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Philadelphia Pennsylvania Association for Operations Management

Education Team

Dave Kjeldgaard, CPIM, CIRM, CSCP Email

Dave Kjeldgaard has been an active member of the Philadelphia Chapter (and its predecessor - the Bucks-Mont Chapter) for over 20 years. He joined APICS in the early 1980s when his company encouraged participation in education and employee skills growth. He became Certified in Production and Inventory Management in 1985, achieved his CIRM designation in 1993, and is a past chapter president. Dave has previously taught several of the APICS courses in the CPIM and Fundamentals areas during the 1990s and has recently returned to the PAN-APICS Education Team as an instructor. He has completed workshops in both Train the Trainer and Learning Dynamics for Instructors, as well as multiple APICS Regional conferences and workshops.

Dave is a Business Analyst, working for R&B Inc., supporting several software implementations and interfaces in the manufacturing and logistics area. He has worked for several local manufacturers in the Montgomery County area, first as a logistics user, then as a trainer on several software implementation teams, finally as a Business Analyst. Through the years, Dave has been involved in dozens of software implementations, large and small, and brings his logistics background to valuable use as an IT professional.