PROFESSIONAL
OBJECTIVES
Conducting empirical and theoretical research on problems relating
to the production of goods and services in the public and private
sectors. Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in production
and operations management with emphasis on the application of
current research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
ï Coordination issues in decentralized supply chains.
ï Management of uncertainty in complex projects
ï Planning and management of new product development projects
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin; 1973.
B.S. Carnegie-Mellon University; 1969.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(1992 - present) Burlington Northern/Burlington Resources
Professor of Manufacturing Management
(1998 - present) Adjunct Professor, Industrial Engineering,
College of Engineering, UW
(1990 - present) Senior Research Fellow, IC2 Institute, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
(1989 - present) Adjunct Professor of Health Services, School of
Public Health and Community Medicine
(1993 - 2000) Chair, Department of Management Science, School of
Business, University of Washington
(1992 - 1995) Co-Director, Program in Engineering and
Manufacturing Management (PEMM)
(1988 - 1992) Grant I. Butterbaugh Professor of Management
Science.
(1986 - 1988): Boeing Professor of Management Science.
(1985 - 1989) Founding Chair, Department of Management Science,
School of Business, UW
(1985 - present): Professor of Operations Management.
(1979 - 1985): Associate Professor of Operations Management (with
tenure), School of Business Administration, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington.
(1974 - 1979): Assistant Professor of Operations & Systems
Analysis, School of Business Administration, University of
Washington.
(1972 - 1974): Instructor and Assistant Professor of Management,
Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
(1969 - 1972): Teaching Assistant, School of Business, University
of Texas, Austin, Texas.
(1968 - 1969): Member of engineering staff, Computation Center,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(1970 - present):Consultant for numerous organizations, including
Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company (Seattle, WA), Health Care
Financing Administration (Washington, D.C.), Commission on
Professional and Hospital Activities (Ann Arbor, MI), Cotton, Inc.
(Raleigh, N.C.), Seattle Public School District (Seattle, WA), GMA
Research Corporation (Bellevue, WA), Microsoft (Bellevue, WA),
Washington Hospital Association (Seattle, WA), Federal Home Loan
Bank (Seattle, WA), Healthcare Management Institute, Inc. (Iowa),
Dominican Hospital of Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California),
Starbucks (Seattle, WA), Fluke Mfg. Co. (Everett, WA), Davis,
Wright, Tremaine (Seattle, WA), PACCAR (Bellevue, WA)
Nonpaid advisory positions: Member of the Board of Trustees,
National Multiple Sclerosis Society (Puget Sound Chapter); Member
of the Board of Trustees and Treasurer, Bertschi School, Seattle,
WA.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE/INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(Selected examples)
1985 Founding Chair, Department of Management Science, School of
Business, UW
ï Created Information Systems subarea; combined Operations
Management, Information Systems, and Quantitative Methods to
create new department
1990-92: Key architect of the Program in Engineering and
Manufacturing Management (PEMM); joint MBA/MSE program between the
College of Engineering and the School of Business
1996: Created undergraduate concentration in Information Systems
1993-2000: Helped to raise over $1M to support Management Science
and PEMM program
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED
(1976): Contract #600-76-0143, Office of Research and Statistics,
Social Security Administration, co-principal investigator (with V.
Trivedi), amount of contract approximately $168,000; title:
Cluster Analysis.
(1977): Grant from Biomedical Research Fund, School of Public
Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington,
co-principal investigator (with C. Watts), amount of grant $3,016;
title: PH/BRS Watts/Case Mix.
(1978): Contract #600-76-0143, Office of Research, Health Care
Financing Administration, H.E.W., co-principal investigator and
co-project director (with C. Watts), amount approximately
$335,000; title: Hospital Incentive Reimbursement Evaluation (H.I.R.E.)
Project.
(1978): Contract from the Commission on Professional and Hospital
Activities, Ann Arbor, Michigan, co-principal investigator and
co-project director (with C. Watts), amount approximately $55,000;
title: Investigation of Case Mix Complexity Indices.
