BRIAN O. LANIER is president and owner of Industrial Opportunities Quality Training, an industrial training firm. Industrial Opportunities specializes in quality improvement training, including statistical process control, design of experiments, failure mode and effects analysis, team building, ISO 9001, internal auditing, root cause analysis, control plans, etc.

Mr. Lanier has led seminars at many Midwestern universities, including Notre Dame, Southern Indiana, Trine, Indianapolis, Grand Valley State, Michigan State, Toledo, Akron, Dayton, etc.  He has also led seminars for several professional societies, including SME, SPE, JA, and the Wire Association.

Mr. Lanier is a Senior Member and Chairperson of the American Society for Quality and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He has worked in industry for several companies in manufacturing management, engineering, and quality assurance for twenty years prior to starting Industrial Opportunities in 1987.   He has a BS in math and an MS in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio University. 

He is married and has three children.

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Melissa Rucinski

MELISSA O. RUCINSKI graduated summa cum laude with a BS from Indiana State University.  Since that time she has been a business manager, a teacher, and a consultant.  She has presented seminars at Notre Dame, Kent State, Ohio State, Grand Valley State, Youngstown State, and many other mid-western universities.  She is a certified lead auditor for ISO 14001 and her specialties include statistical process control, root cause analysis, and failure mode and effects analysis.  Melissa is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality and has led presentations  for various sections of ASQ.  Melissa is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.