STEPHEN R. DEPOE EXECUTIVE BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Depoe is a proven global operations leader with more than 20 years of demonstrated success delivering business value as a productivity and performance improvement strategist. His business career is marked by a consistent ability to rapidly assess internal organizational and external market/industry challenges then make the critical decisions to drive the change necessary to propel growth and/or re-position and enhance business processes, productivity, and innovation.

Beginning as a Project Engineering for the Department of Defense and advancing through positions as a Senior Mechanical Engineer and New Product Engineering Manager for Allied Signal Aerospace and Becton Dickinson, Mr. Depoe moved into the consulting field with IBM Global Services, honing his capabilities in Six Sigma and process improvement while working with Fortune 100 leaders in e-Commerce, PLM SAP, Siebel/ERP, and supply chain optimization.

Harnessing his consulting skills to the start-up of Professional Certified Process Consultants, Stephen established and grew a successful consulting practice serving Fortune 50 corporations and the Army Corps of Engineers. As the chief strategist for both the operations consulting and business development portions of his business, Mr. Depoe succeeded in establishing productive business relationships, with Overhead Door Company, where he was tapped to turnaround their engineering operations. Serving as Director of Engineering for Overhead Door, in a two-year contract position, Mr. Depoe applied Lean Six Sigma and DMAIC best practices, combined with project management office (PMO) and new product development (NPD) discipline to drastically reduce manufacturing errors and deliver a 65% improvement in quality while energizing product development, compressing the development cycle by 30%.

Following his association with Overhead Door Company, Stephen focused his expertise in performance improvement and Lean Six Sigma in the service of leading clients of the $16B Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), as a Principal in CSC's Strategy Services practice. As a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and subject matter expert in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), he delivered significant results for CSC and its clients by strengthening CSC's LSS competency center, sparking a 1600% sales increase through LSS engagements, and achieving quality and PLM cycle time improvements for major clients, including the U.S. Army.

In his current position with Infosys Consulting, Mr. Depoe continues to share his LSS expertise with executives in high tech manufacturing. In the last two years with Infosys, he has created the organization's LSS Process Improvement practice—exploding sales to $2M from $1K in 18 months—while optimizing employee on-boarding, improving employee satisfaction, and decreasing employee turnover by 65%. At the same time, he has been a significant contributor to client process and performance enhancements in product development and product lifecycle management, including achieving $1M+ in product development savings for a leading retail company and slashing development cycle time by 30% for an industrial manufacturer.

Stephen’s continued success is built on his strengths leading across organizational boundaries. Working with clients’ executive teams in a solutions-based partnership, he consistently identifies opportunities for improvement and delivers on them. Through a big-picture business perspective and consensus-building, collaborative coordination of executives, business stakeholders, third-party partners, and customers, Mr. Depoe brings enhanced business value and optimized operational performance to clients across the global market.

Mr. Depoe’s success is founded on superior educational and professional development, with an MBA from Farleigh Dickinson University, a BS in Mechanical Engineering, Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma (MBB), and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. He is member of the American Society of Quality (ASQ), Project Management Institute (PMI), Product Development Management Association (PDMA), International Society of Six Sigma Professionals (ISSSP), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Steve currently resides with Rose, his wife of 12 years, and their two beagles Mulligan and Bunker in Flower Mound Texas a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth

Flower Mound, TX 75028 817.368.5682 (mobile) steve.depoe@gmail.com