Faculty Spotlight - Gary Mitchell
Emerald Distinguished Professor and Discipline Leader of the Pamplin School of Business' Operations & Technology Management (OTM) program, Dr. Gary Mitchell earned an M.B.A in Finance from the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Washington.
His teaching experience includes project management, decision modeling, inventory and supply chain management, operations management, and systems analysis and design, and he has twenty years of experience in supply chain management and information systems development. He founded a successful supply chain management solutions company that he sold in 1997 and he previously held national responsibility for inventory management consulting (retail and wholesale companies) at KPMG.
Dr. Mitchell recently launched the 1st time event "
Helping Hands" at UP where he led
Team Axis #7187, the Lake Oswego robotics team he mentors along with his wife Veronica, and OTM students. They gathered on December 2nd to build prosthetic hands for those in need!
His hobbies include martial arts (he holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and Hap Ki Do), photography and playing the saxophone. He will be a featured speaker at this month's
APICS meeting on 1/19 (along with professor Gudigantala).
We give Professor Mitchell the special spotlight shout-out this month!