GPAllied Announces Strategic Hire: Shon Isenhour

Shon specializes in Business Process Management, Strategic Planning, Organizational Change Management, and Reliability Engineering and has lead improvement initiatives for industries such as pharmaceuticals, metals, petrochemical, paper, and power generation, among others.

Shon is an engineering graduate of North Carolina State University and has become an expert in the implementation of holistic reliability solutions using tools such as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), as well as Six Sigma and Lean to drive significant bottom line results.

Shon is currently serving as an Executive Board member and past Director of Education for the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals and is a past committee vice chairman in the area of benchmarking. Shon is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), and has been certified by Prosci and Colorado State University as a Change Management Professional.

Shon is a 2010 Plant Engineering Future 30 honoree as well as being the recipient of the Solutions Magazine Best Article Award for 2010.

“We are extremely excited to add Shon to the GPAllied TEAM - he is a natural fit. Shon not only has a very good grasp of all of the technical elements of the Reliability Process, he also has strong business acumen, great market connectivity, is client/solution centric in his approach, and brings a level of passion that is rarely seen in our market. Shon is just one of those people that you know will make an impact on the market and our organization,” said John Schultz, founding partner.

Mr. Isenhour will join with the rest of the GPAllied workforce to bring inspired solutions, reliable results, and global reach to clients looking to do more than survive during these tremendously tough economic times.
About GPAllied

GPAllied is a strategic alliance with General Physics Corporation, a global performance improvement solutions provider of sales and technical training, e-Learning solutions, management consulting and engineering services, and Allied Reliability, Inc., a global engineering firm specializing in predictive maintenance and reliability engineering.

GPAllied provides the most diverse reliability and operations consulting and services globally available today.  With offices in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, GPAllied has extensive experience in the specialty fields of Lean, Reliability Engineering, Six Sigma, Condition Monitoring, Change Management, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, Workforce Development and Maintenance Craft Skills training. GPAllied serves clients in asset-intensive industries, like petrochemical, mining, energy, manufacturing, food and beverage, and life sciences to name a few. GPAllied brings together unique capabilities and synergistic strengths of two thought leaders and allows for global implementation never before realized by the industry.  The result is the joining of People, Processes and Technologies in one total package never before realized - now available to the global marketplace. Additional information may be found at http://gpallied.com.