Brian Edwards - Saturday Keynote "The Impact of Lifelong Learning"
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Manager of Production Planning and Material Control (PPMC)
Brian is a practicing Industrial Engineer at ATI Wah Chang in Albany, Oregon. With over 18 years of experience, he has held numerous positions in Engineering and Management, both heavily influenced by his Industrial Engineering education. Some of these include: Production Planner, Assistant Manager of Extrusion, Manger of Operational Excellence, Manager of Consolidation, Continuous Improvement Engineer, Manager of Continuous Improvement, and his current position, Manager of PPMC. In his current position, Brian’s group is responsible for providing a manufacturing plan that will both achieve the Corporation’s business plan and meet customer’s expectations. His group works very closely with Operations, Sales, Process Engineering, and Quality Assurance.
Prior to earning a B.S. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from Oregon State University in 1994, Brian worked as a printed circuit board designer in the Portland area. During this period, he decided he wanted to pursue an Engineering degree so he left his job and moved to Albany to begin his engineering education. After completing his pre-engineering requirements at Linn-Benton Community College he transferred to Oregon State University and was accepted into the Mechanical Engineering professional school. After two terms as a Mechanical Engineering student he realized he was in the wrong discipline and transferred into Industrial Engineering. It was a perfect match.
At the time, Brian knew little about the field of Industrial Engineering so he applied to the Multiple Engineering Co-Op Program (MECOP), which provided him two six month internships at different companies. He says this was a life changing experience. His first internship was at Tektronix, an electronics manufacturing company, and the second was at ATI Wah Chang, a heavy manufacturing metals company. He was offered a full time position midway through his second internship and became a full-time Industrial Engineer in June of that year working for the Process Development group. At ATI Wah Chang he also served on the Joint Health and Safety Committee, and was Co-Chair of the Joint Civil Rights Committee. In 2008, Brian received his Lean Manager Certificate from Ohio State University.
Brian has also been a very active participant in the university. He has been involved with the MECOP program for over 16 years helping to place more than 500 students annually into internships. While involved with MECOP he served as an Executive Board Member and Chair and is now an Emeritus Board Member. Brian has also presented as a guest speaker for the OSU Marketing Club, the MECOP seminar course, and several other undergraduate engineering courses.
Brian is a practicing Industrial Engineer at ATI Wah Chang in Albany, Oregon. With over 18 years of experience, he has held numerous positions in Engineering and Management, both heavily influenced by his Industrial Engineering education. Some of these include: Production Planner, Assistant Manager of Extrusion, Manger of Operational Excellence, Manager of Consolidation, Continuous Improvement Engineer, Manager of Continuous Improvement, and his current position, Manager of PPMC. In his current position, Brian’s group is responsible for providing a manufacturing plan that will both achieve the Corporation’s business plan and meet customer’s expectations. His group works very closely with Operations, Sales, Process Engineering, and Quality Assurance.
Prior to earning a B.S. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from Oregon State University in 1994, Brian worked as a printed circuit board designer in the Portland area. During this period, he decided he wanted to pursue an Engineering degree so he left his job and moved to Albany to begin his engineering education. After completing his pre-engineering requirements at Linn-Benton Community College he transferred to Oregon State University and was accepted into the Mechanical Engineering professional school. After two terms as a Mechanical Engineering student he realized he was in the wrong discipline and transferred into Industrial Engineering. It was a perfect match.
At the time, Brian knew little about the field of Industrial Engineering so he applied to the Multiple Engineering Co-Op Program (MECOP), which provided him two six month internships at different companies. He says this was a life changing experience. His first internship was at Tektronix, an electronics manufacturing company, and the second was at ATI Wah Chang, a heavy manufacturing metals company. He was offered a full time position midway through his second internship and became a full-time Industrial Engineer in June of that year working for the Process Development group. At ATI Wah Chang he also served on the Joint Health and Safety Committee, and was Co-Chair of the Joint Civil Rights Committee. In 2008, Brian received his Lean Manager Certificate from Ohio State University.
Brian has also been a very active participant in the university. He has been involved with the MECOP program for over 16 years helping to place more than 500 students annually into internships. While involved with MECOP he served as an Executive Board Member and Chair and is now an Emeritus Board Member. Brian has also presented as a guest speaker for the OSU Marketing Club, the MECOP seminar course, and several other undergraduate engineering courses.
