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Biographical Summary

Clinical Associate Professor, Lally School of Management and Technology.
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems. 

B.S. 1983 Mechanical Engineering, Union College (New York)

M.S. 1994, Engineering Management, Quality Control and Reliability Concentration, University of Massachusetts
 
Ph.D. 1997 Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Production Systems Concentration, University of Massachusetts. 

Lean management, modular assembly strategies, cost of quality, process analysis and improvement. 

Certifications and Professional Affiliations:

• Associate Director, Center for Lean Studies
• Instructor, Quality Management Certificate Program
• Certified Quality Engineer, American Society for Quality

Industrial Experience:

• Over eleven years experience as an operations management professional, in the defense sector and consumer products manufacturing.  

• Engineering and managerial positions with several major companies including; GE Aerospace, Condiesel Mobile Equipment, Spalding Sports Worldwide, and Titleist and Foot-Joy Worldwide. 

• Extensive management consulting experience with large corporate clients, addressing a wide variety of strategic and technological issues.  

Some Recent Publications:

• "Quality Management in a Modular World", The TQM Magazine, European Centre for TQM, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2006, pp. 87-96.

• "A Case Study:  Lean and R&D at Henkel Loctite", Rensselaer Journal of Management and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 19-25.

• “A Typology to Unleash the Potential of Modularity”, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Volume 16, No. 7, 2005, pp. 699-711.

• “Manufacturing and Design Responsibilities within Modular Supply Chains”, proceedings of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, March 24-36, 2004, Atlantic City, NJ.

• "The Integration of Lean Management and Six Sigma," with John Maleyeff, The TQM Magazine, European Centre for TQM, Volume 17, Issue 1, 2005.

• "Production Systems, Operations Technology and Manufacturing Implications," a textbook chapter for Product Innovation:  Leading Change Through Integrated Product Development, by David L. Rainey, to be published March 2005, Cambridge University Press.

• “A Modular Assembly Taxonomy”,Proceedings of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, March 27-30, 2003, Providence, RI.

• "Loctite Corporation" with John J. Cocco, Ivey Publishing, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, Case number 9B02D019, 2002. Also listed by Harvard Business School Publishing. 
  

• "Design of a Lean Six Sigma Organization," with John Maleyeff, Kvalitetsnyt (published by the Danish Society for Quality), No. 2, April 2001. 
  

• "Implementing Lean Production:  Prometheus Circuits, Inc.," with James J. Compton, European Case Clearing House, Case Number 500-026-1 (Teaching Note 500-026-8), 2000.
  

• "Why They Won't Buy Online:  Part Two of an Exploratory Study of Consumer Attitudes Toward Buying Online," with Martha Fransson and Robin Chase, Developments in Marketing Science, Volume 23, 2000, pp. 197-203.
  

• "Quality Initiatives at a Pharmaceuticals Plant in China," with Martha C. Fransson, and William Knoth, European Case Clearing House, Case Number 699-017-1 (Teaching Note 699-017-8), 1999.

• "A Quality Cost Model to Determine Optimal Policies for Purchased Components," with Richard J. Giglio, Quality Management Journal, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 1998.