Senior Lecturer, Management Science, Dept. of Management, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand, email john dot raffensperger at canterbury dot ac dot nz.
Here is a cartoon of some of my interests. (I commissioned Florence Kerns to make this drawing.)
Agriculture produces demands of energy, water, and soil, and supplies of energy and food. Agriculture’s supply of food also affects transportation, inventory management, and nutrition. Consumers' choices of foods produces demands on the food supply chain. In addition, consumers' choices of habitat and transportation produces demands on agriculture and the environment.
My main focus of research now is to find ways to send price signals so commerce will better manage its environmental impact. The tool of choice is the smart market. I and my colleagues in the Water Markets Research Group have developed smart market designs for ground water, nitrate run-off, sediment run-off, and impervious cover. I am also interested in many other problems in operations research.
Ph.D., Management Science, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Chicago, 1997. Ph.D. dissertation, Measuring and improving the readiness of emergency organizations.
M.B.A., Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1991.
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University, 1981.
Pinto, Antonio, John F. Raffensperger, and Thomas Cochrane, “A smart market for sediment control.”
Raffensperger, John F., Jin Lin, and Chunmiao Zheng, “Planning a smart market for Tianqiao groundwater.”
Raffensperger, John F., “A column generation approach to the geographic regionalization problem.”
Bai, Yongliang, and Raffensperger, John F., "A comparison of fresh water management in New Zealand and China."
Prabodanie, R. A. Ranga, John F. Raffensperger, Mark W. Milke, and E. Grant Read, "LP Models for Pricing Diffuse Nitrate Discharge Permits."
Raffensperger, John F., "Matching Users’ Rights to Available Ground Water," forthcoming in Ecological Economics.
Raffensperger, John, and Thomas Cochrane, “A Smart Market for Impervious Cover,” Water Resources Management, v. 24, no. 12, pp. 3065-3083, Sep 2010.
Raffensperger, John F., “The Generalized Assortment and Best Cutting Stock Problems,” International Transactions of Operations Research, v17, n1, Jan 2010, pp. 35-49.
Prabodanie, Ranga, John F. Raffensperger, and Mark Milke, “A Pollution Offset System for Trading Non-point Source Water Pollution Permits,” J. of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2010, v. 45. n. 4, pp. 499-515.
Raffensperger, John F., Mark W. Milke, and E. Grant Read, “A Deterministic Smart Market Model for Ground Water,” Operations Research, v57, n6, Nov-Dec 2009, pp. 1333-1346.
Gabzdylova, Barbora, John F. Raffensperger, and Pavel Castka, “Sustainability in the New Zealand wine industry: drivers, stakeholders and practices,” J of Cleaner Production, 17 (11), July, 2009.
William, Gerard, Mark Milke, and John F. Raffensperger, “Survey of New Zealand Hydrologists on Water Policy and Information Needs,” NZ Journal of Hydrology, 48(1), pp. 1-12, 2009.
Raffensperger, John F., and Richard, Pascal, “Constructive complexity: a metric for spreadsheet design,” Int. J. of Inf and Ops Mgt Education. 2008, v2, n4, pp. 388-406.
Hasan, Md. Babul, and Raffensperger, John F.,“Two Pricing Methods for Solving an Integrated Commercial Fishery Planning Model,” ORiON, v24, n2, 2008, pp. 115-130. Electronic version of the article published in ORiON, 24(2), pp. 115–130. Electronic copies of this article may be downloaded online from www.orssa.org.za.
Raffensperger, John F., “The Least-Cost Low Carbohydrate Diet Is Expensive,” Nutrition Research, 28 (1) Jan 2008, pp. 6-12.
Raffensperger, John F. and Schrage, Linus, "Scheduling Training for a Tank Battalion: How to Measure Readiness," Computers & Operations Research, 25(6) June 2008, pp. 1844-1864.
Hasan, Md. Babul, and Raffensperger, John F., "A Decomposition-Based Pricing Method for Solving a Large-Scale MILP Model for an Integrated Fishery," J. of Applied Math and Decision Sciences, 2007, Article ID 56404.
Lee, Jon, and John F. Raffensperger (2006), "Using AMPL for teaching the TSP," INFORMS Transactions on Education, 7(1).
