Satya Kudapa has more than 14 years of experience providing professional consulting, mentoring and project management support to businesses in the Dallas-Fort worth Area. He experience spans to a wide variety of industry clusters including medical, aerospace, utilities, fabrication and city governance.

Satya has worked as project manager with over a dozen different companies in the development of their ISO / AS Quality Management Systems. He has facilitated Lean implementations with several organizations with projects comprising Value Stream Mapping, Setup Reduction, 5S, Cellular Manufacturing and Pull Systems. Satya also acts as an advisor to several organizations providing insight and project management support for their continuous improvement programs. In addition, Satya has more than 1000 hours of coaching experience supporting LSS belts successfully complete their projects.

Satya currently leads the statewide Smart Manufacturing Center of Excellence (COE) that is critical to the development of TMAC’s I4.0 related products and services, developing center capabilities and providing program management. He also leads the Cyber Security team at TMAC that is responsible for the development of cyber related products and capabilities.

Education:

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering May 2002, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas

Bachelor of Engineering in Production Engineering, May 2000, Madras University, India.

Certifications:

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

ISO 9001:2015, AS 9100 Qualified Internal Auditor

Texas Awards for Performance Excellence (TAPE) Examiner (2009-2010)

Areas of Expertise:

Lead instructor for TMAC’s Lean Six Sigma Program, APQP & PPAP Process, Internal Audits and Lean Manufacturing Practices. He is also a primary facilitator in the implementation of Quality Management Systems (AS 9100, ISO 9001), Cyber Management Systems (compliant to 800-171), Kaizens and with the deployment of LSS programs at customer sites.

Personal Interests: Passionate fan of Dallas mavericks, spending quality time with family.