John Wuichet, Army Installation Management Agency, Southeast Region. John Wuichet provides contract support to the Southeast Region Office of the US Army Installation Management Agency, where for three years he has served as Regional Sustainability Planner for 12 Army installations in 8 southeastern states, which includes regional program management for pollution prevention, solid waste, recycling, hazardous materials, compliance tracking, LEED/green buildings, and the integration of Army sustainability planning, master planning, and strategic planning programs and processes. Previously he served for 10 years as a policy analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment, where he led Army-wide initiatives in forestry, ecosystem management, resource conservation, and science education. John lives in a sustainability-oriented community that includes a 5-acre certified organic farm. He earned his BA in philosophy from Oglethorpe University, and his MS in environmental public policy from Georgia Tech.
Todd M. Wieland, Chief Engineer, Remanufacturing Technology Team, Cummins Inc. The team’s mission is to develop technology to increase utilization of "core" for gasoline and diesel engines and components. Todd is Six Sigma trained. He coordinates remanufacturing input to Cummins Inc. Sustainability Report. His prior roles include Structural Analysis Leader at Cummins and Caterpillar, developing innovative ways to increase pressure capability of fuel injection systems. He is a former U.S. Naval Officer in the Naval Sea Systems Command, Reactor Plant Materials Division with engineering responsibility for development of nuclear power plant materials. His education includes PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a Bachelors in Metallurgical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.
Gilvan “Gil” Souza is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in operations management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000, and his MBA from Clemson University in 1995. Gil also graduated on the top of his aeronautical engineering class from Brazil 's top engineering school, ITA in 1990. He worked at Volkswagen of Brazil, first as a product development engineer specialized in chassis design and noise reduction, and then as a product planner. His primary research interests are in supply chain management, including production planning, remanufacturing, reverse logistics, and closed–loop supply chain design. His research has been published in such journals as California Management Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. He regularly works with such companies as HP, Pitney Bowes, and Toshiba, primarily in supply chain design. He is a popular teacher in the MBA program at the Smith School–-he won the Krowe Teaching Award for teaching excellence in the MBA program in 2004––where he teaches operations and supply chain management. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and he is an editorial review board member for Production and Operations Management. He won the Wickham Skinner Early–Career Research Accomplishments award from POMS in 2004.
Anita Mudrock Snader, Marketing Manager, Integrated Programs, Armstrong Ceiling Systems. Anita manages the environmental initiatives for Armstrong Commercial Ceiling Systems. Her experience crosses several areas including Marketing, Marketing Research, and Product and Program development. She has been with Armstrong since 1997. In her current position in Commercial Ceilings Marketing, she focuses on developing integrated programs for the ceiling business. She manages the Armstrong Ceiling Recycling Program, along with targeted programs for the Education and Healthcare segments. She has a great passion for growing Armstrong’s environmental initiatives, and is always looking at opportunities to expand Armstrong’s products and services in this area.
A.B. Short, CEO and Co-Founder, Medshare International. MedShare International provides vital medical supplies and equipment to economically developing countries by recycling unneeded surplus from U.S. manufacturers, distributors and healthcare systems. MedShare recovers and delivers medical goods that are valuable and needed, but which would be discarded due to procedural excess, regulatory requirements or production overage. Shipments go to qualified healthcare facilities in developing countries and are customized by direct product orders from MedShare's stock by the recipient institutions. MedShare offers U.S. healthcare providers and suppliers an environmentally and socially responsible alternative to throwing away medical materials. For the previous seventeen years (1981-1998), AB worked on poverty issues in the Atlanta area as an educator, advocate and service provider, including being marketing director for the Atlanta Community Food Bank, and founding a hospitality ministry, the Community of Hospitality (a non-profit corporation with a focus on homeless issues), Café 458 (a “by reservation only” restaurant for homeless people) and the Oakhurst Recovery Program (a longterm residential alcohol and drug treatment program). AB received the Stone Soup Award from the NASW, the Kleenex Award (with Bob Freeman) from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Bell Award from the Georgia Lawyers Association and the Giraffe Award. He was recognized by Jimmy Carter in his book Living Faith. One of the greatest affirmations has been the opening of several “Café 458’s” around the country. AB is especially proud of the Inspiration Café in Chicago and Café Joshua in Boca Raton, Florida. AB was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He has a Master’s in Sociology from Mississippi College and a Master’s of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Matt Perry, Vice President of Sales and Founder, ENGENT. Prior to the creation of Engent, Matt was part of the Siemens team as a business development manager for nearly three years. His prior work experience has been focused within the electronics industry for the past seven years. His industry experience includes capital equipment sales as well as R&D program management. Matt's previous work experience as the Program Manager for the Center for Board Assembly Research center at the Georgia Institute of Technology has allowed him to understand the demands of new technology and how to efficiently translate them into commercially viable products.
Nabil Nasr is the director of the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies and assistant provost of academic affairs at Rochester Institute of Technology. For more than a decade Nasr has been a leader in the research and development efforts in environmentally conscious manufacturing and remanufacturing. He has developed strong ties to industry through a number of industrial projects and, with the development of NCR3, has worked to address industry needs with resources from industry, government, academia and the results of applied research. Nasr is a renowned presenter on remanufacturing and environmentally conscious manufacturing, has chaired a number of industry-wide conference sessions, and published technical papers on remanufacturing. Nasr’s background is in manufacturing engineering, environmentally conscious manufacturing, and remanufacturing. He is the Earl W. Brinkman Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering. Nasr earned his bachelor’s in production engineering from Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt, his master’s in industrial engineering and operations research from Rutgers University, and a master’s in industrial engineering with a manufacturing engineering option from Pennsylvania State University. He also holds a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from Rutgers.
Leon McGinnis is the founding Director of the Keck Virtual Factory Lab, serves as Associate Director of the Manufacturing Research Center, and holds the Eugene C. Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing Systems. Dr. McGinnis received the BSIE from Auburn University, and the MSIE and PhD from North Carolina State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Georgia. Dr. McGinnis has been a leader in developing and administering industryfocused and interdisciplinary education and research programs at Georgia Tech. He helped establish the Material Handling Research Center in 1982 and managed one of five research programs over the next decade. He also helped establish the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems Program in 1983, which received a LEAD Award from ASME for excellence in graduate-level interdisciplinary manufacturing education, and served as Director from 1988 to 1998. As CIMS Director, he lead a team that competed for and won a $1 million TRP grant, resulting in the establishment of the Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute within the Manufacturing Research Center. Since 1994, he has lead a team of ISyE faculty to win over $2 million in grants to create the Keck Virtual Factory Lab as a focal point for IE systems design and control research.
John Lynch is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Transzip. Lynch's early career was in computer science and he worked for several companies in the power generation industry. In the later 1980s he founded a software application and consulting company, which he later sold to a large multinational corporation. Lynch has a B.A. from SUNY and an MBA from Syracuse University.
Larry King, Product Recycling Solutions, Hewlett Packard. PRS is HP’s award winning electronic hardware recycling organization with facilities in the U.S. and Canada. Larry’s primary responsibility is in the role of strategic planning to assure HP is properly positioned to address the changing end-of-life legislative and market landscapes. He is also tasked with driving costs out of the operation while meeting HP’s stringent environmental standards. Larry’s roles within PRS have included operational responsibility for their Roseville facility, financial controls, recycling technology investigation and new facility development. Prior to joining PRS, Larry had positions within HP’s and FedEx’s finance departments, where he held world-wide support functions. In these positions, Larry was responsible for providing management the tools and analyses necessary to maximize operational efficiencies. Larry has a B.S. in Marketing and an M.B.A.
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