Doug Hlavacek

Doug Hlavacek is the Lean Six Sigma Training Director at Ecolab, a global leader of cleaning, sanitation and service solutions for the hospitality, institutional and industrial markets. Doug joined Ecolab in 2000 and leads the development, coordination, implementation and improvement of Ecolab's enterprise-wide Lean Six Sigma training process.

Prior to Ecolab, Doug worked at 3M, Imation and Kraft General Foods in various consulting, training, and project leadership capacities. Doug has received excellence, quality and divisional awards for his use of statistical methods. These efforts have helped to accelerate the development of new products, reduce product variation through increased process understanding, and successfully defend against a lawsuit by providing objective evidence to refute a competitor's claim.

Doug received his MS in Statistics from Virginia Tech (1979) and BA in Mathematics from Rutgers University (1977). His primary areas of interest are in statistical education, experimental design, graphical display and statistical process control. Doug is a member of ASA, Senior member of ASQ, past Secretary of the Statistics Division and has been a Certified Quality Engineer since 1988.