CURRICULUM VITAE

9September 2002 - PresentProfessor of Operations Management - Department of Management, University of Massachusetts,North Dartmouth. Responsibilities include teaching, research and services (On a research leave ofabsence from UMD, I spent the fall 2003 at the University of Illinois - Springfield).October 1998- August 2002Associate Professor of Operations Management (Tenured in August 2001) - Department ofManagement, University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth. Responsibilities include teaching,research and services.October 1995 - September 1998Senior Lecturer in Operations Management - Department of Manufacturing and EngineeringSystems, Brunel University, Uxbridge, England. Responsibilities include teaching, research,services, and supervising theses and dissertations.May 1995 - September 1995Lecturer in Business and Information Systems - School of Computing & Information Technology,Monash University, Churchill, Australia.September 1990 - April 1995Senior Researcher, Assistant Professor & Associate Professor - School of Business, University ofVaasa, Finland. Responsibilities include teaching and research.January 1990 - June 1990Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering - V.M.K.V. EngineeringCollege - Salem, University of Madras, India.September 1989 - December 1989Post-Doctoral Research Assistant - Department of Decision Sciences & Management InformationSystems, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Responsibilities include research and tutoring.September 1988 - August 1989Post-Doctoral Fellow - Department of Administrative Sciences, Laval University, Quebec City,Canada.November 1987 - July 1988Research Assistant - Department of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.Industrial Experience:July 1986 - January 1987Research Engineer - Century Rayon Limited, Kalyan, Bombay, India.January 1982 - July 1982Project Assistant - Bimetal Bearings Limited, Coimbatore, India.January 1981 - May 1981Project Assistant - PSG Industrial Institute, Coimbatore, India.