Six Sigma Instructors

Peter Peterka

President

Peter Peterka is the President of SixSigma.us and Leading Consultant on the Lean Six Sigma methodology. Peter has 20 years of experience performing as a Master Black Belt, and extensive experience in industry as an improvement specialist and engineer with an expertise in DFSS, working with numerous companies, including 3M, Dell, Dow, GE, HP, Intel, Motorola, Seagate, Xerox and many government institutions including NATA and US Army. Peter is a certified Master Black Belt and holds an MS degree in Statistics from Iowa State and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue. Peter worked for 3M over 10 years where he gained extensive experience applying Sigma Methodologies to a variety of processes. Peter has successfully developed Six Sigma deployment strategies and training for Product and Process Development, Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement. His broad experience across many technologies helped him gain insight on how to apply Six Sigma methods to Business Processes.

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Jason Behr

Sales and Marketing Director

Jason has been working with SixSigma.us since May 2005 demonstrating his commitment to the success of the company. Jason is a professional results-driven sales manager with over 14 years of experience. Jason demonstrated success in developing relationships with a wide variety of customers and managing B2B corporate sales providing support to clients worldwide.

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Joseph Peterka

Online Account Manager/Advertising Director

Joseph has been working as our Internet Training/Advertising Manager since September, 2011. Joseph is responsible for providing support to the Online program students all around the world; using a one on one approach. Joseph has proved his commitment providing support to customers worldwide while promoting SixSigma.us in the Online community. 

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Svetlana Rubtsova

Partner - Six Sigma Russia, Consultant

Official partner in Russian Federation and countries CIS. The company Shest Sigm LLC was founded in October, 2012 in Moscow. Svetlana became the head of Russian office . Currently working on the development strategy and enlarging the presence of Shest Sigm LLC in Russian and CIS. All the programs were adapted for the Russian-speaking audience. Svetlana is certified Master Black Belt and consultant. 

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Frank Adler

Consultant

Frank joined SixSigma.us in 2013 but had previously been its partner since 2001. Frank is an accomplished leader and executive with over 19 years of progressive, international experience in multi-site Operations & Supply Chain Management, General Management and Quality Management. Delivers programs worldwide in English, German and Finnish.

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Juan Pablo Aragon

Consultant

Driven by excellence and passionate for people

Oriented to optimize Profitability, Productivity and Customers

Satisfaction by implementing “Lean Six Sigma” continuous improvement methodology. Results driven, strong believer of working with principles, values and a great attitude.

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Joe Basala

Consultant

Joe has been working with SixSigma.us since 2006 as a Master Black Belt with an extensive experience in quality / business improvement. Joe delivers programs worldwide and has proved his commitment to helping businesses in making changes.

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Dag Chyou

Consultant

Dag has been working with SixSigma.us since 2014 as Master Black Belt. Dag is specialized Lean deployment / improvement, Operations Excellence, Supply Chain Management, and Continuous Improvement.  Dag is certified Lean Expert, MBB, PMP, SCPro, and ASQ-CMQ/OE. He is also a certified Purchasing Professional in Taiwan, and certified Project Management Professional in China.

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Eric Edwin

Consultant

Eric has been working with SixSigma.us since it was founded in 2001 performing as Master Black Belt applying Lean, Six Sigma, and Change Management techniques in a variety of industries throughout the world. Eric has been delivering programs since 1989 and managed to assist businesses in achieving significant improvements with substantial, verified impact to their financial and performance goals.

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Joe Ficalora

Consultant

Joe has been working with SixSigma.us since September, 2010 as Master Black Belt. Most recently Joe has been developing innovative business strategies. Joe continues to be deploying initiatives for business performance and growth for clients, by customizing and combining Innovation, VOC, Lean and Six Sigma approaches. Joe has experience of working in medical devices, alternate energy service areas, including solar energy services, pharmaceutical companies and traditional manufacturing companies.

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Bruce Gilbert

Consultant

Bruce has been working with SixSigma.us since it was founded in 2001 as one of the leading consultants on Lean Six Sigma. Bruce has a Masters Degree in Applied Statistics & Research Methods, and is a Master Black Belt. His consulting work began in 1998 as a Certified Instructor with Motorola.  His work since Motorola has taken him throughout the US, overseas to Southeast Asia, and to multiple countries in Europe. 

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Ken Ille

Consultant

 Hands on Six Sigma experience, with Six Sigma US, Verizon and GE, in coaching/mentoring all levels of belts (MBB/BB/GB) in the Six Sigma process and tools. Led training for Business Leaders to be effective in their Champion roles and drive the culture of Six Sigma. I’ve Coached Black Belts and Master Black Belts in utilizing effective tools in each phase of the DMAIC and Lean processes, Facilitated project pipeline Summits to identify potential Black Belt and Green Belt projects that drive the company’s goals.

Certified as a Master Black Belt and certified as a Black Belt with GE.

Extensive Commercial experience working directly with our customers in both understanding the customers needs and in negotiating terms and conditions of the contracts.

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Jeff Jackson

Consultant

Jeff has been working with SixSigma.us since it was founded in 2001 as Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Lean Flow Master. Jeff has a significant experience in assisting businesses all around the world to achieve breakthrough improvements and has proved to be one of the best Lean consultants. Jeff has contributed a lot to the success of SixSigma.us.

