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CONSULTING STAFF
Preston Ingalls |
Billie Hester | Robert Autry
Enrique Mora |
Sam Badir |
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 Mr. Ingalls is the President/CEO for TBR Strategies LLC, a Raleigh-based maintenance and reliability consulting firm. With over thirty-seven years experience as a maintenance and reliability consultant he has analyzed, designed and implemented numerous organizational improvement projects and change efforts for companies such as Shell, Unilever, Lockheed Martin, Mobil Chemical, Skanska, Bayer, Monsanto, Roche, Pillsbury, Corning, Occidental Petroleum and Texas Instruments. In the last ten years he has worked exclusively with construction companies and oil and gas producers.
In 2003 and 2004, he led maintenance improvement (Total Process Reliability) efforts across seven countries for Royal Dutch Shell. During his career, he held the positions of millwright, maintenance engineer, manufacturing engineer, engineering manager, director of training, internal change agent and human resources manager. Early in his career he led several maintenance departments by serving as maintenance engineer, maintenance supervisor, and maintenance manager.
In addition to implementing Total Process Reliability (TPR) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and in over 270 operations across 26 countries, he has conducted over 160 public seminars and 420 in-house seminars as well as numerous training courses for senior executives, managers, supervisors, and hourly personnel in locations ranging from Europe to Asia to the Middle East. He has published over thirty plus articles and is a contributing editor to six trade publications.
Mr. Ingalls is a certified facilitator/instructor for Balanced Scorecard Strategic Planning and has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Virginia and North Carolina State University. He has presented at over twenty conferences, and has authored numerous training manuals in the field of maintenance and reliability.
Mr. Ingalls has led the improvement efforts at several organizations that would and have gone on to win the North American Maintenance Excellence (NAME) Award in 2002 and 2004, and one that won the construction industry’s Fleet Masters Award for fleet maintenance excellence in 2004 and 2009.
Mr. Ingalls holds an AAS degree in Manufacturing Engineering, a BS degree in Engineering Operations, and a MS degree in Organizational Development. He is a member of the Association for Equipment Management Professionals, Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals, the International Association for Drilling Contractors and the Association of Energy Service Companies.
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Billie Hester - TPR Consultant for TBR Strategies.
Having served in positions ranging from equipment operator to Chief Operating Officer, Billie Hester has a wide-range of experience - ‘walking in the
other person’s shoes’. He has the insight and background to help organizations shorten their learning cycle while on the path to improving
operational efficiencies.
With over sixteen years experience in operations, quality, and maintenance, Billie has developed diverse continuous improvement facilitation skills. During
his tenure at a high volume pharmaceutical plant, he progressed through practically the entire value steam of the organization. His background includes an in-depth
experience in manufacturing, maintenance, projects, and quality assurance. This cross-functional knowledge base has given Billie the ability to comprehend the
big picture. Also, it has provided him a broad range of tools and techniques essential to influencing the systems required to support overall organizational
success.
For the last nine years, Billie has been completely focused on continuous improvement. During that time he has facilitated the implementation of
turn-key processes as well as developed numerous custom systems to include Teaming, Autonomous Maintenance, CMMS Administration, Asset Management, Training,
Scheduling, Process Mapping, 5S, SMED, and other LEAN tools. He has led and been involved in the facilitation of over 50 TPM & Lean Kaizen Blitz
events. Billie was also responsible for developing numerous continuous improvement advocates and champions.
While serving as an internal change agent within one of the world’s leading healthcare conglomerates, Billie assisted in the start-ups of several
facilities in their continuous improvement journey. These start-ups ranged from discrete and process operations to delicate nuclear medical producing
facilities.
He has formal training in Total Productive Manufacturing and received his LEAN Certification through the University of Kentucky. Billie also has worked
with and aided in the application of other continuous improvement tools to include Six Sigma, Kepner Tregoe, and QA7 Auditing.
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Robert C. Autry, Jr. - Consultant & Senior Business Analyst
As both a
consultant and business analyst for TBR
Strategies, Robert brings a broad range
of experiences
in the
technical and operational arenas. Robert
is skilled in root cause analysis, problem
solving, and implementing best practices
to improve overall process efficiency. As
operations manager, he manages all office
support practices and supervises support
personnel in their duties.
