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Managing Partners
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David W. Drinnon
David W. Drinnon is founder and Managing Partner of Design Management
Alliance. His diversity of experiences throughout his working
career provided the inspiration and foundation to build a full
service performance-based consulting firm that delivers a range
of services to manufacturing, healthcare, industrial, educational
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Mickey Barbely
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Mickey Barbely
After David Drinnon first met Mickey Barbely
through a sales call more than 8 years ago, as she walked
out the door he turned to an associate and said “One
day she will be working with us.” Mickey became a Design
Management Alliance Associate soon after that meeting. She
brings documentation and computer skills to the group on an
as-needed basis, and is also a key member of DMA’s teambuilding
and seminar staff. more >>
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Doug Moses |
Doug Moses
Doug Moses is a Senior Partner of Design Management Alliance. His varied
experiences through his work career has provided him to work in and observe many different types of manufacturing environments and understand the needs of each department within the organizations. more>>
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David W. Drinnon
David W.
Drinnon is founder and Managing Partner of Design Management Alliance.
His diversity of experiences throughout his working career provided
the inspiration and foundation to build a full service performance-based
consulting firm that delivers a range of services to manufacturing,
healthcare, industrial, educational and governmental concerns.
Design Management Alliance's success is contributed to David's extensive
working knowledge of manufacturing; lean manufacturing methods,
inventory management and organizational development. Through David's
experience in plant turnarounds, and startups he has acquired a
keen understanding of how to make systems work, when to revamp processes
and how to assemble internal resources to create functioning processes
out of seemly chaotic situations.
Growing up on a farm in East Tennessee, David learned
the importance of education, urgency, involvement, values, and hard
work. David's career began with a tour in the United States Army,
stationed in Korea. He spent eighteen years with TRW, Inc. in several
managerial positions. Hired by Tuff Torq Corporation in 1989, he
had the privilege and opportunity to work in Japan to learn Japanese
manufacturing philosophies and application.
Believing simple can be better, David's business philosophy
is to be on time, do what you say you are going to do, finish what
you start and say please and thank you. He firmly believes in investing
in the client, employees and the process for developing high performance.
Building long-term relationships with each customer, meeting challenging
opportunities head on, and providing value that obtains the desired
results for his clients has proven to be a successful formula for
David and his company. His personal satisfaction comes through helping
others do their best.
Customers describe David as having a relentless passion
to meet their needs and exceed their expectations. David values
each customer and nurtures that relationship. He wants the customer
to feel that they can call on Design Management Alliance as an immediate
resource at their moment of need. David appreciates the relationships
and trust of past and current customer.
David is an avid private pilot and has a soft spot
for his two granddaughters.
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Mickey Barbely
Mickey is known for her flexibility
and willingness to adapt to the client’s needs. She enjoys
“changing people’s lives,” whether through teaching
them computer skills that they were certain they couldn’t
master, or through helping them find new ways of meeting the daily
challenges of their jobs. She says, “Seeing people’s
faces light up, hearing someone say ‘This will make my job
so much easier!’—that makes it all worthwhile for her.”
Ten years ago Mickey formed KeyBoard Services, where
she concentrates on performing computer software training, desktop
publishing, editing, and specialized business services. Mickey’s
relationships with clients are long-term. She has served as editor
of one national publication for 10 years, compiling and editing
the document, developing graphics, and interfacing with authors.
Her classroom computer training in Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and Access has resulted in consistently high marks on
student evaluation forms. She has also provided individual training
and troubleshooting.
Mickey has delivered teambuilding, leadership skills,
and corporate ethics seminars. A team member in outplacement projects
for groups as large as 350, Mickey counseled people on job and interview
skills and developed resumes. She has managed the design and creation
of brochures, presentations, and manuals, with a specialty of maintaining
consistency and quality of corporate image. She has also developed
custom databases to track training, scheduling, and scoring, product
availability and purchases by client, and conference attendees.
Prior to forming KeyBoard Services, Mickey was publications
manager for a government-contracting firm in Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina, responsible for scheduling work and managing the
publications department. She completed more than 200 documents,
including proposals, reports, presentations, and newsletters.
Mickey has an M.A. in Mass Communications from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. with a double
major in English and Psychology from Tusculum College.
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Doug Moses
Doug’s knowledge in each of the manufacturing areas provides him the ability to address the overall needs of an organization when directing projects involving lean manufacturing, inventory management, plant startup, facility relocations, and organizational support and manufacturing systems. He graduated in 1970 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with a BS degree in Industrial Engineering while working summers at TVA.
After graduation, Doug fulfilled his military obligation with the Tennessee National Guard. As Vice President of Manufacturing with Jeffrey Chain Corporation he was responsible for a multi-million dollar budget directing Purchasing, Manufacturing, Production & Inventory Control, Tool Design & Manufacturing, Plant Engineering and Manufacturing. Doug’s goal is to provide the customer with a project that is on time and at or above expectations.
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