Douglas C. Wood is the principal in DC Wood Consulting, LLC. The firm focuses on quality control consulting, business information planning, data analysis and related areas. He has more 30 years' experience in industrial engineering and quality. He has saved millions of dollars at client firms and employers through his practical approach to measurement implementation.

He is the author of The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing Quality Cost Programs, published by ASQ Quality Press.

Wood is active in ASQ, serving in the past as Kansas City section chair, education chair, site committee chair for the 2003 Annual Quality Congress, and Quality Management Division (QMD) Cost of Quality technical committee chair. A senior member of ASQ, he holds two ASQ Certifications: CQE and Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence.

Hehas been an examiner with the Kansas state quality award and the Missouri state quality award, and a lead examiner with the Kansas award in 2002. He is currently serving on an interdisciplinary task force providing strategic direction on a new multiyear research initiative exploring the economics of a wasteful society.