Teaching

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Currently, I am serving as an Associate Professor of Management at the School of Management at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), teaching MGT 325 Operations Management courses since Fall 2016. Additionally, during my graduate education at UA, I have held several teaching positions. My teaching experience includes both instructor and teaching assistant positions. As an instructor, I taught Introduction to Operations Management (OM 300), a service course within the Culverhouse College of Commerce at UA that is required of all business undergraduates. I also taught Computer Simulation (OM 420), a core course in the OM undergraduate program curriculum. For my instructional efforts, I received the Outstanding Operations Management Graduate Student Instructor Award from the OM program in 2016. As a teaching assistant, I have assisted across several program levels including the OM undergraduate program, the OM Master’s program, and the Executive MBA program. For my efforts as a teaching assistant, I received the Outstanding Operations Management Graduate Teaching Assistant Award from the OM program in 2015.

Instructor

• MGT 325 Operations Management (Fall 2016-Current, 2600 students, rating=4.7/5.0, USM)

• MGT 611 Analytical Decision Making (Fall 2025, 44 students, rating=4.8/5.0, USM)

• BA 600 Management Foundations (Spring 2024, 19 students, rating=4.4/5.0, USM)

• IET 413 Lean Systems (Spring 2023, 17 students, rating=4.8/5.0, USM)

• OM 300: Introduction to Operations Management (Summer 2014, 21 students, rating=4.4/5.0, UA)

• OM 420: Computer Simulation (Spring 2016, 26 students, rating=4.4/5.0, UA)

• OM Doctoral Summer Preparation (Summer 2014, 2015, and 2016, Ph.D. level, UA)

Teaching Assistant (UA, 2013-2016)

• OM 300: Introduction to Operations Management (Fall 2013, 1 semester)

• OM 423: Inventory Management (Spring 2015, 1 semester)

• OM 500: Management Science and Spreadsheet Modeling (2014-2016, 5 semesters; MS level)

• OM 506: Business Spreadsheet Analytics (2015-2016, 3 semesters, MS, MBA, and EMBA levels)

• OM 517: Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis (2016, 1 semester, MS level)

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

My teaching philosophy aims to prepare students for the challenges of work life and consists of the following principles:

• Set clear expectations, and  firmly adhere to them

• Introduce students to available resources

• Prepare students for challenging problems

• Bridge the gap between theory and practice

• Encourage cooperative learning and group work

• Focus on the process, not just results

TEACHING INTERESTS

My teaching experiences at the University of Alabama and at the University of Southern Mississippi have provided me valuable insights on conducting a course with respect to organization, material presentation, and instructor-student interaction. With the rigorous coursework I have completed during my graduate studies and my previous extensive professional/military experience, I am confident that I can continue teaching a variety of courses listed below: