Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 
Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, August 2003–present
Co-Director, Center for Value Chain Research, January 2005–present

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant
September 1998–July 2003

• Post-doctoral fellow (June 2003–July 2003)
• Research assistant (September 1998–2003)
• Instructor (Winter 2001 and Winter 2002)
• Teaching assistant (Fall 1999)

LogicTools, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Supply Chain Consultant
Summers 2001 and 2002

• Internship for supply chain management software and consulting company founded by David Simchi-Levi
• Built network design models for Fortune 500 companies
• Helped design algorithm and interface for stragegic inventory management software
• Provided technical support for beginner and advanced users of software
• Co-authored white paper "Supply Chain Responsiveness in the Wake of a Major Crisis" with David Simchi-Levi and Mike Watson

Motorola, Inc.
Schaumburg, IL
Senior Supply Chain Engineer
June 2000–December 2000

• Half-year internship for Motorola Supply Chain Services, an internal consulting group studying supply chain management problems for other divisions within Motorola
• Worked on manufacturing sourcing project for new cellular products
• Applied integer-programming based optimization model
• Wrote Access database to collect, process, and format data for import into optimization software
• Prepared detailed reports on results
• Worked on cell phone distribution project used by senior management to make long-term strategic decisions with high financial impact
• Conferred directly with senior managers and officials

• Business analyst for small consulting and direct mail firm
• Consulted for Top-10 banks and direct marketing firms
• Designed, implemented, and maintained complex software systems:
• Graphical user interface to assist salespeople in describing products, taking orders, and computing monthly loan payments
• Database and related support system to track and update monthly billing information for thousands of customers, including accounting and customer delinquency data
• System for analyzing results of marketing tests
• Performed statistical analysis on large databases and built response and profitability models used by management to determine marketing, pricing, and credit strategies
• Designed company Web pages that generated 25% of company’s retail customers annually

• Served as Teaching Assistant for 3-week course on Probability and Game Theory as part of program for gifted junior high school students run by The Johns Hopkins University
• Wrote lesson plans and taught classes on difficult mathematical material
• Graded homework and exams and led daily study sessions

• Selected by math department and Dean of Students to teach 3-week Pre-Calculus refresher course, January 1996
• Taught weekly help sessions for students in introductory and intermediate calculus classes
• Graded homework for intermediate calculus and linear algebra classes

• Editorial assistant (1995) and intern (1994) for publisher of medical journals and textbooks
• Served as assistant production editor for ophthalmological and other technical journals