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Kim H. Pries has four college degrees: a bachelor of arts in history from
the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), a bachelor of science in metal-
lurgical engineering from UTEP, a master of science in engineering from
UTEP, and a master of science in metallurgical engineering and materials
science from Carnegie-Mellon University. In addition, he holds the fol-
lowing certications:
• APICS
• Certied Production and Inventory Manager (CPIM)
• American Society for Quality (ASQ)
• Certied Reliability Engineer (CRE)
• Certied Quality Engineer (CQE)
• Certied Soware Quality Engineer (CSQE)
• Certied Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)