{"55537":{"#nid":"55537","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Five Distinguished Alumni Join the Stewart School of ISyE Advisory Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive distinguished alumni have joined\nthe H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) advisory\nboard for the 2010 - 2014 term. \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bailey\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Martin\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip Scott\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn A. White III\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ECharlene Zalesky\u003C\/strong\u003E bring diverse professional and community leadership skills to the board,\nwhich has as its mission to serve as a sounding body for the School chair in an\nadvisory capacity as well as assist with the School\u0022s development goads. \u003Cstrong\u003EEd Rogers\u003C\/strong\u003E, who joined the advisory board in 2007, has been selected to serve as\nthe board\u0022s new chair. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are delighted to welcome our newest members\nto the ISyE Advisory Board. Their commitment and dedication to the Stewart\nSchool is extremely valuable to ISyE\u0027s continued success,\u0022 said Chelsea C.\nWhite, III, ISyE school chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new board members bring decades of experience in\ntheir respective areas of expertise. Retiring from BASF after thirty-three\nyears, \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bailey\u003C\/strong\u003E consults much of\nthe year, assisting manufacturing sites in finding and applying effective\nbusiness process solutions for their planning and supply issues in complex\nlocal and global environments. \u003Cstrong\u003ERobert\nMartin\u003C\/strong\u003E has over thirty years of financial, general management, and\nconsulting experience, both in the U.S. and internationally. He is currently a\npartner with the Interlochen Group, a boutique financial advisory firm, which\ndoes interim chief financial officer and financial project work. In 1983, \u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip Scott\u003C\/strong\u003E helped found and then\nserved as a chief operating officer for Paging Network, which became the\nlargest paging company in the United States. Scott returned to Atlanta in 1993,\nwhere he purchased Southern Ideal Door, a company he continues to own and\noperate. \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn A. White III\u003C\/strong\u003E, who has more\nthan twenty years consulting experience, is the president of Fortna, Inc., a\nleading provider of supply chain solutions. At Fortna, White is responsible for\nU.S. and Canadian operations and personnel as well as participating in all\nstrategic matters for the firm outside of North America. \u003Cstrong\u003ECharlene Zalesky\u003C\/strong\u003E has fifteen years experience as an internal and\nexternal consultant in health care, manufacturing, banking, and public water\nservice industries.\u0026nbsp; Consulting with\ncompanies such as Clorox, Citibank, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Northern\nCalifornia and East Bay Municipal Utility District, Zalesky\u2019s work has focused\non traditional IE applications of work simplification, cost-benefit analysis,\nfacility design, staffing, project management and organizational\ndevelopment.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEd Rogers\u003C\/strong\u003E, who remains on\nthe board as chair, has twenty-eight years of experience in industrial\nengineering, management consulting, program management, business process\nredesign, operations improvement and strategic planning. He is a global\nstrategy manager with UPS\u2019s corporate strategy group and is responsible for\nglobal scenario planning, enterprise strategic planning, and the company\u2019s\nsustainability strategy. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo find out more about these interesting\nnew advisory board members, continue reading their individual biographies. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid\nBailey\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1969) worked for BASF for thirty-three years,\nretiring in 2003.\u0026nbsp; His last position was\nwith the company\u2019s internal supply chain consulting team.\u0026nbsp; Since retiring, Bailey continues to work with\nthe consulting team much of each year.\u0026nbsp;\nHis primary area of interest is assisting manufacturing sites in finding\nand applying effective business process solutions for their planning and supply\nissues in complex local and global environments.\u0026nbsp; Earlier in his career, Bailey used applied\nsimulation techniques to define and confirm design parameters for automatic\npalletizing systems and complex wire guided material transport systems.\u0026nbsp; He has written customized planning and\nscheduling tools for a number of manufacturing processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert\nD. (Bob) Martin \u003C\/strong\u003E(IE 1969)\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas over thirty years of financial, general management, and\nconsulting experience, both in the U.S. and internationally.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He has worked in public\ncompanies\u0026nbsp;(divisions and on corporate staffs), had active roles with\nglobal equity investors, and consulted\u0026nbsp;with businesses, large and\nstart-ups.\u0026nbsp; Industries with which he has\nbeen associated include consumer products, sports, apparel and textiles, and\ncasualty insurance. