Known as the Couch-Potato-Turned-Marathoner, Mike Weekes specializes in leading organizations toward excellence. Using his experience with six sigma, lean, business process analysis and other improvement tools, he has led healthcare, bioscience, telecom, automotive, utility and military contractor organizations through the quality improvement journey.
Originally from
After attending the Crosby Quality Program and facilitating small SMT Manufacturing teams in the plan-do-check-act improvement process, he strengthened his bag of tricks.
With exposure to Lean Principles and Value Stream Mapping, he strengthened his abilities, identifying and attacking waste and non-value-added work and its causes.
Mike applied what he learned to help reduce manufacturing cycle times from weeks to days, introducing better work instructions and job aids, improving quality, on-time delivery and employee involvement. Mike helped Lockheed Martin find reliable replacements to expensive, heavy electronics in order to meet the goals of producing leading edge high reliability hardware in a commercial environment.
He recently moved into the Healthcare arena and other service-related industries to apply those same business process improvement tools used earlier in manufacturing.
Mike managed the technology roadmap and ran experiments to prove the reliability of new designs, processes and components to keep John Deere ahead of the competition.
Mike managed the technology roadmap and ran experiments to prove the reliability of new designs, processes and components to keep John Deere ahead of the competition.
Call Mike today at (941) 356 9434 or email info@whataboutquality.
Mike continued his education through Motorola’s Six Sigma Black Belt Program, applying the define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) strategy to make cellular telephones better, cheaper, faster.
He understands the business process analysis and enterprise architecture arena. He plays the role of analyst or FOCUSED facilitator, helping teams within an organization first acquire the knowledge and know-how, and then guides them in applying the tools.
Mike is a contributor to the Value Chain Group and helped develop a working methodology for the value reference model (VRM) representing success for General Motors, AMD and Proctor & Gamble.
As a certified Enterprise Architect (TOGAF 11/08) Mike has helped several firms sort out their high-level business framework challenges, linking Strategy, Operations, IT, Systems, Data and Technology.
Whether its strategic planning, new technology introduction, cost reduction or quality/business process improvement, Mike has the experience and knowledge to take your team on the journey. Let him help you map out your goals, set objectives, find the opportunities and then make those improvements happen so you can delight your customers. "We had the pleasure of working with Michael Weekes over the course of the past 2 years. In addition to Michael’s excellent consulting skills, we challenged him to lead a project on development of a set of reference models that documented the Value Chain Group’s “Value Chain Reference Model.” We found Michael’s work ethic and quality of the deliverables to be exemplary. He led the team through the completion and release of the models maintaining a high quality of product while managing the team’s time to meet all milestones as specified." Ken Goerg, Director - EA Product Management
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This was quite an intricate and involved set of models that had to be interpreted for use in Metastorm’s ProVision® tool and productized for use by existing and potential customers.
"Mike has an excellent analytical mind and a passion for understanding an improving business practices. He has outstanding modeling skills and will make an immediate positive impact on any organization."
Paul Gothard, Principal Consultant BPA Training
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