Problem Solving

Todd Reeves is the Business Development Manager for the UT CIS Tennessee Manufacturing Extension Partnership (TMEP) program. He is an experienced collaborator, leader, and product manager. Driven by a sense of purpose and service, he strives to be both responsive and proactive in leading and supporting our statewide team of eight Solutions Consultants that are distributed regionally across the state. The TMEP, part of the national NIST MEP program, serves primarily small to medium sized manufacturers in Tennessee to help them to grow and improve their overall operations.

Prior to joining UT CIS in 2022, Todd served for over 12 years the Director in the Office of Engineering Professional Practice, where he coordinated with industry and government entities to grow the opportunities for the University of Tennessee's Tickle College of Engineering students to obtain academically relevant engineering experience in the form of paid, cooperative education and internship education assignments. Before his time at UT, Todd served for 21 years in private industry in a variety of roles including being a product manager for new condition-based monitoring products, software project management, and application engineering, and field service with Emerson in Knoxville, TN and served as a sound and vibration design engineer for three years with General Dynamics Electric Boat located in Groton, CT prior to that.

Todd holds nine patents in the area of machine condition monitoring, has been a conference speaker while also publishing over 20 articles and presentations in various conference proceedings and trade journals. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tenn.

Please connect with Todd on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddreeves828/

Tim Waldo is a Workforce Consultant with the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services (UT CIS), assisting Tennessee manufacturers with workforce and workplace development opportunities. His passion for helping people discover their potential has been a primary motivator over a career including more than 17 years in the manufacturing sector and multiple years in the service sector. Through those years, Tim has had the opportunity to recruit, train, and manage multiple teams. 

In 2012, he shifted his career focus exclusively to workforce development, first in the nonprofit sector, then in 2017, joining UT CIS. In these roles, he has helped to launch new initiatives; a pre-apprenticeship training program for marginalized audiences; and, with UT CIS, a strategic shift toward workplace development efforts. Tim earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Tusculum College and from the University of Tennessee, a master’s degree in Educational Psychology focused on adult education. Living in east Tennessee affords Tim and his wife, Carol, plenty of opportunities to enjoy the great outdoors.