Adam Segale
Operations & Quality Executive Leader | 6 Sigma Black Belt/Lean Practitioner | Organizational Change Agent | Business Partner | Lifelong Learner
- Role
- Head of Global Quality Control - Quality Systems and Compliance at QuidelOrtho
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Adam Segale
Proven leader of Process Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Production and Quality teams in the diagnostic and medical device industries. Diverse experience with product commercialization from start-up to Fortune 500 companies achieving launch capacity and first year cost savings. Proven track record of developing best in class management systems and managing high quality operations. Demonstrated ability to build and lead highly successful teams and achieving significant results.• Product Life Cycle Management: Launched over 30 Medical Devices achieving customer demand at launch while cutting cost and improving internal quality within the first year. • Building High Performance, Collaborative Teams: Practitioner of change management for technical engineering teams and operations leadership along with scaling manufacturing by 100 DL within 2 months across existing shifts and/or newly created 3rd shift, weekend shifts and Alternative Work Schedules.• Standardization across boarders: Certified Lean Leader, Trainer and Practitioner rolling out lean concepts and driving results through others. Drive improvement domestically and internationally with experience partnering in China, Costa Rica, Japan, France, Germany and Netherland. • Metric Driven Results: Created, trained, owned, and reported on Performance Metrics to Corporate Leaders and Board of Directors with improvements backed by Finance leadership. Ownership over Value Improvement Projects driving savings in standard cost while creating awareness for CapEx, Absorption and other impactors. Strengths: Operations Management, Product Life Cycle, Engineering, Cascading Metrics, S & OP, Strategic Planning, Continuous Improvement, Value Stream Mapping, Lean Flow, Batch/SPF, Rapid turnaround, Same Day Fulfillment, FDA Audit Readiness, Business Strategy, Business Process, Green Belt, Black Belt, Six Sigma, Facilitating Cross-Functional teams, MDSAP, MDR, Kaizen, Root Cause Analysis, DMAIC, PLM, MES, ERP, system integration and experience leveraging ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude & Meta AI in everyday strategy and tasks.
Experience
Head of Global Quality Control - Quality Systems and Compliance
Apr 2026 — Present · Carlsbad, CA, US
Education
Iowa State University
BS, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
2000 — 2004
UC Irvine
Certificate in Management for Technical Professionals
2014 — 2014
Skills
- Manufacturing Operations
- Process Engineering
- Business Analysis
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Quality Control
- Minitab
- Gmp
- Fda Gmp
- Medical Devices
- Capa
- Iso 13485
- Kanban
- Team Facilitation
- Emotional Intelligence
- Management
- Supply Chain
- Ncmr
- Lean Manufacturing
- Fmea
- Collaborative Problem Solving
- Industrial Engineering
- Continuous Improvement
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Iso
- Business Process Improvement
- Fda
- Operations Management
- Quality System
- V&V
- Green Belt
- 5s
- Value Stream Mapping
- Process Improvement
- Quality Management
- Spc
- Root Cause Analysis
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Dmaic
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