Currently: Vice President Marketing & Business Development for Integrated Systems Design – ISD and
MHI: Solutions Community Group Head of Marketing and Integrator Committee.
Former MHI: Chairman of Order Fulfillment Solutions, AS/RS, and SCE – Warehouse Software Systems Groups
Romaine has spent over 35+ years involved with organizations looking to utilize automation to optimize their distribution, manufacturing, and warehousing operations. Focusing on the customer’s processes, systems and equipment automation and business requirements, Romaine has helped hundreds of organizations improve their profitability by reducing their labor, floor space, error rates and inventory levels while improving throughput, accuracy, inventory turns and cut-off times.
Within the industry trade association, MHI, Romaine has been elected numerous leadership positions including: Marketing Chairman of the Solutions Community, Chairman of the Automated Storage & Retrieval (AS/RS) Group, Chairman of the Order Fulfillment Council of America, Chairman of the Warehouse Execution Systems Group and was one of the originators of the Carousel and VLM Product Section Group. He has also responsible for the efforts in creating the first ANSI industry safety standards for horizontal carousels.
Romaine is a frequent editorial and information contributor to hundreds of publications, blogs, podcasts, and online publications and has been a speaker at dozens of Supply Chain, Logistics, Lean and Facility organizations, and functions. Just a few include the International Food Distributors of America (IFDA), Modex, Promat, Parcel Forum, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), North American Material Handling, National Mfg. Week, Southern California Plant Operations, NJ Material Handling Assoc., Applied Ergonomics, Warehousing Education & Research Council (WERC), Lean Manufacturing Conference, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), NeoCon, Health Information Distribution Association (HIDA), National Catalog & Operations (NCOF), CSCMP and many more.