{"664920":{"#nid":"664920","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The ASC Announces New Senior Director of Operational Excellence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u202f\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/adminx.gatech.edu\/asc\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAdministrative Services Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u202f(ASC) has selected Wendon \u0026ldquo;Buddy\u0026rdquo; Vail as the next Senior Director of Operational Excellence (OPEX) following a comprehensive search and interview process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVail brings more than 15 years of leadership and operational excellence experience, most recently having served as Director \u0026ndash; Performance Improvement for CBRE. Throughout his career, he successfully implemented OPEX programs and Lean Journey for many organizations with significant focus on people and organizational growth, around building a team environment that embraces team engagement and constantly looking to create winning opportunities for everyone involved.\u202f\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe will leverage his experience to ensure the effective operations within the ASC. His portfolio of work within the ASC includes continuous improvement, organizational change management and readiness, technology strategy implementation, program portfolio management, learning and development, knowledgebase management and metrics development and reporting.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVail received a bachelor\u0026#39;s degree in Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural \u0026amp;Technical State University, a master\u0026#39;s degree in business from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and earned his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his spare time, Buddy enjoys spending time with his family and their four dogs and playing as much golf as weather will allow. He is excited about the opportunity to join the team at Georgia Tech and to be part of the transformation efforts underway.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlease join us in welcoming Buddy to the ASC Team and Georgia Tech!\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The ASC has selected Wendon \u0022Buddy\u0022 Vail as the next Senior Director of Operational Excellence (OPEX) following a comprehensive search and interview process. "}],"uid":"36398","created_gmt":"2023-01-20 14:41:04","changed_gmt":"2023-01-20 14:41:04","author":"Diana Sutton-Fernandez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"664919":{"id":"664919","type":"image","title":"Wendon Vail","body":null,"created":"1674224845","gmt_created":"2023-01-20 14:27:25","changed":"1674224845","gmt_changed":"2023-01-20 14:27:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"251524","name":"1554985606703.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1554985606703.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1554985606703.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54293,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1554985606703.jpeg?itok=6hix_DxT"}}},"media_ids":["664919"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/adminx.gatech.edu\/asc","title":"Learn more about the ASC"}],"groups":[{"id":"644175","name":" Administrative Excellence (AdminX) "}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"79261","name":"ASC"},{"id":"187162","name":"AdminX"},{"id":"187163","name":"administrative excellence"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdminX Team\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:adminx@gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eadminx@gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/adminx.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eadminx.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E|\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Egatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["adminx@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}