Romaine has spent over 40 years with companies providing automation to optimize customer distribution, manufacturing, and warehousing operations. Focusing on processes, software, and equipment automation to meet their business requirements, Romaine has helped dozens of organizations improve their profitability by reducing labor, floor space, error rates, and inventory levels while improving throughput, accuracy, inventory turns, and cut-off times.

Within the industry trade association, MHI, Romaine has been elected to numerous leadership positions, including Chairman of the AS/RS Group, the Order Fulfillment Council of America, and the Warehouse Execution Systems Group. Marketing Chairman of the Solutions Community. A founder of the Carousel and VLM Product Section Group and created the first ANSI industry safety standards for horizontal carousels.

Romaine is a frequent editorial and information contributor to hundreds of publications, blogs, and podcasts and has been a speaker at dozens of Supply Chain, Logistics, Lean and Facility organizations.

Just a few include the IFDA, Candy & Confectionary Group, Modex, Promat, Warehousing Education & Research Council (WERC), Parcel Forum, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), NJ Material Handling Assoc., Applied Ergonomics, Lean Manufacturing Conference, CSCMP, NeoCon, and many more.
Romaine has held top management positions for industry leaders Conveyco Technologies, Tompkins, SI Systems, Kardex Remstar, and White Systems (a division of FKI).