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Team Barckhoff

 

 

Jack R Barckhoff, P.E., the Founder and CEO of Barckhoff Welding Management has assembled the most experienced team of managerial and technical welding talent in the industry.

Every member of the team has held responsible managerial and/or technical positions in industry where their focus has been on welding and welding management. All technical team members hold engineering and/or welding engineering degrees and have experience in a broad range of welding disciplines from design and processing through quality assurance. Most are registered professional engineers. Key team members are listed below with others available to fit unique welding or management needs.

Jack R Barckhoff, P.E.- Founder and CEO   

Jack has been involved in the welding industry for over forty years.  He studied both Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration at The Ohio State University before beginning his career as a sales engineer of welding equipment and consumables. It was on the shop floor working with welders that Jack developed his passion for the welder and helping improve welding quality and productivity. To pursue his passion he went on to found Barckhoff Welding Management and dedicate his life to helping the welding industry improve through implementing his Total Welding Management System.

Over the past thirty years Jack and his team have helped hundreds of companies improve their welding operations.  He is an industry recognized expert on welding management and has recently written a book titled Total Welding Management published by the American Welding Society and has published numerous articles and lectured to thousands on the management of welding.  A member of the Board of Trustees for the American Welding Society Foundation, Jack has established the “Jack R Barckhoff Welding Management Scholarship”, which is awarded to college students pursuing a career in welding engineering.  In 2004, Jack was selected as “Counselor” of the American Welding Society, of which he is a lifetime member. He also received the American Welding Society’s District Meritorious Award and served as local Section Chairman.

Don L. Lynn, P.E.- Consulting Engineer

Don has some thirty years of diversified experience in all aspects of welding.  His technical welding experience spans shipbuilding, nuclear, sheet metal, pressure vessel, piping, and power generation in a variety of roles from engineering design and supervision to quality assurance.  He holds a Bachelors Degree in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University as well as a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Northern Kentucky University.  Don is an AWS Certified Welding Engineer and a Certified Welding Inspector, as well as holding a diploma in International Welding Engineering.  He is an active member of AWS, serving on several committees and is a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Society of Metals.  He has written technical welding articles, contributed to the AWS Welding Handbook Chapter Committees, and has served as a technical welding expert in litigation regarding welding issues. For the past fourteen years Don has worked as a consulting engineer and project manager for Barckhoff Welding Management.

Kenneth M. Kerluke, P. Eng.- Consulting Engineer

Ken has over thirty years of broad welding industry experience in manufacturing, fabrication, and quality assurance.  Ken holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia as well as a Masters Degree in Welding Engineering from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in the United Kingdom.  Ken is a welding process specialist with experience in all arc-welding processes.  He is an active member of AWS as well as the Canadian Standards Association, serving, on the technical committee for the CSA W59 ‘Welded Steel Construction’.  Ken has served as Director of Technology Outreach Services for the Welding Institute of Canada, which was a national technology center in Canada, where he was responsible for the transfer of welding technology to Canadian companies.  Ken has also provided training and education services to the welding industry, conducted welding failure investigations, developed welding procedures, provided technical consulting services, and has presented expert reports in welding related litigation.  For the past eleven years Ken has served as a technical consultant and trainer for Barckhoff Welding Management.  

Phil Schmidt , P.E.-Consulting Engineer

Phil has more than 35 years of experience in the welding industry.  His experience includes positions as a welding engineer, manager of welding operations, consultant and college instructor. Phil has worked in a variety of industries including aerospace, defense, shipbuilding, nuclear, automotive, material handling and contract manufacturing.  Phil has experience with a wide range of materials and welding processes as well as robotic welding.  He is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor Degree in Welding Engineering; is a registered Professional Engineer; holds a diploma in International Welding Engineering; and is an American Welding Society Certified Welding Inspector as well as a Certified Welding Supervisor.  Phil also has experience in both Lean Manufacturing and ISO certification.  He is currently President of Schmidt Equipment, Inc., a steel fabrication company in NE Ohio. Phil joined Barckhoff Welding Management Corporation in 1999.

John P. Eaton - Consulting Engineer

John has a diversified background with industrial experience in both welding engineering and manufacturing management. He holds a Bachelors Degree in both Mechanical Engineering and Welding Engineering from LeTourneau University. John has experience in a variety of industries including power generation, defense, electrical power distribution, construction and mining equipment, and general fabrication. He has held positions in welding engineering, manufacturing engineering, testing, fabrication, and general management as well as sales and marketing. John has been an active member of the American Welding Society for over thirty years. He has always been a champion of change and operational improvement within each organization he has served. Throughout his career, from an individual contributor to Director of Manufacturing Operations, John has enjoyed the privilege of achieving improvements through people. He always focuses on serving the customer, and helps build strong teams within organizations to accomplish this. John brings to Barckhoff Welding Management and its clients an experienced blend of technical, managerial and leadership skills.

Richard L. Alley - Senior Sales Executive

Dick attended both Butler University and Indiana University/Purdue University, Kokomo, and is a graduate of the Charleston Institute of Association Management. Dick served the welding industry for thirty years assisting manufacturers in their manufacturing processes giving them improved quality and higher productivity. He has been a regional sales manager and product manager.  Dick has served on the American Welding Society’s management team on the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors and as President.  As such, he was the catalyst in helping expand AWS’s show business nationally and internationally. Within AWS he set up a Welding Equipment Manufacturers Committee comprised of top-level business managers. Dick has also been on several American Welding Society Technical committees.  Through his work with AWS, Dick has had the opportunity to travel internationally and understands global business competition.

Bob Lockwood - Director

Bob holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and spent the first twenty years of his business career in the electrical and electronics field, holding positions in design, operations and executive management, which also included an assignment as President of an overseas start-up company. Bob spent the next twenty years in the metal working industry, holding positions in both operations and executive management including serving as president of three different companies.  Bob met Jack when Jack was a sales manager supplying Bob’s company with motors and got to know Jack and his techniques and philosophy of welding management, and encouraged him to form what later became Barckhoff Welding Management. Bob applied the principles of Total Welding Management in three separate companies, leading to significant improvements in both quality and productivity.  Before Bob retried, he served as an executive manager of a plastic injection molding company where he also applied the Total Welding Management principles in the repair of complex injection molds.  Bob serves as an active member of the Board of Directors for Barckhoff Welding Management and is active on the Board of Feed My Starving Children and assists in his church ministry for Developmentally Disabled Adults.

Clint Vogus - Director and Business Consultant

Clint serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Barckhoff Welding Management as well as a business, management systems and organizational development consultant.  Clint holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering as well as Masters Degrees in both Business Administration and Organization Development.   He has over twenty-five years of management experience in welding intensive industries such as mining and construction machinery, agricultural equipment, and electric power line maintenance equipment. He has held positions as company president, general manager, operations manager, and manufacturing engineering manager, as well as project manager encompassing major systems and organization change projects. He has led business strategy development for large corporations,  and has taught business management at the university level.

 

 

 

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