Experience 

Dennis Brandl

• Consulting services in manufacturing automation, manufacturing operations, and manufacturing IT to Pfizer, Lilly, Dow, Merck, Genentech, Philip Morris, Shering Plough, P&G, OSIsoft, ABB, Rockwell Automation, and DynoChem.

• Member of the ISA-SP88 committee for over 14 years, and a major contributor to the ISA-88 Part 1 and Part 2 standards.  Currently chairman of the ISA-SP88 committee.  Editor and primary contributor to the ANSI/ISA-88 Part 3 General Recipe draft standard.  USA appointed expert to IEC committee (IEC 65A MT-61512) on batch control.

• Founding member of the ISA-SP95 Enterprise/Control System Integration committee.  Primary author of the ANSI/ISA-95 Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 standards for Business to Manufacturing Integration.   Chairman of the IEC/ISO Joint working group developing the IEC version of the ISA 95 standard, IEC 65E, ISO TC 184 JWG 5.

• Author of the WBF (World Batch Forum) BatchML and B2MML XML schema standards for batch control system information and business to manufacturing integration.  Currently in use by a large number of international manufacturing companies.

• Consultant on multiple SAP to factory integration projects for large pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical companies.

• Led the analysis and specification for Rockwell Software’s eProcedure, a tool used to generate electronic batch records that meet the requirements of 21 CFR Part 11 for manual and semi-automated operations.

• Established project execution and tracking systems that resulted in clear improvements in project times and delivered product quality, across multiple organizations, in distributed development environments.

• Regular contributing author to Control Engineering magazine on IT in Manufacturing

Karin A. Lacombe-Mulder

Consulting services that improve and support international assignment management functions in HR, compensation, payroll, Finance, and vendor management.

Analysis and assistance provided

• Assignment Compensation and Tax Settlement Policy interpretation
• International Compensation build-up
• Hypothetical tax and gross-up calculations
• Home and host compliance requirements
• International or shadow payroll implementation
• Foreign payment collection and tax gross-up
• Crosscharge and general ledger reconciliation
• Tax Equalization or Tax Settlement review, audit, interpretation, and communications for HR, Finance and Assignee
• Nonqualified stock option sourcing
• Cost projection and analysis for assignments and extensions
•  Process flow and vendor management

 
Karin Lacombe-Mulder has been providing International Assignment Consulting services with BR&L Consulting, Inc. since September 2005.  She has over 20 years in the International Assignment service area.  As International Assignment Manager with Royal & SunAlliance, she developed procedures to improve the international assignment process, identify areas of savings, increase awareness of international assignments across departmental lines, and improve assignee retention.  Her more than 15 years of experience in the International Assignment Services group with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP including 8 years in Paris, France, provides an extensive background in a variety of consulting, tax compliance, client program, assignment types, and training.