(1991-3): Two year grant from the Western Network Partnership for
Health Management
Research (with D. Conrad, T. Wickizer, N. Soderstrom, & D.
Lessler); title: Managing Cost and Quality in Health Care: Inside
the Black Box; amount approximately $225,000
(1980 - present): Summer Research Grants, School of Business,
University of WA
(1994-5): Grant (principal investigator); from the Washington
State Department of Transportation to study issues relating to
freight movement in the Puget Sound region; amount approximately:
$55,000
(1997-1999): Grant (co-principle investigator) from the Financial
Executive Research Foundation to study issues relating to the use
of the internet for financial reporting purposes. Amount
approximately: $127,000.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"A Goal Programming Approach to Urban-Suburban Location Preferences,"
(with J.
Courtney and T. W. Reufli), Management Science, 18, 6, (February,
1972), B258-B268.
"A Grouping Approach to Portfolio Management," Proceedings
of the Ninth
Annual Southeastern TIMS Meeting, edited by E. E. Bruch and W.
R. Henry, (October, 1973).
"Optimal Weighted Ancestry Relationships," (with F.
Glover and D. Klingman), Management Science, 20, 8, (April, 1974),
1190-1193.
"On the Maximal Covering Location Problem and the Generalized
Assignment
Problem," Management Science, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January, 1979),
pp. 107-112.
"An Effective Subgradient Algorithm for the Generalized Assigned
Problem,"
Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 6 (1979), pp. 155-164.
"On the Measurement of Hospital Case Mix," with C. A.
Watts, Medical Care, Vol. 18,
No. 6 (June, 1980), pp. 675-685.
"Merging Groups to Maximize Object Partition Comparison,"
Psychometrika, Vol. 45,
No. 4 (December, 1980), pp. 425-433.
"An Impact of Case Mix on Hospital Cost: A Comparative Analysis,"
(with C. A.
Watts), Inquiry. Vol. 16 (Winter, 1980), pp. 357-367.
"On the Determination of Alternative Hospital Partitions,"
(with C. A. Watts), Health
Services Research, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer, 1981), pp. 205-220.
"To the Victors Belong the Spoils? College Athletics and
Alumni Giving," (with G.
Brooker), Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 4 (December,
1981), pp. 744-751.
Reprinted in Sport and Higher Education, D. Chu, editor, University
of Texas Press.
"The Cost of Regulation: A Further Note," (with C. A.
Watts), Health Services Research (Winter, 1981), Vol. 16, No.
4, pp. 467-476.
"A Current Reappraisal of Berry's Hospital Typology,"
(with C. A. Watts), Medical
Care, Vol. XX, No. 5 (May, 1982), pp. 441-449.
"An Alternative Method for Hospital Partition Determination
Using Hierarchical Cluster
Analysis," Operations Research, Vol. 30, No. 6 (November-December,
1982), pp. 1132-1147.
"On Assessing Cluster Analysis Results," Journal of
Marketing Research, Vol. XX
(February, 1983), pp. 92-98.
"The p-Median Problem for Cluster Analysis: A Comparative
Test Using the Mixture
Model Approach," Management Science, Vol. 31, No. 1 (January,
1985), pp. 84-95.
"Production Classification System: Concepts, Models, and
Strategies," (with T. Schmitt
and A. Shtub), International Journal of Production Research, Vol.
23, No. 3 (1985), pp. 563-578.
"Production Lot Sizing under Learning Effects: An Efficient
Solution Technique," (with
K. Moinzadeh), IIE Transactions, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March, 1989),
pp. 2 - 10.
"Improved Network Based Algorithms for the Assembly Line
Balancing Problem," (with
F. Easton, B. Faaland, T. Schmitt), International Journal of Production
Research, Vol 27, No. 11 (1989), pp. 1901-1915.
"On a Nonlinear and Nonseparable Knapsack Problem",
Operations Research Letters,
Vol. 9, No. 4 (July, 1990).
"Project Management Performance: A Comparison of Team Characteristics",
(with K.
