The Control Point Edge

About Us

Scott F Jensen, Principal
With over 20 years of industry experience, Scott's career has been divided between management, teaching, and consulting roles. Receiving a Logistics Engineering degree, Scott began his career in resource management.
As a Lean Systems Implementation expert at an automotive tier-one supplier Scott was fortunate to spend time at a Toyota facility and complete the Toyota Production System, Management Training. Adding to this knowledge he later became a certified Thinking Process Jonah with the TOC Center.
Now, in a teaching and consulting role at Weber Sate University and Control Point, Scott’s areas of specialty include Constraints Management and Lean Manufacturing. 

Larry P Leach, Senior Consultant
Author of Critical Chain Project Management, and numerous articles on Project Management practices, Larry Leach is widely recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts on the Theory of Constraints/Critical Chain Project Management, and one of its chief implementers.
With over 30 years of industry experience, Larry’s career has been divided between management and consulting roles. Receiving Masters Degrees in both Business Management from the University of Idaho, and in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, Larry also teaches MBA courses. He was awarded membership in Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering honorary society, while earning his undergraduate degree in Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Larry is also a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), a certified Project Management Professional, and Theory of Constraints Jonah’s Jonah with the Goldratt institute.

 
Tony LaTurner, PhD, Brigham Young University
Dr. Tony LaTurner is a professor at Brigham Young University. He teaches Operations & Supply Chain Management, Six-Sigma, Lean & Theory Of  Constraints (TOC) courses. Tony has been teaching and consulting for over 20 years and holds a BS from BYU, an MS and Ph.D. from California Coast University.
Recently, Tony participated in a process improvement project with the U.S. Navy, achieving dramatic improvements within their maintenance and repair operations.
Dr. LaTurner is certified in Six Sigma as a Master Black Belt, TOC as a Jonah’s Jonah, and holds a Master Certification in Lean. He has implemented improvement projects at many fortune 500 corporations and worked extensively with Department of Defense organizations

 

K. Barton Penrod, Special Advisor
Bart has more than Twenty-eight years of combined experience as a CEO, COO, GM, Vice President, and director of consulting, Director of Manufacturing/Production/ Scheduling.
Bart began his journey into the world of ”Lean Manufacturing as a teenager, before many in America knew there was such a thing. In the late sixties, he was sent by his family’s dealership to Yamaha’s management training and studied Lean from the Japanese.
While studying at AGI with Dr. Eli Goldratt and Mr. Robert Fox, Bart contributed to the advancement of the Theory of Constraints and graduated as a Jonah, Information systems Jonah, and Jonah’s Jonah. Following the release of the Japanese translation of “The Goal Bart was invited to Japan where he lectured at Toyota, Hitachi, Panasonic, Nippon Steel, and others.
Recognized as a world authority in TOC and one of its chief implementers, Bart now spends the majority of his time, applying the techniques he has helped develop to his personal enterprises.