TAMKO Announces Retirements of Tim Whelan and Mike Carder
GALENA, Kan. — TAMKO Building Products is proud to announce the recent retirements of longtime leaders and Continuous Improvement advocates Tim Whelan and Mike Carder in celebration of the anniversary of NBC’s historic and iconic White Paper television special, “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” The television special, which aired on June 24, 1980, captured the attention of longtime TAMKO President J.P. Humphreys and served as TAMKO’s official introduction to W. Edwards Deming and his Total Quality Management principles that inspired a decades-long, on-going commitment to Continuous Improvement at TAMKO.
Carder was among the first employees recruited by Humphreys to spearhead the effort in the early 1980s, an effort that became a lifelong passion throughout Carder’s more than 40-year TAMKO career. Whelan led the effort to build the next phase of Continuous Improvement at TAMKO by championing the implementation of Six Sigma methodology at TAMKO. The strategies identified in Deming’s methodology have become the standard for TAMKO’s culture of Continuous Improvement and a focus on quality that continues today, manifested now in TAMKO’s extensive Six Sigma program.