The 1st Symposium "Accelerating Operational Excellence" will take place on October 6th at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. This event represents a gathering of all people engaged with Operational Excellence in East Tennessee and surrounding areas, where both industry and academia share best practices, developed for the challenges particular to this region.
About
Keynote Speakers
Michael Headrick
Production Engineer, TIE Manager at Denso
Process Design Engineering, Production Management, TIE (Total Industrial Engineering) current position Manager of PE and TIE for Body Electronics Division.
525 John D. Tickle Engineering Building, 851 Neyland Dr, Knoxville, TN 37996
Tel: 865-974-3333
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Dr. Rupy Sawhney
CASRE Director
Isaac Mitchell
Business Analytics Manager at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital.
Isaac is a full-time lean practitioner at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. Through collaborating with all levels of the organization in a caring and compassionate way, Isaac works to understand the current condition and develop solutions to complex problems. His passion and focus is on training and implementing lean techniques that transform work cultures to improve healthcare processes and outcomes for patients and providers.
Craig A. Stevens
Senior PM in the PMO at Ardent Healthcare
Craig has been a Management, Industrial, and Systems Engineering consultant for over 35 years and is the Author of Geronimo Stone. He was the Manager of the Process Improvement Program for HCA Physician Services, where the Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Team developed the CPI/Lean/Six Sigma program for about 800 practices.
Lunch and Parking are provided on site
Tony Thornburgh
Director of Operational Excellence at Arconic
Tony has been employed by Alcoa/Arconic for over 25 years working in various US locations. While he started as a Metallurgical Engineer working in different areas of the factory on process and product improvements, his career also included operational leadership roles. For the past 10 years, he has worked in the corporate Center of Excellence organization driving standardization, innovations, and process improvements