Robert’s technical experience includes roles as a field operations specialist in network operations and industrial engineering, network manager for a telecommunications company, and crew leader for a radar tracking simulator for the United States Air Force. While working with Central Office Engineered Service Measures (COESM) at BellSouth, Robert managed time study databases and time and motion study templates. He was a member of the COESM implementation team, Change Control Board, and multiple process improvement teams, and performed field operational reviews to locate new best practices and identify and correct business rule deviations and work habit inefficiencies.
Robert is experienced in leading and managing teams and is accomplished at training subordinates, peers, and superiors. He brings strong skills in project management, budget control, project implementation, and cross-functional team environments. As a manager of maintenance and operations for BellSouth, Robert led and trained technicians through the operational change process to implement both performance and process improvement systems.
He has designed and implemented several software tools, including applications for help desk, quality assurance, and financial and personnel management functions. Robert holds a pending patent for a Central Office Wire Spool Mount developed to improve worker safety.
Robert is Management System and Operating Control (MSOC) trained and holds a Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He has completed extensive training in team facilitation, industrial engineering practices, TPR coordination, 5S implementation, training and instructing, and change agent practices.
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Enrique Mora - Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant Enrique Mora brings more than 30 years experience
analyzing, designing, and implementing numerous improvement projects and
transitions into World Class Manufacturing Systems. Enrique is a certified Lean
Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Reliability Consultant whose clients have
included Ford Motor Company Mexico, Unilever, NASSCO, Herbalife, Sundance
Jacuzzi, Baxter, FANALCA-Colombia, Monsanto, Wrigley's, Du-Pont-DAK Americas,
Barrick Gold Peru, Dynasol Petrochemicals-Altamira Mexico, Hoffman-Steelcase,
Metaldyne, and Petrocel Temex.
In addition to implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in over 100
operations, Enrique serves as a technical advisor for Lean Manufacturing
implementation and sustainability, workflow improvement, set-up time reduction,
and other world-class improvement efforts. He has implemented process
improvement (Lean Manufacturing), including TPM efforts, across nine countries
for multiple manufacturers in a wide variety of industries.
During his career, Enrique has held the positions of maintenance engineer,
plant engineering manager, and senior consultant. As a professional trainer, he
has conducted over 100 bilingual (English-Spanish) public seminars and several
hundred in-house seminars, as well as numerous training courses for senior
executives, managers, supervisors, and hourly personnel in America, Mexico,
Central and South America, and Africa. Over forty of his articles are published
in maintenance and manufacturing magazines and he has authored numerous training
manuals in the field of maintenance and reliability. Enrique is a certified
facilitator/instructor for Lean Manufacturing strategies and Impact-Training. He
also founded and maintains six industry websites: TPMonline.com,
PapaKaizen.com, LeanExpertise.com,
EventoKaizen.com, ManagementThroughLeadership.com,
and CMMSWorld.com.
Enrique studied Mechanical Engineering at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional
of México. He continued his education with several professional development
courses at various universities and institutes. From 2003 to 2008 he served as a
Senior Consultant for California Manufacturing Technology. Currently, Enrique is
Membership Chair for the San Diego chapter of the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers.
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Sam
Badir - Senior Consultant
Mr. Badir is an engineer with over 30 years of experience in maintenance technology, industrial engineering, and operations research.
In the last ten years, Sam has worked around the world with numerous organizations, including the metal processing industry, packaging, pharmaceuticals, construction, battery manufacturing, and oil exploration and production, assisting them in their maintenance and Total Reliability improvements.
Sam has worked in the steel and aluminum industries in the US and Canada holding such positions as operations manager, maintenance superintendent, TPM project leader, production control manager and operation research analyst. As Maintenance Superintendent, his key responsibility was in the areas of maintenance planning & scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance. He has also managed several fleets in his career.
While working as a TPM project leader and maintenance superintendent at a major Canadian steel organization, Mr. Badir developed and improved the maintenance planning function, managed the implementation of Total Process Reliability, initiated and participated in small group improvement teams and continuous improvement and leadership programs. In addition, he conducted studies and implemented solutions in areas such as cost reduction and productivity improvement. He participated in union contract negotiations and was a member of joint management and union committee.
Recently, Sam was responsible for implementing maintenance improvement efforts at two major oil and gas companies in countries in middle and Far East. He was also responsible for managing the implementation of a multi-million dollar Equipment Reliability improvement project in the Middle East, in addition to the full implementation of a planning and scheduling system in the Far East. In addition, Sam has worked with the top two beverage companies in the US, implementing improvement initiatives in some of their overseas operations in Singapore and the Middle East.
Mr. Badir holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering and a Master of Applied Science in Operation Research from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
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