TLS Speaker Bios
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Colleen Ferlotti
... Current Role: Consulting Manager at Vynamic Originally from the Washington D.C. area, Colleen is a 2018 Summa Cum Laude Graduate of the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Minor in Business. While at Virginia Tech, Colleen was a leader in many student organizations including the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, ISE Ambassadors, Alpha Pi Mu, College Mentors for Kids, Wishmakers at Virginia Tech, and Alpha Omega Epsilon Sorority. After graduation, Colleen moved to Durham, NC to begin her career as a Healthcare Management Engineer at Duke Health. While supporting the Operational Excellence and Analytics Strategy for the Duke Telehealth Office, Colleen took an interest in digital health and healthcare technology. She went on to graduate as an Honor Scholar from the Master of Management for Clinical Informatics program at Duke University in 2018. She then became a Product Owner for several patient-facing digital health tools like Duke Health’s mobile app, AI chatbot, and SMS technology. Wanting to broaden her industry knowledge, Colleen took a role as a Consulting Manager at Vynamic, a Management Consulting firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. Here she is able to work with clients across the healthcare sector, including life sciences, provider, healthcare technology, and payers. In this role, she helps her clients with Operational Excellence, Scalability, Technology Transformation, and Process Improvement. In her free time, Colleen hangs out with her dog, cat, and fiancé checking out the local breweries throughout their home, Raleigh, NC. She is a Wish Granter with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and a Committee Chair on the Virginia Tech ISE Emerging Leaders Board. |
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Michael Foss
... Current Role: Founder & CEO of CoachFoss LLC Michael is the Founder & CEO for CoachFoss LLC and passionate about Finding Optimal Solutions for Success. As a speaker, trainer, coach, and author, he thrives on inspiring and motivating leaders to achieve and sustain transformational success! He leads large global teams to be enthusiastic, embrace innovation and disruption, seek relentless improvement, never give up, & never settle for mediocrity! Michael is a strategic logistics & supply chain operations leader with extensive global experience and success in cutting costs and improving performance, processes, and people for premier companies including Flexport, Caterpillar, Amazon, Cameron, Weir, and FedEx. He is a dynamic and energetic change agent, recognized for driving business transformations and optimizing operations. He is a skilled relationship builder, well-known for inspiring and empowering high performance Teams. Michael holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University (TTU) and earned his Lean /Six Sigma Black Belt from the University of Villanova. Michael is a Past President & CEO, Fellow, and current IAB chairman of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). Michael is a member of the Texas Tech University Industrial Engineering Academy, is the current President of the TTU Whitacre College of Engineering Dean’s Council, and was awarded the Texas Tech Whitacre College of Engineering Distinguished Engineer’s award, the highest award given from Texas Tech. Michael is one of 230 Engineers, one of only 27 Industrial Engineers ever awarded. Michael is certified to train the Power of Positive Leadership by Jon Gordon and is an active Executive Director John Maxwell Certified Coach, Teacher, Trainer, and Speaker. |
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Thomas Davis
... Current Role: Director, Hospital Operations - Performance Services at Duke Health Thomas began his career in health care and at DUHS in 2007 working as a Management Engineer. In his time with DUHS, Thomas has provided decision support tools and services to a variety of areas including: Primary Care, Urgent Care, and Specialty clinics, along with Perioperative Services. Thomas’ work in the Ambulatory division included several Six Sigma and Lean projects focused on medical records flow, improving patient satisfaction scores, and improving patient throughput in both primary and specialty care clinic settings. In the Perioperative arena Thomas has focused on OR utilization, dashboard development, and installing a consistent measurement approach to OR performance measurement across the six OR platforms at Duke Health. Work has also been focused on data staging and report development in partnership with Epic. In his role as a Director with Performance Services, Thomas leads teams of Management Engineers at the two community hospitals within the DUHS network along with a team of Management Engineers focused on supporting operationally focused clinical service units. Thomas serves as a liaison to the Duke University Hospital Senior Leadership team to support data driven decision making and process improvement projects. Thomas has served a lead role in developing training programs for the health system centered around performance improvement including serving as an instructor for Duke’s Rapid Improvement Event training class. In addition to being trained as a Six Sigma Blackbelt, Thomas holds a B.S. degree from Virginia Tech in Industrial and Systems Engineering and an M.B.A. from Elon University’s Love School of Business. Thomas is licensed as a professional engineer (PE) in the state of North Carolina. Thomas was elected to serve on the Virginia Tech Industrial and Systems Engineering Advisory Board in 2018 where he will serve a five year term. Currently, Thomas serves as the past-Chair of the Advisory Board. Thomas is also an active IISE member and currently serves on the IISE Council of Industrial and Systems Engineers (CISE). Outside of work Thomas enjoys running half-marathons, participating in a variety of outdoor activities, and coaching youth soccer. |