Instructors

Divakar Rajamani

Dr. Divakar Rajamani is a Professor and Managing Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at University of Texas at Dallas. Divakar has had a ten-year career in industry at such companies as i2 Technologies and General Motors, where he worked in a consulting capacity. His areas of expertise include Lean Manufacturing, Product Lifecycle Management, Factory Planning and Transition Planning. He also served on the faculty of the University of Manitoba from 1990-1996. He has published in the operations research field and co-authored a book on, Cellular Manufacturing Systems: Design, Planning and Control, which was published in 1996.

Curt Raschke

Curt Raschke, Ph.D, is a Senior Member, Technical Staff with Texas Instruments and has over twenty years experience in managing high technology new product development projects in the fields of wireless signal processing, digital light processing, electronic printing, electronic countermeasures, terrain following radar, and secure communication.

He is currently assigned to the Design Quality organization where he leads a project to develop and deploy a worldwide New Product Development Project Management Office for one of the company divisions. Previous assignments included establishment of a Project Management Competency Center within the Mixed Signal Product Division of TI and deploying a world wide project knowledge management framework for use by all new product development divisions.

Curt has been very active in the Project Management Institute, serving on the board of the New Product Development Specific Interest Group for six years, an officer of the PMI National Assembly of Specific Interest Group Chairs for two years, and organizer of the DFW NPD SIG Local Affiliate. He has been an invited speaker and panelist at numerous national and local conferences on New Product Development Project Management and New Product Development best practices.

Peter A. Storti

Dr. Peter A. Storti, President, InfoEdge Inc. Since the 1980's, Dr. Storti has been at the leading edge of PDM. He is a consultant for Fortune 100 companies implementing this technology in a broad range of market areas including telecommunications, electronics, aerospace, defense, medical, oil & gas, and energy systems. The result is that Peter brings a very practical perspective on using PLM technology to solve real world problems to the classroom. Dr. Storti has a BS in Operations Research from Cornell University, and MBA from the State University of New York, and a PhD in Manufacturing Systems from the University of Texas.

Surya N. Janakiraman

Surya N. Janakiraman is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Management at The University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining The University of Texas at Dallas, he taught at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. He has a Ph.D in accounting from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Janakiraman's academic achievements include Dean's fellowship at the Wharton School, representing the Wharton School at the Doctoral Consortium and obtaining a dissertation fellowship award from Arthur Andersen. Dr. Janakiraman's non-academic work experience includes production responsibilities in a major automobile-manufacturing firm, project management for a manufacturing company and management consulting with a leading accounting firm. Dr. Janakiraman has published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Productivity Analysis, and Managerial Finance. He has also co-authored a research monograph "Balanced scorecard: Linking strategy to performance" published by the research foundation of the Financial Executives International.

Ram Natarajan

Ram Natarajan is an associate professor of accounting and information management at UTD. He has a Ph.D. in accounting from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, and is professionally qualified as a cost accountant. He previously taught at the University of Michigan Business School and at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Natarajan has been recognized twice for superior teaching performance at Southern Methodist University and was nominated for the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award at UTD. His accomplishments have also been recognized with an outstanding doctoral dissertation award from the American Accounting Association and research fellowships from Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. Dr. Natarajan's research addresses questions pertaining to analysis of productivity and efficiency in organizations, the determinants of CEO compensation, use of accounting performance measures for performance evaluation and link between corporate disclosure policies and managerial incentives.

Abhi Biswas

Abhi Biswas is the Director of Graduate Marketing Certificate Program and a full time faculty member at the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prof. Biswas has over 19 years of teaching experience including many courses taught at the Cox School of Business at SMU and the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. He has been consistently recognized for outstanding teaching at all three institutions. Over the years he has taught a diverse range of MBA and EMBA courses including Consumer Behavior, International Marketing, Product Management, Marketing Research, Pricing Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, etc. Abhi also has over 9 years of industry work experience and consulting experience in the areas of product feasibility studies, ethnographic research, business plan development and marketing training and development.

For additional information contact:
Divakar Rajamani
divakar@utdallas.edu
469 371 4300