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.

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Our Facilitators:

Hugh Blackwood, CMRP

Hugh Blackwood has 29 years of plant maintenance and reliability experience in the metals industry. At the corporate level, he led the worldwide implementation of a reliability excellence strategy across multiple industrial sites. A team builder, coach, and mentor to many in the private and government sectors, Hugh is active on numerous boards promoting and recognizing excellence. He is also certified in Prosci’s change management tools and methodology.

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. Paul is also certified in Prosci’s change management tools and methodology.

Tara Denton Holwegner, CPLP

Tara is a Learning Subject Matter Expert (SME) with ten years experience designing and delivering learning events and training material. Her passion for adult learning results in a specialization: building products that meet business objectives and practicing facilitator techniques that ensure knowledge transfer. Tara’s flexibility allows her to work on a range of projects, from internal certification programs to delivering online training. Tara, a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP), has training activities published in an anthology and her learning products have been named a finalist in competition. She regularly writes articles and blog entries on learning, produces videos on learning and facilitator development and speaks at industry events.
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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.

Scott Franklin

Scott is a Principal Consultant for Life Cycle Engineering and Prosci-certified in change management. With over 30 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. He is a sought-after speaker, writer and workshop facilitator who brings an engaging and dynamic energy to organizations. Scott is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former nuclear-trained submarine officer.
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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.
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Joel Levitt

Joel Levitt is a leading trainer of maintenance professionals. He has trained more than 15,000 maintenance leaders from 3,000 organizations all over the world. Since 1980 he has been the President of Springfield Resources, a management consulting firm that serves clients of all sizes on a wide range of maintenance issues. He has more than 25 years experience in many facets of maintenance including serving in the roles of process control designer, source equipment inspector, electrician, field service technician, merchant marine worker, manufacturing manager and property manager. Joel is a frequent speaker at maintenance and engineering conferences and has written nine popular maintenance management texts. He has also published more than six dozen articles. Joel has served on the safety board of ANSI, on the executive committee of the Miquon School, and on the boards of Small Business United and the National Family Business Council. He is an AFE member and Vice President of the Philadelphia chapter.

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.

R. 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.

Ron Moore, BSME, MSME, MBA, PE, and CMRP

Ron Moore is the Managing Partner of The RM Group, Inc., Knoxville, TN. He travels worldwide working with manufacturing companies in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and the Far East. He is the author of Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence, now in its 3rd edition, and of What Tool? When? A Management Guide for Selecting the Right Improvement Tools; and has written over 40 journal articles. He holds a BSME, MSME, MBA, PE, and CMRP.

Kimo Oberloh

Kimo is the Subject Matter Expert for Lean Manufacturing. He assists clients in achieving their potential through identification and elimination of wastes that are found within the process. Kimo helps his clients identify and deploy corporate targets and objectives throughout the company, utilizing lean manufacturing methodologies to achieve those goals. Kimo's training and experience in inventory management and materials handling make him an excellent facilitator for the Life Cycle Institute's Materials Management class. He is Prosci-certified in change management and has led companies such as Boeing, Delphi and Mercedes Benz through successful implementation of lean manufacturing methodologies. Kimo attended Cal Poly Pomona, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

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.
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Bobby Rivenbark, CMRP, CPMM

Bobby Rivenbark has over 40 years experience in maintenance planning and scheduling and reliability. 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 also implemented the planning and scheduling process for the North American sites of Celanese Chemicals, a process later implemented on a global level. Bobby, who is a Prosci-certified change management professional, has been conducting educational seminars on reliability and maintenance planning and scheduling strategies for over 20 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.
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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, a Bachelors of Science in Human Resources, and is Prosci-certified in change management. 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.

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