WHO WE ARE

Mark Fetty
President; Consultant
BSME - Va. Tech. 

He loved the challenges, but after 30 years of working for a great company, it was time to explore other avenues. 

Mark joined our consulting corporation in early 2020.  He is a true INTP.  His abilities cover a broad range of activities.

Growing up, Mark was the inquisitive boy who always wanted to figure out how things worked.  Clocks, bicycle gears, toys, it didn't matter; he would take apart anything.  (Most of the time, he could get it back together in working order.) 

At 15, after helping his uncle change out head gaskets on a dump truck, Mark and his dad started the full restoration of a '57 Chevy.  This project included Mark's first solo engine rebuild.  He completed a second restoration of a '66 Chevelle before heading off to college for some "book-learning". 

After earning his BSME from Virginia Tech ('85), he worked four enjoyable years at Mack Truck in Allentown, PA quickly working his way through several positions to become a Reliability Engineer in the vehicle engineering department.

But Virginia was in his blood and he made the decision to return to central Virginia where he started a job at BRENCO in Petersburg, VA.  For 30 years, Mark worked in the Product Engineering Department as a key player turning customers' needs and wants into manufacturable and great performing products.

Mark has been a volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America for over 20 years.  As a seasoned Vigil member in the BSA's Order of the Arrow, Mark earned the Founder's Award.  He was recently awarded the "Silver Beaver" award.

Now in a move to transition into different opportunities, Mark is consulting, sharing his unique blend of imagination and logic to help others solve problems and improve products and applications.
 

Strengths: 
1. Ideation 
2. Strategic
3. Analytical

4. Relator
5. Responsibility      

Experience:

  • Bearing Product Design and Development for railroad wheel-set bearings (30 years) with an emphasis of design for manufacture.
  • Liaison between Product Design and "the factory", Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Operations. Includes helping to resolve process concerns and some tooling design work.
  • Major Projects are listed HERE.
  • Patents and Publications (conference papers and presentations) are listed on LinkedIn. 
  • Trained in Strategic Innovation Program (Chicago Booth Exec. Edu.) and Innovative Development Techniques.
  • Trained in Apollo Root Cause Analysis and Lean Manufacturing Techniques.
  • Trained user of 3-D CAD.  Well versed in FEA.
  • Self-taught in basic web site design
    (not polished as evident, but servicible).
  • Fluent in MS Office applications focusing on Word, Excel (including macros), and PowerPoint. 
    • Used Access to create a "proof of concept" automated PDM system - a part number, drawing data, and engineering change management database system.
    • Used Excel to create a tool to "dial-in" and maximize the performance potential for new bearing designs.

See Mark's LinkedIn
 page for more details.

 

Sylvia Fetty, MS, RD
Secretary; Treasurer
BS - Dietetics;
        Marywood Univ.
MS - Health Admin.
        St. Joseph Univ. 

A native of West Long Branch, NJ, Sylvia grew up the daughter of a lifelong chef.  Any one who cooks for large groups knows that each meal becomes an exercise in planning, time management, and often, crisis management. Sylvia lives for this making it her life passion.

With her "hands-on" experience and education, Sylvia helped manage large food service programs for the majority of her career.

More recently, she has been involved in the administration of a dietetic internship program, teaching others the skills of the trade.

More info is on LinkedIn