Chuck with President Hank
Chuck Dewey, a design engineer by trade, has been our Vice President of Programs for 2 years. He is the contact for reservations for our Professional Development Meetings (PDM’s). This entails coordinating with the restaurant (Massimo’s) head count and entrée and accommodating changes from Wednesday to Thursday due to speaker availability. Chuck insures availability of the projector and recording the audio of the presentation for posting to the web site. This effort is mission critical for those members who want to be at the PDM, but due to demands of work, family, and schedule cannot be present, but want the information. He has represented the Chapter twice at our District meetings, in far-flung places like Reno and Honolulu, Hawaii. Yes, I know it is a tough assignment, but someone had to answer the call of duty. In Reno, Chuck did spank the Casino and in Hawaii, he did get a wonderful bar tan. I write that with tongue in cheek He also presented the awards to our students at a recent banquet honoring 4 students from University of California East Bay, Rong Chen, Darcy Duckenfield, Patrick Murphy, Jessica Wong for their academic achievements. Again, Congratulations to the students!!
I must laud Chuck’s efforts in making our PDM’s very successful and recognize Chuck’s participation on the Board of Directors, which has been invaluable. Chuck - Thanks for a job well done….
Monika is the
administrative assistant in the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of APICS.
I have met MoJo a few times when Monika was helping Mission Peak
Chapter with student materials, E-mails informing members of Mission
Peak Chapter PDM’s, or certificates for students, and other help. I
know Sue Nelson the former President and now on District Staff and Rick
Merritt current President of Santa Clara Chapter of APICS have expressed
real appreciation for Monika’s work.
Now it is my turn to express many thanks to Monika and the Santa
Clara Chapter for their help in serving our APICS members. I would agree
with Monika when she says, “I work with very knowledgeable and
interesting people and that
Keeps it fun for me…
and challenging.” Monika
great job, keep up the wonderful work.
Monika’s
comments:
Can you believe
it? Almost 11 years at
APICS SCVC (Santa Clara Valley Chapter)!!
A lot has changed since I started.
There used to be two of us here at the office, but now I take
care of it by myself. This
does allow for some flexibility. I
get to bring my Black Lab, MoJo, to the office with me.
She gets to be the greeting committee for the occasional visitor
and our UPS person.
No small task working
here. It is my job to keep it all together and make it look like it is a
piece of cake. There are so
many different personalities, and different roles to work with.
Our instructors all have 8 – 5 jobs, and need to just walk in
to the classroom and begin teaching. So I have to make sure everything
is ready for them - including students!
But, enough about me.
I work with very knowledgeable and interesting people and that
keeps it fun for me… and challenging.
Ann Ibach
Ann adds: When deciding on a career path you are told to “Do What You Like”. So when my 12 year career in the Aerospace Industry, working with Primary and Secondary explosives and Pyrotechnics ended, it was time to choose another path. I was already taking business courses toward my Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, so I enrolled at Cal State Hayward full time. They offered an Option, which is a special studies program, in Purchasing & Materials Management. That is where I met Dr. Radovilsky, the professor in charge of the Student Chapter of APICS. I have been with the Mission Peak Chapter since 1995. I joined as an assistant to the Newsletter Editor. I served on the Board of Directors as VP Communications and Newsletter editor from July 1995 to July 1999, winning several Fit to Print Awards for the Chapter. After serving as the VP Seminars and as a Director at Large I was Co-President for 2 years alongside the late Diane Mosher-Deutsch. My biggest reward for all of this volunteer work is educating students about all of the benefits of joining a Professional Organization, like APICS. There are opportunities for both professional and personal contacts that can lead to net working, employment opportunities and friendships. What could be better?
Anny Zhao’s participation as Secretary has been inspirational. She planned to attend a PDM. Unfortunately, she had a fender bender on the way. Even after all that drama, she gave me a call to tell me she could not make it. Now that was very professional and considerate, my first reaction was, are you ok? To my relief she was. Her dedication is amazing. It is a pleasure to serve on the Board of Directors with her.
She adds the following information:
My career started in Lucent Technologies, China after I got a
textile engineering degree from Dalian Light Industry University.
