Consulting

I am a business consultant specialized in supplier development. I help companies achieve efficiency goals and extract additional value from their supply chain. My expertise is in supplier development, suppliers strategic alignment, supplier performance measurement, strategic sourcing, supply base segmentation and optimization, quality operating system audits, production efficiency improvements, total quality, lean six sigma, and statistical process control. I work as a supplier technical assistance resident in Global Purchasing for Ford Motor Company.

Academic

As an adjunct professor, I teach Operations Management (OM), Procurement, and Supply Chain Management (SCM). As an operations and supply chain management subject matter expert, I create, develop, teach and deliver professional development and academic courses. As the principal educational strategist of the Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA), I teach Strategic Supplier Development, Supply Chain Strategy, Strategic Sourcing, SCM, OM, Knowledge Management, SCM for the Public Sector, SC for Project Management, International Business, Ethics, Leadership, and Communications in the Supply Chain Management Professional designation program.

I am a member of the National Accreditation Review Panel at the Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council and I am the Chair of SCMA Instructors Development Education Committee.

Specialties

Supplier Development, Operations, SCM, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Alignment, Quality, Supply Chain Risk Management and Resilience, Corporate and Professional Training Development and Delivery, Corporate Governance, Ethics, Leadership, Cultural Sensitivity, and Communications.

My research interests are focused on the role of supplier development as a source of competitive advantage and on the knowledge propagation in the value chain.

• Global Purchasing – Supplier Technical Assistance Above and Beyond Award, Ford Motor Company, September 2009.
• Global Purchasing – Peer to Peer Recognition Award for Above and Beyond Performance presented by Supplier Technical Assistance Global Vice President, Ford Motor Company, 2009.
• MBA Gold Medal for Academic Excellence at the Graduate Level, Wilfrid Laurier University, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, June 2006.
• Roger Larsen Memorial Award for Academic Achievement, Wilfrid Laurier University, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, June 2005.

• “Developing a Successful Supply Chain Strategy.” SCMA Expert's Corner. February 2014.
• “Great Suppliers Make Supply Chains Great.” SCL InSights. November 2012.
• “Sourcing the Future – What lies ahead for Procurement.” Purchasing Business to Business Magazine. October 2011.
• “Cutting through the Fog.” Materials Management and Distribution (Print Edition). August 2011.
• "Making Supply Chain Design the Rational Differentiating Characteristic of the OEMs." International Journal of Production Research. February 2007.
• "Knowledge Propagation in the Value Chain." Laurier Chair in Enterprise Integration and Technology Management. October 2005.