Big Daddy Buck here.  Last week was a great week.  I flew to Boston to see my good friends Ryan and Jill, met Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots (I’ll come back to this later) and won the 2008 Raytheon Six Sigma award.  You are probably asking what is the Six Sigma award?  The Six Sigma award is presented each year to teams that complete projects that “provided substantial and measurable results and impact for Raytheon’s businesses, customers and supplier” – (Mark E. Russell, VP of Engineering). 

That probably doesn’t help you much either.  We were 1 of 12 teams nominated and flown to Boston for the awards celebration.   The awards dinner was held in the Hall at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots.  Raytheon sponsors the “Hall at Patriot Place”.  Robert Kraft, owner of the Patriots came up to say hello to the the nominees.  For dinner we had surf and turf.  Let me tell you, the surf (lobster) was excellent.  I enjoy getting lobster when I go to Boston, but it always tastes just a little bit better when it is free.  After dinner the awards celebration began.  Each team was presented their “Presidential Award” from their respective business area President and after those were finished came the CEO award winner.  There were actually 5 teams that received CEO awards that evening.  My team was the second team that received an award.  As I stated before it was an honor just to be nominated, but as you probably can tell it was great to win.  My team worked so hard to improve our program which did lead to the program winning a new future contract from our customer.     

Thanks for visiting!!!  XOXO