Sterling Solution’s major areas of expertise include:

Over her career in industry and consulting Kyla has delivered innovative solutions to complex supply chain and operational problems. She takes a pragmatic approach to situations where she then applies support analysis that delivers practical solutions which clients can implement quickly and successfully. Client companies have typically benefitted in the 15-20% cost saving range on projects she has been associated with either directly or indirectly.

Kyla Moyer, has been providing her expertise as a senior project consultant with Sterling Solutions for over 7 years, and is regarded as highly motivated and skilled network optimization expert having worked on more than 100 distribution modelling projects in her career.  She has served industry (Bowman Distribution, Little Tikes Rubbermaid and Sealy Corporation) at various levels providing creative insight, innovation and leadership to improve operational effectiveness across all facets of the supply chain. While at Rubbermaid Kyla was responsible for 2 global cost saving initiatives that yielded $55 million in annualized cost savings.

Kyla credentials include an under graduate degree in Business/Finance from Kent State University and an MBA from the Case Western Reserve Weatherhead School of Management. She is also certified in various APICS modules and has been involved in several Lean Manufacturing projects and Kaizen events.

Sam Huang is a logistics professional offering over 8 years of experience in manufacturing and consulting environment performing various types of work in many different aspect of the supply chain such as network modeling, distribution, warehousing, order management, forecasting, and inventory control. With exposure to many different industries, ranging from food to industrial equipment, his technical expertise along with his strong business background in logistics help  deliver bottom line results and benefits through design and implementation of world class supply chain strategies and improvements. Sam holds an MBA from Penn State Smeal College of Business.

Trisha Castro, a Staff Consultant, is responsible for the direct support of project management initiatives in Sterling Solutions logistics and distribution practices.  She has over 23 years experience in data analysis and logistics.  She designs and maintains databases and develops queries for extracting data for analysis.  She has extensive experience in developing graphics, charts, and reports to include in various presentations and documentations.   She has experience in conducting phone and web-based customer surveys.  She develops databases and generates reports and graphs from responses of the surveys.  She has experience in temperature tracking for cold chain life-cycle from programming temperature logger to extracting data and importing to database for analysis.  She is responsible for tracking weekly scores and completion of food safety audits that are performed by certified auditors.  She is the direct liaison between the food safety auditors and quality assurance personnel to ensure timely and accurate audits.  She also assists in the network optimization process by obtaining logistic information and ensures the data is accurate.

Greg Lane has nearly 30 years of successful experience in various aspects of logistics from both an industry and supplier perspective. His areas of expertise include: 3rd party logistics, logistics information systems, transportation mode and carrier selection, rate negotiations, freight payment, and sales management and training. Greg has served in management and executive positions at StorageTek, as logistics manager for this global manufacturer of computer peripherals; Fritz Companies, as Regional Manager for this international freight forwarder and customhouse broker; FedEx, as Managing Director in their logistics services division; Continental Traffic Services, as Vice President of sales for this national freight payment and transportation consulting firm; and IBM, as a Solution Executive for transportation information systems products. For the past several years, Greg has specialized in the leverage of web-enabled logistics solutions to provide improvements to clients.

Mark Field has more than 25 years successful experience managing and consulting with logistics and manufacturing firms in a wide range of industries. Mark has significant experience in operations, logistics and materials management, inventory reduction, quality improvement, cycle time reduction and due diligence assistance. He has managed organizations with as many as 1100 employees and as many as seven facilities. He has managed two coast-to-coast distribution networks and has led three business turnarounds. Mark is an active member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), which has certified him at the Fellow level. As the vice chairman of the APICS (national) Master Planning Committee, Mark co-edited the courseware for teaching certification review classes in master planning to 35,000 APICS members worldwide. Mark earned his MBA at the Harvard Business School, where he specialized in operations and corporate strategy development.

Linda Wilt is a highly experienced food safety and sanitation expert.  Having over 25 years of experience in food service operations Linda has experience with city county boards of health where she assumed various roles in investigating consumer complaints, foodborne illnesses and inspecting food service operators.  Linda was president of the Pennsylvania Vector Control Association, a member of the Central Atlantic States Association of Food and Drug Officials.  

Due to Linda’s experience, she has been instrumental in developing and institutionalizing food safety and sanitation audits for a number of large retail chains.  To date, Linda has completed over 11,000 food safety related audits. Linda has advanced training in food microbiology analysis and food borne illness investigation processes from Penn State University.   Linda is a certified ServSafe instructor and proctor and is currently working on two other globally recognized food quality and safety certification programs.

Sue Gates  has 2 years experience in the food safety and sanitation audits for a large retail chain.  To date, Sue has completed over 2,500 food safety related audits. Sue has a ServSafe Certification.