Board Member Profiles

Jody Suess, CPIM, CIRM, CSCP

Jody has been an APICS member since 2000. She earned her CPIM in 2002, her CIRM in 2003, and her CSCP in 2007. She has served on the Fox Valley Chapter Board of Directors since 2003, and has held the positions of Secretary, Treasurer, Executive Vice President, and President. Jody has been employed at Oshkosh B’Gosh, Inc. since 1987. She is currently a Product Control & Scheduler and has also held positions as Inventory Control Specialist, Production Supervisor, and Quality Auditor.

Jody is also an adjunct instructor at FVTC teaching CPIM online certification review courses.

Phil Kosik, CPIM, CSCP

Occupation: Materials Manager -Buechel Stone Corp. Chilton, Wisconsin since March 2005. Worked as a Production Planner for Plexus Corp Neenah, WI from October 1993 to March 2003.

Education: Bachelors Degree UW Oshkosh 1997 Majored in Economics

I have been a member of APICS since August of 2005. I achieved my CPIM certification in September 2006 and CSCP in March of 2007. I am also an adjunct instructor for Fox Valley Technical College, teaching APICS certification classes. I was also a presenter at the APICS 50th Anniversary Conference that was held in October 2007.

Allan Siiman, CPIM

Allan has been an APICS member since 2005. He earned his CPIM in 2007. Allan has served on the Board of Directors since 2006 as the VP of Finance. He has been employed at Crown Cork & Seal since 2005. He is currently the Customer Service Manager and has previously held the position of Customer Service Representative. Allan has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Florida as well as a French minor.

Beth Westfahl, CPIM

Beth Westfahl, CPIM is currently a Supply Chain Management Instructor at Fox Valley Technical College. In addition to her instructional experience, Beth has over 16 years of experience in supply chain management, including forecasting, buying, planning, scheduling, and inventory management in diverse environments such as the paper industry, foundry and catalog/direct marketing. Beth been involved with APICS since 2000, and this is her fourth year serving on the APICS Fox Valley Chapter Board of Directors. Prior to this year, Beth served as the VP of Membership.

Nikki Kolosso, CPIM

Nikki Kolosso graduated in May 2007 from UW Oshkosh with majors in Supply Chain & Operations Management and Marketing. Nikki works at Mercury Marine as a Buyer/Planner. Prior to that, Nikki worked as an intern at AxleTech and SCA. Nikki earned her CPIM certification in August 2008.

Catrina Rehak, CPIM

Catrina graduated in December 2007 from UW Oshkosh majoring in Supply Chain & Operations Management, as well as Marketing. She works as a Buyer/Analyst at Mercury Marine. Catrina earned her CPIM certification in August 2008.

Sue Schleis

Sue originally became an APICS member in 1990. After taking a few years off, she rejoined again in 2006. She has served on the Fox Valley Chpater Board of Directors since 2007 and has held positions of VP of Company Coordinators and VP of Logistics. Sue has been employed at Oshkosh B’Gosh since 1986. She is currently employed as a Product Control and Scheduler but has also held positions in Product Management and Domestic Planning. Sue studied Business Administration at Marion College in Fond du Lac.

Angela Raddant, CSCP

Angela has been a member of APICS since 2004. She served as a Company Coordinator for the Ariens Company from 2005-2008 and was awarded APICS Member of the Year in 2006. She served as the VP of Communications in the 2006-2007 term, as Director at Large in the 2007-2008 term and is now serving as the V.P. of Marketing. Angela is employed as a Senior Marketing & Material Leader at the Ariens Company in Brillion, Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in 2004 with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Operations Management as well as a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Studies.

Joanne Gorski, CPIM, CSCP

Joanne Gorski, CPIM, CSCP is currently a Supply Chain Management Instructor at Fox Valley Technical College. In addition to four years of instructional experience, Joanne has 15 years of industry experience resulting from her work at Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Appleton, Incorporated. Her industry experience includes extensive work in the field of logistics, operations management, and information system implementation and management.
She has served on the Fox Valley APICS Chapter’s board of directors as Chapter President, Vice President of Professional Development, Secretary, and currently holds the position of Director at Large. Joanne was a speaker at the 2001 APICS International Conference and has been published in the Institute of Management & Administration’s Inventory Management Report. Joanne recently was appointed a member of the APICS CSCP Curricula and Certification Committee. Joanne has a BS in Business Administration from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Joanne has also received the APICS Lean Enterprise Workshop Series certificate.
Joanne resides in Hortonville, Wisconsin, with her husband and three children. Joanne enjoys running marathons, biking, gardening, and spending time with her family.

Loriann Andersen

Loriann is the newest board member serving her first term. She is currently employed as a Category Manager with ICG Commerce, procurement partner of Kimberly-Clark. Prior to that, Loriann worked as an International Sourcing Manager for School Specialty. She earned her MBA from UW Oshkosh in 2007 and is currently pursuing her CSCP certification.

Dr. Mike Godfrey

Dr. Godfrey is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management at UW Oshkosh. He has worked on consulting projects dealing with project management, lean manufacturing, product and process integration, and facility layout. In addition, he worked for five years in the transportation industry as an operations manager and as an operations supervisor at Sara Lee Corp., The Martin-Brower Company, and Commercial Delivery Service, Inc. He is a CFPIM and CIRM through APICS and a C.P.M. through ISM. He has been active in APICS over the last 10 years—serving on the various boards of directors, teaching certification review classes, and supervising students in the Donald W. Fogarty International Student Paper Competition.