Bob Forness
President & Executive Director
- Role
- President and Executive Director at Olean Business Development
- Location
- Olean, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bob Forness
A self-motivated and results-driven management professional with 35+ years of experience in a corporate environment, now using this experience in a non-profit business development role to support small business growth in my home town. I am skilled in training and leading people through process development activities with a continuous improvement mindset, helping facilitate ideation, translating these concepts into strategy, deployment, validation and sustainability. My passion is applying over 3 decades of Lean Six Sigma and quality techniques from the corporate world in helping small business leaders identify their challenges and develop solutions in a prioritized manner to maximize impact.
Experience
President and Executive Director
Dec 2021 — Present · Olean, NY, US
Education
Alfred State College - SUNY College of Technology
AAS, Engineering Science
1983 — 1985
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Microelectronic Engineering
1985 — 1988
Skills
- Program Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Electronics
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Industrial Engineering
- Supply Chain
- Management
- Yield
- Quality Assurance
- Design for Manufacturing
- Process Engineering
- Value Stream Mapping
- Minitab
- Process Improvement
- Product Marketing
- 5s
- Product Development
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Product Engineering
- Quality System
- Process Simulation
- Six Sigma
- Procurement
- Fmea
- Iso
- Business Process Improvement
- Lean Manufacturing
- Kanban
- Quality Management
- Engineering
- Aerospace
- Dmaic
- Operational Excellence
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Semiconductors
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Supplier Quality
- Leadership
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