Dewan L. Simon Email and Phone Number

Dewan is a results-driven leader that has spent the last 20+ years driving Continuous Improvement at various levels of organizations from the shop floor to the CEO. He is an expert at streamlining processes in transactional, manufacturing, and supply chain operations to improve productivity. His career path has afforded him experience in a number of industries such as Aerospace Manufacturing, Automotive Manufacturing, Chemical, Food Processing, Healthcare, & Medical Device to name a few. He possesses a very well rounded set of business expertise. Skilled in exploratory data analysis(EDA), data visualization, and interpreting statistical data to enact real-world solutions focused on immediate and sustainable financial results. Dewan leverages his skills in the area of financial valuations; direct site assessments; managing client engagements designed to build alignment and resource needs to achieve the strategic business agenda. Dewan utilizes data visualization to help discover biases, systematic errors, mistakes and other unexpected problems in data before those data are incorporated into potentially flawed analysis. He also works with R&D to design new processes built to enable efficient long-term growth by utilizing DfSS methods. He consistently achieves multimillion-dollar savings and double-digit percentage improvements. He has provided training, coaching, and mentoring for a number of organizations deploying continuous improvement initiatives, from the site management team to the corporate leadership team. A few of the organizations he has impacted are BASF, Ashland Chemical, CSX Railroad, Tyco Electronics, Johnson Controls, Kraft-Heinz, and UCSF Medical. He is able to effectively apply his project management Data Science: R Basics skills, Triz, DFSS Six Sigma, DMAIC Six Sigma, and proven Lean expertise to drive transformational change within organizations. He has been recognized as an innovative problem-solver; nominated for the Presidential Innovation Award and winning awards in Environmental Excellence and Energy Technology Innovation. Professional Experience*Global Continuous Improvement Experts (GCI Experts) - CEO & Founder *AlliedSignal - R&D and Process Engineer *Rohm and Haas - Asset Manager *DLS Consulting - Managing Director *Cardinal Healthcare - Director of Operational Excellence.