2024 -
now Senior Operations Analyst at Implementation Engineers @
2024 -
now Quality Improvement Consultant @ Self-employed
2017 -
2023 Sr. Director, Quality, North America @ Hunter Douglas, Inc.
2013 -
2017 Vice President of Total Quality @
2010 -
2013 Division Director of Quality @
2008 -
2010 Vice President, Global Quality and Cont. Imp. @
2005 -
2008 Corporate Quality and Lean Six Sigma Director @
2000 -
2005 Global Quality Systems Leader and Division Quality Manager @
1997 -
2000 Quality and Product Engineering Manager @
1995 -
1996 Quality Manager @ Allied-Signal
1991 -
1995 Team Leader and Business Development Leader @
Ed Gardner Education
Willamette University MBA
MBA (Quantitative Analysis)
1990
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1993
Utah State University
Bachelor of Science - BS (Forestry)
Ed Gardner Skills
Measurement System Analysis
Defect Life Cycle
Six Sigma Black Belt
Six Sigma
Customer Experience
Problem Solving
Quality Management
Supplier Quality
Process Capability
Regression Analysis
Quality by Design
Continuous Improvement
Process Improvement
Quality System
Lean Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Quality Assurance
SPC
ISO
Manufacturing Operations
Business Process Improvement
DMAIC
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Product Development
5S
Manufacturing Operations Management
Team Building
Strategic Planning
Green Belt
Operational Excellence
FMEA
Kaizen
Value Stream Mapping
Minitab
Engineering
Strategy
Management
Root Cause Analysis
LSS
Toyota Production System
A3
APQP
QMS
Auditing
TS16949
Quality Control
DFSS
AS9100
Organizational Effectiveness
Reliability
Design of Experiments
Quality Engineering
Process Simplification
Monte Carlo Simulation
DOE
MSA
Regression
Leadership
Microsoft Office
Marketing
Microsoft Excel
Cross Functional Team Leadership
TQM
Ed Gardner Summary
Ed Gardner, based in Murphy, NC, US, is currently a Senior Operations Analyst at Implementation Engineers at Implementation Engineers. Ed Gardner brings experience from previous roles at Self-employed, Hunter Douglas, Inc., Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC and Jarden, Branded Consumables. Ed Gardner holds a 1990 - 1993 MBA in Quantitative Analysis @ Willamette University MBA. With a robust skill set that includes Measurement System Analysis, Defect Life Cycle, Six Sigma Black Belt, Six Sigma, Customer Experience and more. Ed Gardner has 3 emails and 2 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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