DrT is a data scientist, data scientist, educator, and Master Black Belt who leads LodeStar Institute. His career connects teaching in Ankara and at Purdue with improvement work at Hewlett-Packard, SAS Institute, the U.S. federal government in Missouri, PepsiCo/Frito-Lay, and GKN Aerospace. Based in Plano, Texas, he focuses on customer value, AI and data science, mentoring, and community service. Meet DrT or read his career story.
Dr. Hedayat is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, with proven track record in people management, management of change, conflict resolution, and engineering developing consumer, medical, and commercial products for Fortune-100 companies, such as: Motorola, Philips, Johnson & Johnson, and Hewlett-Packard for the last 25 years.
With international Lean Six Sigma training experience, Clyde Parker Is often featured as a keynote speaker at manufacturing conferences and conventions. His successful career as a manufacturing executive has led to an appointment on the National Board of Examiners for the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence.
Andy has twenty-five years of experience in industrial management and has been a consultant for another fifteen.He specializes in quality system implementation and management assessments toimprove efficiencies. Andy has a BS (Tufts) and an MS (MIT) in Chemical Engineering and an MBA. He is an RAB ISO 9000 Quality System Auditor, a senior member of ASQ, and an experienced trainer and facilitator. Andy is an examiner for the North Carolina Award for Excellence.
Derek Webb is an advocate of data based decision making and industrial analytical techniques. He conducts research, teaches, and consults on the design of experiments, metrology, process characterization and process control (SPC). Derek has publications in the field of industrial data analytics and has spoken at national and international conferences.
Margaret Porter
Margaret �Margy� Porter is a strategic collaborator with the Lodestar Institute. She founded and leads an organizational development and business advisory practice located in Cary, NC. Margy meets individually with clients to evaluate their specific organizational, leadership, training, and coaching needs. She follows through with design, customization and delivery of a complete program of organizational support and development with emphasis on effective culture change and effective human resource utilization.
