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Personal Background, Experience, and Interests

Adriano Solis received his B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics and M.B.A. degrees from the University of the Philippines, where he taught in the mathematics department and in the College of Business Administration. He joined the Philippine operations of Philips Electronics, the Netherlands-based global electronics corporation, as Manager for Corporate Planning and Business Development. He went on to become Vice President and Division Manager of the Professional Products and Systems Division and, concurrently, the Personal Information Products Division.

He eventually obtained his Ph.D. in Management Science at the University of Alabama in 1997. He has taught operations management and quantitative methods at Oregon State University, and operations management and strategy at Millikin University in Illinois. In August 2000, he joined the Department of Information and Decision Sciences of the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he teaches courses in operations management, supply chain management, and quantitative methods.

Dr. Solis represents UTEP on the Minority Universities Supply Chain Management Education Consortium. He is an academician member of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), formerly the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM), and was Chair of ISM's national Diversity Committee from May 2004 through May 2007. He also serves as Academic Advisor on the Board of Directors of NAPM El Paso, the ISM affiliate for Greater El Paso and Southern New Mexico. He received from NAPM El Paso the 2002 Richard S. Smith Award as outstanding member of the year. He is also at present a member of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), as well as the El Paso/Juarez chapter of the Association for Operations Management (APICS).

His current research interests include supply chain management, inventory systems, the use of information technology in operations and supply chain management, lumpy demand analysis, enterprise resource planning systems, and mathematical modeling and systems simulation. His research articles are published in European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Information Systems Management, International Journal of Production Economics, and International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management.

Paper at the 36^th Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI 2007), Denver, Colorado, April 2007

- "Demand-Supply Interaction and Production Capacity Planning for Short Life Cycle Products"

Paper at the 35^th Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI 2006), Waikoloa, Hawaii, April 2006

- "Factors Indicative of Relative Performance of Methods for Lumpy Demand Forecasting"

Papers at the 36^th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI 2005), San Francisco, California, November 2005

- "The City of El Paso's Switch from ASP Hosting to Self Hosting of Its Enterprise Resource Planning System"

- "A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of E-Commerce Technologies in Supply Chain Management"

Papers at the 35^th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI 2004), Boston, Massachusetts, November 2004

- "Enterprise Resource Planning and Activity Based Costing in a Local Government Setting: The El Paso, Texas Case"

- "Effects of Deteriorating Inventory on Lot-Sizing: A Comparative Analysis of Heuristics for MRP Systems"

Paper at the 33^rd Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI 2004), Isla Navidad, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, April 2004

- "Lumpy Demand Characterization and Forecasting Performance: An Exploratory Case Study"

* Recipient of the Best Paper Award, Management Science and Quantitative Methods Track