Amazon
Mars Systems award winner

Topic

Multi-order automation

Team

• Leo Liu
• Mark Mao
• Pong Somboon
• Rui Wei
• Yi Yang

AT&T

Topic

Customer care operations improvement

Team

• Melissa Chang
• Qian Chu
• Kevin Wu
• Sherry Young
• Mingwei Zhu

Boeing

Topic

Procurement board process improvement

Team

• Lucas Chen
• Harisson Devara
• Jenny Jiang
• Klaus Wang
• Alice Wu

Genie
1st place award winner

Topic

Optimize material delivery system

Team

• Frank Chang
• Ian Docherty
• Sean McElmurry
• Hil Sunardi
• Stephanie Wang

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
2nd place award winner

Topic

Optimizing patient scheduling in medical imaging

Team

• Delaney Boyer
• Nicholas Difulvio
• Andrew Gamache
• Clayton Hakso
• Jared Rose

Seattle Children's Hospital

Topic

Central processing workflow and storage optimization

Team

• Chris Gillette
• Jacob Kelley
• Alex Peterson
• Ben Small
• Lauren Solmssen

Seattle Children's Hospital

Topic

Paperless workflow in cytogenetics clinical laboratory

Team

• Joey Abou Samra
• Jermaine Hickles-Benton
• Chris Jenkins
• Stefan Peterson
• Alex Pickett

Starbucks
3rd place award winner

Topic

Mobile order & pay

Team

• Tae-Eun Kwak
• Tea Mijatovic
• Amber Sun
• Ryann Ulrich
• Teanna Waltenburg

University of Washington Housing and Food Services

Topic

Analysis and redesign of Lander regional desk mailroom

Team

• Terry Kitmungsa
• Chavakarn Sakulmaharerk
• Siripoom Tubtimcharoon
• Jenny Wu
• Leon Zhu

WA State Department of Fish & Wildlife

Topic

Improving hatchery operations

Team

• Connor Bradley
• Dillinger James
• Joe Knox
• Richard Li
• Alex Voin

Amazon

Topic

Building flow management and improvement

Team

• Shala Chen
• Tina Liu
• Nick Picatti
• Harlin Wood
• Helen Yuan

Boeing Supplier Management

Topic

Material, parts, and assemblies

Team

• Kevin Diers
• Safaa Hasan
• Yavar Misaghi Bonabi
• Daniel Ramirez
• Mimi Truong

Genie
Mars Systems award winner

Topic

Optimize aluminum fabrication

Team

• Henry Chang
• Brandon Galang
• Anh Phan
• Adeline Salim
• Ghali Tantawi

WA State Department of Fish & Wildlife

Topic

Improving hatchery operations

Team

• Will Bissell
• Lena Han
• Joey Houck
• Brandon Langeland
• Sean Yagi

Northwest Fresh
2nd place award winner

Topic

Analysis for startup operations

Team

• Matt Doremus
• Will Stewart
• Will Thompson
• Ivan Young
• Chris Yun

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
3rd place award winner

Topic

Optimizing patient throughput in medical imaging

Team

• Alla Cheban
• Brooke Hess
• Adolph Rivas
• Kent Stanley
• Matthew Vay

Seattle Children's Hospital

Topic

Process improvement in histology

Team

• Victoria Bui
• Maxwell Hamzah
• Grace Huang
• Nicholas Norris
• Michael Tran

Seattle Children's Hospital

Topic

Specimen transport analysis and optimization

Team

• Zach Eley
• Cindy Hadiputra
• Sean Nguyen
• Paul Ueng
• Elfira Wahono

Starbucks

Topic

Improving labor and equipment utilization

Team

• Cheliyanto Cheliyanto
• Grace Putri
• Dian Shao
• Edwin Sungkono
• Steniz Wahyudi

UPS
1st place award winner

Topic

Improved design of Everett facility

Team

• Andrew Dedo
• Kennedy Hill
• Miaomiao Hu
• Natalie Hudacek
• Marissa Olson

Boeing 747

Topic

Reducing FOD impact by increasing employee utilization of existing resources

Team

• Joe Shaffer
• Taylor Smith
• Yuting Smith
• Tiana Steckler
• Jesslyn Widodo

Boeing Supplier Management

Topic

Reduction strategies for extrusion inventory

Team

• Ben Blumberg
• Khaliq Iqbal
• Taylor Kimbrough
• Eric Pace
• Toni Theodore

Buzzbox Coffee

Topic

Improving Production Capacity

Team

• Marcus D'Angelo
• Kevin Kaplan
• Carson Kilburn
• Megan Shaw
• Trevor Swain
• Nahani Toda-Peters

