Our Team

We bring to our clients a team with deep experience in industry as well as consulting. All of our consultants have at least 20 years of experience. We have worked with large and small businesses in the US and internationally to help our clients achieve lasting results. A partial list of industries where we have worked includes:

  • Aerospace and Defense
  • Automotive
  • Chemicals
  • Construction and Mining
  • Consumer Packed Goods
  • Financial Services
  • Government
  • Healthcare
  • Hospitality
  • Insurance
  • Logistics and Distribution
  • Oil and Gas
  • Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products
  • Retail
Steve Griffin

Steve Griffin

Principal Lead Senior Consultant

Hi, I’m Stephen Griffin, CEO of 6SigmaTek.
I have over 24 years as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in fact,I live and breathe process improvement. If I am not increasing satisfaction, increasing safety, creating optimal outcomes, breaking down silos, increasing communication and generating revenues I am having a bad day.
I have worked for the biggest corporations in, (automotive, aerospace, electronics, banking, specimen processing, and civil services). I have saved all of these industries hundreds millions of dollars, increasing their market share, and improving their public images.

But now I passionately specialize in healthcare improvement, and I’d like to share why and how this came to be.
My brother and I were very close growing up. My brother became ill where he had to undergo dialysis 3 times a week for many years via what is known as a Central Line Dialysis Catheter. During this time, I saw a young vibrant man lose weight, become weak, become frail, and always exhausted. He became half the brother that I knew. It was very difficult for me to understand what was going on. Then one day I received a phone call that my only brother had slipped into a coma because he had acquired what is known as Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI). My brother sadly for me passed away.

I was working in manufacturing at the time and had never heard of CLABSI or what caused it. Once I found out the cause, which was process failure from cleaning to insertion of the catheter, I quit my job!
I was so upset because this was 100% preventable. From this 6SigmaTek was started. My passion towards patient safety is what drives me every day. I have dedicated my life to attack healthcare processes and create patient safety and drive efficiency.
The result of starting 6SigmaTek has been that my team and I have partnered with dozens of hospitals, and I can confidently say that not only have we improved patient care, physician engagement, and employee satisfaction, reduced wait times, errors and lost revenue, we have saved lives.
That is the whole purpose of healthcare.
What I can do for your healthcare business is to make it more effective in the ways that matter most to the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on you—your patients, your shareholders, and your employees?

Sincerely
Stephen Griffin

Tandra R. C. Davison

Tandra R. C. Davison

Lead Senior Consultant

Tandra Davison is a results driven leader who has 18 years of experience in healthcare performance and operational excellence, which are her passions. Tandra has served in the roles of Lean Six Sigma Training and Deployment Champion, Corporate Director of Performance Excellence and Chief Quality Office/Assistant Vice President over the past six years of her career. A major highlight of her career is the implementation and deployment of Lean Six Sigma across a four-hospital, two-nursing home and 500-physician practice health system in partnership with 6SigmaTek. Tandra has also worked in the education and environmental (private and state government) sectors. She also served six years on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. She has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, a Masters in Business Administration (Jack Welch Management Institute via Strayer University). She is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) from ASQ. She is also a Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE) from ASQ, and a Certified Professional of Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) from National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ).
Highlights:

• 18+ years of healthcare experience • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Healthcare executive experience • Performance Excellence expertise
• Process and operations driven • Baldrige review and expertise

Pedrina T. Blouin, MSN, RN

Pedrina T. Blouin, MSN, RN

Principal Consultant

Pedrina Blouin is a Nursing Management Professional with more than 17 years of experience in the acute care hospital-based environment. She has expert knowledge in Surgical Services Operations for both clinical and non-clinical areas. Pedrina is a result driven leader utilizing Lean principles and change acceleration to meet company goals and objectives. She has led teams focused on work flow inefficiencies to improve patient throughput; on-time, first-case starts; and room turnaround times. Pedrina graduated from Northwestern State University with a Bachelor of Nursing Science degree and a Master of Nursing Science degree from Loyola University, New Orleans.
Highlights:

