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CHAIRMAN & CEO |
Leo Reddy is currently serving as the Chairman & CEO of the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC). The MSSC is a nationwide system of standards, curriculum, assessment, and certification for production logistics workers. He was nominated to this position in November 2005, when the MSSC officially launched its new foundational skills assessment to qualify workers as “MSSC-Certified Production Technicians.” MSSC’s vision is to use certification to build a large national pool of production and logistics workers with the skills and flexibility needed to keep pace with technological change.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s National Skill Standards Board formally recognized the MSSC as the “Voluntary Partnership” for all sectors of manufacturing in 1998 and endorsed MSSC’s nationally validated standards in 2001. Since that time, the MSSC, under Mr. Reddy’s leadership, has built a comprehensive, integrated system based on those standards. The state-of-the-art system includes: instructor-led courses, on-line courses, certified teachers, textbooks, on-line assessments, a nationwide network of certified assessment centers, certification credentials, and diagnostic tools.
Mr. Reddy’s leadership of the MSSC grew out of a series of federally-funded industrial skill standard projects that he directed when he was building the National Council for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM). Founded by Mr. Reddy in 1989, NACFAM is a prominent policy research organization in Washington DC that provides manufacturers and government — reinforced by academia, research, manufacturing extension centers and labor — a non-partisan, non-adversarial forum to work together in the development of policies and strategies that strengthen the competitiveness of U.S.-based manufacturing.
Mr. Reddy has personally conducted major plant-level projects using MSSC standards as a basis for developing a comprehensive workforce development system.
Before entering the private sector to lead NACFAM in 1989, Mr. Reddy had a highly successful, 28-year Foreign Service career in the U.S. Department of State where he rose to the rank of “Career Minister” (the diplomatic equivalent of Lt. General). He was a leading State Department expert on NATO, arms control, and defense policy, serving on the NATO Desk, the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon, and as State Liaison to the National Security Council at the White House. Abroad, he was a member of U.S. Delegations to NATO, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (creator), Conventional Force Reductions in Europe Treaty Negotiations, and the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
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PRESIDENT & COO, MSSC INDUSTRY |
James McCaslin serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of Harley-Davidson Motor Co. In his role he is responsible for design, supply, manufacture, marketing and sales.
McCaslin joined Harley-Davidson in 1992 as Vice President and General Manager of the company's York, Pennsylvania operations. He was appointed Vice President, Continuous Improvement in 1997. In 1999 he was made Vice President, Dealer Services, a position he held until accepting his current position in 2001.
Prior to joining Harley-Davidson, McCaslin spent three years at JI Case, where he held positions as General Plant Manager of their Hamilton, Ontario farm implement plant and of the East Moline, Illinois combine plant.
Earlier McCaslin worked for Chrysler Corp. in product and quality engineering, as well as plant management positions. McCaslin's career also includes six years at Volkswagen and 10 years at General Motors' Chevrolet division.
McCaslin holds a Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the General Motors Institute and a master's degree in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech. He also attended the Advanced Management program at Harvard University.
McCaslin currently serves on the board of directors for Maytag Corp. and as board Vice-Chairman of the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council, a nonprofit industry coalition. He is also a board member of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee.
McCaslin was born in Flint, Michigan and raised in Saginaw, Michigan.
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