John Hudson is a project manager based in Danville at Danville Community College . A statistician by training, he has more than 40 years of experience in manufacturing businesses, including Dan River, Inc. and Tennessee Eastman Company. His industrial expertise allows to him to apply his consulting capabilities to the following areas: constraints management, Lean Six Sigma enterprise, strategic business assessments, quick changeover through setup time reduction, production planning and scheduling, inventory management, lead time reduction, applied statistics, design of experiments, and process control and optimization. Prior to VPMEP, John worked for Virginia 's Center for Innovative Technology as a regional Director of Technology Assistance and Transfer. John has helped Virginia manufacturers significantly increase throughput and reduce cycle time. He holds a BS in Mathematics and a MS in Statistics from Virginia Tech. In addition, John holds several professional certifications: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt; Jonah in the Theory of Constraints; NIST-MEP instructor of lean manufacturing techniques; and ASQ quality engineer. An active member of APICS and their Constraints Management Special Interest Group, he has served on the Piedmont Triad Chapter Board of Directors for many years.