JOE T. FELAN, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant
Phone: 501-952-0530
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BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
Over fourteen years of academic teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Experience includes over seventeen years as a member of the APICS organization and a past president of the Heart of Texas chapter. Experience also includes conducting numerous plant tours for students and working professionals with companies such as Dassault Falcon-Jet, L’Oreal, M&M Mars, Raytheon, Target Distribution Center, Dillard’s Distribution Center, and AFFES Distribution Center among others. Significant experience includes:
Inventory Management
Constraint Management
Supply Chain Management
Quality Assurance and Improvement
Warehousing
Lean Systems
Labor Scheduling and Flexibility
Cycle-time reduction
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Board Member, Board of Directors
Junior Achievement of Arkansas 2006-Present
Board member for Saline County.
Mission is to educate and inspire young people
to compete in a global economy.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2002-Present
Associate Professor of Management
Teaching Fields: Production/Operations Management;
Quality Assurance; Quality Improvement;
Service Operations Management:
Supply Chain Management;
Decision Sciences; Business Statistics
Baylor University 1997-2002
Assistant Professor
Teaching Fields: Production/Operations Management;
Quality Assurance; Quality Improvement;
Service Operations Management:
Decision Sciences; Business Statistics
Bucknell University 1993-1996
Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Regular teaching duties and the administration,
advising and scheduling of evening graduate program
(MSBA) with approximately 80 students.
University of South Carolina - Sumter 1992-1993
Visiting Instructor
Teaching Fields: Production/Operations Management;
Quality Assurance; Quality Improvement;
Decision Sciences; Business Statistics
Beall’s Department Stores 1981-1986
(Now a part of Stage Stores)
Management Training Program
Worked into the management training program
and then left to complete undergraduate degree
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
• Decision Sciences Institute
• APICS – The Association for Operations Management
Past President of Heart of Texas Chapter (2000-2002)
• National Society of Hispanic MBA's
• Alpha Kappa Psi (Professional Business Fraternity)
EDUCATION:
Ph. D., University of South Carolina 1995
Major: Production/Operations Management
Minor: Operations Research
Dissertation: “Labor Flexibility and Assignment Policies in a Hypothetical Dual Resource Constrained Assembly Job Shop”
M.B.A., Baylor University 1989
Major: Management
B.B.A., Baylor University 1987
Major: Marketing and Management
AWARDS / RECOGNITION:
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2004.
CONSULTING:
Warehouse and Inventory Management, Artco-Bell Corp., Temple, TX, 1998.
SEMINARS & TRAINING:
Warehouse and Inventory Management, Temple College Resource Institute (TCRI), Harker Heights, TX, May 1998.
Project Management, Professional Development, Office of Organizational Development, Baylor University, March 1998.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
Finch, Byron J. and Joe T. Felan (2005), Instructor’s Manual and Solutions for Operations Now: Profitability, Processes, Performance, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill.
Upton, N., E. Teal, and J. Felan (2002), “Strategic and Business Planning Practices of Fast Growth Family Firms,” Zeitschrift für Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (International Journal for Small and Mid-Size Companies, Germany), Vol. 50, 71-88.
Gray, V., J. Felan, E. Umble and M. Umble (2002), “A Comparison of Drum-Buffer-Rope Production Scheduling and Critical Chain Project Scheduling Techniques,” The Frontiers of Project Management Research, Slevin, Cleland, and Pinto, eds., 419-433.
Upton, N. and J. Felan (2001), “Fast Growth Family Firms: Lessons from the Gazelles,” Family Business Gathering 2001: Destroying Myths and Creating Value in Family Businesses, McCann and Upton, eds., 19-27.
Felan, J., and T. Fry (2001), “Multi-level heterogeneous worker flexibility in a Dual Resource Constrained (DRC) Job-Shop,” The International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 39, No. 14, 3041-3060.
Upton, N., E. Teal, and J. Felan (2001), “Strategic and Business Planning Practices of Fast Growth Family Firms,” Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 39, No. 1, 60-72.
SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Felan, J., R. Syler, L. Revere, and F. Moeeni, “Putting Decision Sciences Courses On-Line, Invited Panel Discussion, Southwest Decision Sciences Institute, Dallas, TX, March 2005.
Smith, R. and J. Felan, “Consumer Reaction and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID),” presentation and publication at the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD), New Orleans, LA, January, 2005.
Felan, J., “How Long Does it Take You to Change a Tire?: Using Pit Stops to Help Explain Just-In-Time and Setup Time Reduction,” presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute, Orlando, Fl, March 2004.
Felan, J. and R. Smith, “Permeating the Barrier between Operations and Marketing,” presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Washington, D.C., November 2003.