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Lee Philip Teichner practices in the area of business litigation, with an emphasis in the areas of product liability, tort, commercial and insurance litigation. He has extensive experience in products liability, involving a wide variety of products, including motor vehicles and their components, material handling equipment, people moving equipment, construction equipment, electricity, machine guarding, firearms, medical devices, aviation and other vessels. He is equally experienced in tort litigation involving issues of premises liability, medical issues, property rights, cemetery and funeral issues, consumer torts, motor vehicle accidents, construction and food contamination. He frequently handles business and commercial litigation, including contract disputes, real estate disputes, lease disputes, antitrust and other similar consumer litigation, franchise litigation, employment litigation, defamation, and non-competition agreements. He also frequently handles insurance litigation, including issues of coverage and bad faith. He is lead counsel for Bridgestone/Firestone entities, handling the substantial bulk of the consumer, retail operations and tort litigation in Florida.

Service Manager - Assistant Store Manager, Mark Pacitti, has worked for Lee Rollins longer than anyone else. Mark first began at Rollins Shell in 1979 as a general service technician and soon after the opening of Lee Rollins Firestone he made the move to the larger location. Mark is a Master Technician, Smog Technician and has recently completed a week-long Bridgestone/Firestone management class in Nashville. November 1, 2001, Mark moved into his new and current position sharing his vast automotive knowledge with customers and staff. Mark is an avid San Diego Charger season ticket holder and Kiwanas Soap Box Derby builder and coordinator.

Richard Tucker is Director of Project Operations for The ACCESS Group (TAG). He has over sixteen years of business and industry experience in operational and leadership positions. His experience includes new program installation and launch, operations improvement, lean manufacturing implementation (internally and with suppliers), leadership development and supplier program management from prototyping through launch. Richard's experience as Manager of Technical Purchasing has given him a good understanding of major cost drivers and how lean tools can be utilized to make short and long-term impacts to a company's bottom line. Richard has extensive intercultural experience working with Japanese and German counterparts at the OEM and Tier 1 level including Nissan, Bridgestone/ Firestone, Robert Bosch and General Motors Powertrain. Richard has led many projects over his career ranging from development and transfer of equipment sourced in Japan to coaching supplier leadership in results-oriented lean implantation. His accomplishments include leading the installation and startup of Nissan's Intelligent Body Assembly System (featured in Ward's Auto World and Automotive Design and Production magazines). He has led the implementation of an operations level policy deployment model to focus resources on high-leverage projects to improve productivity and quality at a major Tier 1 supplier plant. Richard utilized Shainin Statistical Engineering Techniques to resolve failures on shaft insert station and improve throughput 13%. He has applied lean tools and methods such as OEE and root cause analysis to reduce scrap and improve productivity to eliminate $335k/year of unplanned overtime. Richard has experience working at multiple levels within an organization from the shop floor to the boardroom and seeks to train, coach and develop others to understand the philosophy behind lean techniques. An experienced facilitator, Richard has lead workshops to identify and implement specific cost reductions on current production as well as capital equipment reduction and design optimization on products in the pre-production phase. He has lead Design For Manufacturability workshops to reduce capital expenditures. ($140k capital and $30k customer owned tooling on GM LS3 IAFM program), and Supplier Lean Production workshops to reduce labor content and quality costs ($189k/year labor reduction and $50k/year cost-of-quality on DCX PCHC program). He has utilized his experience to analyze manufacturing feasibility of design alternatives during design and prototyping phase. (i.e. ad hoc DFM activities) and negotiate pricing based on process cost drivers versus supplier quotes. (Major savings over program life: Hydraulic Block $8.9M, RWD PSM $1.0M, FWD PSM $1.1M) Richard's educational background includes BS and MS degrees from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. Richard has attended formal training courses in the Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Shainin Statistical Engineering and is certified by FranklinCovery to facilitate 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Principle-Centered Leadership workshops.

Born in Snellville Georgia, where 'Everybody is Somebody,' Ryan made a name for himself drawing demons on the church bulletin. Not deterred by early unwarranted and some particularly vicious criticism, he still wanted to turn his love for art and design into an exciting career. After Gainesville State College he was persuaded to join the circus by a leading figure in advertising. Adding to an already copious set of motor skills, not the least of which includes an almost freakish mastery of juggling, he was educated in Art Direction at The Creative Circus. Ryan soon landed his first work on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, via JWT Atlanta, and has since been an internationally published art director. His client book includes the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Virgin Islands, Norfolk Southern, Bridgestone, Columbia Aircraft and TransWorldNews among others. His future goals are to become a great family man, a sales-winning art director, and to be outlawed in Peru and the southern peninsulas of Madagascar.