About Us
Elissa Hunter
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Hello! My name is Elissa Hunter and I am currently a gradate student in the Adult Education and Training, Human Resource Development program at Seattle University.
My work in the field of training and development began in the United States Air Force in 1999 where I was assigned to manage the disaster team, foreign deployment, and hospital contingency training programs. After leaving the Air Force in 2004, I entered "corporate America" to manage a variety of training programs for a Fortune 50 health insurance company. With this company, I was introduced to Six Sigma in 2007 and went on to complete both green and black belt training. I transferred to the continuous process improvement department in 2008 to fill a dual role as an internal Six Sigma Black Belt consultant and design an internal continuous process improvement training program. While working with the process improvement team and through interviewing green and black belt applicants, I realized a large discrepancy in skill sets of the applicants that were "Six Sigma" trained. I am now pursuing a master's degree full-time and have the opportunity to investigate this discrepancy through my studies at Seattle University.
My work in the field of training and development began in the United States Air Force in 1999 where I was assigned to manage the disaster team, foreign deployment, and hospital contingency training programs. After leaving the Air Force in 2004, I entered "corporate America" to manage a variety of training programs for a Fortune 50 health insurance company. With this company, I was introduced to Six Sigma in 2007 and went on to complete both green and black belt training. I transferred to the continuous process improvement department in 2008 to fill a dual role as an internal Six Sigma Black Belt consultant and design an internal continuous process improvement training program. While working with the process improvement team and through interviewing green and black belt applicants, I realized a large discrepancy in skill sets of the applicants that were "Six Sigma" trained. I am now pursuing a master's degree full-time and have the opportunity to investigate this discrepancy through my studies at Seattle University.
Cindy Tran
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Hi there! My name is Cindy Tran and I am currently a graduate student in the Adult Education and Training program with an emphasis on Human Resources Development at Seattle University.
My experience in the field of training and development consists of mostly on-the-job health care training and early child development education. I have been involved in healthcare since 2000 when I started as a coordinator onboarding new volunteers. In 2004 I worked as a lead for the nursing support staff and trained oncoming employees. In 2006, I became involved in a leadership role for a program that advocated for increased literacy in multi-lingual schools called Jumpstart. I was in charge of coaching teams of young adults to teach in an early childhood development setting. I led meetings and drafted lesson plans to increase literacy rates and encourage parental participation. In 2007, I became part of the management team in charge of patient flow and staffing for a level one trauma center. During my time on the management team I was appointed various projects and reported to the medical director. I was introduced to Six Sigma in 2012 when I joined Elissa's research group. I am currently pursuing my master's degree part-time while remaining full-time in healthcare.