EJ Lydon is the owner and principal lean consultant at Prosit Business Consulting, LLC. For many years, EJ has worked closely with DVIRC, both in an internal capacity and as a consultant, providing advanced process and strategic services to small to medium-sized manufacturing companies to improve operations and maximize profit. He is committed to teaching and deploying lean through kaizen and a team approach to problem solving. He specializes in kaizen, lean, facilitation, team building, coaching, hoshin, and project management.
He has been involved in manufacturing for over 30 years, and has more than 10 years of experience delivering lean services as a consultant. He has extensive experience in operations and manufacturing management, and has held leadership positions with P&L responsibility as an operations manager and vice president. EJ’s lean methodologies have roots in the Toyota Production System, and he has worked with over 185 companies in the US and internationally. He has been an invited presenter at national industry seminars. Industries served are Printing, Chemical, Optics, Pharmaceutical, Machining and Fabrication, Automotive, Electronics, and Food Processing, among others.
EJ previously worked at a southeastern Pennsylvania specialty glass manufacturer as VP of Sales and Service, has overseen operations for a replacement window manufacturer, and was a team leader at the Wiremold Company (now Legrand), a world-class electrical manufacturing company.
He was mentored by Shingijitsu, a premier Sensei group that was started by pioneers of the widely praised Toyota Production System. He is certified in the NIST Manufacturing Extension Program model of lean education and deployment and has received a certification in Six Sigma Green Belt.