Service

Key Services to the Department

  • Committee Member, OB-HR search committee. (Fall 2022)
  • Committee Member, Operations Management faculty search committee. (Spring 2022)
  • Committee Member, Operations Management faculty search committee. (Fall 2021)
  • Committee Member, Entrepreneurship faculty search committee. (Fall 2019)

Key services to the College of Business

  • Delivered a mock lecture to prospective MBA students for MBA Student recruitment. (May 2021)
  • Delivered a mock lecture to prospective MBA students for MBA Student recruitment. (Nov 2020)

Key services to the University

  • Faculty mentor DART: Demonstrated my online course to new DART cohort 2019
  • Faculty mentor in the advisory team by CIPD for online teaching during COVID (2020 and 2021)

Key services to the field of Operations Management

Guest editor:     Sustainability Journal (MDPI Publication) (Impact factor: 3.889)

Special Issue Title:     Supply Chain & Logistics System Evolutions: Achieving Innovative Industrial Platforms and Digital Ecosystem Transformation

Reviewer for:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • American Journal of Business
  • International Journal of Emerging Markets
  • Benchmarking: An International Journal
  • Proceedings for Decision Science Institute Annual Meetings

Session Chair – DSI Annual meetings, Chicago, Illinois                                                                  Nov 2018

  • Sustainability, CSR, and Humanitarian Operations: Carbon Mitigation
  • Sustainability, CSR, and Humanitarian Operations: Retail Operations

Session Chair – DSI Annual meetings, Seattle, WA                                                                          Nov 2015

  • Sustainability: Mathematical Modeling of Closed-Loop Supply Chains
  • Sustainability: Modeling Closed-Loop Supply Chains
  • New Product: Models in Innovation and Product Development

Session Chair: Global Supply Chain Management Conference, Virtual                                               2021

  • Pandemic Responses: The Present and the Future.

Session Chair: DSI Annual MeetingNov 2016

  • SOCIAL ISSUES and SUSTAINABILITY: Social and Sustainability Issues and Organizational Behavior II

Session Chair: DSI Annual MeetingNov 2015

  • Sustainability: Mathematical Modeling of Closed-Loop Supply Chains
  • Sustainability: Modeling Closed-Loop Supply Chains
  • New Product: Models in Innovation and Product Development

Advisor – Manufacturing and Tech Management Research Forum,                                             2015-2016

President – Manufacturing and Tech Management Research Forum,                                          2014-2015

Treasurer – Association for Supply Chain Management: University of Toledo Chapter,

Formerly, American Production and Inventory Control Society,                                               2013-2015

Key services to the community

  • Presenter at a workshop for structural equation modeling – University of Toledo (2021)
  • Webinar on “Introduction to Manufacturing Processes and efficiency: Where economics meets Engineering”, Government Engineering College (GEC), Valsad, India (June 17, 2020)
  • Webinar on “Organizing Manufacturing Processes for Best Utility and Economics”, Shree S’ad Vidhya Mandal Institute of Technology (SVMIT), Bharuch, India (October 9, 2020)

Media appearances

August 4, 2021, Updated September 7, 2021

Global supply chain issues disrupting Bloomington-Normal businesses | pantagraph.com

https://pantagraph.com/business/local/watch-now-global-supply-chain-issues-disrupting-bloomington-normal-businesses/article_212155a3-9517-5d0e-8880-39a7942a8f46.html

By Sierra Henry

The above article in the local newspaper captures my commentary on the impact of recent supply chain disruption on local businesses and the Bloomington-Normal community

Feb 24, 2022, Updated: Feb 25, 2022

Car dealership inventory should be better in coming months | centralillinoisproud.com

https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/car-dealership-inventory-should-be-better-in-coming-months/

By Liam Donahue

The above interview on a local TV channel is my commentary on the current inventory status and forecasts about the automotive industry and its disrupted supply chain.