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John Walsh Prism eSolutions |
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John Walsh is a quality engineer with over 25 years experience in automotive, chemical and utility industries. His technical undergraduate and graduate business degrees, combined with manufacturing, engineering and staff experience, have made him an unusually effective communicator and team builder. He has audited more than 100 companies worldwide to a variety of standards, including
ISO. John has administered quality programs, in both customer and supplier roles, with companies throughout North America, Europe and Japan.
Since 1995, John has taught a four-course curriculum, which he also authored, on quality engineering at Penn State University. John has directed the successful certification efforts of numerous companies to a variety of standards including ISO, QS and AS. Industries involved include textiles, plastics, rubber, engineering consulting, commercial printing and heavy fabrication. He has extensive quality engineering knowledge including subjects such as statistics, decision making, design of experiments, quality costs, performance metrics, quality planning, quality standards and quality auditing. Broad automotive industry experience, in both supplier and customer roles encompassing all aspects of the QS standard, has allowed John to provide training in management principles and techniques to all organizational levels from operator to senior management. John has the ability to quickly grasp the effectiveness of an operation, identify opportunities and implement improvements. John is a member of the American Society for Quality as a Certified Quality Engineer, has been a Certified ISO Lead Auditor since 1993, and a Quality Engineering Instructor at Penn State University since 1995. He graduated with an MBA in Business from Monmouth College, and with a BS in Natural Sciences from St. Peter's College. |
Michael J. Withka |
| Mike has over two decades of manufacturing experience within various industries including roles as manager, supervisor, production engineer and internal consultant. Mike's areas of focus include production system design, strategic lean transformations, team coaching, training program design and training workshop facilitator. Mike is certified as a Greenbelt through the Institute of Industrial Engineers and as a Professional Trainer through Langevin Training Services. Mike has also earned an A.S. degree in Engineering Science at Middlesex County Community College in Edison, New Jersey and both B.S. and M.S degrees in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. Mike is currently enrolled in the M.B.A. program at DeSales University in Allentown, Pennsylvania. |
