Executive-level positions at Doosan Infracore, General Dynamics and Curtiss-Wright, experience at Harsco Corporation, John Deere, and at privately held Young & Franklin/Tactair Fluid Controls; management consultant to organizations such as Bank of America, Caterpillar, Motorola, Bank of Montreal, Ford Motor Company, Milliken & Company, RJ Reynolds, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); chair of the advisory board for the Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business; Six Sigma Black Belt at North Carolina State University/IES; bachelor of science in engineering operations from Iowa State University and attended Syracuse University (MBA with a concentration in operations management); lives with his family in North Carolina