WORK EXPERIENCE

Providing consulting services to optimize productivity at marine container terminals including:

• Health checks
• IT Systems & Operations Audit
• System Optimization
• Operations Research and Analysis
• Layout Design and Implementation, Equipment Selection
• Modeling and Simulation
• Decision Making and Forecasting
• Software Product Management solutions

Direction of Engineering -- Software development

Lead/develop large-scale optimization applications for advanced planning, scheduling, and automated control for:

• Marine container terminals
• Rail terminals
• Shipping lines
• Retail distribution centers

EXPERTISE

• Optimization (e.g.,
  • linear optimization
  • combinatorial optimization
  • network flows
  • nonlinear programming
  • dynamic programming
  • constraint programming
  • meta-heuristics)
• Logistics
• Advanced Planning and Scheduling
• Automated Control
• Real-time Dispatching and Routing
• Modeling and Simulation
• Data Analysis
• Stochastic Models
• Reliability
• Project Management
• Decision Making and Forecasting
• Decision Support Systems

Strengths:

• 25+ years of diverse engineering experience with the full life-cycle software development from functional requirements gathering to deployment in production and testing with end-users.
• 30+ years of project/organizational management experience.
• Strong analytical problem solving skills.
• Extensive experience designing, developing, implementing, and supporting optimization-based decision support systems.
• Expert in object-oriented programming and development of enterprise software.
• Thorough knowledge of mathematical programming and advanced statistical theory and techniques.