OUR STORY
Mike Adel, PE, MBA
Owner/Principal Consultant
Mike has 30 years of leadership experience where he has leveraged his passion for operational excellence and been successful in guiding his teams towards achieving world class performance levels. Mike has a unique and effective leadership approach that combines his creative problem-solving and technical understanding from his engineering background with his people, process and business acumen.
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Mike started his career in the oil and gas industry with Exxon Corporation as a project engineer, and later joined Kerr-McGee corporation in a senior project management role. These early years in the energy industry provided Mike with his first exposure to process excellence and team leadership. This was also when Mike earned his licensing as a registered professional engineer.
When oil and gas hit its slump in the early 90’s, Mike turned to manufacturing and took a project leadership role with Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center (Tinker AFB) overseeing the process and equipment needs of various manufacturing cells. After several years, Mike joined Autoquip Corporation in Guthrie, OK as assistant manager over the engineering department and pursued his MBA degree. Mike spent the next 17 years with Autoquip as Manager, and ultimately Director, of Technical Services for this leading manufacturer in the material handling (heavy equipment) industry. Mike was responsible for all design and safety integrity, product liability, and vendor qualification while chairing various industry subcommittees. Mike published several white papers during this time and adopted LEAN principles within the engineering department to eliminate waste and thereby reduce lead times for their deliverables.
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In 2012 Mike returned to the oil and gas industry by joining Chesapeake corporation as Director of Manufacturing overseeing nearly $80MM in annual spend on the outsourced manufacturing of their process equipment designs. This group was responsible for drafting, planning, scheduling, procurement, delivery and quality control over these critical pieces of equipment. Under Mike’s leadership, on-time delivery was improved from 68% to 98% (World Class) within 20 months, and, over the same time period, quality was improved by 60%.
In early 2015 Mike was promoted to Director of Supply Chain over the entire midstream business which had by then splintered from Chesapeake and had become Access Midstream Company – which in late 2015 was purchased by Williams Companies out of Tulsa. Mike and his teams were responsible for all aspects of both the Strategic (strategic sourcing/category management, contracts & agreements, vendor management & performance, ERP/P2P systems & tools support, and governance) and Execution (procurement, expediting, inventory control/management, logistics, invoice management) aspects of influencing between $1.4B (with Access) and $3.0B (with Williams) in annual, sourceable spend. Mike earned his Six Sigma green belt during this time period and was asked to speak at several industry conferences on the benefits of a modularizing equipment designs and procurement practices to improve enterprise readiness in responding to changing and dynamic go-live dates for production facilities throughout the country.
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In 2017 Mike began his consulting career by helping Midland Mortgage in OKC to complete an “insourcing” initiative to bring all Field Service functions in house and build a cohesive and effective Field Service organization with scalable and efficient systems and processes. By the end of this initiative, Mike led them to the point of effectively preserving and protecting 2,000 default & vacant properties throughout the US and Puerto Rico, and had improved on-time delivery by 20%.
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Since then, Mike has helped other operations groups, primarily in the manufacturing space, to improve various integral processes such as business planning, goal-setting, process improvement, document control, prep for ERP/MRP migration, and new employee training.