The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering honored two former students, Darryl Heath ’84 and Dean Liollio ’83, at the department’s annual awards banquet at Pebble Creek Country Club on April 2.

Heath is a Managing Partner of Accenture, a leading global management and technology consulting and outsourcing firm.  He has been with Accenture nearly 24 years. He works with many different companies across several industry segments, including food and packaged goods, energy, and chemicals, among others.  He has spent much of his career helping clients implement large change programs, including ERP solutions, complex warehousing solutions, and supply chain planning solutions.

Heath’s current role involves leading all of Accenture’s activities globally with the PepsiCo Corporation, and its divisions of Pepsi Cola, Frito Lay, Quaker Oats, Gatorade, and Tropicana.  He has held account leadership roles with many other large companies in the past, including DuPont, The Home Depot, Chevron, Celanese Chemicals, and Mary Kay Cosmetics.  In addition to his client work, he teaches courses to Accenture professionals on leadership and work/family balance.

While at A&M, Heath was the Chairman of MSC Town Hall, a Fish Camp Chairman, and was a Buck Weirus award winner.  He previously served on the department’s Industrial Advisory Council and now serves as a member of the College of Engineering’s Advisory Board. He is a Director for the 12^th Man Foundation, participates in the MSC Spencer Leadership Conference, is the founding member of the Accenture sponsored Leadershape program within Student Affairs, and is the Accenture campus recruiting lead for Texas A&M.  Heath also serves as a past Board Chairman of Junior Achievement of Dallas, teaches the Junior Achievement curriculum to 4^th graders, and serves as President of the Athletic Booster Club for Grapevine High School.

Liollio began his career with Entex, a natural gas utility headquartered in Houston, shortly after graduation from Texas A&M.  After the company went through numerous mergers and he went through a career path that included six relocations, he progressed through what today is known as CenterPoint Energy to become the President & COO of its largest natural gas utility business unit, serving 2.3 million customers across 5 states with 3000 employees.  He served in this position from 1999 until his departure from CenterPoint in 2006.

In August of 2006 he became President and Chief Executive Officer of EnergySouth, Inc. a publicly traded company with both natural gas storage and utility businesses headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.  This company was sold to Sempra, Inc. in 2008, allowing Liollio to have a brief period of semi-retirement.

This past November he relocated back to Houston and brought his nearly 30 years of experience in the energy industry to Plains All American, where he became President of PAA Natural Gas Storage LLC., a joint venture between Plains All American and Vulcan Capital.

Liollio has been involved in numerous professional and civic organizations throughout his career.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Southern Gas Association, the Board of Directors of Providence Hospital in Mobile, Alabama, Board of Trustees, St. Paul’s Episcopal School, and former Director of the American Gas Association, United Way of Southwest Alabama, Mobile Area Council Boy Scouts of America and Camp-Rap-A-Hope.  He graduated from the Louisiana State University Executive Education Program in 1997, and is a recent 2008 graduate of Leadership Alabama.

Liollio has served on the Industrial and Systems Engineering Advisory Council since 1998 and has been chairman for much of that time.  He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

Also recognized at the event were departmental scholarship donors and recipients, as well as exceptional accomplishments by faculty, staff, and students.

The event is sponsored annually by Parsons Corporation.

Popularity: 10% [?]

Both comments and pings are currently closed.