Dr. Thomas Agrait is the actual CEO and Senior Partner of Lean Enterprise Consulting Inc and partner of NOSIS for the United States of America, Canada, and Latin America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has over 30 years of experience as an independent management consultant\/Coach in Lean Six Sigma, technical, regulatory affairs and compliance to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotech, health care institutions \/ companies and various government agencies with an emphasis on establishing efficient processes, sustainable compliance, quality levels and validation environments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through his work, Mr. Agrait has been affiliated with the Regulatory Entities- regulated industry for more than 25 years in the areas of QA, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, compliance, and Corporate \/ Operations Management and employed on behalf of well-known, globally recognized manufacturers and service providers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Agrait\u2019s areas of interest and expertise include, but are not limited to, deploying and implementing Process Improvement Initiatives like Total Quality Systems, Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain, Validation Programs, supplier\/vendor qualification, auditing, Executive Coaching, QMS policy and procedure development \/ implementation from cradle to grave, Project Management, Risk Assessment and Management, Quality \/ Statistical Tools and Techniques, CAPA, Six Sigma \/ Lean Enterprise assessment and project execution, FDA Mock Inspection, and PAT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has held various managerial positions, from manufacturing to quality and logistics, with multinational Hi-Tech, pharmaceutical and electronics companies like: Raychem US-France, Owens Illinois-Specialty Packaging, Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, Novartis, Bard, Ciba Vision, Ocular Sciences, Wyeth, Amgen, The Clorox Company, Precision Monolithic in California, and Cutler Hammer\/Eaton Corp-US, among others. Mr. Agrait currently serves on the Faculty Board of the UPPR and FIU \u2013 Engineering School, and has been an invited professor at FIU-Miami, Villanova University Engineering School in Pennsylvania and at the Technology University of Costa Rica. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is currently dedicated to Total Quality Management- Audit and Develoment, Lean Manufacturing and Lean Six Sigma program, Validation and Regulatory Consultant and Human Centered Assets Development for companies in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Europe, and USA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the firms being serviced are: \u2022 Amgen \u2022 St. Jude Medical \u2022 Boston Scientific \u2022 Owens Illinois \u2013 LatinAmerica\/USA \u2022 Peldar \u2013 Colombia \u2022 Vitro \u2013Mexico, Canada \u2022 American Standard \u2022 Vitro Packaging – Texas \u2022 Johnson & Johnson – Puerto Rico \/ USA\/ Europe \u2022 Ethicon- England, Mexico and US \u2022 Ortho McNeil \u2022 Pall Life Sciences \u2022 Watson Laboratories \u2022 Cardinal Health \u2022 The Werner Company \u2022 Medtronic \u2022 Procter & Gamble \u2013 Jamaica \u2022 Triple S \u2013 Management Group \u2022 Sara Lee \u2022 Comar \u2022 Avon Latin America \u2022 Nestle \u2022 Raychem – France, Ireland, U.S.A. \u2022 Intel \u2022 WYETH Pharmaceuticals \u2022 Baxter \u2022 Bristol Myers Squibb \u2022 Baxter \u2022 Ortho-McNeil \u2022 Boston Scientific \u2022 OSCOR \u2022 Bard \u2022 Techno aerospace As a Quality Management System consultant, Mr. Agrait assists customers in reducing defects and improving cycle-time through analytical process management techniques. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has worked with clients on a variety of issues that impact the performance of a process, i.e. defects management, inventory control\/record, production control, SPC, DOE, strategic planning, creative thinking and problem solving, safety and other managerial and organizational development aspects. In addition, has assisted many organizations with Quality Awards Certification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Agrait is the author of various publications including training manuals for SPC, DOE, Project Management, Creative Thinking and Problem Solving that have been used to educate personnel from all organizational levels. Some other publications include topics like: Master Production Scheduling, Sampling, Logistic Planning, Team Building and Structure Problem, Design of Experiments, among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Agrait\u2019s academic degrees include Engineering, Operation Research and Organizational Development. He holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and a B.B.A. in Economics from the University of Puerto Rico, a Masters in Business Administration \u2013 Operation Research & Management from InterAmerican University in Puerto Rico and a Doctoral Degree from Louisiana \u2013 LSU and he is pursuing a Post Doc in Neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) Boston, Mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Thomas Agrait is the actual CEO and Senior Partner of Lean Enterprise Consulting Inc and partner of NOSIS for the United States of America, Canada, and Latin America. He has over 30 years of experience as an independent management consultant\/Coach in Lean Six Sigma, technical, regulatory affairs and compliance to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotech, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15174815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"tagrait","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[48],"class_list":["post-1489","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry","wcb_speaker_group-marketing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/82e4206a3f78cfa9201a53715ba6345e46b58222b9bef3edb384df27a1c8defd?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/82e4206a3f78cfa9201a53715ba6345e46b58222b9bef3edb384df27a1c8defd?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/82e4206a3f78cfa9201a53715ba6345e46b58222b9bef3edb384df27a1c8defd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/82e4206a3f78cfa9201a53715ba6345e46b58222b9bef3edb384df27a1c8defd?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/82e4206a3f78cfa9201a53715ba6345e46b58222b9bef3edb384df27a1c8defd?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/82e4206a3f78cfa9201a53715ba6345e46b58222b9bef3edb384df27a1c8defd?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15174815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1489\/revisions\/1490"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1662?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjose.wordcamp.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}