Forrest Breyfogle Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, Us

Is a professional engineer and was named Quality Professional of the Year for 2011 by Quality Magazine and in 2012 was awarded alumni of the year by Missouri University of Science and Technology. In 2013, was presented the Leadership Award at the Lean & Six Sigma World Conference. In 2004 received the prestigious Crosby Medal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for the book, Implementing Six Sigma. Has served on the Board of Advisors for the University of Texas Center for Performance Excellence from 2003-2012.Created the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) business management system, which is a methodology that goes beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard. IEE provides an enhancement and integration of Business Process Management (BPM) techniques. IEE is described in an authored five-book series. IEE provides management advancements in the utilization and integration of scorecards, strategic planning, process improvement, and Business Process Management (BPM) techniques.Have author thirteen books and over 150 articles on business management and improvement. Are President and CEO of Smarter Solutions, Inc., which in 1992 founded, after a 24 year career with IBM. Began career with IBM in development and later transferred to the product test organization. Within these organizations he became very interested in the benefits derived from the wise use of statistical techniques. From 1980 to 1992 he served IBM in applying "Six Sigma and Lean" process improvement methodologies to testing, development, manufacturing, and service organizations.Has conducted numerous Lean Six Sigma workshop/coaching sessions, as well as Master Black Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt, Champion, and Executive training sessions, throughout the world. Through consulting, training, and application of developed software helps organizations achieve more customers and cash.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

When working at IBM in new product development, there was an opportunity for Forrest to attend a Design of Experiments (DOE) course, which later proved to be a life changing event. Forrest discovered that the techniques in this 1975 class were not only very applicable in product design but also in product test/assurance, a department that he was later transferred to. In 1980, Mr. Breyfogle transitioned to become a full-time internal IBM statistical consultant until the time he took a bridge to retirement in 1992 to found Smarter Solutions. From 1980 to 1992, Forrest’s full time job in IBM was to help people and organizations do things smarter through the wise application of statistical techniques. During the last twelve years with IBM, Forrest had a great statistician mentor, who helped him address very challenging and unique problems. The knowledge that Mr. Breyfogle gained through this coaching and some additional training provided a solid foundation for him to start challenging many business and statistical norms. Forrest started describing his do-it-smarter considerations approaches to others in IBM technical reports and his first book, Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing (published by Wiley), which became available in 1992, the same year that he left IBM and founded Smarter Solutions.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM is a global technology and innovation company headquartered in Armonk, NY. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 400,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers. Utilizing its business consulting, technology and R&D expertise, IBM helps clients become "smarter" as the planet becomes more digitally interconnected. IBM invests more than $6 billion a year in R&D, just completing its 21st year of patent leadership. IBM Research has received recognition beyond any commercial technology research organization and is home to 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards, and 10 Inductees in US Inventors Hall of Fame. The company was behind the inventions of the PC; SABRE travel reservation system; UPC codes, Watson, the Jeopardy!-playing computing system, and much more. Official IBM LinkedIn account. Managed by Katie Keating and George Faulkner. Follows IBM Social Computing Guidelines. We reserve the right to delete comments that are offensive or suggestive, personal attacks, anonymous, wildly off-topic, spam or advertisements.

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering