About the Author
I am currently an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. I teach undergraduate, master of science and M.B.A. courses in both the daytime and evening. The courses I teach include statistical methods, quantitative methods, financial modeling and real options.
I also have over a decade of domestic and international experience in the aerospace and defense industry. I most recently served as a department manager for Raytheon, where he was responsible for over 70 system engineers serving the engineering development needs of a diverse government and commercial customer base. I have also served as a senior manager at The Boeing Company, and previously held key engineering appointments at Raytheon Systems Company and The Aerospace Corporation. My current research interests are primarily in the area of nonlinear optimization, simulation, and Kalman filtering techniques for modeling investment problems. The application of this research covers portfolio management, retirement planning, commodity price modeling, and the analysis of investment strategies.
My work has led to over a dozen published articles, including recently in Decision Science, Energy Economics, Journal of Economics and Finance, Financial Services Review, Journal of Investing, as well as two U.S. patents on Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. I was recognized in 2013 as one of 17 ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) friendly professors by ETFdB.com. I co-authored of “StatCity: Statistics Methods for Business Practitioners”, published by Google Play Books. I earned my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Northwestern University and hold a M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
