Trish Selcher
About Trish Selcher
Trish Selcher is the Product Realization Team Lead at Sandia National Laboratories with extensive experience in engineering, consulting, and leadership roles across various industries.
Company
Trish Selcher currently works at Sandia National Laboratories, where she holds the position of Product Realization Team Lead. Sandia National Laboratories is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She previously served as an ISO 9001 / AS9100C Lead Implementer at the same company from 2010 to 2013.
Previous Roles
Before joining Sandia National Laboratories, Trish Selcher held several significant positions in various organizations. She worked at TransMix Safe Lock as President and CEO from 2011 to 2015 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was the Director at KPMG Advisory from 2006 to 2009. She also served as the President and Owner at both Lattice Performance Works and StratX LLC from 2008 to 2010. Earlier, she held the position of Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton from 2003 to 2006 and worked briefly as a consultant at Edge Consulting in 2006.
Engineering Experience
Trish Selcher has a robust background in engineering, having worked as an Assistant Principal Engineer at both Aerojet and Atlantic Research Corporation from 1996 to 2003. She also gained significant experience as an Engineer at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Division from 1989 to 1991. Her expertise in engineering is both diverse and extensive.
Education and Expertise
Trish Selcher holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she also earned a BSME. She achieved an MBA specializing in Strategy and Operations from the University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business. Additionally, she studied Theoretical & Applied Mechanics at Northwestern University, earning an MS. She briefly pursued a Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering also at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Specializations and Skills
Trish Selcher specializes in performance improvement methodologies including Six Sigma, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, and Baldrige. She is adept in strategy execution and alignment, performance measures, balanced scorecard, and process improvement. She successfully shortened the product development lifecycle for weapon components by 18 months without significantly increasing risk and oversaw the product development cycle from development to production, with production starting in September 2019.