David Brucks Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Course instructor and facilitator for Baldrige Excellence Framework based courses for Alliance for Performance Excellence programs (PEN, WCPE, RMPEx, PENW). Courses include Leading Excellence & Achievement Program, Baldrige Implementer Experience and Advancing Excellence. The objective of the courses is to teach participants about the Baldrige Excellence Framework and how to apply it as a management tool in their organization to improve business processes and customer results. Courses are a combination of in person and online sessions.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Instructor for the Strategic Quality Management Systems course for the School of Engineering starting in Fall 2020. The course covers strategic quality management systems such as the Baldrige Excellence Framework and how they are used to drive improved business processes and results for organizations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead Global Quality continuous improvement efforts focusing on non-Manufacturing related business processes. Collaborate with functional organizations across Entegris to analyze quality related trends to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities and actions. Monitor key organizational metrics to verify effectiveness of actions taken.

Chaska, Mn

Responsible for leading quality teams at multiple sites within Entegris' Advanced Materials Handling business division. Products range from fluid handling, particle sizing and liquid packaging solutions for the semi-conductor industry to single use packaging solutions for Life Sciences. Processes such as plastic injection, blow molding, rotational molding, extrusion and machining are used to manufacture these products in medium to high volumes. Responsibilities ranged from new product development, incoming quality, production quality and customer support.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Created and led Seagate's global effort to implement the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to improve business processes and results.• Led site’s application for the 2014 Minnesota Performance Excellence Award, received Advancement Level recognition (2nd of 4 levels).• Defined and implemented internal Voice of Customer process to help focus improvements, increased overall internal customer satisfaction 27% over 3 years. • Collaborated with facility senior leaders to develop organizational profiles at 18 global sites.• Trained 40 people from 8 Seagate sites in Asia on Baldrige Performance Excellence framework to create local expertise and deploy functional excellence process to Asia.• Assessed and improved organizational business processes, results and customer satisfaction using the Baldrige framework and other continuous improvement tools.• Revised compliance audit process to integrate performance excellence assessments at 6 global sites improving value and relevance of feedback reports to site leaders.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led a global team of up to 80 people ($10 million annual budget) responsible for the quality and reliability of hard drive storage products from new product development through end customer field support. • Assessed new product designs (Hard Disk & Solid State drives) to ensure they met product specifications, quality/reliability metrics and customer requirements.• Led product development corrective action system that enabled products to meet customer quality and reliability expectations.• Implemented a portfolio management process for continuous improvement projects to improve organization efficiency and costs

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Established Design for Manufacturing guidelines and a process to align 3 global design centers to enable a single automated assembly process across market segments.• Defined Design for Manufacturing (DFM) process to assess all new drive and component designs for manufacturability resulting in design standardization and higher utilization of manufacturing capital equipment• Program manager for implementation of highly automated disc drive assembly lines across multiple design centers and factories which allowed company to more effectively respond to customer demand changes