We are a unique and diverse team dedicate to innovation, excellence, and exceeding our customer expectations. We have a broad-based global experience in business developing, executing, leading and driving dynamic, enterprise wide results for manufacturing, oil & gas, financial services, insurance, IT, logistics, military, energy, aerospace, pharmaceutical, healthcare, automotive, and government entities. Much of our success is in driving synergies, cost reductions and productivity improvements. As a result, we partner with our clients to find much in common with each other, whether related to manufacturing, service, technologies, markets, channels, or support functions. These shared interests translate into more effective and efficient operations, enhanced business opportunities, and improved customer experiences. Even better, we know that many more opportunities will emerge for our clients as we continue to discover new capabilities that will significantly benefit both short and long term business performance. Through collaboration, perseverance and a steadfast commitment, our focus is to understand and infuse a philosophy of continuous improvement and transformational change. This philosophy and change is rooted in the development of a strong foundation that aligns the organization’s vision, strategies, processes and people in creating sustainable and positive outcomes that add value to customers and operational growth. VISION STATEMENT VALUE STATEMENT Michael Bonine Overview: Mike is President and a Manager Partner with Circle of Success Associates. He is a hands-on key member of the firm’s strategic group and its center of excellence for transformational and sustainable change. He has a strong and diverse background with a unique, powerful mix of leadership skills in both the private and public sectors. Mike is a practitioner and world leader working with clients specializing in strategy, business transformation, and quality improvements. He began his career at General Dynamics and Sony Corporation where he gained success and understanding in leading enterprise-wide strategic and continuous improvement efforts that merge the concepts of culture & organizational change with the objective of maintaining consistent, repeatable processes resulting in customer satisfaction and competitive advantages. Mike has designed, developed and deployed a wide array of business improvement tools and techniques, including: project management, problem solving methodologies, teamwork, facilitation skills, team leader development, benchmarking, suggestion systems, quality measurement, customer satisfaction and service, process redesign, leadership development, diversity and internal customer and supplier process studies. Experience: Six Sigma: DMAIC, Design For Six Sigma (DMEDI), Customer needs analysis (VOC / VOB), DOE, Statistical and Logical Concepts, Material Development, QFD, MGPP, SPC, FMEA, Pugh Matrix. Education: San Diego State University – B.S. Business Finance Click here to download Michael Bonine's Bio and CV in Adobe PDF format (click here to download the free reader). Lou English Overview: Experience: Education: Michael Reames Over the past 23 years, Michael has developed a reputation for building value by leading Lean Six Sigma and Quality Management initiatives. Throughout his career, he has delivered measurable results critical to continued company success. Further, as a Senior Examiner and Site Visit Team Leader for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (1995 – 2002), he established himself as an expert in the field of quality management and performance excellence. Key successes include:
Michael has served for the past ten years as a Senior Managing Consultant and Certified Master Black Belt for IBM, the global computer technology and IT consulting corporation. His extensive background in LSS is supported by his expertise as a change management facilitator and a statistical analyst. He has managed Process Management and Improvement engagements at two dozen manufacturing and service company client organizations. Training participants have rated Michael’s facilitation at a median 4.9 on a 5-point scale. In addition, he developed and administered the IBM’s Global LSS Certification program, facilitating the certification of scores of Green Belts, Black Belts, and Master Black Belts. In his client work, he guided five major clients to achieve 3X to 5X their initial consulting investment in contracts nominally lasting two years or less. Prior to joining IBM, Michael was a Consultant/Master Black Belt with PricewaterhouseCoopers and a Quality Process Leader at GE American Communications (GE Capital). In these positions, he honed his skills and background as a Six Sigma coach and facilitator, and his efforts resulted in numerous successful projects which generated over $10 Million collectively. From 1995 to 2002, He first became a Quality Professional at NYNEX (now Verizon), where he also served as a Telecommunications Engineering Manager (Fiber Optics) in the New York City metropolitan area. Michael earned his B.S.in Physics from the U.S. Air Force Academy, MBA from the University of Missouri, and M.S. in Telecommunications Management from the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. He is a trained Quality Analyst, a Certified Quality Engineer (American Society for Quality), and a Certified Master Black Belt (GE Capital and IBM). As an Air Force officer (retired), he was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal. He is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality and a Life Member of the National Eagle Scout Association (Boy Scouts of America). Gabe Kemeny Overview: As a consultant, Gabriel has led a number of Lean Six Sigma global implementations in several countries and languages, including large corporations, such as Dow Chemical, Caterpillar, Dana, Service Master, Shell, Pitney Bowes, Arrow Electronic, IBM and others. Projects have included executive training and coaching, project selection, black belt and master black belt training, coaching and certification. He has also coached a number of highly visible “Design for Lean Six Sigma” (DMEDI) projects in product and service developments at a global level. Gabe has also accumulated considerable experience in the establishment of process-based cultures in highly departmentalized organizations. Some Successes:
