Life Cycle Institute Facilitators

Learning experiences produce results by changing behavior. Behavior-changing learning experiences are led by experienced, passionate professionals who know the content and how people learn. At the Life Cycle Institute, class leaders are called facilitators. This acknowledges that in addition to being experienced authorities on their topic, they have a passion for teaching and have developed this passion into a set of learning facilitation skills.

Mike Aroney

Mike Aroney holds advanced degrees in Organizational Psychology, Adult Education and Business Administration. He specializes in change management, business process re-engineering and work control. Mike has led major business process re-engineering efforts in support of enterprise resource planning implementations using People Soft, Lawson and SAP. He offers training, balanced score cards, rapid improvement events, coaching and mentoring.

Paul Borders

Paul Borders has more than 17 years experience as a strategic manufacturing manager. His realm of experience includes progressive expertise in top quality plant operations, quality control, safety, and environmental management. As a plant leader, Paul delivered consistent and significant performance improvements in all operating metrics: productivity, quality, safety, cost effectiveness, profitability, and employee engagement. A persuasive, respected leader and team builder, Paul is skilled in cross-functional collaboration with all operating departments of an organization.

Mike Courtney, CMRP

Mike Courtney has more than 30 years experience as a results-oriented engineer and manager with extensive experience in plant operations, maintenance and engineering. He has redesigned maintenance organizations, built maintenance and operations partnerships, improved plant safety, streamlined processes and reduced costs. Mike works with client companies to significantly improve overall equipment reliability by designing and installing holistic manufacturing best practice systems within the organization.

Fred Dunbrack, CMRP

Fred Dunbrack has over 38 years experience in maintenance and reliability, including over 30 years in the most successful integrated steel manufacturing facility in North America. Possessing a strong background in equipment reliability processes, maintenance management systems, predictive maintenance techniques, training development and delivery, and project management, Fred has helped companies improve profitability and machine efficiency.

Al Emeneker

Al Emeneker has over 30 years experience in the maintenance repair and maintenance reliability fields with such companies as Union Camp Paper Company, Fluor, the U.S. Air Force and South Carolina Electric and Gas. His primary background in the maintenance repair field is electrical, process control and instrumentation in power generation, both nuclear and fossil fuel, and pulp and paper.

Scott Franklin

With over 20 years experience in organizational design, change management, and delivering sustainable improvements, Scott is a well-respected authority on organizational change, specializing in the leadership responsibilities of change management. Scott brings specific expertise in the areas of creating a combined learning organization in parallel with a strengths-based organization, while simultaneously creating a culture of execution.

Tom Gober

Tom Gober has over 34 years experience in implementing PM/PdM programs, planning and scheduling, reliability programs, and CMMS. He has additional experience in coordinating new line and product installations. He has been conducting educational seminars for over 10 years.

Tim Kister

Tim Kister is a leader in the field of planning and scheduling. During his tenure as the Chief Maintenance Planner at Alumax, they were awarded the World Class Maintenance certification. He has completed over 75 workshops and seminars focused on maintenance management and planning and scheduling.

Carl B. March, CMRP, CRE

Carl has a wealth of experience in the areas of Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, Systems Modeling and Design. Carl holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and a graduate degree in Automotive Systems Engineering. He is a published author of technical papers written for the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress as well as the IMechE International Journal of Automobile Engineering. As a Reliability SME, his passion and focus is in the transfer of knowledge in RCM, TPM, Root Cause Analysis and Reliability Excellence to clients worldwide seeking to achieve manufacturing distinction. Carl has attained a significant level of professional recognition as a Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) by the American Society for Quality and as a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) by the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals.

Sam McNair, CMRP

Sam McNair is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional with 32 years of experience in discrete manufacturing, chemical process industries, mining, machine processes, automation, aviation, construction and utilities. He has more than 20 years of experience in implementing maintenance, reliability, and asset management in many of those industries. He has held a range of positions in information technology, operations management (including Lean manufacturing and TPM), maintenance and reliability management, new business development, product and process development, plant and process design, and new plant construction.

Keith Mobley, CMRP

Keith has earned an international reputation as one of the premier consultants in the fields of plant performance optimization, reliability engineering, predictive maintenance and effective management. He has more than 35 years of direct experience in corporate management, process design and troubleshooting. For the past sixteen years, he has helped hundreds of clients worldwide achieve and sustain world-class performance.

Mike Poland, CMRP

Mike Poland specializes in Life Cycle Asset Management with a focus on increasing asset utilization at the lowest total cost of ownership. His expertise is in systems engineering and operational risk management with an emphasis on defect detection and elimination strategies. Mike previously worked for the Department of the Navy as the Life Cycle Engineer and Defense Acquisition Professional for nuclear powered aircraft carriers. He also spent several years as the Engineering and Maintenance Manager for the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mike has a Nuclear Engineering degree and is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional as well as a Master Training Specialist with DoD certifications in RCM, RCA, and Systems Engineering. He served as a panel member of the American Society for Quality and is frequently requested to facilitate Root Cause Analysis courses.

Bobby Rivenbark

Bobby Rivenbark has over 35 years experience in maintenance planning and scheduling. As a planning manager at three DuPont facilities, he was responsible for the planning and scheduling process that included the continuity and success of all proactive maintenance processes. He has also implemented the planning and scheduling process for the North American sites of Celanese Chemicals, a process now being implemented globally. Bobby has been conducting educational seminars on maintenance planning and scheduling strategies for more than 15 years.

Josh Rothenberg, CMRP

Josh Rothenberg is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and has been a successful reliability engineer in various industries for the last four years. A LCE reliability subject matter expert (SME) and a skilled Six Sigma Black Belt, Josh utilizes the tools learned in the tire manufacturing, specialty chemical, and semi-conductor industries to help facilitate change management. With experience in CMMS, fixed/rotating equipment, logistics, planning/scheduling, and a flair for fostering interpersonal relationships, Josh brings a unique perspective to reliability-centered maintenance that fosters the growth and development of cross-functional teams.

Ralph Tileston

Ralph Tileston has 30 years experience making change happen at various management levels in telecommunications, construction and consulting. His management coaching skills influence performance from the executive level to the shop and warehouse. Working directly with business and consulting organizations, he has reorganized service offerings, eliminated unnecessary processes, and improved customer delivery. Ralph has managed projects that improve maintenance and operations functions for multiple facilities and locations.

Doug Wallace, APICS

Doug Wallace is a materials management expert with over 25 years of combined experience as a manager and management consultant. He has prior experience in reliability and supply chain consulting with cement and rock products, refining and specialty chemical industries. Doug is a graduate of Lafayette College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.

Darrin Wikoff, CMRP

Darrin Wikoff specializes in project management, business process re-engineering, reliability centered maintenance,and CMMS/EAM implementations. As a “change agent”, Darrin continues to coach and mentor many of the world’s industrial leaders through the rigorous process of implementing and managing reliability improvement initiatives.

Wally Wilson, CMRP

Wally Wilson has over 17 years experience as a senior management team leader with three Fortune 500 corporations. Wally has extensive experience in leading organizational change by developing and implementing increased operational efficiency, maintenance reliability and materials management excellence. As a senior operations manager with Quebecor World Printing, Wally led a project to standardize gravure ink inventories for the printing process that resulted in an annual savings of $1.8 million across a seven-plant platform.