Lee Pollock, Senior Vice President and Lean Sigma Programs Director, has served in key positions within industry, government, and academia since graduating from West Point in 1973. Following service as an airborne ranger in the United States Army, Lee joined the Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as an engineer, senior and principal design engineer and later as the Director of Test Engineering for Data General Corporation in Nashua, New Hampshire.
In 1983, Lee joined Electronic Systems Center of Air Force Material Command located at Hanscom Air Force Base where he served as the Director of Product Assurance, Director of Systems Engineering and Test and later the Director of Corporate Quality in direct support of over 150 command, control, communications, counter measure and intelligence programs valued in excess of $4 billion/year. During his tenure he spearheaded the activities that led ESC to winning the 1994 Presidential Quality Award.
Lee implemented Six Sigma while serving as the Director of Quality at EMC’s Data General Division in Southboro, Massachusetts. In 2000, he joined Air Academy Associates and has directly supported the integration of Six Sigma into the business operations at such notable corporations as Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, Nova Chemical, Perkin Elmer, Bombardier, Gates Rubber, Lennox, Cessna, Apogee Enterprises, Sony, EMC, Holley High Performance, and Stanadyne Corporation. Lee successfully managed both the Lean and Six Sigma program activities for GlaxoSmithKline at nine international sites.
Lee holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from West Point, an M.S. in engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, MA ,and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Florida Tech in Melbourne, FL. He is the co-author of Lean Six Sigma: A Tools Guide. Lee resides in Toronto.