Alfred Green

6-Sigma Black Belt, FOSS Evangelist, Blogger, Entrepreneur

Greater Detroit Area

Current
  • 6-Sigma Black Belt at Ford Motor Company
  • Owner at BKAEG Industries, Inc.
  • President at BKAEG Technologies (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past
Education
  • University of Detroit Mercy
  • Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
  • Brooklyn Technical High School
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Industry
Automotive
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Alfred Green’s Summary

Product design and support for commercial truck programs. Interface with a large number of Tier1 and Tier2 exhaust component suppliers. Oversee development of commodity from concept to full-scale release.

Performance Body Cell - DMAIC Consumer Driven 6-Sigma Black Belt
(January 2006 - Present)
Responsible for addressing high leverage warranty reduction projects. Following a rigorous and structured problem-solving methodology that can be used to achieve breakthrough results, mitigate poor quality and improve customer satisfaction.

Open Source evangelist. Over 12 years of Unix and Unix-like operating systems experience. Dedicated to delivering a value proposition which satisfies customer requirements. Very comfortable working with heterogeneous networks. Understands thin-client architecture and routing protocols. Strategic design of small-to-medium sized business productivity and networking solutions.

Alfred Green’s Specialties:

Product Development, Information Technology, Open Source, Social Networking, 6-Sigma, Business Intelligence, Engineering, Product Creation, Problem Solving, Free Software, Quality

Alfred Green’s Experience

  • 6-Sigma Black Belt

    Ford Motor Company

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; F; Automotive industry)

    January 2006 — Present (4 years )

    Responsible for addressing high leverage warranty reduction projects. Following a rigorous and structured problem-solving methodology that can be used to achieve breakthrough results, mitigate poor quality and improve customer satisfaction.

  • Owner

    BKAEG Industries, Inc.

    (Real Estate industry)

    March 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)

    Rehabilitation of depressed properties.

  • President

    BKAEG Technologies (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)

    Creative personal computing and networking consultant. Wireless networking, LAN/WAN server configurations.
    Leveraging Open Source technologies to mitigate customer cost.

  • Chief Technical Officer

    GlobalTekIt

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2001 — Present (8 years 6 months)

    Responsible for providing GlobalTekIT, state-of-the art products and services.
    To drive common best practices throughout all the GlobalTekIT communication centers.
    To achieve year-over-year improvements in GlobalTekIT Operating Expenses.

  • Product Design Engineer

    Ford Motor Company

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; F; Automotive industry)

    September 1999 — Present (10 years 4 months)

    Product Development, specializing in exhaust system design and exhaust after-treatment technologies.
    Delivering quality hardware that satisfies customer functional targets.
    Certified Consumer Driven 6-Sigma Black Belt

  • Telecommunications Committee Member

    NSBE-CJAE

    (Automotive industry)

    2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  • CMS - Desktop Support

    FAMU / FSU College of Engineering

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    1996 — 1997 (1 year )

    Provided first level desktop support for faculty and staff. Introduced a growing number of customers to the utility of Unix and Linux servers. Responsible for re-staging desktop computers and mapping network resources.

Alfred Green’s Education

  • University of Detroit Mercy

    MS , Product Development , 2005 — 2007

  • Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

    BS , Mechanical Engineering , 1995 — 1999

    Activities and Societies:
    NSBE, ASME, FGAMP

  • Brooklyn Technical High School

    Mechanical Engineering 1981 — 1985

Additional Information

Alfred Green’s Websites:

Alfred Green’s Interests:

Free and Open Source Software, Linux, Real Estate, martial arts, networking

Alfred Green’s Groups:

NSBE-CJAE, NSBE-DAE, ABEST, Ben Carsons Lifetime Scholars, World Moo Duk Kwan Tang Soo Do, NSBE, East Midtown Plaza Crew, WLUG

  •    Friends of BDPA - IT Thought Leaders
  •    Open HealthCare
  •    BDPA
  •    Drupal
  •    Lean Six Sigma
  •    Renewable Energy Network
  •    NSBE-Information Technology Think Tank
  •    iBridge Network: Linking Ideas & Innovation
  •    iSixSigma Network
  •    Open Source Universe
  •    Brooklyn Tech Alumni
  •    Open COMMs
  •    Ford Motor Company
  •    Martial Artists
  •    CleanTech
  •    Brooklyn Technical High School
  •    Global Lean & Six Sigma Network
  •    The Asterisk Group
  •    Detroit Young Professionals
  •    Martial Arts As A Path
  •    Tweeple
  •    Slackware GNU/Linux users worldwide
  •    Tweeters
  •    NSBE-AE
  •    Solar cells
  •    FAMU Alumni
  •    Slackware Linux Users
  •    Florida A&M University Entrepreneurs Club
  •    Martial Arts Black Belt
  •    Black Enterprise Networked
  •    Healthcare IT World
  •    Bright Green Talent
  •    Metro Detroit Linux Users Group
  •    The Virtual Office
  •    FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
  •    OpenSIPS
  •    Ekiga
  •    Global Renewable Energy Network (GReEN)
  •    Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
  •    UDM MPD Alumni
  •    Lean Six Sigma and DFSS for IT and Software Engineering
  •    USS Philippine Sea (CG-58) Plankowners
  •    Brooklyn Tech HS Class of '85
  •    LI-HybridAltenergyVehicleElectric
  •    NoMicrosoftTax
  •    GReEN Bioenergy
  •    GReEN Hydro
  •    GReEN Solar
  •    GReEN Wind

Alfred Green’s Honors:

"Snipe" GSE2(SW) - Navy Achievement Medal, Served aboard USS Stark FFG-31, Plankowner USS Philippine Sea CG-58 (Earned ESWS Designation), Who's Who in Colleges 1995-96, Golden Key Honor Society 1995-96, World Moo Duk Kwan TSD - 3rd Degree Black Belt - Dan #17110, Certified 6-Sigma Black Belt, Brooklyn Tech HS Graduate..

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