Rudy Hacker, Manager Operational Excellence, Intel Corporation

Rudy Hacker has worked at Intel since 1991 in various operational roles. He started at Intel as the evening shift supervisor at the Tempe Distribution Center. He moved shortly afterward to Corporate Logistics and spent approximately five years in Program Manager and Business System Architect roles for Intel’s upgrade of world wide Supply Chain information systems. He moved to the Corporate Quality Network at Intel in 1998 and served as the manager for Quality Information Systems for two years. In 2002 he also took the role of Manager for Intel Operational Excellence. That role along with managing Intel’s Customer Change Communications has been his focus since late 2004.

Prior to working at Intel he completed two tours in the US Marine Corps spending time in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Virginia, Norway, Okinawa Japan and Camp Fuji Japan. Rudy graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1984 and is a certified Instructor in Configuration Management, an ASQ certified Quality Manger, an ASQ trained Six Sigma Black Belt, a graduate of ASU’s Lean Six Sigma Enterprise Management program and has a Masters Degree in Decision and Information Systems from Arizona State University.