OPEX SOLUTIONS - Key Persons
Gary Johnson is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional. Some of his main areas of expertise are maximizing asset utilization, reliability, asset tracking, cost reduction and planning and scheduling. He developed a system for real-time asset utilization monitoring for Alcoa where he served Alcoa for 34 years in various capacities.
J. Bennett Foster is a Certified Analytics Professional (INFORMS) and Industrial Engineer with over 40 years of experience across multiple industries.
APICS has certified him as a supply chain professional (CSCP and CPIM). He has significantly improved system design on new manufacturing and material handling systems costing billions of dollars.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Adjunct Instructor for University of Houston
Jesús Valdez has over 38 years of experience in the chemical industry and manufacturing sites. He has been responsible for the implementation and sustainability of the DuPont Production System (DPS) at DuPont's manufacturing sites across many business segments.
Jesús Valdez has over 38 years of experience in the chemical industry and manufacturing sites. For the last 7+ years, he has been responsible for the implementation and sustainability of the DuPont Production System (DPS) at DuPont's manufacturing sites across many business segments. DPS is a focused continuous improvement process that incorporates Lean Six Sigma, Industry Best Practices, and Change Management using systems thinking approach.
He has also held various other roles throughout his DuPont career with a focus on operations and technology management, mechanical engineering, maintenance reliability, process safety management, capital improvement project management, and developing others.
Jesús has served as an Adjunct Instructor for University of Houston at Victoria teaching an undergraduate business statistics course for business majors.
He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and Master of Business Administration from University of Houston at Victoria. Jesús Valdez is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
John P. Gay has been Supervising Master Black Belt and Global Best Practices Leader for Focused Improvement for DuPont, delivering over $1M per person every year in hard, validated savings in addition to $2M + in soft savings until his retirement.
Ken McClymonds P.E., Principal Consultant OpEx Solutions, A registered Professional Industrial Engineer and Six Sigma Master Black Belt with over 40 years of professional experience and 19 years at VP level, leading process improvement systems resulting in significant and sustainable bottom line results.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- President
- Founder and President of OpEx Solutions, Inc.
Martin Nazareth is the founder and president of OpEx Solutions, Inc. (OSI) - an organization with two divisions, Global OpEx Solutions and the CenTex OpEx Consortium, helping organizations find and define their own way to operational excellence. Since its inception, OSI has successfully assisted clients from Fortune 100 companies to startups in their pursuit of operational excellence through strategy, simplicity and execution.
Prior to OpEx Solutions, he was a senior manager for Lean and TPM deployment at Alcoa. He led program quality for all North American programs at Delphi Thermal & Interior. Before Delphi, he consulted through EDS, Tata Consulting Services, and independently. Nazareth successfully led change through four corporate- and division- wide initiatives including Lean, TPM, FMEA/PCP and error-proofing at two Fortune 100 companies.
Nazareth is a global expert in operational excellence involving the strategic application of lean manufacturing (Lean), total productive maintenance (TPM), quality, and industrial engineering (IE).
He has led strategic coaching, consulting, training and execution at over 100 plants in the USA, Canada, Australia, India, Latin America and Europe. His background spans several industries, including automotive, metals and mining, oil and gas, ship building, electrical systems, information systems, and healthcare. He has two masters' degrees in industrial engineering and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), Scrum Master Certified (SMC™), a Six Sigma Green Belt, and a Certified Everything DiSC Workplace® Facilitator.
Martin Nazareth served on the board of AME's Southwest Region and is a Director of the Institute of Industrial Engineering's (IIE) Lean Division and Industry Advisory Board. With over thirty years of professional experience, Nazareth is well recognized for his passion for excellence and strategic execution, flawless new product launches, successful implementation of initiatives and achieving bottom-line results.
Rex Draman spent more than fifteen years working in operations management, holding both line and staff positions in a variety of industries before earning his Ph. D. in Operations and Strategic Management from the University of Georgia in 1995.
Rich Deegan has over 25 years' process industry experience leading and improving global supply chains including specialty chemicals, fluoropolymer resins, coatings, and films meeting stringent pharmaceutical, food, semiconductor, and Tier I & II auto industry standards.
Rudy Villarreal has extensive experience in health management. His area of expertise is contract management specifically the management of Medicaid and CHIP health maintenance organization contracts. Villarreal was considered subject matter expert for managed care. He developed processes, designed and developed training material and provided training for hundreds of health & human services employees.
Job Titles:
- Environmental Specialist
- Program Manager
- Team Leader
- Vice President of Programs and Administration
Sarita Nazareth is a result-oriented program manager, team leader, environmental specialist, and statistician, with more than 20 years of professional experience and two graduate degrees in environmental science and public policy.
Vivian Sullivan is an experienced strategic and tactical marketing and operations professional known for her work in both domestic and international markets. Recognized for embracing and quickly understanding rapidly evolving markets and technologies, she is able to listen to customers' input and aid them in assessing their needs and finding effective training solutions.