Degrees
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
• Bachelor of Arts, Concordia College, St. Paul MN
• Associate Degree, North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, MN
Certifications
American Society for Quality
• Certified Quality Engineer
• Certified Quality Auditor
• Certified Quality Manager
• Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
• Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
Trade
• Certified Level II NDE Inspector Die Penetrant Examination
• Certified Level II NDE Inspector Magnetic Particle Examination
• Certified Welder, American Hoist and Derrick Co., St. Paul, MN
• Certified Welder, U.S. Navy, Pascagoula, Mississippi
British Standard International for Auditing
• Certified Lead Auditor Quality
• Certified Lead Auditor Environmental
Franchise
• Dimensions in Quality, LLC (Articles of Incorporation, the State of Texas, 2003)
Certificates
Vocational
• API Q2 Train the Trainer Certificate, TIEC
• Certificate in Quality Technology, St. Paul Technical College, St. Paul, MN
• Certificate in Welding, Duluth Institute of Technology, Duluth, MN
Auditor
• Auditing Principles ADC Telecommunications
• ISO 9001:2000 Interpretations ABS Quality Evaluations
• ASQC Quality Costs and Audits, St. Paul Technical College
• ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 Lead Auditor Certificates, RABQSA (Exemplar Global)
Quality Award Examiner
• Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner,
National Institute for Standards and Technology (Examiner and Sr. Examiner)
• Minnesota Quality Award Examiner, Minnesota Council for Quality
• Texas Quality Award Examiner, Quality Texas
Environmental Health and Safety
• Contingency Planning Workshop, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
• Fundamentals of Environmental Law, Government Institutes, Washington, DC
• Hazardous Waste Workshop, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
• OSHA Hazard Recognition, Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
Management
• Basic Interviewing Skills, Dell Computer
• Principles of Supervision I and II, Employer’s Association, Minneapolis
• W Edwards Deming Four Day Seminar, New York University Extension
• Philip Crosby, Quality Management Workshop, Winter Park, Florida
• Impact Leadership, Compaq Computer Corp.
• Interpersonal Management Skills, Learning International
Teamwork
• Cross Functional Process Management, University of Texas Extension
• Managing Work Teams University of Minnesota Extension
• Creating Successful Teams, University of St. Thomas Extension
• Nine Steps to Managing Work Teams, University of Minnesota Extension
Quality & Statistics
• Process Improvement Methods (Black Belt) ADC Telecommunications
• Train the Trainer (Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Mentoring Team Leads, FMEA, Root Cause Analysis,
Design of Experiments, Process Performance Studies, JMP Statistics) Dell Computer
• ASQC General Requirements for a Quality Program, American Society for Quality Control
• Project Management, Integrated Project Systems
• ASQC Achieving Results with Statistics I, II & III, American Society for Quality Control
• ASQC Statistics I & II, American Society for Quality Control
• Design of Experiments, ADC Telecommunications
• Geometric Dimensioning, ADC Telecommunications
• Measurement System Analysis, ADC Telecommunications
• Quality Function Deployment, ADC Telecommunications
• Total Quality Transformation, Riverland Technical College
• Taguchi Approach, Rochester Institute of Technology Extension
• ASQC Specifications and Standards for Quality, University of Wisconsin Extension
• ASQC Technical Writing, St. Paul Technical College
• Process Mapping, University of Texas Extension
• Training Needs Assessment, University of Texas Extension
Other
• Network Communications, ADC Telecommunications
• Basic Telephony, ADC Telecommunications
• Zinc Die Casting, ADC Telecommunications
• Test and Measurement, Fluke Instruments, Inc.
• Blue Print Reading, American Hoist and Derrick Co.
• Who’s Who in America, 1997-Present