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Richard Lynch

Consultant

Richard has been working with SixSigma.us since 2004 as Master Black Belt. Richard is specialized in advanced Statistical Data Analysis. Design of Experiments, Reliability Modeling, Sales Performance Data Analysis.  

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Ivan Martinez

Consultant

Results oriented professional with more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing, process improvement and sales in multiple industries including high volume manufacturing for medical devices, electric and electronic products, retail and wholesale distribution for information technology products and international and domestic sales for aftermarket automotive products.

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Hiram Martinez

Business Development Director

 Hiram has been working with Six Sigma US since October 2014, he is a seasoned sales professional with a passion to deliver excellent customer service experience to our clients. His past experience includes successfully re-launching his family business and starting a number of ventures. Also he has 10+ years experience on international business selling and distributing services worldwide. He is fluent in English and Spanish.

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Marshall Nauck

Consultant

I am a seasoned consultant, Master Trainer and Design/Lean/Six Sigma Master Black belt with Senior Leadership experience in Fortune 500 companies. This experience includes program management, strategic supply chain management, business strategy development, product and process development, engineering management, operational product line management and adult education.

At this point in my career, I am enjoying using my rich diversity of leadership experience in developing leaders, enriching organizational value, and enhancing the careers and lives of the next generation.

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Rick Ruzga

Consultant

Executive level operational excellence and compliance leader with 15+ years of delivering aggressive business results. Unique ability to synthesize Engineering, Quality, CI, Manufacturing, Finance and Customer Operations to improve processes. Foundational combination of technical and servant leadership skills that drives strategic initiatives, effective communication and credibility from floor level team members to executive and Board level officers. Innovative and great communicator with 100’s of examples of technical presentations, event facilitations, white papers, technical documents, implemented trade secrets, issued patents, invention disclosures, and Lean Six Sigma projects.

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Loon Kok Tan

Partner/Consultant

Loon Kok has been working with SixSigma.us 2008 as Master Black Belt mostly in Asia, including Japan and China. Loon Kok has an extensive experience in delivering Lean Six Sigma programs in Chinese and English, contributing to enlarge the presence of SixSigma.us in the world.

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Joe Wexler

Consultant

Joe has been working with SixSigma.us since 2004 as Master Black Belt. He was one of the members of the team charged with setting up a Six Sigma Initiative saving a Fortune 50 company over $250 Million USD within 3 years. Joe masters Process Benchmarking and Quality Improvement methodologies and has a National Quality Award training and consultation. Joe created a Supplier Quality training and consulting function in China.

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Rachelle Wilkinson

Consultant

Rachelle has been working with SixSigma.us since 2005.  Rachelle has extensive experience in statistical education and training, and specializes in the use of Minitab for Six Sigma applications.  In addition to teaching, Rachelle has worked as a statistical consultant for both 3M and Intel Corporations.

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Sam Windsor

Consultant

Sam has been working with SixSigma.us since 2006 as Master Black Belt. Sam masters quality improvement strategies and supplier management. Sam has been delivering programs for 15 years all around the world helping companies in finding solutions.

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George Woodley

Consultant

George has been working with SixSigma.us since 2005 performing as Master Black Belt. George has an extensive experience in project management, statistics, facilitation and mentoring. George delivers programs all around the world in English, French and Hungarian. 

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Ed Wright

Consultant

I am a Master Black Belt and certified Black Belt with ten years of Sales experience and 9 years of IT experience while in R&D. I have held key positions throughout my career, including positions as Regional Operations Manager, Lead SCM Engineer, and Professor of Management, before applying my knowledge to the practical issues facing businesses today.

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Marc Block

Consultant

Mr. Block has more than twenty years of experience in quality program implementation, management consulting, and project management. He has experience in the implementation of Lean Six Sigma quality including project team training and management activities. Mr. Block’s knowledge of quality management includes strategic planning, electronic meeting facilitation, business process reengineering, metrics development and rollout, business function assessment, and leadership skills development. He has also served in the U.S. Air Force as an Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP) certified project officer, an internal quality consultant, and curriculum evaluator and instructor within the Air University.

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Peter Usay

Consultant

Peter is a product engineer by trade who moved into process improvement and became a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. His greatest successes are in the functional areas of Engineering, Manufacturing, IT, HR and Finance by utilizing the best methodology and local subject matter experts.

He has worked with Fortune 500 organizations in the government, plastics industry, global petroleum industry and the automotive industry.
His strengths include working with the individual contributors as well as with C-suite Leads.

Jaclyn Waldrop

Consultant

Jaclyn believes in optimum utilization of LEAN principles to plan, perform and implement process improvement initiatives to drive business excellence and improve customer satisfaction. 
She has the responsibility to oversee all Six Sigma projects. Provide and teach problem solving methodologies, mindsets, and behaviors to improve safety, quality, and operating efficiency.

She holds the key role to train, mentor, and assist process owners, champions, performance improvement project specialists (Green and Black Belts) and front line project teams in the use of process improvement tools and methodology to ensure timely completion of projects with expected internal and external customer results.
She has vast experience of working with senior level executives to determine and prioritize projects.