James E. Moore II - Banquet Keynote Speaker
_Professor
of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Public Policy and Management; and Civil
Engineering,
University of Southern California
Prof. Moore received his BS degrees in Industrial Engineering and Urban Planning in 1981 from Northwestern University’s Technological Institute (now the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science) in Evanston, Illinois. He received his MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University in 1982, his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Northwestern in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering (Infrastructure Planning and Management) from Stanford in 1986. He specializes in transportation engineering, transportation systems, and other infrastructure systems. He joined Northwestern's Civil Engineering faculty in 1986, and the faculty of the University of Southern California in 1988. He has served for the last 22 years as Director of the Transportation Engineering graduate program in the USC Viterbi School’s Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He served 16 years as Co-Director of the Construction Management Program, a special joint graduate program of the Astani Department and the USC Price School of Public Policy. He served as Chair of USC’s Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering from 2004 until 2010, and was appointed Vice Dean for Academic Programs in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 2011. He has served as President of the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences’ Transportation Science and Logistics Society, and completes three years of service as the Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Senior Vice President for Continuing Education March of 2012. In 2003, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, United States Section, for out-standing contributions to the field of Transportation Systems Engineering; and received the Kapitsa Gold Medal of Honor.
Prof. Moore’s research interests include risk management of infrastructure networks subject to natural hazards and terrorist threats; economic impact modeling; transportation network performance and control; large scale computational models of metropolitan land use/transport systems, especially in California; evaluation of new technologies; and infrastructure investment and pricing policies.
University of Southern California
Prof. Moore received his BS degrees in Industrial Engineering and Urban Planning in 1981 from Northwestern University’s Technological Institute (now the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science) in Evanston, Illinois. He received his MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University in 1982, his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Northwestern in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering (Infrastructure Planning and Management) from Stanford in 1986. He specializes in transportation engineering, transportation systems, and other infrastructure systems. He joined Northwestern's Civil Engineering faculty in 1986, and the faculty of the University of Southern California in 1988. He has served for the last 22 years as Director of the Transportation Engineering graduate program in the USC Viterbi School’s Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He served 16 years as Co-Director of the Construction Management Program, a special joint graduate program of the Astani Department and the USC Price School of Public Policy. He served as Chair of USC’s Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering from 2004 until 2010, and was appointed Vice Dean for Academic Programs in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 2011. He has served as President of the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences’ Transportation Science and Logistics Society, and completes three years of service as the Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Senior Vice President for Continuing Education March of 2012. In 2003, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, United States Section, for out-standing contributions to the field of Transportation Systems Engineering; and received the Kapitsa Gold Medal of Honor.
Prof. Moore’s research interests include risk management of infrastructure networks subject to natural hazards and terrorist threats; economic impact modeling; transportation network performance and control; large scale computational models of metropolitan land use/transport systems, especially in California; evaluation of new technologies; and infrastructure investment and pricing policies.
Michael Hogan - "Five Things to Accelerate your Career"
Michael is an internal consultant and systems engineer at Boeing where he helps teams understand and overcome engineering and product development constraints. He has helped merge organizations, seen his designs reach the field, trained over 100 Boeing managers in Lean fundamentals, and has provided consulting support to Engineers Without Borders on Boeing's behalf. Michael received his B.S. ISE and M.S. SAE from USC and is currently Vice President for the IIE Western Region.
Linda Amedo "Grad School vs. Job Hunting: Information to help you in making this decision"
_Linda Amedo has been with Hewlett Packard since 1978. She has held a variety of roles during her time with HP. Some of these roles include Silicon Design layout, supervisor & manager within Operations, Training and Documentation manager as well as Business Systems and Analysis manager. Currently she is the Incubation Lead for an ePrint solution that was launched in December 2010 (known as Scheduled Delivery). In this role she works with various managers, teams & organizations in transforming development programs into operating businesses. Linda has a BS degree in Business Management from Linfield College.
Hillary Shoop
_ Hillary Shoop graduated from Oregon State University in
2010 with a degree in Industrial Engineering and a minor in business. As a student at OSU, she was involved in IIE
as a member and officer for three years.
In addition, she participated in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers,
the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the College of Engineering Ambassador
outreach program.
After completing a six month internship at CH2M HILL in 2009, Hillary was hired on full time at the company in 2010 in the Industrial and Advanced Technology (I&AT) business group. As an IE for CH2M HILL, Hillary develops tool layouts, capacity models, tool utility analyses, AMHS requirements, and warehousing requirements for the advanced manufacturing facilities that I&AT designs and builds.
In her free time, Hillary tries to explore all the wonderful restaurants and bars Portland has to offer. She also loves to cook and travel and has been known to play a little piano here and there.
After completing a six month internship at CH2M HILL in 2009, Hillary was hired on full time at the company in 2010 in the Industrial and Advanced Technology (I&AT) business group. As an IE for CH2M HILL, Hillary develops tool layouts, capacity models, tool utility analyses, AMHS requirements, and warehousing requirements for the advanced manufacturing facilities that I&AT designs and builds.
In her free time, Hillary tries to explore all the wonderful restaurants and bars Portland has to offer. She also loves to cook and travel and has been known to play a little piano here and there.
