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2001 – Present                             Southern Methodist University                  Dallas, Texas

Ph.D. Operations Research & Systems Engineering                                   GPA 4.0

Dissertation topic: Production Planning and  Supply Chains Optimization

1999 – Jul 2001                            University of Florida                  Gainesville, Florida

M.E. Industrial & Systems Engineering (Engineering Management Option): GPA 4.0

Thesis topic: Supply Chain Inventory Control

1993 - 1998                           University of Jordan

B.Sc. Industrial Engineering: Ranked 1^ST  on Dept.: GPA 3.8

Aug 2001-Present                               Raytheon Systems Co.                                        Dallas, TX

Capacity Models Owner & R-PULS Lean Implementation Coordinater

 Modeling and Optimization

§            Capacity Analysis: Developed a comprehensive capacity planning suite that includes data-mining and input analysis module,

a detailed simulation model, and statistical output analysis for the strategic (10-years) capital investments, and tactical

level-loading and execution.

§            Lean Manufacturing Champion: I have been working as the Lean Implementation Factory Team (LIFT) coordinator. This

effort led to a 40% WIP reduction and 30% cycle time  reduction for our largest two programs.

§            Production Processes Improvement: Conducting comprehensive work design and process flow analysis, to come-up with

radical improvement recommendations. Building models to mimic the areas’ processes, and conducting What-If analysis for

optimizing efficiency in the different functional areas.

§            Factory Layouts: ccontributed to the comprehensive factories re-layout through providing products routings, production flow

analyses, and drawing the detailed AutoCAD drawings. 

§            Was promoted to Industrial Engineer 2 then 3 in less than three years.

§            Engineer of the month, May 2003.

§            Received an Achievement Award in 2004.

Dec 2000- Aug 2001              Productivity Apex Inc. (Subcontractor for NASA) Orlando, FL

Simulation Modeling Part-Time Consultant

§            Developed a Generic Simulation Model for the Reusable Launch Vehicles at NASA: The project was part of the Space

Launch Initiative (SLI) program for developing simulation tools that are readily applied to any possible RLV architectures chose

by the user.

Aug 2000- Dec 2000                      University of Florida: E-Commerce and SCM Lab           Gainesville, FL

Graduate Research Assistant

§            Worked on the NSF & IBM-funded ISEE Project: Developed operational process analysis and scenarios for the various

processes in a “Collaborative Supply Chain” environment.  The logic and scenarios were implemented (in collaboration with team-

members from the Computer Engineering Dept.) for building a Negotiation Server, Constraint Satisfaction Processor, and Cost-

Benefit Analysis Server that mimic a realistic supply chain. 

Dec 1999- Aug 2000                 Intel Corporation                                              Santa Clara, CA

Tactical Capacity Group

§         Production Scheduling: Analyzed the different functional areas’ dispatching requirements, along with a cross-functional team,

and came up with scheduling rules that would optimize the throughput. Afterwards, I did the coding, verification and validation of the

rules.

§         WIP Management: Worked on several projects for managing the Work In Progress in a manner that reduces the WIP while

satisfying the production requirements. These projects included WIP Feeds Prediction and WIP Turns improvement.

Aug- Dec 1999                      UF Industrial Assessment Center                 University of Florida, FL

Team Leader (Starting Nov. 99)

§       Conducted industrial assessment visits, along with a team of faculty and student members, to come up with recommendations

for productivity improvement, energy and waste reduction.

§       The recommendations’ payback periods are calculated and the technical requirements summarized in a formal report submitted

to the client and to the Department of Energy.

Aug 1998- Aug 1999             Philadelphia Consulting Group, Kuwait

Quality Management Consultant & Branch Coordinator

§         Led four companies to the ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems certification.

§         Coordinated the branch activities, including marketing, diagnostic studies, offers preparation, and projects management.

Sept 1997-Aug 1998                          Hatif Telecom Industries, Jordan

Industrial Engineering Consulting Student

§         Increased Production Rate by 20% through a comprehensive Work Measurement, line balancing, and work design project.

§         Prepared, among a team, a Quality Assurance System that led to the ISO 9000 Certification.

May- Sept. 1997               Federal Institution for Materials Standardization, Berlin, Germany

Internship: Research Assistant

§         Worked on design and execution of experiments in the field of glass ceramics, and helped in data analysis.

§         Co-Authored a publication in the Journal of Materials Science 34 (1999) 65-69; the work was also presented in Jena Conference.

§         Supply Chain Inventory Control: a Comparison Among JIT, MRP, and MRP with Information Sharing, Using Simulation

Modeling: first international industrial engineering conference, Jordan, (Sept. 23^rd-27^th, 2001) 313-320.

§         Coarsening of needle-shaped apatite crystals in SiO₂.Al2O₃.K₂O.CaO.P₂O₅.F glass: Journal of Materials Science,

34(1999) 65-69. (Along with R. Muller, S. Reinsch, and W. Holand).

§         Mollaghasemi, Rabadi, Steele, Hilal, Kaylani, and Cates, "A Generic Environment for Modeling Future Launch

Operations (GEM-FLO)", to appear in the Proceeding of the World Automation Congress, Orlando, Florida, June 9-13, 2002.

§         Collaborative Supply Chain Management: Laith AbuHilal and Ghaith Rabadi, submitted and accepted for publication by

the Engineering Management Journal.

Software and Applications:

§         Simulation: ProModel, Witness, and ARENA

§         Microsoft Office: Access database, Advanced Excel skills and macro writing, MS Project, FrontPage, Publisher, Word

and PowerPoint.

§         Linear Programming: LINDO, Ampl.

§         Scheduling: Factory Scheduler/Reporter (ISS from APF), MS Project, and I designed Takt Communications and

scheduling tool comprised of a level-loading tool and TaktDB.

§         Statistical Analysis: SPSS, Expert Fit, StatFit.

§         Drawing & Flowcharting: AutoCAD, VISO, ABC Flowcharting, ProcessModel, as well as Paint Brush, CorelDraw,

PowerPoint and Word.

Languages:

§         Borland C, FORTRAN, VBA and intermediate knowledge of Visual Basic.

§         Simulation Coding: SIMAN, GPSS.

§         Optimization/Mathematical Programming: AMPL, LINDO.

I.             Supply Chain Management_ Vehicle routing, inventory management, and scheduling: A joint project between the University

of Florida departments of Industrial Engineering and Computer Engineering, funded by NSF.

II.          Production Process Analysis at MobilCraft Industries- A simulation study: used ARENA/SIMAN to simulate the production

line and conducted output analysis to come up with improvement suggestions.

III.        Inventory Management project for a major Laptops servicing and maintenance company: developed forecasting algorithms,

reordering points and ordering quantities for over 60,000 stock items based on OEM’s sales, and historical failure probabilities

data. 

IV.       Total Quality Management at First Union Bank: analyzed the quality and customer-service systems, implemented the

Scientific Problem-Solving approach for determining issues’ root causes and coming up with improvement suggestions.

V.           Environmental Management System (ISO 14000) Implementation at United Aluminum Industries.

Marital Status: Married, with one baby girl (Angelina Farah) born in April 2004. My wife, Dana, is also an Industrial Engineer with a masters in Optimization.

Interests: Working out, Basket Ball, Cycling, reading (especially political and scientific literature), watching movies (especially comedy), Music (Classical, Pop, Reggie), writing Poems, as well as history research.

Affiliations:

Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): used to be Graduate Coordinator- UF Chapter.

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society: Elected in 2000.

INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science).