Biography
Ron and Beth receiving their award for "Best Practices in Learning Measurement and Evaluation" from Corporate University Exchange
Ron McCune has a diverse experience base in human resource and organization development, project management, and quality. He has worked with individuals and his principal organization, Tokyo Electron, throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and China. His specialties include performance improvement, problem solving, troubleshooting, decision-making, performance management, leadership, and intercultural communication. His passion is bringing together business, technical, and interpersonal elements in order to facilitate the achievement of aligned results by all personnel in the organization. Ron is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), a Project Management Professional (PMP), and a certified ROI Professional (CRP). He holds an MBA from California State University and a BA from the University of Texas. His passions are the many languages throughout the world and spends his spare time learning them. And when he needs to get out, triathlons are his preferred outdoor divertissement.
During her career, Beth O'Connor has had a myriad of experiences in several arenas including Human Resources, Organizational Development, Operations, and Quality. As a Quality Specialist for Tokyo Electron, her skills include business process improvement, program management, project management, and training and coaching troubleshooting, decision making, and leadership skills. Beth enjoys working with teams to find improvement opportunities and provides coaching and facilitation to assist in the process. Beth has a BA in Psychology from Texas Tech University, an MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Louisiana Tech University and is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). In her free time she loves to read and write fiction and hopes to one day see her book on the shelves at Barnes & Noble. Beth has always enjoyed working with people and finds her work in Quality fulfilling and looks forward to her role in Tokyo Electron's future development.