Accelerated Six Sigma
James Bandrowski
Jim is president of Strategic Action Associates in Danville, CA, and is author of Corporate Imagination — Plus: Five Steps to Translating Innovative Strategies Into Action. He is internationally known for helping management teams create and implement breakthrough strategies and has facilitated, trained and delivered keynote speeches on a variety of subjects related to achieving measurable breakthrough, including Simplified Six Sigma, TQM, organizational innovation and benchmarking. Jim has worked with a variety of companies including Merck, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Disney, Exxon, Circuit City, Century 21, Vlasic Pickles, United Health Care, the U.S. Navy and First Nationwide Bank. Previously, Jim was director of planning of DiGiorgio Corporation and has held positions with Systron-Donner, Kaiser Industries, Stone & Webster and Becton-Dickinson. He is a Six Sigma master black belt.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the three days of ‘Accelerated Six Sigma’ course instruction last week with Jim Bandrowski. Jim brings a wealth of practical experience to his excellent instruction, and is absolutely an asset to your program! The course was fun, practical and applicable to my work environment. Governmental entities tend to lag behind the private sector in terms of embracing and applying a measurement-based strategy that focuses on process improvement and variation reduction. Mr. Bandrowski illustrated how this methodology can be applied not only to the manufacturing environment from which it first evolved, but also to the service industry and to governmental processes. I’m looking forward to applying the knowledge I gained during this course to the projects and assignments I’ll be working on here in the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.”
Margie Kriel, Auditor, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, WI
“Jim did an excellent job of using various learning techniques to drive home the theory and applications of Six Sigma.”
Jace Oliver, Georgia Department of Defense, Atlanta GA
Scott Converse
Scott Converse is the Director of Technology Programs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Working within the Executive Education department, he oversees courses in Six Sigma, purchasing and supply management, and information technology. Scott developed and oversees the Technical Leadership Certificate series, a collaborative effort between the College of Engineering and the School of Business. He is also a lecturer in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business’ MBA program.
Scott has developed technology-based training courses for a variety of audiences ranging from the computer novice to the IT professional. Clients have included Fortune 500 firms, the U.S. military, state and local government and not-for-profit agencies. He is engaging, interactive and clear in the presentation of technical material. His ability to break down complex topics, use analogies to develop understanding and include visual and group activities in traditionally lecture-based subjects helps to make learning fun.
Areas of expertise include internetworking concepts and information technologies, predicting and managing emerging technologies, technology project implementation, the role technology will play on the future of business, data analysis and data mining techniques. He also has over a decade of applied experiences in the field as a former IT director for the University of Wisconsin, and technologist for an Internet working software developer.
Scott received his MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he holds a B.S. degree in Physics from UW-Eau Claire.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 2.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 21 hours, as well as 21 PDUs.
jcorkery@exed.wisc.edu