The Lucent experience as Executive
Assistant to the President has nothing to do
with textiles but exposed me to all operations of an
international corporation. It radically changed my interests and I moved to the U.S. in
2004 to go for my MBA at California State University East Bay with
Supply Chain Management and Finance emphasis. I graduated in December
2006 and started working as a program manager in Global Materials
Management in Cisco Systems.
At
CSUEB,
I was a student of Dr.
Radovilsky, who introduced me to APICS and I have been a member
of the Mission Peak Chapter since 2005 and serving as board secretary
of MSPK since 2006. APICS brings to me continuous learning
opportunities and enriching professional experience after college.
It adds tremendous value to my understanding of supply chain
management in manufacturing. As
a member of MSPK, I am able to network with other operations
management professionals and share much fun and joy with a lot of
dedicated individuals.
Even though Chuck Dewey is a relatively new APICS member of Mission Peak Chapter, he has contributed greatly to the recent growth. You may recognize the name, since he is our Vice-President of PDM’s takes the reservations, schedules Massimo’s and insures that the other elements for a successful PDM are in place, such as the projector. He was also given the responsibility of audio recording the PDM’s, so I had to add to his title- Vice President of Special Effects.
Chuck shares additional information:
Orange Coast
Junior College, Long Beach State, and San Jose State all tried to teach me
Industrial Design. The U.S. Coast Guard taught me aircraft
mechanics. On the job taught me project management, mechanical
engineering, a bit about electricity and lots about sharing with teams of
smart people. Mr. Steiskal taught me drafting and, over the years,
we stopped drawing on paper with a pencil and began using more elaborate
tools. Now we solve problems of designing mechanical solutions with
SolidWorks and 3D models of imaginary stuff so the first real stuff we
build actually fits together and works. Years ago, we made two or
three prototypes before we got one to work. Now that we can do all
of this faster and with fewer mistakes, we are expected to do much, much
more than before. Getting more done is very satisfying. Hank
asked me to help out at APICS Mission Peak Chapter and we have had a lot
of fun and met some great folks and even learned some amazing things.
Mel Nelson is president of M.N.
Nelson & Associates. He is an internationally recognized
speaker on multi-industry subjects. He is highly sought after as
a speaker because of his lively, humorous and motivational speaking
style by companies and by professional societies in all industries and
service arenas.
Mel has over 30 years of direct manufacturing
company experience working in a full spectrum of positions, from entry
to Executive level. Working in numerous positions
throughout the whole company environment afforded him the opportunity
on several occasions to be responsible for the first-hand
implementation and utilization process of successful full business
operating systems.
Prior to starting his own firm in 1980 Mel
worked for such companies as Exxon, Perkin-Elmer, FMC, General
Dynamics as well as a few smaller firms to round out his career
experience. Mel has presented at 19 APICS International
Conferences; the JIT Conference; Congress For Progress; National
Association for Purchasing Management Conferences and is a frequent
keynote speaker at Universities and User Group meetings.
Mel also teaches all CPIM and CIRM Certification Preparation Workshop
courses for APICS. He is co-author of the APICS Train the
Trainer course. He has been published in scores of
Business Magazines and Journals. He has authored over 30
educational courses ranging in length from 1 to 7 days.
Mel received his degree from MSAC in Los
Angeles. He is a member of NAPM (National Association of
Purchasing Mangement), ASTD (American Society for Training and
Development); and is also certified as a Specialist in
Industrial Management (SIM). He is an active member of APICS
(Certified CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP), 1994 – 1995 Vice President of Region
10 (Responsible for the 10 Western States), and the 1996 Executive
Vice President of APICS International. Mel is also the recipient
of the APICS Medal of Honor. He is Past President of Santa
Clara Valley Chapter for 2003 – 2005, 2005 – 2007 Region Ten
V.P., and recently elected to District Director for 2 terms beginning
in 2008.
Bruce Hoyt joined the Mission Peak Chapter of APICS
about 15 years ago and has enjoyed serving the organization in a variety
of roles, including several stints in various VP positions and
additionally serving a year as Chapter President. His most memorable
contributions have been the many years spent working with Operations
Management students from Cal-State University, including such activities
as speaking at school functions, teaching supplemental operations
courses and working with many of the student teams on projects for their
classes. He continues to support the chapter as webmaster.
