One year in the role of Quality Engineer for General Electric's corporate quality
systems consulting group.
Nine years as Business Logician for a General Electric Operations Research team at the
Large Steam Turbine Generator Department. In this position he was responsible for
mathematical and statistical analysis projects for finance, manufacturing, marketing and
engineering components of that department.
Professor at many colleges and universities including: Union College (Schenectady,
N.Y.), State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(Troy, N.Y.), Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) and Emory University
(Atlanta, Georgia). He taught courses, primarily at the graduate level, in Operations
Research, Operations Management, Quality Control, Statistics, Decision Theory and
Strategic Planning. While at Union College he was responsible for establishing the
Operations Research and Statistics Program and the Health Studies Program. He supervised
many Master's and Ph.D. students working in the area of statistical analysis. The most
recent thesis involved the use of statistical control principles to the analysis of the
economic effect of changes in tax laws of the state of New York.
Mr. Holmes has participated in several large cost reduction projects over the last few
years. One of the projects saved a company approximately one million dollars annually by
decreasing the number of rebuild cycles of a major machine from twice a year to once a
year. Another project added 50% to the life of the lining of steel ladles, which produced
savings of approximately one hundred thousand dollars per year per ladle. The third
project demonstrated the ability to save a quarter of a million dollars annually with
decreased energy costs - with no deleterious effect on quality. It was also shown that the
throughput of the system could be increased with no added capital investment.
He is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality and serves on the Editorial Board of
Quality Engineering. He has co-authored more than 50 articles in the field of statistical
process control and has received several prestigious awards from regional and local
sections of ASQ. He has been active in local and regional section management activities or
ASQ for many years.
Mr. Holmes is a regular member of the faculty of the Center for Professional
Advancement. In this capacity he developed and is the course director for their course
"Statistical Process Control: Basics and Advanced Topics for the Chemical Process,
Pharmaceutical and Allied Industries." This course is given once a year in the
Netherlands and once a year in the U.S.A. The students are mature engineers of wide
assortment of degrees - BS to Ph.D. He also serves as a member of the CFPA advisory board.
He also serves as a member of the board of the Strategic Planning Institute, Cambridge, MA.
He is active as a consultant and trainer in a variety of chemical and related industries.