Hasan, Md. Babul, and Raffensperger, John F., "A mixed integer linear program for an integrated fishery," ORiON, 22(1), June 2006. Electronic version of the article published in ORiON, 22(1), pp. 19-34. Electronic copies of this article may be downloaded online from www.orssa.org.za.
Dean, H.T., Tu, Y., Raffensperger, J.F. (2006) "An improved method for calculating the no-fit polygon," Computers & Operations Research, 33, 6, 1521-1539.
Raffensperger, John F., Milke, Mark. (2005) "A Design for a Fresh Water Spot Market," Water Science & Technology: Water Supply, 5, 6, 217-224.
Raffensperger, John F., and Richard, Pascal. (2005) "Implementing Dynamic Programs in Spreadsheets," INFORMS Transactions on Education, 5, 2. See also Raffensperger, John F., and Richard, Pascal. (2005), "Errata: Implementing Dynamic Programs in Spreadsheets", 5, 2, January
Raffensperger, John F. (2003) "New Guidelines for Spreadsheets," International Journal of Business and Economics, 2, 2, 141-154.
Raffensperger, John F., Schrage, Linus. (2003) "Scheduling Prowler Training," Naval Research Logistics, 50, 4, 289-305.
Raffensperger, John F., "Slow Snow Sliders - the Newsboy hits the New Zealand ski slopes," Management Case Quarterly, v. 5, no. 4, p. 47, 2002.
Raffensperger, John F., and Schrage, Linus. (1997) "A new paradigm for measuring military readiness," Military Operations Research, v3, n5, pp21-34.
Raffensperger, John G., M.D., and Raffensperger, John F., "Who Should Pay for Resident Education?" J. of Pediatric Surgery, XIX, 6, 1984.
Raffensperger, John F., & John George, "A Touching Belief in the Market," a comment on “A Derivative Approach to Endangered Species Conservation”.
Pinto, Antonio, Thomas A. Cochrane, and John F. Raffensperger, (2008). "Smart Markets and Improved Management of Sediment Discharge." Technical Report for Auckland Regional Council. 42pp.
Raffensperger, John F. and Milke, Mark (2005) The Forever Fair Consent Trading System: Analysis of On-Line Auctions for Groundwater, grant report to the NZ Hydrological Society.
Raffensperger, John F. (2002) "Death by PowerPoint," ORSNZ Newsletter, 1 March 2002, 1-3.
The Art of the Spreadsheet, an online book.
"Spreadsheet readability" - an article about how you should write spreadsheets.
Raffensperger, John F. (2001) ReferenceBrowser, A spreadsheet auditing add-in, computer program.
Hanser, Lawrence M., Michael G. Mattock, John F. Raffensperger, Predicting Training Readiness, technical report, National Defense Research Institute, RAND Corporation, 1995.
Book chapters
Raffensperger, John F., “The economic value of dietary supplements,” book chapter, in Nutrients, Dietary Supplements, and Nutriceuticals, ed. Ronald Ross Watson Ph.D., Univ. of Arizona, to be published by Springer.
Raffensperger, John F. (2002) "Just-in-time or JIT, Kanban," invited contribution, in HG Daellenbach & RL Flood (Ed.), The Informed Student Guide to Management Sciences, p. 159, Cornwall, GB: Thomson Press.
Raffensperger, John F. (2002) "Spreadsheets," invited contribution, in HG Daellenbach & RL Flood (Ed.), The Informed Student Guide to Management Sciences, p. 253, Cornwall, GB: Thomson Press.
Raffensperger, John F., "Matching Users’ Rights to Available Ground Water with a Smart Market," 2nd International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics & Finance, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 3–5 July 2009.
Raffensperger, John F., "PLOVER 2k: Planning Openings and Values for Ellesmere’s Resilience," Living Lakes Symposium 2, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand, 4 Nov 2009.
Prabodanie, R. A. Ranga, John F. Raffensperger, and Mark W. Milke, "Simulation-Optimization Approach for Trading Point and Non-point Source Nutrient Permits." 18th World IMACS / MODSIM Congress, Cairns, Australia 13-17 July 2009.
