Meet the HPS Team

"If your commitment is not to simplicity, you are limiting the number of people who can participate ...

 to be world class, you need everyone."

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Scott Smith, President Scott Smith brings over 18 years of experience in Supply Chain Management, Value Stream Mapping and Continuous Improvement Facilitation. Scott helps companies realize the huge potential that exists in reducing waste in any environment. He brings a fresh look at organizations that helps them focus on customer success. He provides companies with the tools and thinking as he applies the ‘coach to competence’ model which helps companies and organizations from all sectors to better understand and improve their processes whether they are on the Manufacturing Floor, in an Office, a Supply Chain or an Administrative setting ... Bob Kerr, Vice President Of Operations   Bob Kerr's career started as a Tool and Die Maker, progressed through supervision and has held most management and engineering management positions through to Vice President of Manufacturing of two leading North American companies. His ‘Lean’ leadership strategies have directly resulted in the cultural changes of Canadian and US companies that enabled them to successfully implement the Pull Systems & Lean Strategies needed to enhance their global competitiveness... Dave Hogg, Director of Consortium Development Dave Hogg brings over 30 years of broad experience in manufacturing, management, education & training, quality and continuous improvement consulting to both private and public sector clients. David’s commitment is to ‘make a difference that matters’ as he focuses on the "people" side of competitiveness where he believes that true security comes from achieving World Class performance that is achieved by harnessing the collective contributions of people.  He specializes in assisting organizations to achieve World Class performance through the implementation of Lean Thinking, Simplicity, Continuous Improvement, Change, and Total Quality Systems... Karm Matharu, Senior Consultant                                                                                              Karm Matharu brings over 20 years of direct manufacturing experience in Maintenance, Toolroom, Quality, Training, Lean, Engineering applications with extensive experience in tier 1 and tier 2 providers.  Karm’s blend of hands-on practical experience and managerial and leadership experience – which focuses on achieving results through people – has equipped staff at all levels and departments while giving him the ability to see and understand the ‘big picture’ to better help his staff and other department achieve success...  Richard Evans, Senior Consultant    Richard Evans has spent the past 40 years helping companies become more effective in delivering quality and value to the production process, whilst focusing on customer success. Having a manufacturing engineering background, Richard teaches companies how to recognize waste, through applied Lean Tools and Techniques. His extended knowledge of various industries, such as Automotive, Aerospace, Railroad, Packaging and Fasteners, enable him to quickly focus in on opportunities for improvement. As an approved Lean Certification trainer for SME, Richard is able to coach teams to increase ‘value added’ content to a maximum... Brett Wills, Senior Green Consultant BRETT WILLS brings over 10 years of experience in the environmental arena and over 7 years of direct manufacturing experience. Brett has first hand experience leading teams in the implementation of LEAN initiatives such as Kanban Systems, Finished Goods Supermarket and 5S. He has also been instrumental in facilitating the development and implementation of many health and safety and environmental initiatives within a manufacturing environment. Brett lives in Toronto and is the author of “Green Intentions: Creating a Green Value Stream to Compete and Win”... Michael Chapman, Senior Consultant Michael Chapman brings more than 20 years of experience and achievement in Operations Management, Industrial Excellence and Continuous Improvement. As an Operations Manager and a Vice-President Operations and Technology he has led a number of factories and engineering groups in the electrical and wire and cable industries. Using Lean and Constraints Management philosophies and tools he has achieved excellent results in cost improvement, productivity improvement and inventory reduction... Bob Adams, Director - HPS Western Division   As a Change Agent Expert, Bob Adams has over 27 years of senior management experience successfully implementing total business process improvements. Bob has been a champion for the development of Lean Culture, Strategic Planning, Winning with Teams and Leveraged Learning Networks (Consortiums). As a founding member of the BC Consortium for Manufacturing Excellence, the BC Manufacturer’s Executive Council, and former Managing Director of The Okanagan Lean Enterprise Consortium, Bob has remained committed to improving the competitiveness of businesses by helping them define Customer Value and eliminate Waste… Jay Warren, Senior Consultant - HPS Western Div   Jay Warren has a passion for lean in the manufacturing and service industries, for excellence, and for people. Jay is a resultant with attention on the greatest resource your organization has - People. He gets a charge out of helping organizations such as a client who recently increased cell productivity by 75% and reduced floor space by 50% with Jay’s leadership and facilitation. Jay is also a practicing Six Sigma black belt study with the American Society for Quality and brings the lens of that rigorous approach to data to problem identification and improvements... Jody Marshall, Senior Consultant - HPS Western Div Jody Marshall brings over 20 years of Manufacturing, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Project Management, Continuous Improvement and Quality experience. He is committed to “changing the manufacturing world – one company at a time”.His extensive manufacturing experience, hands-on approach and customer-centric vision is facilitated by a “results through people” strategy. He believes in developing a shared, uniform understanding of the organizational challenges, identifying the core issues and getting everyone’s “buy-in.”...   Tom Bechtel, Senior Consultant   Tom Bechtel has over 30 years experience in manufacturing as both a practitioner and trainer/facilitator.   Since 1985, Tom has devoted 16 years to providing education, training, change support and process improvement facilitation for all aspects of a manufacturing enterprise including:  engineering, sales & order entry, scheduling, material & capacity planning, inventory control, shop floor operations, maintenance, warehousing, purchasing, traffic and distribution... Jane Kerr, Financial Officer Jane joined High Performance Solutions in 2001, and for all matters of finance we turn to Jane ... her more than 12 years of experience in accounting and financial systems have ranged from bookkeeping to developing, implementing and maintaining complex financial systems. Prior to joining HPS Jane has worked on various projects for multi million dollar corporations specializing in high tech vision correction services. Her roles have consisted of consolidation of multi currency financial statements and working closely with auditors to facilitate quarterly and annual audits. Jane's knowledge of accounting and it's practices make her an asset to the HPS Team...  Gabriela B Bernardo, Coordinator   Chances are great that it is her voice you hear when you call the office. The title of Coordinator allows her the opportunity to engage in the many business activities conducted through HPS from coordinating Consortium and public events and workshops, handling customer inquiries such as the whereabouts of their favorite consultant, editing and organizing materials and websites, workshop logistics such travel arrangements, office operations management, and of course ~ Customer Care...