Don Brecken

About Don Brecken

Don Brecken is a consulting business improvement practitioner and quality auditor at Quality Consulting Services, LLC. Don is a change agent who is able to make good things happen. Contact him to see how he can help your organization improve.Website: Don is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), served on ASQ’s national board of directors and as Director for ASQ Region 10, and is Examination Chair for the Education Division of ASQ. He is also a past Chair of ASQ Section 1001 (Grand Rapids), a past vice-chair of the ASQ Section Affairs Council (SAC), and served on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners in \'04,\'05, and \'07. Don is an ASQ Certified Manager of Quality and Organization Excellence (CMQ/OE) and Exemplar Global Certified Master Auditor (QMS-MA) and Exemplar Global Certified Skill Examiner (QMS-SE).Don earned his MBA in Strategic Management from Davenport University’s Sneden Graduate School. He has three undergraduate degrees in business with a Technical Specialty in Quality Leadership. Don has instructed graduate and undergraduate courses in quality management, strategic management, operations management, and leadership at both Davenport and Ferris State Universities.Specialties: • Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ)• ASQ Certified Manager of Quality and Organization Excellence (CMQ/OE)• Exemplar Global Certified Master Auditor (QMS-BI) • Exemplar Global Certified Skill Examiner (QMS-SE) • ISO 9001/AS9100/ISO 17025 / IATF 16949 Management Representative • 2004, 2005, 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner • MBA in Strategic Management with three undergraduate degrees in business• Technical Specialty in Quality Leadership• Educator (college courses, workshops, presentations, etc.)• Consulting (business improvement, third-party auditing, System Implementation, strategic planning)• Published Author

Experience

1. Adjunct Faculty Instructor

   Ferris State University

   Sep 2007 — Present

Education

• Davenport University

  BBA, General Business

  1995 — 1998

• Davenport University

  BS, Management

  1999 — 1999

• Davenport University

  BS, Human Resource Management

  1998 — 1998

• Davenport University

  MBA, Strategic Management

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Higher Education
• Kaizen
• Six Sigma
• Quality Auditing
• Manufacturing
• Published Author
• Lean Manufacturing
• Leadership Development
• Statistical Process Control (Spc)
• Dmaic
• Operational Excellence
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Leadership
• Iso Standards
• Organizational Development
• Ppap
• Public Speaking
• Spc
• Fmea
• Management
• Team Building
• Quality Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Quality System
• Toyota Production System
• Iso 9000
• Product Quality
• Iso
• Business Process Improvement
• Tqm
• Operations Management
• Project Management
• Process Engineering
• Business Strategy
• Root Cause Analysis
• Coaching
• Process Improvement
• Strategic Planning
• Quality Assurance
• Auditing