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Hank Czarnecki   
Hank serves as Auburn’s project manager for Lean manufacturing activities. Hank has more than 11 years experience facilitating continuous process improvement (kaizen) events and is a NIST Qualified Lean Manufacturing Trainer

  • Lean Manufacturing Engineer 
  • Certified Training Within Industry Instructor
  • AME President, S.E. Region 2009-2010 
  • B.S. in Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
  • Master Industrial Engineering, Auburn University
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Nicholas Loyd
Nic is a certified trainer by both the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative and has trained thousands of executives, managers, engineers, and operators from several states and countries in the principles of Lean Enterprise. He has facilitated over 100 Lean implementation events with companies in various industries and specializes in the areas of value stream mapping and the application of Lean in office processes. Nic also has extensive involvement in the implementation and development of training for Lean principles in port operations. Nic is actively involved as an instructor in both the Industrial and Systems Engineering department and the College of Business Administration at UAH integrating Lean principles into curriculum.  He has a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, a M.S.E. in Engineering Management and is also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Nic authored chapters in the 2007 published book Lean Management: Concepts and Industry Perspectives and the 2008 published book Lean Six Sigma: An Introduction.