Here is the biography of Jim Christensen, the principal consultant and founder of StatOrg Services.

• Studied operating processes and applied tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma to develop operating improvements yielding roughly $1,300,000 in annualized savings
  
• Managed relationships with major research providers and created value from $6 million investment in research and technologies
  
• Managed budget for environmental health safety support services programs with an overall budget of $14 million
  
• Managed environmental issues such as global warming and electric and magnetic fields impacts on human health
  
• Managed corporate relations with Congress and the national utility industry associations
  
• Managed regulatory filings including rate adjustments with state and federal regulatory authorities
  
• Developed corporate budget estimates and assisted in development of new corporate general ledger system
  

• Led project teams in Lean Six Sigma efforts that used both Define Measure Analyze Improve Control (DMAIC) and Lean/Kaizen approaches to develop and implement process improvements to achieve operating savings.
  
• Led effort to develop project opportunities as a cluster for the human resources and travel functions of the Shared Services organization. Have identified more than 60 project ideas that will now be explored to determine their opportunity as process and operating improvements.
  
• Developed strategy to reduce spending to meet corporate spending goals and implemented that with peer managers on the leadership team of Environmental Health and Safety / Support Services
  
• Represented company as Dane County Loaned Executive and later chaired the Allocations Committee panel for Disabilities programs
  
• Represented the company on EPRI’s Technology Delivery Committee and chaired the Delivery Systems Subcommittee charged with improving services to members
  
• Mentor to new employees at Alliant Energy
  
• Led EPRI technology benchmarking project that improved Alliant Energy’s ability to gain value from technology investments by learning from top companies in other industries
  
• Represented the company as a member of the Downtown Rotary Club of Madison
  
• Served as Treasurer of the First Unitarian Society since 1984 and led Board financial activities while the organization has grown from a membership of 400 to over 1,400 members
  

Lean Six Sigma tools including:

• Define tools such as Critical to Success trees, primary and secondary metrics, process mapping, value stream mapping, Lean business practices such as 5S, blitzes, and running Kaizen events.
• Measure tools such as measurement systems analysis, baseline capability analysis, cause and effect diagramming and matrices, Failure Mode Effects analysis, statistical analysis to determine key inputs.
• Analyze tools such as hypothesis testing, statistical tests for confidence, correlation and regression analysis
• Improve tools such as design of experiments and other statistical analysis, use of improvement plans to increase performance by increasing quality or reducing variation
• Control tools such as control charts, performance metrics and metric design and testing
• Full proficiency with Minitab and other statistical software

Planning and other tools including:

• Brainstorming techniques to develop strategic plans
  
• Performance measurement and metrics development
  
• Balanced scorecard development
  
• Baldrige Quality Criteria expertise and skills to review and comment on applicant's programs to meet the criteria
  
• Resource planning to align resources with strategic needs and remain with budgeted levels
  
• Resource development to increase revenues to meet strategic needs
  
• Technology planning to provide innovative new services and reduce needs for other resources