
David Ahlquist
Business Growth Advisor
Enterprise Minnesota
Phone: (320) 583-9525
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As a Business Growth Advisor for Enterprise Minnesota, David serves clients with his broad expertise in operations and engineering management. He is committed to improving clients' efficiency and helping position for growth.
David has more than 20 years of experience in continuous improvement, GreenLeanTM, value stream mapping, manufacturing systems, manufacturing engineering, production supervision, and software systems.
David has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in industrial engineering operations research from the University of Minnesota along with a Master of Business Administration from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Prior to
joining Enterprise Minnesota, David worked in engineering and operations management for manufacturers, owned a small business, and worked in consulting. He served as a manufacturing engineer for Westin Automotive, a manufacturing systems consultant for AMCI Computers, as operations
manager for Gunnard, and owned Pet Stuff - his own small business.
He holds certification from NIST-MEP as a trainer for lean 101, office value-stream mapping, 5S, and implementing value-stream mapping. He has training in helping companies achieve ISO certification and quality management standards. David is currently a senior member of the
Society of Manufacturing Engineers.