Engineers Nominated By Institute of Industrial Engineers  Lt. Stephen T. Fields
Lieutenant Stephen T. Fields, an industrial and systems engineer with the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington, D.C., works in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Architecture, Engineering, and Asset Management Branch. Fields oversees architecture and engineering design services and construction contracts that provide nationwide support for EPA’s offices and laboratories. He has served as the environmental protection specialist for the formulation of the budget associated with EPA’s counter-terrorism/homeland security response to events. Fields also worked on the review and development of EPA’s oversight of underground storage tank system. He has also supervised and coordinated public health events worldwide for the Secretary of Health and Human Services within the emergency operations center. Field is currently a doctoral student at George Washington University in the engineering management and systems engineering department with a focus on environmental management. His research focuses on the development of a decision support model to identify the strategies for managing leaking underground storage tanks using the principles of decision analysis theory. fields.stephen@epa.gov  Prince Kumar, P.Eng (cand.)
Prince Kumar is a partner with his consulting firm, StraNexus, Inc. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he works in areas such as logistics, distribution, manufacturing and retail. Prince leads numerous projects in Canada including a logistics study of the largest oil refineries in North America. His process engineering work for a Toronto-based company helped double their gross profits by defining roles and responsibilities and improving metrics measurement. In addition to his consulting work, Prince has been an active member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Toronto chapter for over seven years, holding a number of positions including President, Director At-Large and Vice President. He has also been an energetic advocate for the engineering profession. prince.kumar@stranexus.ca  Raimundo Benzal Martinez
Raimundo Benzal Martinez, a process engineer with General Electric Plastics, in the Netherlands, began his career as a part of an educational internship. During this time, he developed a new production process for plastics compounding. Several of his recommendations are now a reality in numerous GE state-of-the-art production lines in Europe. After earning his degrees in mechanical and industrial engineering, Martinez returned to General Electric where his systems have been implemented on a global scale. He implemented a new maintenance process that took the facility from a corrective to a preventive way of working and also developed and implemented a new system to improve process safety based on actual equipment performance. Both of these programs were rolled out globally. Martinez has served as an officer of his chapter of GE Volunteers for three years. During his first year as project leader the group completed a record twenty projects for the local community. He is a member of IIE and a founding member of the Manufacturing Leadership Institute Technical Group for the Society of Mechanical Engineers. dafnis@virgilio.it  Bonnie Paris, EIT
Bonnie Paris, EIT, a master process engineer with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois, designs and implements solutions to increase the efficiency of patient care. As an industrial engineer working in health care, Paris has worked on a variety of projects ranging from materials management to pain management. She has played a key role in developing a core process model used by hospital leadership in selecting projects and designed and implemented a scorecard reporting system. Paris studies situations such as the patient intake process, which includes patient scheduling and registration, and then helps to design and implement a faster way to serve patients. Paris serves on the Institute of Engineers’ Society for Health Systems newsletter committee and is a senior member and former secretary for the American Society for Quality. She has supported the deployment of Six Sigma and mentors the hospital’s community of black and master black belts. Bonnie.L.Paris@osfhealthcare.org « BACK |