About me
Mike received a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois. Mike left Grad school and joined Texas Instruments in Dallas as an engineer on the Minuteman II D37B Guidance program. This USAF program was the first mass production of Integrated Circuits in history, and greatly accelerated the electronic revolution.
After 5 years, Mike left TI to found International Power Machines, a manufacturer of digitally controlled Pulse Width Modulated Uninterruptible Power Supplies. As CEO, he took the company public, which was subsequently acquired by a division of Rolls Royce.
In 1986 he traveled to Japan to study the Toyota Production System (aka "Lean"). To assist companies in implementing Lean, he founded the George Group Consultants in 1987. George Groupe was the first to recognize that Little's Law was essential to develop a software package to implement Pull Systems, although limited by the power of PC. In 2001 Mike wrote the book "Lean Six Sigma" which, for the first time, combined Lean and Six Sigman. George Group sales grew to $120 Million per year and was sold to Accenture in 2007.
In 2016 Mike began the application of Lean Six Sigman and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reduce cycle time and waste at an Aerospace company, increasing EBITDA from 4% of Revenue to +20% in 2 years. In 2017 he founded AI Technologies to offer the proven a superior cost and cycle time benefits of AI and Pull systems to Industry and the Military. AIT extended the proven PC Pull System software for AI application on the Cloud to processes of unlimited size.
Mike has been awarded four U.S. patents.