Prabodanie, Ranga, and Raffensperger, John F., “Cleaning the Water: a Smart Market for Nitrates,” MODSIM Conference 2007, Christchurch NZ.
Plagmann, Manfred, and Raffensperger, John F., “A Smart Market for Ground Water using the Eigenmodel Approach,” MODSIM Conference 2007, Christchurch NZ.
Gabzdylova, Barbora, John F. Raffensperger, and Pavel Castka, “Corporate social responsibility: environmental concern in New Zealand’s wine industry,” Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference 2007, Dunedin, NZ, 3-5 December 2007.
John F. Raffensperger and Mark Milke, “How to Solve Our Water Crisis: a Demo Spot Market for Ground Water,” 23 May 2006, MODFLOW and More 2006 Conference, International Ground Water Modeling Center, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado.
Hasan, M.B., and Raffensperger, J.F., “Relaxation and Decomposition Methods for Solving MILP for an Integrated Fishery” 2006 Computational and Technology Application Conference, from 2-5 July 2006, Townsville, Queens Land, Australia.
John F. Raffensperger and Mark Milke (2005) "National Workshop on Consent Trading: New Options for New Zealand," NZHS-IAH-NZSSS Auckland 2005 Conference, 28 Nov 2005.
John F. Raffensperger and Mark Milke (2005) "Trading of consented groundwater allocations via auctions," Auckland: NZHS-IAH-NZSSS Auckland 2005 Conference, 28 Nov - 2 Dec 2005.
Raffensperger, John F., Milke, Mark (2005) "A Design for a Fresh Water Spot Market," Rethymno, Crete: International Water Association Conference on Economics, Statistics, and Finance, July 2005.
Chang, H., Raffensperger, J.F. and Churcher, N. (2004) "Displaying linear programs and their solutions with XML and SVG," InVis.au2004: Proceedings of the Australasian Symposium on Information Visualisation, volume 35 of Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Christchurch, NZ.
Raffensperger, John F., "New Guidelines for Spreadsheet Style," Proc. of the European Symposium on Spreadsheet Risks, Amsterdam, July, 2001, pp. 61-76.
Raffensperger, John F., “Outline of a market for ecological connectivity,” ORSNZ Conference, Auckland, NZ, 29-30 Nov 2010.
Teasley, Rebecca, John Raffensperger, and Mark Milke, “A Smart Market for Ground and Surface Water with Hydropower Generation,” ASCE World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, 16-20 May 2010, Providence, Rhode Island.
Teasley, Rebecca, Mark Milke, John Raffensperger, Marieh Zargar, “Common Pool Water Markets and Their Role in Facilitating Land Use Change in Drying Climates,” poster presentation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 13-17 Dec 2010, San Francisco.
Zargar, Marieh, Rebecca Teasley, Mark Milke, John F. Raffensperger, “Varying Water User Demand Curves in a Groundwater Smart Market,” NZ Hydrological Society Conference, Dunedin, NZ, 6-10 Dec 2010.
Raffensperger, John F., “A Smart Market for Ground & Surface Water,” English and Chinese, given at (1) Peking University Center for Water Research, Beijing, 22 June 2010, and (2) Chinese University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 2 July 2010.
Raffensperger, John F., "The Forever Fair Water Consent Trading System," an invited presentation to the New Zealand Fresh Water Management Forum, 15-16 Feb 2010, Wellington, New Zealand.
Raffensperger, John F., and Hughey, Kenneth, “Modelling Values of Lake Ellesmere,” Proceedings of the ORNSZ Conference 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-4 Dec 2009, pp. 148-158.
Prabodanie, R. A. Ranga, and Raffensperger, John F., “Can Markets in Agricultural Discharge Permits be Competitive?,” Proceedings of the ORNSZ Conference 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-4 Dec 2009, pp. 182-189.
Pinto, Antonio, John F. Raffensperger, Thomas Cochrane, and Shane Dye, “A Proposed Smart Market for Impervious Cover Runoff under Rainfall Uncertainty,” Proceedings of the ORNSZ Conference 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-4 Dec 2009, pp. 190-199.