• Seventeen-plus years of experience
• Record of building trusting relationships
• Team-service oriented
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Dr. Charon Blaney, BSN, MBA, DHA (LSSGB)

Dr. Charon Blaney, BSN, MBA, DHA (LSSGB)

Principal Consultant

Dr. Charon Blaney specializes in LEAN healthcare process improvement initiatives (including process design, re-design, and implementation).
While working on and completing her doctorate in Health Administration, she began a fellowship with the Ustawi Research Institute (URI) where she is a Health Care Quality Expert/Researcher/Writer. One of her most recent collaborative projects with URI is the research and design for the development and implementation of a 700 bed facility in Akwa Ibom State: The Thompson and Grace Medical University.

Dr. Blaney has been a registered nurse for 20 years. Along with her varied clinical experiences, she has held administrative roles in revenue management and quality improvement. Dr. Blaney independently contracts concurrent and retrospective chart reviews, as well as HEDIS and Core Measure abstraction services. She has authored several publications relating to issues in health care.

Dr. Blaney received her Bachelors in Science of Nursing from McNeese State University, her Masters in Business Administration from University of Phoenix, and her Doctorate in Health Administration from University of Phoenix. She is a LEAN Health Care Facilitator and Certified LEAN Six Sigma Greenbelt from 6SigmaTek.

Angela Parkinson, RN, BSN

Angela Parkinson, RN, BSN

Principal Consultant

Angela Parkinson is an experienced registered nurse with over 22 years of healthcare experience. She began her healthcare career in the Emergency Department where she has held a number of titles. Her primary role as Registered Nurse began over 15 years ago and since this time she has served as Director of Emergency Services, Trauma Services, Quality, and Clinical Education. Angela’s focus on all aspects of the patient’s experience fuels her passion for excellent care. More recently, Angela and her team designed and implemented a facility-wide throughput project. Models indicate that this project has the potential to amass an annual savings of greater than $500,000, citing a reduction in length of stay across the healthcare spectrum. She continues to work through facilities with both yellow and green belt projects fostering consistency and patient-centered care. Angela has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and is currently enrolled in a Doctorate of Nursing Practice program at the University of South Alabama – with a specialty focus as an Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner.

As a Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement, her primary focus pertains to:

• Process Improvement • Patient Flow and Improved Throughput
• Regulatory Compliance • Patient Safety
• Core Measures • Risk Management

Matthew Butcher

Matthew Butcher

Principal Consultant

Matthew Butcher is a goal-oriented productivity and efficiency analyst with over five years’ experience in the healthcare field. After graduating with a Finance degree in 2010, he began working for a Fortune 500 healthcare company, specializing in financial modeling and forward looking quality analytics. In his career he has worked with numerous healthcare facilities, providing a range of analysis dedicated to clinical outcomes, productivity, quality improvement, and financial profitability. He firmly believes that data-driven decisions help provide the optimal solution to any problem.

Deborah Ford, RN

Deborah Ford, RN

Chief Nursing Executive

Deborah Ford, RN, is an accomplished and innovative senior nursing executive with over thirty years of experience. As a Chief Nursing Executive she has clinical and administrative leadership experience in both stand-alone hospitals and large healthcare systems with oversight of nursing and other areas such as dietary, pharmacy, service lines, and social services. Her Accreditation has led to several site visits for the attainment of The Joint Commission™ Hospital Standards. She has also designed tools for Joint Commission readiness and mock surveys for achievement of a successful survey. She has earned a Master’s degree in Nursing (Northwestern State University). She also holds the Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellowship from the (Wharton School of Business) and the American Nurses Advocacy Fellowship (American Nurses Advocacy Institute).

