Denis is a multi-award winning Quality Management executive who is a passionate advocate of Quality. His expertise includes Strategic Quality Management, Excellence Models such as EFQM and Baldrige and the Integration of ISO management standards.He has a Degree in Building Engineering an MBA and PhD in quality management. He is a Fellow of The American Society for Quality, The Chartered Quality Institute (UK) The Chartered Institute of Building and Institution of Civil Engineers. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Collaborative Working as well as a Chartered Quality Professional, Certified Quality Manager, Auditor, Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Practitioner. Denis has received the ASQ's Lancaster Medal, Edwards Medal, Feigenbaum Medal, Berger Award & Section Leadership Award. Also the APEX Award for Quality Leadership & international awards for research publications. Quality Award experience includes: Examiner for the Baldrige National Quality Award, Judge for the International Team Excellence Competition, Judge on the National Housing Quality Award, an Assessor on the Northern Ireland Quality Award (EFQM aligned) and Judge & Examiner for the Wisconsin Forward Award.Denis is a member of ASQs Organizational Excellence Technical Committee, BS99001 BSI Construction Quality Standard Committee (B/570 was QS/1/4) and the ASQ Gryna Award Committee. He is on the Board of The Quality Management Forum and Chronicle of Leadership & Management. He has made over 50 professional presentations at such events as ASQ Conferences and published over 100 papers in such journals as; The International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management and International Journal of Operations & Production Management. His work has been translated into Chinese, Spanish & Portuguese.He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Adjunct Professor at California State University and Visiting Scholar at Capella University. He has experience in management, engineering, training, auditing and consulting with expertise in strategic and operational quality improvement initiatives. His work has won national quality, safety, environmental and collaborative awards.Denis is co-author of the ASQ Best Seller, 'The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing The Baldrige Criteria'.
Listed skills include Leadership, Six Sigma, Quality Management, Operational Excellence, and 13 others.