Six Sigma for Canadian Manufacturers
Presentations, lecture notes and visual aids delivered at the Federated
Press Six Sigma for Canadian Manufacturers Course held in
Toronto on May 6 & 7, 2002.
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Course Leader
Harvey Dershin
Rath & Strong Management Consultants |
Harvey Dershin is
Vice-President of Rath & Strong Management Consultants. Over the past
eight years, Mr. Dershin has consulted to organizations in
manufacturing, services and healthcare focusing on Six Sigma, business
process design, improvement and control. He has worked at all corporate
levels, from the executive suite to the shop floor, providing training,
team coaching, facilitation and direct consulting.
Mr. Dershin's clients have included companies in the
pharmaceutical, medical devices, technical instruments, food processing,
insurance, educational testing, and direct healthcare fields. He has
helped organizations redesign supply-chain processes, improve internal
business processes, develop key performance metrics, design business
processes in support of IT solutions, improve manufacturing output,
decrease finished goods inventory, and improve corporate security. He
helped one client redesign contracting and billing processes, reducing
cost by one-third. He helped another client redesign a manufacturing
process, reducing cycle time and saving $5 million per year.
Prior to consulting, Mr. Dershin was Executive VP and
Chief Operating Officer at Grant Hospital of Chicago where he managed
1000 people, was responsible for a budget in excess of $75 million, and
always earned a profit. He also served as Executive Director of the
Illinois Family Planning Council (expanding this statewide program to
over 100 counties in Illinois). As a young engineer, Mr. Dershin worked
as Project Engineer for Bechtel Corporation and Head of
Aerothermodynamics at General Dynamics. He has served on adjunct
faculties at Cal Poly in California and Tulane's School of Public Health
in New Orleans, been a guest lecturer at the University of
Illinois/Chicago and Rush Medical College, and managed his own
consulting business.
A member of the American Society for Quality and the
American College of Health Care Executives, Mr. Dershin is a Registered
Professional Engineer. He has authored over 20 publications in process
management, healthcare, economic development, transportation and
engineering, including chapters in three books.
Mr. Dershin received his undergraduate degree in
Mechanical Engineering from the City College of New York and his Masters
of Science in Engineering from UCLA. He has had additional formal
training in Economics (UC/Berkley) and Public Health (Tulane
University). |
Co-Lecturers
Garth Baxter
Maple Leaf Foods International |
Garth Baxter is Six Sigma
Champion at Maple Leaf Foods International, a $1 billion food trading
and marketing organization and member company of Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
Maple Leaf Foods International transacts business in more than 70
countries in support of customer and supplier partnerships worldwide.
Since January 2000, Garth has been leading Maple Leaf Foods
International's Six Sigma deployment across its 5 major offices in
Toronto, Tokyo, Montreal, London and Hamburg. Garth has travelled
extensively and brings to his position an in depth understanding of the
international food business. Prior to assuming the Six Sigma Champion
role at Maple Leaf International Garth managed a series of progressively
larger commodity based businesses focused primarily on the Asian market.
He was also business manager for the Commodities Group and led Maple
Leaf's edible soybean group, tripling the size of the business over 5
years. Garth also served as the inaugural president of the Canadian
Soybean Export Association. |
Chris Markwood
Shur-Gain, a Member of Maple Leaf Foods |
Chris Markwood is Six
Sigma Champion at Shur Gain, an Independent Operating company within
Maple Leaf Foods. Shur Gain develops and markets nutritional feeding
programs for poultry, porcine, dairy aquaculture and companion pets
through its Agricultural Research Department and 15 production
facilities. Chris brings significant operational experience with a sound
understanding of the Agricultural Business to the Six Sigma
Implementation effort at Shur Gain. Prior to joining Shur Gain, Chris
held various operational leadership positions with McCain Citrus, USA.
Chris was also an Officer in the United States Army were he held various
command positions culminating as a company commander in Desert Storm. He
also worked as an Operations Research, Systems Analyst with the Unites
States Army Engineer School. Chris holds a MBA
from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and a
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy
at West Point.
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Douglas Hofmann, P.Eng.
GE Industrial Systems |
Douglas Hofmann
graduated from Queen's University at Kingston in 1991 with a Bachelor of
Science degree in electrical engineering. He immediately joined GE
Industrial Systems' Large Motors business on an entry-level training
program where he was involved in motor design and quality engineering.
Since then, Doug worked as a supplier quality engineer; as a motor and
generator design engineer on induction, synchronous, and direct current
machines; and as a Six Sigma Black Belt for Large Motors before being
promoted in 1998 to Master Black Belt and Quality Manager for GE
Industrial Systems' Peterborough operations. He recently became Manager
- Technology and Quality for GE Industrial Systems' Large Motors
business. |
Biographies are accurate at the time of recording.
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