate Director of
Performance Excellence SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
Jennifer
Panco Process Improvement Specialist PROVIDENCE HEALTH AND
SERVICES
George Pesansky Sr. Consultant XONITEK
CORPORATION
Barbara Peterson GIO Six Sigma Champion AGILENT
TECHNOLOGIES
Jos Pires Strategy Deployment Leader - Six Sigma
MBB BLACK & VEATCH CORPORATION
Kathy Price Director,
Clinical Effectiveness SISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH
SYSTEM
Steven B. Raclaw Program Manager, Operational
Excellence DEUTSCHE BANK AG
Nancy Riebling Director of
Operational Performance Solutions NORTH SHORE-LIJ HEALTH
SYSTEM
Lisa Ritz Strategic Project Lead PFIZER,
INC.
Vince Sanchez Senior Director, Operational
Excellence UNITEDHEALTHCARE
Paul Sandell Sr. Master Black
Belt INTEL CORPORATION
Sabi Singh Assistant Vice President -
Operations Excellence and Quality Safety UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HEALTH
CARE
Jeffrey Slater Operating Excellence and Productivity
Leader SONOCO PRODUCTS
John Stewart Operating
Partner MONOMOY CAPITAL PARTNERS
Rob Stewart President and
CEO THE QUALITY GROUP
Shar Stocker Senior Master Black
Belt INTEL CORPORATION
Shiv Venkataramani Global Deployment
Leader-Lean Sigma ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Karen
Welch Director BEx, Strategic Projects ABBOTT
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WCBF is an
independent organization providing up-to-date Six Sigma Solutions
for senior professionals working in the quality sector. We facilitate
interactive environments for best practice from key players in their
field. WCBF enables international corporations thriving for Six Sigma
Excellence to benefit from this distinctive pooling of
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