Education: Commitment Integrity Innovation Perseverance Mastery “Michael Bonine is a consummate Lean Six Sigma professional. He has the experience and skills to lead a total quality transformation program working effectively at all levels of the organization. Functional leaders show him immediate respect for what he knows and the questions he asks about their systems and problems. His deep knowledge about the technical and conceptual foundations of Lean and Six Sigma allow him to teach and apply these programs to a wide variety of industries and service organizations. Mike would be the first one to call if I needed a quality expert who knows how to lead a total systems change effort.” Lou English, Lean Consultant Trainer, English & Associates Inc. “I met Mike Bonine when I trained to become a CPI (Continuous Process Improvement) Black Belt/Project Leader almost three years ago. This new assignment required that I learn both Lean and Six Sigma tools and the DMAIC problem solving methodology in order to achieve positive results with my upcoming CPI projects. Mike was one of two instructors and I immediately leaned towards him as my mentor because of his keen grasp of the subject matter and his obvious ability to relate the concepts and tools required for our development as aspiring CPI BBs in an easily attainable manner. Besides training me in the job that I am still doing today, Mike subsequently coached me as I migrated through my first two projects. After going through four months of training and several more months with my initial projects, Mike continued to help me to become more confident so that I felt that I was quickly and thoroughly progressing towards the capability to tackle any CPI challenge, ranging from short term Quick Wins, Kaizens, or Rapid Improvement Events to the most complex longer term DMAIC projects. His common sense approach to all aspects of striving for process improvement in a fairly typical organization that does not handle change very well helped me to balance the use of tools required to measure, analyze, and then improve a process with the effort to manage the people on my team in a way that would keep them interested and contributing. This was actually the first time in my 33+ year career with the United States Navy that I received such a clearly high level of both instruction and support for achieving my goals. Mike has continued to be a source for both information and mentoring in both the LSS and team building skills that I require in order to ensure project success. I will continue to rely on Mike and, if asked, I would freely recommend him as a teacher, coach, and/or project leader for any organization – no matter what the size, product, or service - since I believe he has the skills, knowledge, and abilities to easily adapt to both the type of requirement and personalities that he surely will encounter in his future undertakings as a Master Black Belt. Mike, I trust, will move comfortably from one kind of project to another as his career progresses and as he continues, even when faced with time constraints, to assist others like myself to reach for the highest achievements while navigating through some of the toughest challenges that any private company or government agency may present. It is rare that one meets a man of Mike’s caliber and it has been a priviledge knowing him like I have for the last three years both as a business associate and personal friend. I hope many others capture the same opportunity.” February 6, 2009 Top qualities: Personable, Expert, High Integrity Elliot Redman (United States Navy – Logistics Command) “Mike has integrity, a strong work ethic and delivers consistently high quality business transformation plans that are aligned to strategic CI initiatives and accountability. He has the ability to see the whole picture, work effectively with people in the organization and the determination to provide positive, sustainable outcomes for any organization. He has demonstrated to be an excellence coach, mentor, and value his friendship. Really enjoyed working with him and learned a lot Mike is very highly recommended.” Top qualities: Personable, Expert, Creative Pradip Ghate (Cardinal Health) “Mike has a rare combination of talent and tenacity that benefits any client lucky enough to work with him. Time after time I have seen him faced with an impossible situation only to turn things around with a mastery of both the technical business management tools and unparalleled people skills. Marry this with selfless dedication, and you begin to get a picture of my friend, Mike. Mike's understanding of the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies is world class. It is always a pleasure to watch him coach/mentor shop-floor employees, middle management, and executive leaders with the same degree of success. This is a skill that very few have, and an essential component of the "it" factor that has served Mike and his clients so well over the years. He is just as comfortable helping a press supervisor run a kaizen event as he is leading an executive steering committee through a multi-million dollar CPI deployment. It is with great pleasure and without hesitation that I recommend Mike Bonine to anyone who considers him for employment.” Nathan T. Sprague Circle 6 Consulting, Inc. “When working with Michael, I found him to be a knowledgeable lean-sigma practitioner, personable, and easy to work with in a team setting.” Top qualities: Personable, High Integrity, Creative John Settineri (Avery Dennison) “I have known Michael Bonine for more than 9 years and enthusiastically endorse him as an outstanding professional in the field of Lean Six Sigma and process transformation. Following are some of his strengths, as I view them:
Gabe Kemeny, (PricewaterhouseCoopers) “Michael supported the deployment of the initial cross-business lean six sigma program at Ingersoll Rand. He is an excellent trainer with a clear understanding of lean six sigma strategy deployment. Mike has the ability and line of sight to help an organization move from isolated improvement projects to a focused continuous improvement program integrated with the business plan. Mike has a solid knowledge of the tools of lean six sigma.” Rob Miller, Director, Human Resources Global Service & delivery, Ingersoll Rand Content 4
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