Raffensperger, John F., "A fast column generation algorithm for the regionalization problem," 20th International Symposium on Math Programming, Chicago, IL, 23-28 Aug 2009.
Raffensperger, John F., “Generalized smart markets for water resources,” INFORMS Conference, Washington D.C., 12-16 Oct 2008.
Pinto, Antonio, Thomas Cochrane, John F. Raffensperger, “A Proposed Smart Market for Sediment Discharge,” ORSNZ Conference, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ, 24-25 Nov 2008.
Raffensperger, John F., “A new algorithm for the collection area problem,” ORSNZ Conference, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ, 24-25 Nov 2008.
Raffensperger, John F., “Measuring & improving training readiness,” to Joseph Angello, Deputy Sec Def for Readiness, OSD, Washington D.C., 16 Oct 2008.
Raffensperger, John F., “Minimum spanning tree in a spreadsheet? The limits of spreadsheet modeling,” INFORMS Conference, Washington D.C., 12-16 Oct 2008. Here is the associated spreadsheet, "Held and Karp 4.xls".
Raffensperger, John F., “Water allocation & hydrological optimization,” invited lecture, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 3 Oct 2008.
Raffensperger, John F., "An operations research framework for water ethics," invited presentation, PKU-UNESCO International Symposium on Ethics of Water Resource Management, 6 Nov 2007, Beijing, China.
Raffensperger, John F., "Smart Markets - the Answer to Australia's Water Crisis," Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research, 3-5 Dec 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
Presented the “Forever Fair Consent Trading System” to the following groups:
• Tasman District Council, to staff, farmers, farm industry reps, irrigation associations, councillors, ministerial representatives, and Maori, 23-5-2005.
• Hawkes Bay Regional Council, staff and councillors, 24-8-2005.
• Environment Waikato, to staff, farmers, farm & irrigation reps, councillors, & Maori, 3-11-2005.
• Canterbury Federated Farmers regional presidents, 21-11-2005.
• Marlborough District Council staff, 6-12-2005.
• Environment Canterbury senior staff, 7-12-2005.
"Water Sustainability and Water Markets," Golden Key Society, University of Canterbury, key note address, 5 July 2006.
John F. Raffensperger and Mark Milke (2005) "The Forever Fair Consent Trading System, Keynote Address," University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Water Forum, 28 Oct 2005.
Raffensperger, John F. (2004) "Application of column splitting to the travelling salesman problem," Auckland, NZ: ORSNZ 39th Annual Conference, 28-29 Nov 2004.
John F. Raffensperger (2003) "Solving the TSP with decomposition-based pricing," Copenhagen: Math Programming Symposium, 18 August 2003.
Raffensperger, John F. (2002) "Decomposition-Based Pricing for the One-Dimensional Cutting Stock Problem," Auckland, NZ: ORSNZ Conference, Nov 2002.
Raffensperger, John F. "Principles for Successfully Writing and Auditing Spreadsheets," Professional Short Course, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Canterbury, 13 Nov 2001, 21 Jun 2002 and 30 Oct 2002.
Raffensperger, John F. (2000) "Classifying merino wool to maximise revenue," Wellington, Procs. 35th ORSNZ Annual Conference, 1-2 Dec 2000. 241-6.
Raffensperger, John F. (1999) "The marriage of dynamic programming and integer programming," Waikato, Procs. ORSNZ 34th Annual Conference, 49-58.
Raffensperger, John F. "The New Guidelines for Writing Spreadsheets," INFORMS Conference, Cincinnati, May 1999.
Raffensperger, John F. (1998) "A New Paradigm for Measuring Military Readiness". Montery, CA: Military Operations Research Society Symposium, May 1998.
Raffensperger, John F. "The Readiness Problems: Scheduling Training for Emergency Organizations," Math Programming Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 1997.
Raffensperger, John F. "Modelling Unit Training Schedules," Office of the Secretary of Defense, presented with RAND Corp., Washington, D.C., June 1996.
Raffensperger, John F., 2004, The Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint.
Raffensperger, John F., 2002, SpreadsheetStyle.Com, now-defunct web site.
