Jeff Nolan improves the performance of supply chains by applying analytics and continuous improvement techniques to open bottlenecks, gain competitive advantage, and catalyze cultures.
His work has been featured in Business Week, Aviation Week and Space Technology, National Productivity Review, Success, and been noted in the Harvard Business Review. Jeff worked with the bestselling author of The Goal, Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, when he first came to the United States. Goldratt's insights rewrote the textbooks on operations management changing theory, practice, and software design. TIME Magazine included The Goal on its list of the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have used the book and its principles at Amazon and Tesla. Jeff was the first to fulfill Goldratt's vision for manufacturing software by working with Dr. Uday Karmarkar and Dr. Jeffrey Rummel to integrate mathematical optimization with real-time shop floor data collection and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Jeff has a wide-breadth of experience in software development, operations, consulting, and teaching. He has been associated with M5, SAS, IBM, Bose, United Technologies, Wesleyan University, Deloitte (Touche-Ross), Save the Children, UPS, and The Spectrum Management Group. His clients include Pratt & Whitney Canada; Alcoa: Howmet, Thermatch, Microfusion; General Motors Saginaw, Central Foundry; PCC Wyman-Gordon; ATI Ladish: Stowe Machining; Sealed Air: Cryovac; Voya Financial ING; Cigna; GrafTech: UCAR; Horton Industries; Hughes Network Systems; British Petroleum; Wal-Mart; General Electric: Aircraft Engines; Tyson Foods; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Anheuser-Busch; Nestle Purina; Foster Farms; Proctor & Gamble: Alberto Culver; Hughes Network Systems; Bayer Cropsciences; Pitney Bowes; Quaker Chemical; Spencer Gifts; Lamor: Slickcraft; Lions Club International; Allagash LLC; Dance NYC; East River Fifties Alliance; Adversity to Prosperity. Working with business owners, investors and deal-makers, Jeff has participated in a range of merger and acquisition activity in technology, supply chain analytics, and healthcare. He facilitated the sale of the largest privately-held home-healthcare provider of its type in Connecticut, and was an adviser on deals involving real-time process controls and master data management. Jeff completed Stanford University’s Executive Education Program in IT and earned a Six Sigma Black Belt-level designation from United Technologies. He is a graduate of Drexel University with a Bachelor of Science in Business, is member of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and is active in the GIS community. He has taught statistics at Wesleyan University, been a guest lecturer in the graduate schools of Quinnipiac University, University of New Haven, and Central Connecticut State University. He has been a facilitator at Product Camp, a participant in an NTL HI Lab, a presenter at state GIS events, as well as at the national conferences for the OD Network and Mathematics Association of America. In his spare time, Jeff has a passion for amateur wrestling. He was a photographer for Lehigh University's program and has covered Olympic, World, National, and NCAA Championships. He was named Photographer of the Year by the National Wrestling Media Association and has photo credits in The New York Times, The History of College Wrestling, Cowboy Up!, and the movie, Veritas. In the community, Jeff has held several Board positions for non-profit organizations, and is a recipient of the Lions Club's Ambassador of Sight Award. He initiated creation of the first 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsorship organization in Connecticut that supports youth athletics, advocates for the creation of 501(c)(12) subchapter T multistakeholder cooperatives as a means of economic develop, served on the Connecticut GIS Advisory Council to advance the productive use of geospatial technology in government, and completed The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven's Neighborhood Leadership Program, and the Graustein Foundation's Community Leadership program. Profiles
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