Sr. Director, Quality, North America @ Hunter Douglas, Inc. (May 2017 - January 2023)
Vice President of Total Quality @ (July 2013 - January 2017)
Division Director of Quality @ (June 2010 - May 2013)
Vice President, Global Quality and Cont. Imp. @ (October 2008 - January 2010)
Corporate Quality and Lean Six Sigma Director @ (April 2005 - March 2008)
Global Quality Systems Leader and Division Quality Manager @ (April 2000 - April 2005)
Quality and Product Engineering Manager @ (February 1997 - April 2000)
Quality Manager @ Allied-Signal (January 1995 - January 1996)
Team Leader and Business Development Leader @ (January 1991 - January 1995)
Ed Gardner Education
Willamette University MBA
MBA (Quantitative Analysis)
1990-1993
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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