Bruce spent 25 years in operations management positions in the automotive business with General Motors and NUMMI, the Toyota joint venture. He spent a great deal of time in Japan learning just-in-time systems and later had the opportunity to travel extensively in the United States, Canada and Mexico sharing his knowledge with suppliers seeking to improve their operations. He moved to Arizona five years ago. There, he owns and runs a 40 employee service business and also is the President/CEO of a software development company in the video compression business. He is past president of the Fremont Jaycees and has also held positions in other community service and educational organizations. Bruce holds a B.S. from the University of San Francisco, a M.B.A. from San Jose State and a CPIM certification.
LaDonna
Hoyt has been a member of APICS and the Mission Peak Chapter since 2001.
Within the chapter, LaDonna has served as Member at Large, VP of
Programs, VP of Education, Executive VP and President. She has
attended Regional meetings in Seattle, Washington, Reno, Nevada and San
Jose, California, and is a regular at the monthly Professional
Development Meetings held by the Mission Peak Chapter.
During
most of LaDonna's career, she specialized in the disk duplication and
packaging business, which eventually over time became known as
"Supply Chain Management". She worked for the pioneer of
this business, Dysan Corporation from 1981 when it was very early in the
game. That division of Dysan eventually became known as Xemag.
From there, in 1987 LaDonna became VP of Sales and Operations for a
start-up company called Software Duplication Services, and grew the
company from ground zero. Her next stop was working for a division
of Polaroid Corporation that had a supply chain manufacturing facility
in Fremont, California. Several years later LaDonna moved on to take
on a Site Operations Management position for Braun Media Services, which
has now evolved into Zomax. Lastly, LaDonna worked for iLogistix
Corporation in various Operations positions for over 7 years. Her
favorite role while at iLogistix was her last position as Manager of
Operations and Materials & Systems Management. In that
position LaDonna enjoyed business travels to various U.S. locations, as
well as Guadalajara, Mexico, Singapore and Taipei, Taiwan.
The Mission
Peak Chapter of APICS is proud to honor one of our members. I met Dr
Zinovy Radovilsky in 1991. For that last 16 years, his contribution
to academics, students and the chapter have been exceptional and long
term. Enclosed is a biography, summarizing his accomplishments over that
time.
Dr. Zinovy Radovilsky is a professor of Management in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, East Bay (former Hayward). He has had more than 20 years of experience in teaching and consulting in operations and supply chain management. He taught courses in Production and Service Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, E-commerce Enterprise Management, and Enterprise Resource Planning.
When Zinovy started his work at CSUEB, the business program there had only undergraduate options (concentrations) and very few courses in operations and materials management. Zinovy was instrumental in developing and introducing (with the help of other OM colleagues) a variety of new courses in operations management as well as two new MBA options in Operations and Materials Management and Supply Chain Management with a solid breadth of courses.
In 1991, Zinovy joined Mission Peak Chapter of APICS, and since that time till today is a member of the MSPK Board of Directors. In 1992 he organized Operations Materials Society (OMS), a student organization on campus. The idea of this chapter was to promote operations management education and APICS among students. MSPK BOD and its president Hank Zoeller were very instrumental in organizing the chapter and obtaining its affiliation as a student chapter of APICS.
Over the years, OMS has been very active in organizing student events, meetings, and plant tours related to operations and supply chain management. The membership in the organization, despite constant student turnover and graduation from college, has grown from several members to more than 60 members today. MSPK BOD, and specifically Hank Zoeller, continuously supported OMS with student scholarships, awards for best students in operations and supply chain, participation in OMS events, and others. At the same time, many students became members of APICS and MSPK; some of them served and continue to serving today as members of MSPK BOD.
Besides teaching and participating in OMS
activities, Dr. Radovilsky has been a consultant in operations and
supply chain management to leading U.S. companies and organizations such
as U.S. Coast Guard, APL Logistics, DHL Systems, Oread, EPRI, and
others. Zinovy has done extensive research in the areas of enterprise
resource planning (ERP) systems, e-commerce business models, e-commerce
enterprise management, quality management, forecasting, and statistical
analysis. He has published more than 50 papers in international and
domestic journals and conference proceedings. Zinovy
is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Academy of
Business and Economics, and a managing editor of the Journal of
International Business and Economics.