Lonnie Wilson

Mr. Wilson received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington State University where he graduated with Honors in 1969. His background includes 20 years in manufacturing management with Chevron Oil Company. During this time, he held management positions in facilities planning, oils planning, quality, IT, environmental engineering, process engineering, designs engineering, production and maintenance.

In 1990 he started Quality Consultants whose clients include firms in manufacturing as well as the fields of education, healthcare and other service sector businesses. Quality Consultants serves small firms as well as Fortune 500 firms in the US, Mexico and Canada.

Mr. Wilson is an expert in Lean Manufacturing techniques and applications including the implementation of the Toyota Production System. He not only instructs management professionals in the applications of these lean techniques; he is an on-the-floor-implementation professional. His new book, How To Implement Lean Manufacturing, was published by McGraw Hill, and released in August.

He is well versed in problem solving skills. He is an expert in statistical problem solving as well as logical techniques such as Kepner-Tregoe methodology. He is a Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and he not only utilizes the Six Sigma tools but he is an active Six Sigma trainer. He is very comfortable in the classroom and even more so on the factory floor. He is equally adept at working with top management as well as the line worker. He is an aggressive problem solver and with his 39 years in industry, Mr. Wilson has developed the ability to reduce complex problems to simple workable solutions.

In addition to his work in Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing, Mr. Wilson has developed and taught classes in a wide variety of topics including many statistical tools such as DOE, SPC MSA, QFD and human relations skills such as Advanced Facilitation, Hoshin-Kanri Policy Deployment and Team Based Problem Solving, to name a few.

In addition to his consulting practice, Mr. Wilson has taught for the El Paso Community College and the University of Texas at El Paso. He is an active Senior Member of the American Society for Quality and is the past Chairman of the Education Sub-committee.

On a volunteer basis, Mr. Wilson uses these same skills to assist Churches and non-profits in meeting their goals and is working with several colleges and universities to incorporate Lean Manufacturing into their engineering, business and management curricula. In addition Mr. Wilson is a licensed soccer coach and currently is the Varsity Soccer Coach at Cathedral High School, in El Paso, Texas.