WILLIAM A. LEVINSON, P.E.

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Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702

570-***-**** abqbcd@r.postjobfree.com

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: SUMMARYLeading authority on Henry Ford's lean manufacturing system (now known as the Toyota production system) and green supply chain system, including their organizational and labor relations aspects.Leading authority on statistical process control methods for real-world situations that do not follow the traditional assumption of the normal (bell curve) distribution.Extensive experience with quality including designed experiments (DOE) and ISO 9001

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND DISTINCTIONSFellow of the American Society for QualityRegistered Professional Engineer (Pennsylvania)American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications: Quality Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence, Quality Auditor, Six Sigma Black Belt (CQE, CRE, CMQOE, CQA, CSSBB)APICS Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM)Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME): Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE)Institute of Certified Professional Managers (ICPM): Certified ManagerAmerican Institute of Chemists: Certified Professional Chemist/Certified Chemical Engineer Author or coauthor of more than 60 trade or technical journal articles, and presentations at national ASQ, Productivity Inc., and Theory of Constraints World conferences.

EDUCATIONM.S. in Operations Research and Applied Statistics, Union College (night school)Master of Business Administration, Union College (night school)M.S. in Chemistry and M. Eng. in Chemical Engineering, Cornell UniversityB.S. in Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University

CAREER HISTORY: LEVINSON PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEMS, P.C.

Principal 2002Coached clients on ISO 9001:2008 and performed internal audits to allow correction of potential nonconformances prior to official audits by registrars.Developed and presented workshops in lean enterprise, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, design of experiments (DOE), acceptance sampling, and root cause analysisRegular columnist for Quality Digest (January 2011 )Book publications through Taylor and Francis/ Productivity PressSPC for Real-World Applications (2011): first book of its kind, on handling applications that do not follow the textbook bell curve assumption. Beyond the Theory of Constraints (2007)Henry Ford's Lean Vision: Enduring Principles from the First Ford Motor Plant (2002). A complete reconstruction of Henry Ford's lean manufacturing and green supply chain system, and also his organizational and labor relations systems.Speaker at national quality and productivity conferences:Keynote speaker at Boeing's lean enterprise conference (April 2003) and International Conference on ISO 9000 and TQM (Scranton, April 2010)TOC World (2004, Goldratt Institute)ASQ World Conference (2008, 2010, and 2011)Northeast PA Healthcare Reform Task Force (Dec. 2006 )Governor's advisory panel, Quality of Health Care (October 2005 January 2007)Chair, Northeast PA section of the American Society for Quality (July 2005-Jun. 2007, July 2008-June 2010); also served as Vice Chair and TreasurerSociety of Manufacturing Engineers' Lean Certification program (June 2005-Oct. 2006)Lean manufacturing training materials for Ford Motor Company (2003-2004)

HARRIS / INTERSIL/ FAIRCHILD Mountaintop Pennsylavina semiconductor plant

Staff Engineer 1993-2001

Provided consulting, analysis, and training for Design of Experiments (DOE) and Statistical Process Control (SPC). Performed internal audits for ISO 9000 and ISO 14000.Developed, applied, and published SPC and capability index procedures for manufacturing processes with nonnormal, multivariate, and nested normal distributions.Developed and applied statistical methods for dealing with non-capable gages.Prepared and presented SPC, DOE, and reliability statistics training for engineers, technicians, and operators. Created and presented safety, ISO 9000, microelectronics manufacturing, and waste reduction training.Initiated a project to reduce usage of deionized water; this saved about $200K.Recommended and achieved placement of completed corrective action requests and FMEAs in a searchable record system to support best practice deployment.Obtained contracts for, wrote or edited, and published 4 books (ASQ Quality Press) under the company name as works for hire.Levinson and Tumbelty, SPC Essentials and Productivity Improvement (1997)Levinson (editor), Leading the Way to Competitive Excellence (1998). Levinson, ISO 9000 at the Front Line (2000).Levinson and Rerick, Lean Enterprise: A Synergistic Approach to Minimizing Waste (2002), includes material on the Theory of Constraints and Drum-Buffer-Rope.Contributing author in Rose and Buckley, Self-Directed Work Teams (American Society for Training and Development).

PART TIME WORK (in addition to regular employment during this period) 1987-2001Editor: health care capitation course material for MGI Management Institute (1996)Author: Levinson, text for a self-study course for the Part B (Principles and Practice) chemical engineering licensure exam, MGI Management Institute (1995)Author: Levinson, The Way of Strategy, ASQ Quality Press (1993)Principal author: Levinson and Armstrong, Statistical Quality Control chapter in A. Landzberg (editor), Microelectronics Manufacturing Diagnostic Handbook, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1993)Instruction of review courses for ASQ certification exams, through Section 209Instruction of review courses for the Part B chemical engineering exam

IBM, East Fishkill, NY 1982-1993

EngineerDeveloped and published a model for spin-coating behavior of polymer solutions.Developed and published a statistical method for reducing measurement costs in a multilayer ceramic manufacturing process.Suppression of waste in an inline electrical testing operation.