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.

Paul Borders, CMRP

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.

Tara Denton

Tara is the Product Manager for the Life Cycle Institute. Tara has designed and delivered formal and informal learning events and training material since 2001. Her passion for adult learning principles results in a specialization: building learning products that meet business objectives and practicing facilitation techniques that ensure knowledge transfer. Prior to joining Life Cycle, Tara worked as Business Manager for a start-up biopharmaceutical company where she was in charge of managing administrative operations and talent management. For a pre-IPO software company, Tara wrote technical user manuals, and conducted recruiting and training initiatives for employees, many of whom were international. Tara’s learning products have been named a finalist in training product competitions; her flexibility allows her to work on a range of projects, from consulting a Fortune 500 company on an internal certification program to delivering web training seminars.
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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.

Steve Easterbrook

Steve is currently President of CMPIC LLC, a Forest, Virginia based company that provides Configuration Management (CM) training and certification courses. Steve is also a former President of the Association of Configuration and Data Management (ACDM) and is currently on its Board of Governors. He has twelve years experience as a Configuration Management (CM) specialist and has been a contractor CM analyst, a government employee CM specialist and a commercial CM manager while spending another sixteen years as a CM educator, assessor and consultant. Steve is a sought after CM expert and has taught best practices and implementation techniques to over 3,500 students and CM principles. Steve has authored various articles for ICM’s News and Views as well as the ACDM Journal. He has also written for the University of Tennessee Management Development Center Newsletter and more. He is also the editor of "The CM Resource Guide" first published in 1994 and now available online.

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.
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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.
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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 eight years. With experience in loss elimination, CMMS/EAM implementation, 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. As a LCE reliability subject matter expert (SME) and a skilled Six Sigma Black Belt, Josh utilizes the tools honed in the tire manufacturing, specialty chemical, and electronic industries to facilitate transformational, sustainable change.

Doug Wallace, CPIM

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.
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Bill Wilder, Director of The Life Cycle Institute

Bill Wilder is the Director of The Life Cycle Institute at Life Cycle Engineering (LCE). Bill holds a Masters of Education degree from East Tennessee State University and a Bachelors of Science in Human Resources. Prior to working with LCE, Bill worked as the Director of Sales and Marketing at Greenville Technical College where he created the Asset Performance Institute in collaboration with Fluor. Bill’s experience also includes managing sales teams in four states while working with AT&T. He produced over $100 million while receiving the company’s highest sales award four years in a row. He also created the national Sales Manager Certification program, developed a sales candidate assessment process and developed the Excellence in Sales training course.
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Wally Wilson, CMRP, CPIM

Wally Wilson is a Senior Subject Matter Expert specializing in Materials Management with Life Cycle Engineering. He has over twenty-five years experience in plant management with three fortune 500 corporations. Wally is a member of the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) and the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS). As a member of these organizations, Wally is recognized as a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) with SMRP and a Certified Production & Inventory Management (CPIM) professional with APICS. Wally has used his extensive business skills and ability to lead people to implement Best Practice methodology in Materials Management for both domestic and international clients. The results have been multi-million dollar savings for LCE clients through lean inventory management practices and Supply Chain optimization.