Office for Continuous Improvement /
Alabama Technology Network

Greg Harris, Ph.D., P.E., Director
Greg is the Director of the Office of Process Improvement and Office for Freight, Logistics, and Transportation. He specializes lean manufacturing, industrial engineering and operations/plant management. Greg has more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing as an industrial engineer, quality engineer, operations manager and plant manager at Lindy Industries, SGS Consulting Engineers, Abanda, United Technologies, Federal Reserve Bank, Convex Computer Corporation and Texas Instruments. He is a certified NIST Lean Manufacturing Trainer and Professional Business Advisor. Greg has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, an M.B.A. from St. Edwards University and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at UAH. He is a registered Professional Engineer.
(256) 824-6060

Doug Craig 
Doug specializes in international quality management systems, ISO 9000 and TS 16949. He has over 20 years of experience in the area of quality assurance systems, implementation, maintenance and disciplines of recognized industry standards in the commercial sector. He has assisted over 25 automotive and non-automotive facilities to successfully achieve ISO 9000 and/or TS-16949 registration. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University with a degree in Education/History. Doug has successfully completed the RAB Certified ISO-9000:2000 and the ISO/TS-16949:2002 Lead Auditor Training Course. He is active in training, auditing, implementation, transitioning and registration.
(256) 824-2743

Anthony Holden 
Anthony is a Lean Enterprise Specialist and certified trainer by both the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative.  He has co-facilitated over 100 Lean implementation events with companies in various industries while at UAHuntsville and has extensive experience with change management working with seaports, automotive suppliers, and DoD contractors.  In addition to Lean implementation, Anthony currently performs Practical Energy assessments/training and provides technical support to ADECA’s Biomass program.  He has a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a M.S.E. in Engineering Management.
(256) 824-6289 

Nicholas Loyd
Nic is a certified trainer by both the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative and has trained thousands of executives, managers, engineers, and operators from several states and countries in the principles of Lean Enterprise. He has facilitated over 100 Lean implementation events with companies in various industries and specializes in the areas of value stream mapping and the application of Lean in office processes. Nic also has extensive involvement in the implementation and development of training for Lean principles in port operations. Nic is actively involved as an instructor in both the Industrial and Systems Engineering department and the College of Business Administration at UAH integrating Lean principles into curriculum.  He has a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, a M.S.E. in Engineering Management and is also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Nic authored chapters in the 2007 published book Lean Management: Concepts and Industry Perspectives and the 2008 published book Lean Six Sigma: An Introduction. 
(256) 824-3025

Maruf Rahman, Ph.D.
Maruf conducts research and consulting in lean enterprise, lean manufacturing, and six sigma methodologies. He has facilitated over 500 Lean Implementation projects (Kaizen events) and conducted numerous value stream analyses with various industries throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia. His client list includes Mitsubishi, Coilplus, Boeing, Sonoco and several Fortune 500 companies. He has trained hundreds of field engineers and lean practitioners in Lean manufacturing principles. Since 1998 he has trained approximately 5000 practicing engineers, managers and other employees of different organizations in Lean manufacturing.  He has mentored numerous black belts and black belt candidates to complete their black belt projects in addition to numerous green belt certifications.
Dr. Rahman has twenty four years of experience working in Industry and Academia. He received his Lean Implementation (Kaizen) training from Shingijutsu Consultants, Kaizen Institutes’ Masaki Imai and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He completed training for his Six Sigma Master Black Belt from the Air Academy Associates. He was the president of Rapid Manufacturing Improvements (RMI), Inc. and currently he is also president of an automotive supplier SAR, Inc. in North Alabama. He has served as a faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Alabama A&M University. He is a member of American Production and Inventory Control Society, the Institute of Industrial Engineering, and American Society of Quality. He has a B.S. Chemical Engineering, an M. Eng. Industrial Engineering and Management, an M.S. Engineering Management, and a Ph.D. Manufacturing Systems Engineering.
(256) 824-2667

George Rittenhouse
George is a Lean Manufacturing Specialist and has been involved in over 100 week-long Kaizen events throughout the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. He has over 30 years of industrial, DOD contracting, and teaching experience. His specialty is setup reduction, equipment modification, and flow improvement. The elimination of root causes of waste in his clients has produced productivity increases of 30% - 50%, cost savings of millions of dollars and reduced work in process by as much as 90%. During an event there is direct interface with both supervision and hourly employees to produce the desired results.
(256) 824-6240

Jeff Siniard
Jeff is a Lean Enterprise Specialist with over 28 years experience in manufacturing. He has conducted over 200 Kaizen events to improve business processes for manufacturers and service providers.. He has trained hundreds of executives, managers, engineers and operators in Lean Enterprise principles throughout the United States, Canada and Western Europe. Jeff has extensive expertise in implementing and developing training for the application of Lean principles in both office processes and port operations. Jeff has ten years experience in the field of Lean Enterprise, five years of experience as a plant manager, eight years of experience as a plant superintendent and four years of experience as a maintenance superintendent. Jeff is a certified NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Lean Manufacturing Trainer and a MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) certified Lean Aerospace instructor. Jeff has B.B.A. in Management of Technology from Athens State University.
(256) 824-6202

Jennifer East
Jennifer works with the Alabama Technology Network at the University of Alabama in Huntsville supporting lean enterprise training for Alabama businesses. Jennifer serves as the Marketing Manager for UAH’s Center for Management and Economic Research. She is also an instructor for UAH’s College of Business Administration where she teaches Principles of Marketing, Services Marketing, and Personal Selling.  Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from The University of Alabama with a B.S. in Commerce & Business Administration and earned a M.B.A. from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. 
(256) 824-4424

 Allison Mote
Allison has been with UAH for six years and is the business manager for the Alabama Automotive Manufacturing Association (AAMA). She handles all aspects of the association from membership services, meetings and conferences, to accounts payable and receiveable. Allison received her bachelor's degree in finance from UAH.
(256) 824-2792

Center for Management and Economic Research / Office for Supply Chain

Dr. Killingsworth has 25 years of experience in management and operations consulting. He founded Killingsworth Associates, a management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His firm conducted consulting assignments across the United States, as well as in Europe and Africa, specializing in strategic planning, supplies chain design, continuous improvement processes, feasibility studies, budgeting and capitalization.
Dr. Killingsworth attended MIT for graduate school and was a National Science Foundation Fellow.  At MIT, he received the S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics specializing in optimization and control theory.  He was elected to Sigma Xi, the research honor society. His Ph.D., also from MIT, was in a joint program of the School of Engineering and the Sloan School of Management. Dr. Killingsworth received the B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with highest honor from Auburn University.
(256) 824-4434

Office for Freight, Logistics and Transportation

Director, Greg Harris (See Office for Continuous Improvement)
 

Lauren Jennings
Lauren is a Research Scientist in the Office for Freight, Logistics, and Transportation at UAHuntsville. She has five years of experience in transportation and logistics related research. Lauren earned an M.S. in Management of Technology from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2007 and a B.S. in Marketing from Auburn University in 2001. 
(256) 824-6652

Office for Strategic Management Service