Paul Gunnels

Current

• Management Engineer at Henry Ford Health System

Past

• Operations Engineering Consulting Intern at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
• Finance/Budget Intern at Chicago Transit Authority

Education

• University of Michigan

Recommended

3 people have recommended Paul

Connections

97 connections

Industry

Hospital & Health Care

Websites

• IIE-GDC

Paul Gunnels’s Summary

Paul Gunnels’s Specialties:

Data extraction, manipulation, and analysis.

Paul Gunnels’s Experience

• Management Engineer

  Henry Ford Health System

  (Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  January 2008 — Present (2 years )

  Internal consultant performing various performance and process improvements. Projects include workload studies, space analysis, and Lean, Six Sigma implementation. Much of my current work focuses on hospital patient throughput using Lean and other process improvement methodologies.

• Operations Engineering Consulting Intern

  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

  (Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  Performed budget analysis to determine FTE workloads for FY2008. Developed automated tools using Excel macros and VBA for creating work standards. Performed direct observations and developed process flows.

• Finance/Budget Intern

  Chicago Transit Authority

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

  Assisted with the implementation of a maintenance management information system. Developed an automatic feedback form to obtain feedback on information system implementation. Determined policies and procedures for the use of the information system.

Paul Gunnels’s Education

• University of Michigan

  BSE , Industrial and Operations Engineering , 2003 — 2007

  Courses: Sig Sigma Black Belt Training, Lean Manufacturing, Operations Modeling, Work Organizations, Human Factors in Computer Systems, Production and Inventory Control, Simulation, Problem Solving

  Activities and Societies:

  Institute of Industrial Engineers, Univiersity of Michigan Residence Education

Additional Information

Paul Gunnels’s Websites:

• IIE-GDC

Paul Gunnels’s Interests:

Computers and Comptuer Programming, Music, Basketball, Tennis, and the Outdoors

Paul Gunnels’s Groups:

University of Michigan College of Engineering, Institute of Industrial Engineers - Great Detroit Chapter

•    University of Michigan Alumni
•    Michigan Engineering Alumni Society - OFFICIAL GROUP
•    Lean & Six Sigma Community
•    The University of Michigan Alumni Group
•    Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
•    Healthcare Management Engineers (HME)
•    Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
•    Healthcare, Marketing, and Data Analytics
•    HENRY FORD HOSPITAL
•    Healthcare Business Insight Group
•    Society for Health Systems
•    Predictive Modeling News
•    IIE - Greater Detroit Chapter

Paul Gunnels’s Honors:

Featured in June 2006 issue of Maximum PC as "Rig of the Month"

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