PRAVEEN GUPTA

Quality/Operational Excellence - Strategy and hands-on Quality, Operational Excellence and Innovation Management Leader with 15+ years’ experience in Continuous Improvement, Quality Management (QMS), Lean, Six Sigma, Process and Product Engineering, Training, Consulting, Innovation Management and Performance Measures (KPIs). Worked with executives and employees equally well in Manufacturing, Engineering, Service, Software, Education, Consulting, and Technology sectors. Always developed breakthrough solutions for visible and profitable process and product improvement projects. Guided initial Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma deployment projects at Motorola in Schaumburg, IL.

Accomplishments include the following:

1. Deployed quality management systems in compliance to ISO 9001, ISO/TS-16949, ISO 13485/cGMP, and ISO 14001, and reduced Cost of Quality (COQ) by 3% of sales
2. Reduced defect rate by 10x for an organization over consecutive years
3. Led over 50 Six Sigma projects for breakthrough solutions, and major improvement/ savings
4. Developed a new process management model (4P) for achieving best-in-class process performance, Business Scorecard, a hybrid of Six Sigma and Balanced Scorecard, and Six Sigma without Statistics
5. Developed strong leadership, execution, facilitation, teamwork and communication skills

Innovation - Developed the most comprehensive and learnable innovation management methods, tools, infrastructure, and curriculum. Over five years, taught innovation classes at IIT Chicago and University of Illinois, Chicago, and workshops at corporations, and set up Center for Innovation Science and Applications (www.iit.edu/cisa)

Worked at Motorola, AT&T Bell Labs, Ford, Sloan Valves, Abbott Labs, Dentsply, Superior Essex, Andrew Corporation, RainSoft, Oracle, IdealAero, Hexel, Experian, Molex, Telular, ITW, GS1US, IPRA, AkzoNebel and more

Contact: guptapraveen@hotmail.com, Tel: (847) 903-4575 (Chicago, IL) ; (408) 429-9782 (San Jose, CA)