Expert Details
GHG emissions reduction for rail and trucking industry
ID: 738690
Nebraska, USA
Transformational change leader with significant and diverse experience supporting both legacy and development programs, plus statistical and technical organizations including Engineering, Safety, Operations, Program Management and Quality employees. Strong communicator with experience partnering with senior executives and managing employees in multiple locations to drive change through quality and cycle time improvements. Critical thinker and agile leader with proven ability who has already delivered cost savings over a billion dollars in value. Expert is a driving force for large scale cost savings and employee safety improvement through the application of statistical analysis and creative problem solving. An innovator who leverages cutting edge technology and training to achieve aggressive business stretch goals in quality, safety, reliability and cost productivity.
Accomplishments:
• Deployed a 50-foot subsonic open loop wind tunnel to enhance efficient aerodynamic designs for rail cars, intermodal shipping containers and locomotives.
• Formed a fuel conservation group and incentive program attributed with saving over a billion dollars in fuel expense and reducing the fuel consumption rate over 12%.
• Launched a TSC (Total Safety Culture) program for over 15,000 Transportation employees.
• Integrated advanced analytics to develop and implement an Employee Risk Assessment program attributed with significantly lowering critical safety events through safety interventions.
• Implemented a Six Sigma quality program with over 40 million dollars in documented savings.
• Decades of driving successful cost reduction initiatives in the areas of fuel efficiency, safety and statistical problem solving.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2008 | Degree: MBA | Subject: Quantitative Analysis | Institution: University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| Year: 1993 | Degree: BS | Subject: Mechanical Engineering | Institution: Brigham Young University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2018 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Engineering and Quality Consultant | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:• Technical expertise working with Class I/II railroads and rail vendors to significantly decrease GHG emissions• Statistical analysis working with multiple technology vendors in the fuel management / conservation space • Aerodynamic knowledge driving reduced drag in the transportation sector, rail, and trucking • Strategic capability towards successful reduction of GHG emissions in the transportation sector |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2018 | Employer: Union Pacific Railroad | Title: General Director Fuel Conservation | Department: |
Responsibilities:• Shaped, deployed, and managed Union Pacific Railroad’s fuel conservation strategy.• Executed a data mining analytics model to support UP’s employee safety programs. • Deployed a fuel conservation department responsible for reducing the business fuel consumption rate over 12%, saving hundreds of millions of dollars in annual diesel fuel expense. • Developed new technology applications and training programs / incentive systems to support an overall strategic vision for long term consistent fuel efficiency gains. • Responsible for helping develop new heuristic bridge sensing and composite rail tie technology • Attracted a state-of-the-art 50-foot subsonic open loop wind tunnel to perform dedicated aerodynamic research to save hundreds of millions in fuel expense. • Introduced an industry first mobile top of rail friction modifier platform for bulk train service. • Viewed as the industry leader and subject matter expert for railroad fuel efficiency and initiated the North American Fuel Conservation (NAFC) annual railroad conference in 2007, which continues to the present time. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2001 to 2006 | Employer: Union Pacific Railroad | Title: Director Six Sigma | Department: |
Responsibilities:• Led the business strategy for quality deployment across all functional departments.• Developed detailed curriculum and led the training of a formal Six Sigma quality program within the employee management ranks of Union Pacific. • Mentored over 100 projects to successful completion saving $40 million in business expense. • Projects focused on optimizing back office processes and the reduction of NVA activities. • Managed departmental subject matter experts in the application of statistical problem solving. • Led the transition from Six Sigma deployment to Lean process improvement. • Brought Franklin Covey The 7 Habits training to thousands of UP employees. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1995 to 2001 | Employer: General Electric Co | Title: Design Engineering Manager / Six Sigma Master Black Belt | Department: |
Responsibilities:• Trained hundreds of engineering employees in the statistical tools of Six Sigma quality.• Mentored dozens of projects to successful completion and served as an “At the Customer for the Customer” Master Black Belt for UP tasked with developing an internal quality training program. • Managed a Center of Excellence (CoE) for locomotive platform design and manufacture. • Taught Franklin Covey The 7 Habits course to 200 design engineers to improve work life balance. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1993 to 1995 | Employer: Intermountain Design Inc | Title: Design Engineer – Finite Element Analysis | Department: |
Responsibilities:• Managed all FEA work on multiple people mover transit system projects.• Awarded First Prize for ingenuity in model development from FEA software vendor. • Integrated a cross functional team to develop the Aerobus 5th generation people mover transit system. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
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| Years: to Present | Agency: Canadian Air Force | Role: Senior Drill Instructor | Description: |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Member of BYU’s Mechanical Engineering Advancement Council (MEAC) |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| American Society for Quality (ASQ) o Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) o Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) o Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Certified Trainer Franklin Covey The 7 Habits Curriculum |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| AAR John H. Chafee Environmental Excellence Award |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| 5 patents |