GE
3rd place award winner

Topic

Market opportunities for wastewater treatment products in Texas shale plays

Team

• Jordy Donald
• Ben Glowney
• Craig Jansen
• Chris Sherrell
• Yun Yu

Genie
1st place and Mars Systems award winner

Topic

Electric sub-assembly design

Team

• Monica Chinn
• Brian Christensen
• Zach Kissler
• Pedro Pacheco
• Amanda Payton
• Kevin Wong

Integrity Chiropractic

Topic

Design of business processes and clinic layout

Team

• Aakash Bajaj
• Jon Casey
• Danielle Hausle
• Greyson Siegel
• Gary Tumber

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Topic

OncoRad improvement project

Team

• Stephanie Bell
• Grant Claridge
• Dylan Moore
• Kristen Moore
• Anna Senouillet
• Ellie Tran

Seattle Children's Hospital

Topic

Analysis of clinical chemistry lab for testing capability and expansion

Team

• Pat Cholsaipant
• Pete Lomwattanatham
• Hannah Murphy
• Kevin Peterson
• Hary Tumber

Seattle Children's Hospital
2nd place award winner

Topic

Improving specimen storage and tracking for central processing laboratory

Team

• Keanen Albright
• Chris Gilmore
• Kelianne Hara
• Tom Johnson
• Nghia Tran

Visualant

Topic

Benefits of product lifecycle management

Team

• Viviana Barona
• Daniel Choi
• Austin Cox
• Marshall Hawley
• Brian Jeon

Boeing

Topic

Pneumatic torque tool calibration process

Team

• Emily Alonzo
• Tyler Fuegmann
• Dominik Laurus
• Simon Liu
• Lida Misaghi

Crowley

Topic

Improving business processes: identified issues & recommendations

Team

• Fergus Angkasa
• Ani Antonyan
• Gabriel Groen
• James Jackson
• Tatiana Shefts

Genie

Topic

Reducing fabrication costs of rails for scissor lifts

Team

• Soni Japara
• Kevin Johan
• Reinhart Kurniawan
• Matt Strand
• Danniel Winarto

Naked City Brewery

Topic

Improving brewery and restaurant operations

Team

• Will Ahlering
• Brendan Calton
• Ben Jach
• Jourdan Ramquist
• Nick Tom

Oak Harbor Freight
2nd place award winner

Topic

Improvement of Freight Management Operations

Improving brewery and restaurant operations

Team

• Max Anderson
• Nam Dao
• Chad Porter
• Hao Wang
• Sean Xuan

Seattle Children's Hospital
1st place award winner

Topic

Reducing variability in the blood transfusion laboratory

Team

• Russell Higgins
• Lindsay Hoo
• Jordan Kintner
• Sally Santoso
• Grace Tham

Seattle Children's Hospital
3rd place and Mars Systems award winner

Topic

A process improvement study to increase value added time

Team

• Danie Birklid
• Tong Cha
• Sirena Merfalen
• Ashley Neville
• Caroline Okocha

Boeing

Topic

Cost analysis by location for Boeing supplier management

Team

• Michelle Bui
• Scott Cairns
• Liem Limanto
• Anh Phan
• Dongchen Wang
• Jonathan Zepf

Group Health

Topic

Human resources production management system

Team

• Anna Gillan
• Danielle Olmstead
• Andi Perdana Putra
• John Tedja
• Michelle Young

King County Metro

Topic

Human factors, ergonomics and safety improvement of the drivers cockpit in the next generation of King County metro buses

Team

• Chung-Heng Lee
• Michael Day
• Alma Emadi
• Kitirat Srichai

Mikron Industries

Topic

Strategies for improving scrap management

Team

• Nicholas Arif
• Aaron Bumgarner
• Trevor Dawson
• Michelle Lay
• Ribka Liong
• Tara Horne

Overlake Hospital

Topic

Improving turn over times for operating room suites

Team

• Ahra Ko
• Benjamin Kusak
• Vinaykumar Miriyala
• Mclean Webster
• Ayan Hassan

Seattle Children's Hospital

Topic

Improving aliquot bench operations in the central process area

Team

• Victoria Cartwright
• Nadezhda Cheban
• Michael Longwell
• Murtaza Patwa
• Philip Philip
• Heidi Yee

Seattle Children's Hospital

Topic

Optimizing the implementation of MALDI-TOF in the Seattle Children’s Hospital Microbiology Laboratory

Team

• Gregory Barber
• Sheng-Chieh Chen
• Kate Langberg
• Taylor Matalone
• Vuttichai Satitpatanaphan
• Katherine Anderegg

UPS

Topic

Design and development of optimal car wash operating procedures for northwest district facilities

Team

• Sarah Golla
• Charles Meissner
• Vincent Nusalim
• Xue Sun
• Alice Yi
• Qicheng Zhao

Zodiac Aerospace

Topic

Power of the dashboard: an interactive decision-making tool for improving manufacturing process

Team

• Daniel Culp
• Paul Jandacek
• Guanting Li
• Paul McMullen
• Nicholas Ekladyous