Dr. Mary McShane-Vaughn earned her PhD in Industrial Engineering and an MS in Statistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in Flint, Michigan. She is currently principal partner at University Training Partners, a company that develops and delivers Lean Six Sigma training for corporations and universities. Previously, Dr. McShane-Vaughn was a tenured faculty member at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia (now Kennesaw State University). For eight years, she directed and grew the Master of Science in Quality Assurance program and taught statistics, statistical quality control, linear regression, and design of experiments in the graduate program. Before her career in academics, Dr. McShane-Vaughn worked for 15 years as a quality engineer and statistician in the automotive, medical device, consumer product testing, and revenue management industries. Dr. McShane-Vaughn served as the Six Sigma Black Belt exam chair for the American Society for Quality (ASQ) from 2010-2012, is a member of the Quality Engineer exam subcommittee, and currently serves on the editorial review board for ASQ's Six Sigma Forum. She is coauthor of The Certified Quality Inspector Handbook and author of The Probability Handbook and Lean Six Sigma Leadership. Dr. McShane-Vaughn is a senior member of ASQ and a member of the American Statistical Association, where she serves on the Quality Assurance Committee of Statistics without Borders. She holds ASQ certifications as a Six Sigma Black Belt, Quality Engineer, and Reliability Engineer.