Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio: Dave Ostreicher is a Manager in the Purchasing Supplier Development Division at Toyota’s North American Research & Development Headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In this role, he leads all facets of the procurement process for the billions of dollars of components needed for all Toyota and Lexus sedan production in North America.

Dave’s previous roles at Toyota have included the education and development of more than 350 supply chain professionals, the leadership of all supplier-facing information systems, and responsibility for North American stamped body shell components – valued at $1.5 billion per year. Dave was also selected for two different multi-year assignments in Japan at the company’s headquarters, the second of which will begin in 2022.

Prior to joining Toyota in 2004, Dave earned a BSE and MSE in Industrial & Operations Engineering, and an A.B. in Japanese Language & Literature from the University of Michigan.