Charlie Carpenter

Experience

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  General Electric Ordnance Systems

  May 1983 - Jul 1988

  Producibility Engineer

  Manage the transition of products from development to manufacture. Update and improve manufacturing capabilities by applying Design of Experiments, Design for Manufacturing, and Design for Assembly.

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  PwC

  Aug 1988 - Sept 1993

  Senior Associate

  Process and Product Quality Engineering and applied statistics. Quality Management System development and implementation.

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  Meritus Consulting Services

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1997

  Managing Associate

  o Led the Quality Cost Management Practice, comprising 10 consultants with an annual budget of between $3-$5MM, aimed at quantifying continuous improvement efforts with cost reduction. QCM utilizes statistical methods, quality engineering techniques, quality management tools, and structured team problem solving to address the issues that drive quality costs.

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  PwC

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Senior Manager

  o Provided management consulting support to the audit clients of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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  TRW Global Enterprise Solutions

  Oct 1998 - Sept 2000

  Director, Lean Manufacturing & Six Sigma Quality Practice

  o Practice leader for Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Quality. His efforts comprised staffing the group, development of scoping, diagnostic, and implementation methodologies and best practices, training the staff, selling, managing, and delivering results to the client base.

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  Process Predictability Management Inc

  Aug 2000 - May 2017

  President

  Lead organization's management teams to an Operations Excellence strategy that employs the best practices of Lean, Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma, Design for Excellence, and Business Process Design.

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  The Highland Group

  Oct 2000 - Nov 2001

  Consultant - Operations Improvement

  o Provided consulting services in Product Development, Six Sigma Quality Improvement, and Lean Manufacturing.

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  Northrop Grumman

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Six Sigma Consultant

  Trained and coached Six Sigma Green Belts and Black Belts as a subcontractor to AON Rath & Strong. Developed Six Sigma trainers for TRW/NG from the black belt ranks.

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  Tarkett

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Lean Six Sigma Consultant

  Provided the training, coaching, and facilitation of the Lean Six Sigma program.

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  SPX Thermal Equipment and Services

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

  Lean Six Sigma Consultant

  Provided integrated Lean and Six Sigma training, coaching, and facilitation services.

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  Arthrex

  May 2017 - Nov 2020

  Program Manager Lean Six Sigma

  Build, expand, and support a continuous improvement framework applied to Global Information Technology’s processes and business projects involving the introduction of new technology. A heavy emphasis was placed upon truly understanding the business processes to uncover the depth and breadth of the opportunities. Elicitation of customer requirements is paramount for prescribing solutions. In addition, advocate, develop, educate, and enable the best practice tools and methodologies that promote process excellence. The best practice tools used were Lean Six Sigma, Quality Function Deployment, Design Thinking, and Designing for Change. Show less

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  Freelance

  Nov 2020 - Jun 2021

  OpEx Lean Six Sigma Consulting Professional
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  SoClean Inc.

  Nov 2022 - now

  Engineering Analytics for R&D