Highlights:
• Expertise in achievement of ANCC Magnet Recognition™
• Experience in achieving Chest Pain Accreditation, Bariatric Certification
• The Joint Commission Disease Specific Stroke Certification,
• NICHE certification (Nurses Implementing Care for Healthsystem Elderly)
• Numerous publications and presentations regionally and nationally
• Expertise in achieving high quality patient satisfaction (HCAHPS)
• Joint Commission Readiness Expert

Jamal Brown

Jamal Brown

Jamal is a lean Six Sigma Black Belt with 20 years of direct leadership & consulting experience. With deep roots in the telecom & manufacturing industries Jamal has expertise in customer experience management, analysis, process improvement, training and development.

Using lean six sigma principles Jamal has designed, implemented & documented processes that have:

Reduced both the number of instances & dollar amount of customer credits by 40%.

Streamlined order entry and manufacturing process that improved on time shipment of custom products by 20%.

Reduced repeat call volume by 18%.

Raised service levels by 10%.

John L. Nance

John L. Nance

Quality Professional

A 30+ year Quality Professional having held numerous engineering and management positions

My engineering responsibilities were as an Industrial Engineer (IBM) Senior Engineer (IBM), Warranty Engineer (Takata)
Supplier Quality Engineer (Takata), QAQC Lead (Duke Energy).

My management responsibilities were Senior Manager of Server Quality (IBM Manufacturing), Senior Manager of Site
Quality (IBM Manufacturing), Senior Manager WW Desktop Systems (8 IBM Manufacturing sites) New Products
Introduction, Senior Manager of AAP (IBM Marketing), Senior Manager of Quality and Product Assurance (IBM
Development), Senior Quality Engineering Manager (Dell Manufacturing), Quality Assurance Manager (Bonset).

During my tenure in management roles I managed groups of employees from 12 to 80+. I have managed all levels to include
managers, supervisors, engineers, lab technicians, and floor technicians

Core competencies

Process Improvement

Quality Management
Methods

DMAIC (Six Sigma
Methodology)

Lean Manufacturing

Process Engineering

ISO9000/9001/14000/TS16
949

Continuous Flow
Manufacturing

CFR TITLE 21 PART 177
INDIRECT FOOD

ADDITIVES: POLYMERS

Project Management

Program Management

Problem Solving
(Analytical)

Effective Communications

NP Design and Introduction

Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)

Spaniel Kelly

Spaniel Kelly

Senior Customer Experience Leader

Spaniel Kelly is a versatile Senior Leader with 20 + years working experience in established customer satisfaction environments. He excels at delivering unparalleled customer service. Spaniel’s unique and wide-ranging skill set has enabled him to successfully contribute in a variety of roles, including Production Management, Operations Management, Project Management, Sales/Account Management, and Shared Services Management. His expansive knowledge and skill set, and has earned him recognition as a subject matter expert in the customer experience field and a “go to” resource for the various teams he has successfully lead over the years.

As a champion of change, Spaniel he has implemented Lean Six Sigma concepts in several customer service environments ranging from the transportation industry (FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight), in banking (Wachovia Bank/Wells Fargo Bank), and in the manufacturing industry (Ingersoll Rand, and United Technologies-Carrier Corporation). He is a well noted advocate and supporter of Lean Six Sigma and Continual Improvement Body of Knowledge.

Spaniel is a valued and trusted business partner, with an instinct for knowing when to listen, contribute, and when to follow through with action. He is enthusiastic, accessible, and full of great ideas. He works collaboratively with clients to achieve a common goal and has a unique
ability to customize his approach to different personalities. Spaniel has been described as “a strategic leader…professional, yet genuinely personable, honest, tactful, and motivating.”

Spaniel earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in Criminal Justice and History, concentrating in the Principles of Business Law. Earlier this year, he was accepted to Pfeiffer University Graduate School, with plans to earn a Master of Science in Management/Leadership. He recently earned a Six Sigma-Black Belt Certification through 6SigmaTek, under the instruction of Stephen Griffin.

Spaniel has been happily married to his wife Kelly for 15 years. They enjoy traveling, concerts, and spending quality time with friends and family and their dog, Plaxico.