Jelani H. Ellington

 

 

 

About Jelani Ellington


 

   Jelani Ellington began his career at Ford Motor Company in the Ford College Graduate (FCG) management track group.  His positions at Ford Motor Company included Body & Chassis Engineer, Cooperate Liaison, Quality and Reliability, and Vehicle Operations.  Following his time with Ford Motor Company, Ellington transitioned to the General Motors Corporation where he began as a Product Development Performance Integration Team Leader in charge of Sealing, Wind Noise, and Aerodynamics.  Ellington also held positions in Quality, Corrosion and as a Warranty Reduction Leader.

 

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Ellington received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University.  As a GM Fellow, Ellington received a MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.  He will received a Management and Engineering degree awarded jointly from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering.  Ellington was nominated for General Motors “People Make Quality Happen” award.

 

Ellington, who is an avid reader, holds a black belt in Kuk Sool Won and enjoys most water sports, especially SCUBA diving.  Ellington also speaks English, Spanish, and some Mandarin Chinese.

 

 


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Skills


Jelani Ellington keeps his skills up to date and has certifications or is competent in the following:

 

  • Shainin Red X Journeyman
  • World-wide Engineering Release System
  • Failure Mode & Effect Analysis
  • Design of Experiments
  • Spanish (ACTFL - Intermediate Level)
  • Licensed Engineering in Training
  • Quality Function Development, Reliability
  • Process Control Methods
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Mandarin Chinese (ACTFL - Beginner Level)

 



Fun Time Activities


 

Jelani Ellington’s fun times activities usually involves water.  He like to SCUBA dive, jet ski, water ski, sail, wind surf, swim and just about everything else that you can do with the water. He also likes martial arts and practices regularly. His hobbies include comic book collecting, coin collecting, and traveling. So far he has visited almost twenty countries and would like to do much more traveling before it is his time to journey to the undiscovered country.  


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