2009. Developed a planning model for Lake Ellesmere, to calculate trade-offs associated with opening regimes.
2009. Developed a smart market model for Horizons Regional Council, supported by AgResearch.
2008. Statistics New Zealand. Helped StatisticsNZ plan the 2011 census.
2008. Auckland Regional Council, $15,846. With Tom Cochrane and Antonio Pinto, we developed a smart market for sediment runoff.
2008. Internship funded by Johns Hopkins University. Supervised (with Mark Milke) an undergraduate student intern from Johns Hopkins University, studying farmers’ attitudes toward risk.
2007. Solid Energy consulting work. This was further developed into a case for my MBA students and a fourth-year student project.
2007. Selwyn District Council grant for an MBA project, $10,000, 2006-2007. This work was to support an MBA project to examine the possibility of running a smart market for groundwater in the Selwyn District.
2005, August, $15,000 from the Univ. of Canterbury College of Business & Economics, to fund a hydrological simulation for Marlborough, NZ.
2004, October, $6,300 from NZ Hydrological Society, to fund development of a demonstration water consent trading software.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Teaching undergraduate, Honours, and MBA courses in management science, decision analysis, and quantitative analysis. Supervising projects done by Honours, Masters of Engineering Management, MBA, and PhD students. 2005 to present.
Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Teaching undergraduate, Honours, and MBA courses in management science, decision analysis, and quantitative analysis. Supervising projects done by Honours, Masters of Engineering Management, MBA, and PhD students. August 1998 to 2004.
Masters' thesis advisor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. Supervised three students' theses: scheduling Navy air squadron training, planning ammunition movements in the Western Pacific fleet, and privatising military housing on the Monterey Bay peninsula. September 1997 to November 1998.
Lecturer in Management Science, GSB, University of Chicago. Taught five MBA business calculus courses to MBA students. Spring 1991 to Summer 1992.
Teaching assistant, Executive MBA, GSB, University of Chicago, Barcelona, Spain. Tutored international executive MBA students in production on-site in Barcelona. Winter 1995.
Lecturer for math review, GSB, University of Chicago. Presented quarterly math refresher sessions to incoming MBA and executive MBA students. Spring 1993 to Spring 1997.
Floor fire warden for some years, now Deputy Building Warden.
MBA Programme Committee, 2007-present.
Teaching and Learning Committee, 2008-2009.
MSCI Honours Programme Coordinator, Dec 2001- Nov 2003.
Information Technology Committee, 2002-2003.
Student Information System Reference Group, 2000.
Transportation Committee, 2000-2001.
Department Computing Committee, 1999-2002.
Enrolment Committee, 1999-2002.
Graduate Program Review Committee, 1998-1999.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Alan Thompson and Richmond Chong, 1999.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Brad Mytton and David Macleam, 2000.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Hans Chang and Darren Pat, 2001.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Tim Dobbs and Andrew Maxwell, 2002.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Betsy Lawrence and James Hole, 2002.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Kelly McCall and Geoff Smits, 2003.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Nicola Law and Greig McDonnell, 2003.
Supervisor, Honours project, Taryn Nicolle and Nicole Smith, 2005.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Gerard William, survey of hydrologists, 2007.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Alex Dunn and Tao Vink,Optimal Distribution of Bulk LPG to South Island Customers, 2009.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Chris Blackmore and Owen Warburton, reliability of the Rangitata Diversion Race, 2010.
Co-supervisor, Honours project, Hannah Norton and Georgina Richards (Geology), optimising geothermal drilling, Mighty River Power, 2010.
Supervisor, Electrical Engineering project, P. Boyle, K. Chea, T. Reed, M. Eskander, A. Lau, 1999.
Supervisor, Masters of Engineering Management project, Judith Taylor, 1999-2000.
Supervisor, Masters of Engineering Management project, Savvas Seitaridis, 1999-2000.
Supervisor, Masters of Engineering Management project, Felinda Hertadi, 2000-2001.
Supervisor, Masters of Engineering Management project, Tee Yong Tan, 2000-2001.
Supervisor, Masters of Engineering Management project, Pearl Chin, 2000-2001.
Supervisor, Masters of Engineering Management project, Clement Scott, 2001-2002.
Supervisor, Electrical Engineering project, Brendon Joe, 2004.