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMartin is a partner with the Interlochen\nGroup, a boutique financial advisory firm, which does interim chief financial\nofficer (CFO) and financial project work. He was senior vice president and\nchief financial officer of Russell Athletic Corporation from 2000 to 2004 and\nwas the International Division senior vice president and CFO of Sunbeam\nCorporation from 1999 to 2000. He held various positions at Sara Lee Apparel\nGroup from 1977 to 1999, including divisional chief\u0026nbsp; financial officer, vice president, and\ngeneral manager, and was CFO of the European Apparel Group (fifteen divisions\nacross Europe and South Africa), headquartered in Paris, France, from 1990 to\n1998.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his bachelor of\nIndustrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, Martin earned an MBA from the\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.\u0026nbsp;\nHe was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps from 1970 to 1972,\nduring which time he received the Army Commendation Medal. He serves as an\nadvisory board member for the International Center of Executive Options, is a\nmember of Financial Executives International, and was a member of Business\nExecutives for National Security.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nHe\u0026nbsp;is on the Board of Trustees of a Georgia Tech-related 501-C-3\norganization and has assisted at ISyE.\u0026nbsp;\nMartin has been inducted in Georgia Tech\u2019s Academy of\nDistinguished Engineering Alumni. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMartin has two children. a son and a daughter, and two\ngrandchildren.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He and his wife Sheree\nlive in Smyrna, Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEd Rogers\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1982, MS IL\n2002) is a global strategy manager with UPS\u2019s corporate strategy group.\u0026nbsp; He is responsible for global scenario\nplanning, enterprise strategic planning, and the company\u2019s sustainability\nstrategy. Rogers has twenty-eight years of experience in industrial\nengineering, management consulting, program management, business process\nredesign, operations improvement and strategic planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERogers joined\nthe UPS corporate engineering group in Atlanta in 1994, helping to establish an\ninternal consulting group, a process reengineering team, and a program\nmanagement group.\u0026nbsp; After rotating through\nspecial assignments in the Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia districts, Rogers became\nthe Industrial Engineering manager for the Gulf South district in 1999, where\nhe led the operational planning, productivity improvement, service quality\nenhancement, and technology support for that district\u2019s $200 million annual\nbusiness.\u0026nbsp; In 2002 he returned to\nheadquarters to join the corporate strategy group.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to UPS,\nRogers served four years as a U.S. Air Force officer, managing programs to\nmodernize the defense manufacturing industry.\u0026nbsp;\nThen for eight years he was an engineering management consultant, first\nwith BDM International and later with Coopers \u0026amp; Lybrand Consulting where he\nconsulted on a variety of manufacturing and logistics systems improvement\nprojects for more than twenty clients, including UPS.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERogers\naffiliations include the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the Council of\nSupply Chain Management Professionals. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip\nScott\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1969) served in the U.S. Air Force as a\nLogistics Officer after graduating from Georgia Tech with his bachelor\u2019s degree\nin Industrial Engineering in 1970.\u0026nbsp; He\nwent on to earn an MBA from Claremont Graduate School in 1972.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Scott held\nseveral management positions with AT\u0026amp;T before joining Gencom, Inc., a\npaging company in Atlanta as vice president and general manager.\u0026nbsp; Scott moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1983 as one\nof the early founders and then chief operating officer of Paging Network. The\ncompany grew to become the largest paging company in the U.S. and went public\nin 1991.\u0026nbsp; Scott returned to Atlanta in\n1993 to pursue other interests and investments.\u0026nbsp;\nHe purchased Southern Ideal Door in 1994 and continues to own and\noperate it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EScott has served on the Alexander-Tharpe Fund Board\nand on the Board of Trustees of the Tech Alumni Association. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\nA. White III\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1992) is the president of Fortna, Inc., a\nleading provider of supply chain solutions. Fortna designs, implements, and\nsupports business solutions to optimize its client\u2019s supply chain. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Fortna, White is responsible for U.S.\nand Canadian operations and personnel as well asparticipating in all strategic matters\nfor the firm outside of North America. White has over twenty years of\nconsulting experience with the top tier consulting firms as well as working for\na leading software provider in supply chain management strategy, supplier\nrelationship management, and price and revenue optimization.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to Fortna, White was a managing officer\nand vice president of Supply Chain Management with Cap Gemini, LLC. \u0026nbsp;Prior to Cap Gemini, White served in a number\nof senior executive management positions including\nManugistics, Inc., as the group vice president of Strategic Consulting Services and Supplier\nRelationship Management, and Accenture, where he was a senior manager in their Strategic\nServices Supply Chain Management Practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhite is a past president of the Atlanta\nchapter of the Warehousing Education and ResearchCouncil and a past advisory board member\nof the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute\u2019s Leaders in Logistics. He is a\nmember of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the Board of\nTrustees for the United Methodist Children\u2019s Home, and the Board of Advisors\nfor wRatings. White is a frequent speaker and contributor on the subjects of\nsupply chain strategy, supply chain planning, global supply chain operations,\nsupplier relationship management, fulfillment strategy, and warehouse and\ndistribution design.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his bachelor\u2019s in Industrial\nEngineering, White holds an Accelerated Executive MBA certificate from the J.L.\nKellogg Graduate School of Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharlene\nZalesky\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1977), who specialized in Health Systems, has\nfifteen years experience as an internal and external consultant in health care,\nmanufacturing, banking, and public water service industries.\u0026nbsp; Consulting with companies such as Clorox,\nCitibank, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Northern California and East Bay\nMunicipal Utility District, Zalesky\u2019s work has focused on traditional IE\napplications of work simplification, cost-benefit analysis, facility design,\nstaffing, project management and organizational development.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; She established Employee Involvement Teams\nin all of these organizations and Multidisciplinary Productivity Coaching\nProgram at Clorox.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe subject areas of Zalesky\u2019s publications and\nconference presentations have included emergency room staffing using queuing\nanalysis, nurse staffing models, keeping emergency rooms open, use of employee\ninvolvement teams in problem solving, and company-wide cost reduction and\nproductivity improvement programs. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EZalesky currently lives outside of Houston, Texas,\nwith her husband Rick (CE 1978) and daughter Zola.\u0026nbsp; Their son, Zack, is a sophomore co-op student\nin Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\nZalesky has spent 20 years working with a number of non-profit and\neducational agencies as consultant, volunteer, educator, board member, and\nboard president.\u0026nbsp; She spends much of her\ntime working with high school students and mentoring and educating parents of\nteens.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive distinguished alumni have joined\nthe H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering \n(ISyE) advisory\nboard for the 2010 - 2014 term.David Bailey, Robert Martin,\n Phillip Scott,\u0026nbsp; John A. White III, and Charlene Zalesky \nbring diverse professional and community leadership skills to the board,\nwhich has as its mission to serve as a sounding body for the School \nchair in an\nadvisory capacity as well as assist with the School\u0027s development goads.\u003Cstrong\u003E\n \u003C\/strong\u003EEd Rogers, who joined the advisory board in 2007, has been selected\n to serve as\nthe board\u0027s new chair.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Five Distinguished Alumni Join the Stewart School of ISyE Advisory Board."}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-05-03 09:30:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:53","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55421":{"id":"55421","type":"image","title":"David Bailey","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"David Bailey","file":{"fid":"190292","name":"David_Bailey.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/David_Bailey_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/David_Bailey_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":632664,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/David_Bailey_0.jpg?itok=IxnfR0Yt"}},"55422":{"id":"55422","type":"image","title":"Robert D. \u0022Bob\u0022 Martin","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"Robert D. \u0022Bob\u0022 Martin","file":{"fid":"190293","name":"Robert_Martin.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Robert_Martin_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Robert_Martin_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1102672,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Robert_Martin_0.jpg?itok=dNobfAPP"}},"55424":{"id":"55424","type":"image","title":"Phillip Scott","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"Phillip Scott","file":{"fid":"190295","name":"Scott.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Scott_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Scott_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2675934,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Scott_0.JPG?itok=Dcxo-tYn"}},"55425":{"id":"55425","type":"image","title":"John A. 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