2013 APICS Board of Directors

Robert D. Boyle,
CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP, CPA
Chair of the Board

Jason E. Wheeler,
CPIM, CSCP
Chair-Elect

Wheeler has more than more than 16 years of professional experience and is currently serving as process improvement engineer for Roche Diagnostics. His experience includes 13 years project leadership, 13 years as a functional group trainer, 6 years in inventory analysis, 6 years SAP, and 5 years as a production supervisor. Wheeler’s prior roles have included buyer/planner and rotational development associate for Roche Diagnostics, and 8 years working for Red Gold LLC as a master planner, production scheduler, inventory analyst, production supervisor, and production foreman. He has been an APICS member since 2002 and has served on the APICS Board of Directors since 2011.

Dana C. Riess,
CPIM, CPA, CFM, CMA
Secretary-Treasurer

Luis Barcón,
CPIM, CIRM, CSCP

Barcón is the founder of the APICS Chapter in Guadalajara. He has served as a district manager for APICS Terra Grande, Body of Knowledge Chair, and as an APICS vice president for Region VI, the Membership and Chapter Development, the Chapter Development Committee, and as VP of education. Barcon has a master’s degree in business administration from Universidad de Las Américas Puebla and Stanford University, and in industrial and systems engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana.

Tim Becker

Becker is founder and owner of Probity Business Group – a management consulting company. His professional experience includes more than 24 years of consulting, sales, operations management, and program management experience. Prior to founding Probity, Becker served for 8 years as a nuclear submarine officer in the US Navy, for 3 years as a manager at A. T. Kearney, and for 7 years as a partner at Accenture.  His practice areas include strategic/business planning, technology strategy, operations improvement, and marketing and sales.

William E. Bickert

Bickert serves as deputy commander, NAVSUP Global Logistics support – a Naval Supply Systems Command senior executive service position. He has extensive experience in both commercial and military supply chain management as a retired US Navy Supply Corps captain with 24 years of active service, and as a corporate supply chain executive for 7 years. Bickert has served as executive assistant to the Director of Defense Logistics Agency, as commanding officer of NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego, as director of material planning and procurement for COMPAQ Computer Corporation, and as vice president and division manager at CACI, responsible for field service support of Navy and Marine Corps activities in the Pacific.

Norman L. Carmichael,
CPIM, CSCP

Carmichael currently holds a position as a manufacturing practice director. He has 25 years of experience including global services senior consultant at IBM, director of materials at Copper Mountain Networks, director of operations at American Technology Corporation, director of supply chain at Continuous Computing Corporation, and vice president of operations both at American Technology Corporation and CarrierComm. In his time as a volunteer at APICS, Carmichael has served as chapter vice president (VP) of membership, chapter president, and VP of education.

Bintong Chen,
PhD

Chen is associate dean for research and professor of business administration at Lerner College for Business and Economics, University of Delaware. He has taught operations management/research related classes at undergraduate, MBA, and PhD levels, and his research interests include optimization techniques and applied business modeling. Chen is currently a senior editor for Production and Operations Management. His past experience includes consulting projects for JPMorgan Chase, Delaware Department of Transportation, Nordstrom, Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, Key Bank, Northwest Dairy Farm, Burlington Northern Rail, AT&T.

Sonia Daviaud

Daviaud serves as founder and managing director of Decision Value, a supply chain optimization consulting firm, and has more than 15 years of professional consulting experience. Prior to Decision Value, Daviaud acted as senior executive in large consulting companies Accenture and BearingPoint. Her professional experience includes a wide range of consulting assignments covering internal and external supply chain strategies, collaborative and advanced planning solutions selection, demand and supply management processes efficiency studies, supply chain operation improvement programs, inventory reduction methods, logistics network strategies and outsourcing studies, and lean production systems design and implementation.

Alan G. Dunn,
CPIM

Dunn serves as president of GDI Consulting and Training Company and is the founding sponsor of the Manufacturing Executive Institute. Prior to founding GDI, Dunn was vice president of Gemini Management Consulting and a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In addition to his 30 years of technical and management consulting experience, Dunn has extensive experience with manufacturing environments and has participated in more than 200 manufacturing and distribution consulting projects inside more than 150 companies. Dunn has served as president of the APICS Orange County Chapter, chairman of the 1989 APICS International Conference & Expo, and chairman of the APICS Education Strategy Committee. He is a current APICS body of knowledge council member.

Paul D. Howatt

Howatt has spent the last 23 years at McCain Foods Limited, 19 years of which have been in the global information technology (IT) division. His areas of responsibility have been manufacturing, inventory management, maintenance management, and financials. Howatt designed, developed and implemented system solutions, and was involved in global system and process consolidation. He is currently involved as an IT finance lead for global SAP implementation.

Diego G. Ibarra

Ibarra has more than 15 years of experience at SC Johnson where he is currently supply chain director at the Buenos Aires Shared Service Center, where he is responsible for purchasing, supply and demand planning, customer service, and import and export. Prior to this position, he served as platform supply chain and sales and operations planning manager, regional supply chain and sourcing manager, supply chain lead, and planning manager. Ibarra was president of the Council of Logistics Management from 2002–2003 and program director for IEEC Logistics Business School for APICS-PALMS from 1996–2007. 

Vadim G. Kapustin

Kapustin has professional experience as director of international strategy for Walmart, and as a principal at A.T. Kearney. He has helped dozens of Fortune 500 and international clients in the areas of supply chain strategy and operational improvements, including manufacturing strategy and cost reduction, warehousing and distribution, strategic sourcing, business turnarounds, and new market entry strategies. Vadim cofounded and managed Ramita and Naytov in Uzbekistan, and founded the nonprofit Russian Digital Alliance in the US.

Gerald L. Kilty,
CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP

Kilty has more than 45 years of industry experience and is the current president and founder of Quality Management Solutions (QMS), where he is responsible for both the financial and physical elements of inventory. His experience includes being owner and manager of QMS for 20 years, working at Westinghouse Electric Corporation for 25 years, and 4 years of production line experience in GM factories. Kilty loves to teach and he spent 18 years as an APICS instructor. He holds a master instructor designation for APICS CPIM, CSCP, and Lean.

Merri L. Rich,
CPIM

Rich has worked in the manufacturing industry for more than 31 years, holding positions such as planning manager, materials manager, and operations manager. She holds an APICS CPIM and has served at her local APICS Chapter on the Board of Directors for more than 12 years. Rich is currently the district director for the APICS Pacific Western District. 

Colin M. Seftel,
CFPIM, CSCP

Seftel has more than 38 years of industry experience and served as director of South African International Associate, SAPICS. His experience includes more than 20 years experience with Petrel Engineering where he served as operations manager, quality assurance manager, materials manager, and information technology manager. Seftel has extensive experience as a consultant in the areas of MRP, scheduling, procurement, and quality management, has trained more than 500 students in supply chain and operations management and is recognized as a Lead Instructor for CPIM.

Tammy Williams,
CPIM, CIRM, CSCP

Williams has worked in the quality assurance and materials management fields and is currently employed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as an operations supervisor in procure to pay in supply chain and previously as a radiology supply management coordinator. She has a BS in biological sciences from Michigan Technological University; she has also attained the APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), Certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM), and Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) certifications.