Executive Profile

Art Hammer

Art Hammer is Vice President and Account Director for QualPro with twenty-eight years experience in performance improvement applications and training.  Art has played a key role in the growth and success of QualPro.  His career experience spans a variety of industries including manufacturing, retail, chemical, paper, textile, petroleum, education, and service. 

As a statistician and former nuclear-weapons designer at Union Carbide's Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, Art developed his expertise in nuclear material control, quality engineering, weapons quality information systems, and quality cost analysis systems.  His career quickly progressed to his joining AMI Semiconductor as a project manager and developing its use of statistical methods throughout the research and development, manufacturing, and service functions. His success as project manager culminated in his promotion to Director of Corporate Quality.

Art joined QualPro in 1983 and has consistently delivered breakthrough performance improvements using QualPro's 12-step MVT Process.  His qualifications include on-site consulting efforts with over 100 companies in the United States, Canada, South America, Asia, and Europe, as well as over 500 training seminars.  Art has partnered with many Fortune 50 and Chemical 300 companies, including such industry leaders as Milliken & Company, Boise Cascade, and Lowes.  He was featured in The Economist article, "The Number's Man," and his successes have been hailed in numerous other publications including The Wall Street Journal and Selling Power.

Art earned a Bachelor of Science degree in statistics and economics from the University of Tennessee and received his MBA the following year. During his academic career, Art assisted the university's economics department in National Science Foundation-sponsored research and taught multivariate statistics courses for UT's statistics department following graduation.  He has maintained his academic interest by presenting technical papers for SEMI, ASQC, and other organizations both in the United States and abroad.

Art currently resides in Pocatello, Idaho, with his wife and three children.

Related Publications

The Economist

Selling Power

The Wall Street Journal