Employment History

• 2011-Present Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
• 2002-2011 Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
• 2001-2002 Chair & Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
• 1996-2001 Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
• 1998-1999 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
• 1997 Summer Adjunct Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
• 1990-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• 1987-1990 Assistant Professor, Management Science Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• 1982-1987 Probability and Statistics Lab Coordinator and Teaching Assistant, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 1981-1982 Operations Research Analyst, World Book, Inc., Chicago, IL
• 1980-1981 Teaching Assistant, Department of Systems Engineering, University of Illinois-Chicago

Consulting Experience

Consulting services to a major national bank to improve management of customer accounts. Specifically to develop a segmentation system for the project. Milwaukee, WI, 1996.

Developed an integer-programming model to determine optimal allocation of the strategies to maximize total dollars collected from delinquent customer accounts, Household International, Chicago, Il, 2002.

Teaching Experience

Courses Taught at San Jose State University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, University of Central Florida, Orlando, and Georgia Institute of Technology

Undergraduate/Graduate

• Basic Optimization Techniques
• Deterministic Methods in Operations Research
• Introductory Statistics for Physical Sciences and Engineering Students
• Regression Analysis
• Applied Stochastic Processes
• Introduction to Computer Simulation (EZSIM, ARENA, ProModel)
• Computer Simulation
• Production Management
• Production and Operations Management (M.S. Program in Management Information Systems Engineering Management at UWM)
• Engineering Statistical Analysis 
• Engineering Statistics
• Probabilistic Approach to Operations Research
• Probability and Statistics (Independent Study)
• Inventory Planning and Control
• Engineering Economic Analysis
• Financial Method for Engineers
• Supply Chain Engineering Research
• Advanced Operations
• Operations research
• Senior Design

Special Cohort Programs

At Graduate level at the University of Central Florida (UCF), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and at San Jose State University:

• Special Topics: Engineering Economic Ananlysis (ENGR 297D, Aug 10 2005 to September 28, 2005 at Lockheed Martin Space Systems and April 24 2006 to June 16, 2006 and April 24, 2009 to June 16, 2009 at Rose Orchard Cohort #5, Cohort #7, Cohort #11, and Cohort #13 in the MBA/MSE program offered by San Jose State University)
• Statistics for Engineers (Spring 2002, Executive Mster's Degree Program in Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Probability & Statistics for Engineers (STA 5156: taught at UCF and at KSC, NASA in the Master's Degree Program in Engineering Management, Fall 1998)

Operations Research (ESI 5316: taught at UCF and at KSC, NASA in the Master's Degreee Program in Engineering Management, Spring 1999)

At Undergraduate Level

• Engineering Statistics (STA 3032 taught at UCF at undergraduate level, Summer 1996, Fall 1998)
• Operations Research (ESI 4312: taught at UCF at undergraduate level, Spring 1999)

Short Courses

• Manufacturing Engineering Basics, September 16-17, 1999 offered through the University Center for Continuing Education-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Prepared and taught material on two sections: Probability and Statistics and Statistical Process Control for the course.

Professional Societies and Service Record

• Director of Membership of the Institute of the Industrial Engineers (IIE) 2002-2004
• Director of the Operations Research Division (OR) of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) 2000-02
• Newsletter Editor of the OR Division of IIE, 1997-1999
• Faculty Advisor, Society of Women Engineers UWM student Chapter, 1994-1998
• Active member of IIE, ASEE

Graduate Student Activities

Ph. D. Committees

• Russell Bellford (advisor)
• Tson-Da Chou (member)
• Ganapathyraju Srinivas (co-advisor)
• Manocher Djassemi (member)
• William A. Berezowitz (member)
• Pichaya Rachdawong (member)
• Christos Pournaropoulos (member)
• Debopam Chakraborty (member)
• Shih-Jen Li (member)
• Gang Yu (member)

Masters Thesis Committees

• Deborah Nettles (advisor)
• Coomar Parmeshswaram (member)
• Susan Lied (advisor)
• Karen Furmack (member)
• Savitha Kasturi (advisor)
• Ronald Baus (member)
• Chandrasekhar Ramachandra (advisor)
• Kidest Eskender (member)
• Arun Chidambaram (advisor)
• Zandhy Utama (member)
• Mark Kachel (advisor)
• Bobby Tjahjana (member)
• Mehrdad Kazemi (advisor)
• Adelina Castillo (member)
• Minoo Seifoddini (advisor)
• Tayyib A. Tayyib (member)
• Vaidyanathan Shankar (co-advisor)
• Abhijit Divekar (member)
• Irfan Manzoor (co-advisor)
• Ashish Seth (member)
• Daniel Hauer (co-advisor)
• Gerardo Tamez (member)
• John Hamm (member)
• Timothy Bickel (member)
• Jeff Lange (member)
• Manjeet Arora (member)

Ph.D. Student Graduated

• Srinivas G., "Qaudtree Based Mapping and Path Planning for a Teleoperated Mobile Robot", 2002
• Bellford, R., "Stage-Wise Decision Making of the Capacity Planning and Control of Telecommunications Switching Systems", 2001

Masters Students Graduated at Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Manzoor, I, "Implementation of Lean Manufacutring in a High Variety Industry," 2002
  Shankar, V., "Quoting Accurate Lead Times for a High Volume High Variety Industrial Supply Chain Using Simulation," 2002
• Haur, D., "A Case Study of Leeson Electric Demonstrating the Use of Vertical Integration as a Tool to Increase the Success of Lean Manufacturing Implementation," 2002
• Kazemi, M., "A New Method for Solving Hemispherical Minimax Location Problem", 1998.
• Chidambaram, A., "A New Approach to Solve for the Global Minimax Point on a Sphere", 1996.
• Kachel, M., "Genetic Algorithms for Finding the Extreme Values of Functions", 1995.
• Seifoddini, M., "A probabilistic Grouping Efficiency Measure for Machine Components Charts, 1993
• Kasturi, S., "Optimal Location of Obnoxious Facilities Considering Risk of Toxic Pollutant Release into the Atmosphere", 1993.
• Ramachandar, C., "Weighted Average Distance Results for Regions With Pockets/Zones of Demand, 1993.
• Nettles, D., "A Linear Programming-Based Method for Determining Whether or Not n Demand Points are on a Hemisphere", 1992.
• Lied, S., "Alternative Crew Allocation Methods at Midway Airlines", 1992.

Master's Thesis Completed at San Jose State University

• D. Chakraborty, "A Mathematical Model for Retirement Planning," January 2007.