Started career as engineer for major international airline.  Won promotion to management of a 60 person department of engineers, technicians, draftsmen, clerks, and secretaries. Changed career and took doctorate in business.  Over the following 45 years taught at four different colleges and advanced to full professor of business with tenure.  During this time interrupted teaching duties to invent a new form of heating control, start and build a company to manufacture and sell it, and subsequently broaden the company into a railroad electronic/electrical equipment service and consulting company. Company was sold to one of the conglomerates in the rail business.  Also developed a new type of patient lift mechanism with U.S. and international patents. Along with teaching duties conducted intellectually rewarding research and consulting practice in creative thinking (seminars, problem solving).  Author of four books, editor emeritus of two publications, licensed professional engineer, and holder of the B.E.E., M.S., M.B.A., and Ph.D. degrees.  Current research into managerial decision making using the creative mind. Working on a book manuscript as coauthor with an executive from a large international conglomerate.

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D., Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, 1967. Areas of Concentration: Operations Management, Managerial Decision Making, Managerial behavior.  Ford Foundation Dissertation Award winner.

M.B.A., Bernard Baruch School of Business, 1962.  Industrial Administration concentration.

M.S. in M.E., School of Engineering, Columbia University, 1958. Feedback control systems concentration.

B.E.E., Pratt Institute, 1956. 

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