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I am a multi-disciplinary individual who is always seeking out new challenges and new opportunities to serve.

Currently, I am a Professor of Global Supply Chain Operations at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). I oversee the Veterans Business Outreach Center (VBOC) as Executive Director. The VBOC is funded by a $1.8M grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration. We support veterans in starting businesses and teach entrepreneurship to active duty military personnel on all military bases in north Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

This year I became the first UTA recipient of the Jefferson Science Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences. I am one of 12 nationally. During the 2020-2021 school year I will work in Washington D.C. for the U.S. State Department. After the year on-site I will continue to work and consult for the State Department for three years.

I came to academics later in life. I received my B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Electrical Engineering before entering industry. At BellSouth (now AT&T) I oversaw technology forecasting and Artificial Intelligence development and received the corporation’s top award for innovation. When communism fell in Russia, I co-founded an import/export firm with offices in St. Petersburg and Moscow. I ran this for close to four years until the Russian mob appeared and I decided it was better to be alive than make money. I returned to Georgia Tech where I received an M.S. in Industrial Engineering and a PH.D. in Operations Management. Currently I run a small ranch where I raise grass-fed beef and provide local “hot-shot” trucking.

As an academic I directed the College of Business Ph.D. program for 7 years where I oversaw seven departments with their students and area coordinators. We grew the program to 80 students annually while doubling their stipend. I have published 44 peer-reviewed papers, 6 book chapters and a textbook. As part of my research efforts, I have chair or co-chaired 15 Ph.D. students in the US and France. I have also taught at Universities in Asia and Europe for the past 20 years.