Supervisor, MBA project, Alan Thomas, 1998.
Supervisor, MBA project, Paul Hodgson, 2000.
Supervisor, MBA project, Peter Taylor, 2000.
Supervisor, MBA project, Tianxiang He, 2001.
Supervisor, MBA project, Wai-Tin Tse, 2001.
Supervisor, MBA project, David Worsfold, 2002-3.
Supervisor, MBA project, Amit Naik, 2004.
Supervisor, MBA project, Richard Adams, 2004.
Supervisor, MBA project, Dr. Manfred Plagmann, 2004.
Co-supervisor, Master of Commerce, Tsung-Han Chang, 2002-2003.
Co-supervisor, Master of Commerce, Barbora Gabzdylova, 2007. Corporate social responsibility and the environment, New Zealand wineries and vineyards. Barbora won “Best Commerce Presentation” in the Univ of Canterbury Postgraduate Showcase.
Co-supervisor, PhD student, Hamish Dean, 1999-2001. First place, ORSNZ Young Practitioner Prize 2001.
Hamish now manages ShapeShifter Technology, Ltd.
Supervisor, PhD student, Mohammad Babul Hasan, 2004-2007.
Supervisor, PhD student, Ranga Prabodanie, 2006-present.
Supervisor, PhD student, Antonio Pinto, 2009-present.
Co-supervisor, PhD student, Stephen Starkey, 2009-present.
Referee for the MODSIM Conference 2007, 10-13 Dec 2007, Christchurch, NZ.
Referee for Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences.
Referee for the Proceedings of the European Spreadsheet Interest Group.
Referee for the International Journal of Business and Economics.
Associate Editor for INFORMS Transactions on Education.
Referee for Computers & Operations Research, 2005-2006.
Referee for International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2005.
Member of the Scientific Committee for 2nd International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics, and Finance, 3-4 July 2009, Thrace, Greece.
ORSNZ Canterbury Branch Chairman, 2000-2002. ORSNZ Council member, 2000-2002.
Editor for the Proceedings of the ORSNZ Conference Twenty Naught One, Nov 2001.
Organizer for the ORSNZ Conference Twenty Naught One, Christchurch, Nov 2001.
Editor for the ORSNZ Newsletter, Sep 2001 to Mar 2003.
Session Chair, “Unifying Measures of Readiness,” INFORMS Conference, San Diego, May 1997.
Consultant to many different New Zealand companies and government agencies.
Senior Lecturer above the bar, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Jan 2009 to present.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Jan 2004 to Dec 2008.
Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 1998 to Dec 2004.
Research Fellow, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, July 1997 to July 1998. Supported by the National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences), Washington, D.C. Developed a scheduling system for Army tank battalions. Determined ways to rigorously measure and improve military readiness. Supervised three masters students.
Modelling analyst, Unisys Corp., Elk Grove Village, IL. Implemented location models for placing inventory. Implemented forecasting and inventory control formulas. Conducted world-wide facility location studies. Implemented a system for multiechelon inventory planning (C and FoxPro). October 1994 to June 1997.
Consultant, The RAND Corp., Systems Sciences Department, Santa Monica, CA. Studied readiness of Army battalions to understand the relationship of readiness to input resources. June 1990 to June 1997.
Consultant, Unisys Corp., Elk Grove Village, IL. Inventory reduction, facility location. March 1993.
Consultant, Eaglebrook Inc., Schererville, IN. Optimal transportation of rail cars and trucks, within a chemical blending problem. Development of a model to price an acquisition. 1991 to 1993.
Intern, The RAND Corp., Systems Sciences Department, Santa Monica, CA. Created a heuristic algorithm to schedule military training exercises. July to September 1990.
Operations Analyst, U.S. Postal Service, Operations Planning, Central Region Headquarters, Chicago, IL. Prioritisation of new facilities, simulations to evaluate accounting effects of new automation. June 1986 to September 1988. Received the USPS Service award.
Industrial Engineer, U.S. Postal Service, Engineering Div., Central Region Headquarters, Chicago, IL. Employee scheduling, machine utilisation studies, production control, methods improvements, facility layouts. July 1981 to June 1986.