Brown and J. Valluzzi), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management,
Vol 37, No. 2 (May, 1990), pp. 117-125.
"Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Dependent Task Times,"
(with B. Faaland, T.
Schmitt, and A. Shtub), Decision Sciences, Vol 23 (March, 1992),
pp. 343-364.
"On the Use of Buffer Inventories to Minimize Costs with
an Unreliable Machine" (with
L. Matheson and K. Moinzadeh), IIE Transactions, Vol. 25, No.
5 (1993), pp 50-62.
"Optimal File Management in a Hybrid Storage Systems"
(with K. Moinzadeh, G. Diehr,
B. Han), European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 64 (1993),
pp. 370-383.
"Optimal Sampling Policy and Buffer Size in an Unreliable
Production Process" (with K.
Moinzadeh), Management Science, Vol. 41, No. 3 (March, 1995),
pp. 513-523.
Review of Shtub et al. Project Management: Engineering, Technology,
and
Implementation, in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management,
Vol 42, No. 4 (November, 1995), pp. 423- 424.
ìImpact of Material Flow Policies and Goals on Job Outcomesî,
Journal of Applied
Psychology, (with K. Doerr, K. Brown, T. Mitchell), Vol 81, No.
2 (1996), pp. 142-152.
ìThe Impact of Small Lot Ordering on Traffic Congestion in a Physical
Distribution
Systemî (with K. Moinzadeh and E. Berk), IIE Transactions, Vol.
29, No 8 (August, 1997), pp. 671-681.
ìDo Diverse Juries Aid or Impede Justiceî (with K. Klein). Wisconsin
Law Review,
Volume 1999, No. 3 (1999), pp. 553-569.
ìSynchronous Unpaced Flow Lines with Worker Differences and Overtime
Costsî (with K. Doerr and M. Magazine), Management Science, Vol.
46, No. 3 (March, 2000), pp. 421 - 435.
"Coordinating Orders in Supply Chains Through Price Discounts"
(with K. Moinzadeh and J. Son), IIE Transactions: Special Issue
on Planning and Coordination in Supply Chains with Outsourcing,
Vol 34, No 8 (August, 2002), pp. 679-690.
“An Index for Measuring the Design, Time, & Cost Trade-offs
in New Product Development Projects” (with Weiyu Tsai). POMS
Chronicle. Vol 11, No. 2 (2004), pp 12-13.
“RFID: Management’s Newest Headache or Miracle Cure?”
(with A. Jain). E-Business Review, Fall, 2004, pp. 2-10.
“New Product Introduction: Timing, Design, and Pricing”
(with Weiyu Tsai), Manufacturing and Service Operations, forthcoming.
SELECTED RECENT WORKING PAPERS
“Project Planning Under the Threat of a Disruptive Event”
(with P. Aggarwal and G. Mitchell).
“Variability in Supply Chain Leadtimes: The Impact of Customs
Compliance Activities” (with Yong-Pin Zhou)
“Co-ordination Decentralized Supply Chains Using Timing Discounts:
Random Demands” (with J. Son and K. Moinzadeh).
SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS
July, 2004. “The Impact of Security and Customs Compliance
Activities on Supply Chain Design”; presented at the MSOM,
2004 conference, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands.
October, 2003: “Project Planning Under the Threat of a Disruptive
Event” (with Yong-pin Zhou); presented at the National INFORMS
Conference, Atlanta, Ga.
HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Affiliations: The Institute of Operations Research and Management
Sciences (INFORMS)
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society (MSOM)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Honors: National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Fellowship, Title
IV, 1971-1972
Elected to membership, Sigma Iota Epsilon (National Management
Honorary Fraternity)
Elected to membership, New York Academy of Sciences (1980)
Editorial Boards: IIE Transactions, MSOM Journal, POMS Journal
Andy Smith Service Award, School of Business, UW, 1994-5
Evening MBA Core Professor of the Year (AY 2001-2002)
PERSONAL DATA:
Marital Status: Married to Susan Blum Klastorin (two children)
Hobbies: Sailing, reading, tennis, travel
