Draft:Howard S. Gitlow

Howard Seth Gitlow is an American author, statistician and professor of Management Science at the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School in Coral Gables, Florida and management consultant in the field of Deming-based Lean Six Sigma management (also known as Professional Management). He was a visiting professor at the Tokyo University of Science and is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt holder.

Education
He received his BS in statistics in 1969, MBA in 1972, and PhD in statistics in 1974 from New York University.

Career
Howard S. Gitlow is a professor of Management Science at the Miami Herbert Business School since 1977. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor at Baruch College, of the City University of New York, from 1974 to 1976.

In 1982, along with W. Edwards Demingg and Paul Hertz, Gitlow established the W. Edwards Deming Institute for the Improvement of Productivity and Quality.

He was a visiting professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University from 2007 to 2014 and at the Science University of Tokyo in 1990, where he studied with Dr. Noriaki Kano.

Gitlow is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality and a senior member of the American Statistical Association. He is also accredited as a professional statistician by the ASA.