John Yost

Current

Owner at ProCompass Management Services
Instructor at University of Phoenix

Past

Quality Manager at Maxtor Corporation
Senior Program Manager at StorMedia
Executive Director, World Wide Quality at Belfort Memories International

Senior Program Manager, Sr. Engineering Manager, Sr. Quality Manager at Conner Peripherals
Director, Quality Assurance at Parallel Computers
Sr. Quality Manager at Sperry Univac

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Education

University of Phoenix
Santa Clara University

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Industry

Management Consulting

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John Yost’s Summary

John Yost, ProCompass founder and principal, has been helping companies solve management and operations problems for more than 25 years. With a solid background in management and leadership, John has an in-depth understanding of the issues businesses face in achieving excellence in performance, as well as the tools and methodologies available to help them reach their goals.

John's main focus is helping small businesses to develop and achieve performance excellence. In addition to his consulting business he also maintains the Your-Small-Business-Plan.com website dedicated to helping small business owners or would be small business owners.

John received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his MBA from Santa Clara University. He is an instructor in the University of Phoenix MBA program.

John has achieved a number of accreditations. He is a certified behaviors, values and atrributes analyst with Target Training International and he is also an active affiliate of Resource Associates Corporation (RAC), the Total Quality Institute (TQI) and the Association for Quality & Productivity (AQP). He is a Certified Quality Manager and Certified Reliability Engineer through the American Society for Quality (ASQ). He is an active member of the American Management Association (AMA) and the Project Management Institute (PMI).

John is a member of the Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce and the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber. John has twice received the Presidents award from Target Training International for his community involvement.

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John Yost’s Specialties:

Performance Management and Improvement, Leadership and Management Development, Employee assessment and development, Operations Improvement, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Organizational Communications.

John Yost’s Experience

Quality Manager

Maxtor Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MXTR; Computer Hardware industry)

March 1999 — April 2002 (3 years 2 months)

Developed quality assurance and product life cycle systems. Managed supplier qualification activities. Developed quality reporting systems.
Senior Program Manager

StorMedia

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

March 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 8 months)

Led product development activities for magnetic recording media. Developed budgeting and risk management systems for major projects. Led transition activies for company acquisition.
Executive Director, World Wide Quality

Belfort Memories International

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

September 1996 — March 1997 (7 months)

Managed World Wide Quality activies (United States, Europe and Asia). Developed performance benchmarking for customers. Developed product verificaiton testing.
Senior Program Manager, Sr. Engineering Manager, Sr. Quality Manager

Conner Peripherals

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CNR; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1987 — June 1996 (9 years 6 months)

Managed major product development, operations improvement, and supplier projects world wide. Developed and implemented training programs for world wide failure analysis and technical development.
Director, Quality Assurance

Parallel Computers

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

April 1986 — December 1986 (9 months)

Developed quality management systems, field reporting systems and product qualification testing.
Sr. Quality Manager

Sperry Univac

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

April 1978 — April 1986 (8 years 1 month)

Managed quality engineering and supplier quality activities. Implemented Quality Circles, Total Quality Management and Supplier certification processes.

John Yost’s Education

University of Phoenix

Instructor, Business, 1999 — 2008
Santa Clara University

MBA, Business, September 1989 — December 1992

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John Yost’s Groups:

Business Network Int'l (BNI)
Referral Institute
San Jose-Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce
Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce
Salvation Army Advisory Council
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Project Management Institute (PMI)