Rick Phelps, Associate

Rick Phelps is a business consultant with 27 years of experience in applying Business Improvement Technologies to a wide range of industrial problems both as a practitioner and as a consultant. Trained and experienced in Theory of Constraints (TOC) , applied industrial statistics, and the 'Lean' toolkit, Rick has helped numerous manufacturing enterprises focus their efforts and improve their critical processes and their bottom lines.

Rick teamed up with Sinclair Associates in 2003. His expertise in business improvement tools including discrete events simulation, Theory of Constraints (TOC), Industrial Statistics and Lean Manufacturing Methodologies has been gained during a 27-year career as a manager and consultant with Chesapeake Consulting, Simulation Dynamics, Greenleaf Corp. and Alcoa, Inc.

Interrupting his industrial career for three years, Rick served as a Habitat for Humanity International Partner in Uganda, where he found plenty of novel applications for his talents at process improvement. For this humanitarian outreach, Rick was honored in 1998 as an Outstanding Young Alumnus by The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).