Mohammad Ali Author

John E. Madigan earned his BA from the University of Denver. While at Wiremold’s Chicago manufacturing plant, he held management positions in both materials and operations. Madigan likewise benefited from Lean training delivered by Shingijutsu and Moffitt Associates. After Wiremold, Madigan did Lean implementation consulting and training in the Midwest for 7 years at various companies—from the small privately held company to several Fortune 500 companies.

Todd C. Maher’s

educational credentials include a BS in industrial engineering from the University of Illnois and an MBA in operations management from DePaul University. He worked for Wiremold during their Lean transformation and held leadership positions in both operations and engineering. At Wiremold, he also benefited from 10 years of training delivered by Shingijutsu Ltd in both the US and Japan. After Wiremold, Maher has spent the last 13 years helping both private and public companies with their Lean initiatives. Maher has participated in or led over 500 different kaizen events since learning this philosophy.

Mohammad Ali earned a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BS in mathematics and physics. He has also received hands-on training in PMP, CCNA, and is Security+ certified in information technology.

Ali has participated in numerous kaizen events during his tenure at Wiremold’s Chicago plant. He is an expert in creating VBA-based Microsoft Access applications with user-friendly graphical interfaces. He has successfully designed, tested, and implemented a number of such applications for a number of small- to medium-size manufacturers for their kanban cards’ creation process.