Client experience:
Bruno's
Noland
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Ford Motor Company
Tech Data
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Levi Straus
UPS
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LL Bean
Walt Disney World
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Nike
Westinghouse
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Industry experience:
- Senior Systems Advisor with VanDerlande Industries, Europe
- Executive Vice President for an automotive aftermarket parts supplier
- Supervisor of Facilities Planning for GM Oldsmobile Division
- Industrial Engineer with IBM
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Specializing in:
Development of integrated manufacturing and distribution systems to support long-range strategic business plans and processes for clients in the U.S., Europe and Canada.
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Recent projects:
- Led client team in the development and evaluation of expansion and process options to accommodate capacity increase and double business with only a 50% increase in space
- Led the project team in designed concepts and methods to retrofit a major distribution center
- Assisted a major retailer modify DC processes and layout to gain 38% in picking productivity
Led design team in developing the material handling concept for a high volume air-hub sorting facility
- Published books and articles
- Author of numerous articles and handbooks on warehousing and logistics operations
- Monthly columnist for Modern Materials Handling magazine
- Authored the Receiving Systems chapter in the Warehouse Management Handbook and the Warehousing chapter in Profitable Logistics Management
- Co-authored the Material Handling chapters in the Handbook of Industrial Robotics and the Production Handbook.
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Industry leadership:
- A major contributor to continuing professional education in the materials handling and distribution fields
- Has served as a board member of the Materials Handling Management Society and the Alumni Advisory Board for the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech
- 1989 recipient of the Reed-Apple Award presented by the Material Handling Education Foundation for sustained contributions to continuing education in the field.
- Senior member, Institute of Industrial Engineers, and recipient of The Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Facilities Planning and Design Award
- Leader of the Material Handling Short Course of the Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech
- Sought-after speaker on seminar and conference programs.
- 1999 Modern Materials Handling Magazines "One of the top ten material handling professionals to watch in the new millennium"
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Education:
Georgia Tech
Bachelors and Masters degrees in Industrial Engineering
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