The Leadership Connection™

ason Hartman is currently a Regional Manufacturing Technology Engineer supporting Cargill’s North American chocolate business.  He earned his Chemical Engineering degree from Kansas State University and started working for Cargill directly after graduation.  He is grateful to have built his career entirely within Cargill by leading teams in a diverse number of plant operations roles including production management, project management, facility leadership, maintenance management, reliability leadership, and manufacturing engineering.  During his career, Jason has worked in 4 different businesses within Cargill across 6 different sites in 3 different states.  Jason enjoys coaching youth soccer to complement his leadership skills.  His coaching experience includes over 14 years developing boys and girls from 6-19 years old on competitive soccer teams.

Bill has spent over 20 years in varius Engineering, Reliability and Mainteance roles. His work interests include Preventive Maintenance Optimization, Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS). Bill Barto has spent over 20 years in various Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance roles for companies like Walt Disney World and Frito Lay. He also spent five years supporting multiple companies as a Reliability Engineering SME with the consulting company Life Cycle Engineering.

David specializes in developing and updating the reliability maintenance program for the $12B+ assets across the complex  as a Branch Manager at National Aerospace Solutions. The AHA branch performs reliability engineering, item management and data analysis; metric development and trending; and reliability modeling for assets ranging from 82K hp motors to 50K gpm pumps to the 161kv electrical distribution system for the base. David is a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) and has 37 years’ experience at AEDC in maintenance and reliability.

Randy Reid is a Maintenance Manager/Reliability Engineer with 35 years’ experience in various maintenance roles. Randy specializes in maintenance organization, training and reliability.  Randy holds a degree in Industrial Electronics and Electricity, CMRP certification and was past Conference Chair of 2017 SMRP conference and Board Member of Majestic Outdoors. Presently working at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama the last 19 years with numerous roles with prior experience in the steel industry and foundry’s. He believes in doing the job the right way the first time and equipping maintenance with the knowledge to understand the equipment or processes.

Marc specializes in the oversight and management of field operations, managing budgets and schedules on both renovations and new construction on public school projects. His broad background and experience across the different trades has provided him with the knowledge and understanding of all the trade interactions and needs, which proves valuable for prioritizing and scheduling work as the Sr. Field Leader at CAMPUS Construction Management Group, Inc. His roles and assignments at Kodak over the next nearly 30 years included everything from mechanic to manager, and it gave him a broad knowledge of all trades and practices.

Matthew has spent over 33 years of manufacturing experience in areas of maintenance, operations, engineering and technical services and is currently the Senior Manager of Maintenance and Reliability Services at The Mosaic Company. Matthew has over 33 years of manufacturing experience in areas of maintenance, operations, engineering, and technical services. No matter the industry he dedicated to the pragmatic application of both practical and theoretical reliability concepts to generate maximum value to the organization.

Shon specializes in Adult Learning, Leadership, Asset Management and Reliability Engineering and has lead improvement initiatives for industries such as pharmaceuticals, metals, petrochemical, automotive, paper, and power generation, among others and is currently a Partner at Eruditio, LLC. Shon is a Plant Engineering Future 30 honoree and a USA Science and Engineering Festival Nifty 50 Speaker as well as being the recipient of the Solutions Magazine Best Article Award.

George has spent his career working in the food and beverage industry and is currently the Global Asset Management & Ops Readiness Manager at Facebook. George is a reliability leader who discovered his passion in this realm when he wanted to discover a better way to improve overall operations as a young production supervisor. George loves working with people and leading strategic change.

Tim Goshert has extensive experience in plant operations management, project engineering, construction management, and maintenance & reliability management. In 2019, Tim formed TLG Consulting LLC to work on continued projects with customers. He concentrates on Asset Management & Reliability improvement strategy development, implementation planning and training activities.