Craig Barton
_Craig Barton is the Industrial Engineering Manager for TriQuint
Semiconductor's Oregon operations. Over the previous 22 years, he held
various Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and IE Management roles
at Anthro Corporation, Intel, and NEC America. Consistent areas of
focus throughout his career have been capacity planning, facility
layout, ergonomics, new product and process introduction, and
construction project management. Craig holds a BS degree in Industrial
Engineering for OSU, and is a graduate of the MECOP program.
Rick Price
Rick’s career in the metals industry has spanned 30 years, in various operational and management roles.
He began his studies completing an Associate degree in precision fabricating and machining at San Jose City College. Rick moved from the Bay area to Oregon in early 1980’s and began working for Neilson Manufacturing in Salem Oregon. The lean journey of Neilson Manufacturing is well documented in the Shingo prized winning book from Gary Conner “Lean for the Small shop”.
Rick has over 20 years experience in lean manufacturing and has studied under four Shingo prize winning authors. Rick has studied Kata under Mike Rother for the last several years and has served as Master Coach for several of the Northwest Kata workshops.
He is also an ASQ certified Six Sigma Black belt.
Rick’s current role is Extrusion Manager at ATI Metals, Wah Chang plant in Albany Oregon.
He enjoys golf, traveling with his family and old muscle cars in his spare time.
He began his studies completing an Associate degree in precision fabricating and machining at San Jose City College. Rick moved from the Bay area to Oregon in early 1980’s and began working for Neilson Manufacturing in Salem Oregon. The lean journey of Neilson Manufacturing is well documented in the Shingo prized winning book from Gary Conner “Lean for the Small shop”.
Rick has over 20 years experience in lean manufacturing and has studied under four Shingo prize winning authors. Rick has studied Kata under Mike Rother for the last several years and has served as Master Coach for several of the Northwest Kata workshops.
He is also an ASQ certified Six Sigma Black belt.
Rick’s current role is Extrusion Manager at ATI Metals, Wah Chang plant in Albany Oregon.
He enjoys golf, traveling with his family and old muscle cars in his spare time.
_Greg Hastings
_Greg Hastings - Quality Assurance Manager at PECO Inc.
Greg is a professional in Quality Assurance, Lean Manufacturing and Operations Management. Graduating in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from OSU, Greg began his carrier in factory automation, and worked 6 years in the semiconductor industry implementing automation on the floor. This transitioned to process engineering where he maintained silicon wafer reactors in the Epitaxial Wafer department at SEH America in Vancouver, WA. After graduate school, Greg re-entered the field of factory automation at ATS Systems Oregon in Corvallis in 2000. It is here that he was tasked with a full implementation of ISO 9001:2000 working with the entire organization to develop and maintain their quality systems. Greg also managed their Contract Manufacturing operations for some time.
Trained in Lean Manufacturing by Delphi, Greg moved back home to Madras in 2006 to work in the transportation industry building walking floors for semi-trailers. It was here were he worked all sides of Lean Manufacturing working company culture, leading Kaizen Events, driving metrics, providing training, and setting up business systems to mange Kanban levels and good visual controls.
In 2008, Greg found himself back in the quality management role in the General Aviation industry, working with customers like Cessna, Gulfstream, and Cirrus Aircraft. The poor economy had a significant impact on Central Oregon, and Greg is now the Quality Assurance Manager for PECO Inc. PECO manufactures the Passenger Service Units for the Boeing 737 aircraft. A PSU is the panel above a passenger's head that contains the reading light, blower, and oxygen masks.
Greg is a professional in Quality Assurance, Lean Manufacturing and Operations Management. Graduating in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from OSU, Greg began his carrier in factory automation, and worked 6 years in the semiconductor industry implementing automation on the floor. This transitioned to process engineering where he maintained silicon wafer reactors in the Epitaxial Wafer department at SEH America in Vancouver, WA. After graduate school, Greg re-entered the field of factory automation at ATS Systems Oregon in Corvallis in 2000. It is here that he was tasked with a full implementation of ISO 9001:2000 working with the entire organization to develop and maintain their quality systems. Greg also managed their Contract Manufacturing operations for some time.
Trained in Lean Manufacturing by Delphi, Greg moved back home to Madras in 2006 to work in the transportation industry building walking floors for semi-trailers. It was here were he worked all sides of Lean Manufacturing working company culture, leading Kaizen Events, driving metrics, providing training, and setting up business systems to mange Kanban levels and good visual controls.
In 2008, Greg found himself back in the quality management role in the General Aviation industry, working with customers like Cessna, Gulfstream, and Cirrus Aircraft. The poor economy had a significant impact on Central Oregon, and Greg is now the Quality Assurance Manager for PECO Inc. PECO manufactures the Passenger Service Units for the Boeing 737 aircraft. A PSU is the panel above a passenger's head that contains the reading light, blower, and oxygen masks.