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Darlene
O'Connor
Kaizen
Facilitator
St.
Francis Hospital

Darlene
O'Connor is an NGS DBA student and MSQSM alumna. She is
an internal Lean consultant at St. Francis Hospital and Medical
Center (a 500 bed, acute care hospital, located in Hartford,
CT). There, she works as part of a team of three to lead the
transition of Lean thinking throughout the organization.
She
spoke recently with Kathy Malcolm, Director of Alumni Affairs about
her experience in both degree programs, how she uses her degrees in
her career, and balancing work, school and family.
Read what Darlene had to say.
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Richard Barner
Global
Commodity Quality Manager
Dell,
Inc.
Richard
Barner obtained his Master of Science degree in Quality Systems
Management from the National Graduate School in 2003 in Austin,
Texas. Once completed, Richard was promoted internally to
Dell's Supplier Quality Engineering Organization which allowed him
to utilize his NGS training through building partnerships with
suppliers located in China, Japan and Korea.
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NGS is
accredited by The New England Asociation of Schools and Colleges
(NEAS&C). They may be contacted at http://cihe.neasc.org/ or (781)
271-0022
NGS is
a not-for-profit institution.
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FEATURED
NGS Alumni Projects Show the USCG Innovative
Results

On
November 2-4, 2010, the National Graduate School will attend
annual U.S. Coast Guard Innovation Expo in Tampa, Florida. The
theme of this year's conference is "The Spirit of
Innovation: Celebrating the Diversity of Ideas." Click here for more information on the
expo.
This will
be the sixth year that NGS has partnered with the Coast Guard to
display at the expo. Each year the Coast Guard sponsors
several NGS alumni to attend the expo and present their
innovative process-improvement projects that provide a return-on-investment
of at least 10 times the cost of tuition to be viewed by their
colleagues and senior leaders. Many of the projects that have
been selected have been implemented within the Coast
Guard. Past projects chosen to be displayed have even won the
U.S. Coast Guard’s Outstanding Innovation Award.
Admiral Thad Allen, USCG [Ret.] has been the Senior
Champion for all of the NGS USCG student projects.
If you
plan on attending this year’s Innovation Expo, make sure you visit
NGS at booth 418!
NGS
will begin it's 10th Annual Nationwide Rollout for USCG students in
March 2011.
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Meet Your
Professor
Dr. Kevin McCormack, MBA, DBA
President,
DRK Research
Dr.
Kevin McCormack is currently President of DRK Research, a
global research network. He is also associated with several
universities such as the National Graduate School, and Skema (an
international graduate school in France). He has taught at
North Carolina State, Campbell University, University of Maryland,
Keller Graduate School, Babson College and the University of
Alabama at Birmingham and is the Master Instructor for Supply Chain
Risk with the Supply Chain Council. He has over 30 years of
business leadership, engineering, teaching, research and consulting
experience in the areas of business process management, information
technology, operations management, and supply chain management.
Dr. McCormack is also a judge for the Manufacturer of the
Year award for the state of Alabama, home of several international
manufacturers’ locations (Honda, Mercedes, Lockheed, BASF, Nucor,
U.S. Steel, and Siemens Automotive) as well as dozens of defense
and automotive suppliers. Some of his clients have been Chrysler,
Daimler, Texas Instruments, USMC, USAF, Chevron-Phillips, Shell,
Exxon-Mobil, Dow Chemical, Standard Charter Bank, Microsoft, Intel,
Wal-Mart, Campbell’s Soup, General Mills, PepsiCo, and several
state governments.
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NGS Participates in Clean Energy Roundtable

Recently,
the National Graduate School (NGS) was invited to participate in
the Massachusetts
Clean Energy Economic and Workforce Development Leadership
Roundtable held in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The
meeting was hosted by the New England Clean Energy Council and the
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the purpose was to help
develop state policy in the areas of energy conservation and
workforce development funding. NGS was invited to present its
position as a thought leader in Environmental Quality Systems and a
provider of workforce development training through the Cape &
Islands Workforce Investment Board.
The
meeting was focused on “supporting and growing the clean energy
sector in Massachusetts.” Participants were divided into
small groups and were asked to generate lists of solution-oriented
recommendations for the following questions:
1.
How can we grow a strong clean
energy industry in Massachusetts?
2.
How can we assure a talented
workforce ranging from energy-level positions to the most senior
positions to support a strong clean energy industry in
Massachusetts?
The
National Graduate School was represented by Jeff Treiber, Dean,
Strategic Learning Partnerships who was selected to lead the panel
discussion on Energy Conservation and presented the NGS position
and that of its panel group at the conference. The Roundtable
brought together efficiency, demand response, smart grid, solar,
wind, biofuel, biomass, geothermal, tidal, storage and other clean
energy companies in southeastern Massachusetts. Along with
supporting stakeholders, policy and action recommendations were
collected by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Council that will allow
the Commonwealth to strengthen its position as a national leader in
the clean energy industry and create a high quality workforce to
meet the industry's growing demand.
Dean Treiber provided the following remarks at this
conference:
“The climate in Massachusetts is clearly one of the
best in the country for environmental and energy conservation
issues. Entities like the Massachusetts Renewable Energy
Trust, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, and recent
legislation in the State of Massachusetts, including The Green Jobs
Act and the Green Communities Act, clearly motivate investment in
renewable technologies. There is a heightened sensitivity to
environmental and energy issues on the Cape, thanks to the many
organizations working those issues."
To
learn more about The National Graduate School's environmental
initiatives, visit www.ngs.edu/GreenCampusU.
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