Mr. Castle is a Hewlett-Packard Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. As the Lean Six Sigma leader for Hewlett-Packard (HP), he established and deployed “HP Lean Sigma” across the 200,000 employee global company. He has trained and mentored more than 100 Black Belts and more than 100,000 Green Belts. In addition to his HP certifications, Dan is an ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) and holds several other certifications from the American Society for Quality (ASQ), APICS (the Association for Operations Management), and the Project Management Institute (PMI). Mr. Castle’s career includes leading the supply chain organization for HP’s InkJet Cartridge business unit, managing the Program Management Office (PMO) for HP’s information technology organization, and managing HP’s Color LaserJet products for personal and small business customers. He has taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and Boise State University. Mr. Castle is also a member of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners, an honor he has held since 1993.