Career

Current Position

Texas Tech University (1982 - present) Associate Professor (Tenured), Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences Department, College of Business Administration. Courses taught: Graduate level; Advanced Information Systems Analysis, Advanced Information Systems Design, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Management of Information Systems. Undergraduate Level; Project Management, Systems Analysis, Systems Design, Intro to Computers in Business, Business Statistics.

Bravoco Associates (1982-Present) Consulting to major International Corporations in the areas of Business Process Reengineering, CIM, MIS, and Technology Transfer.

Past Positions and Affiliations

SofTech, Inc. (1973-1982)

• Company Officer (1976-1982)
  
• Vice President and General Manager Computer Aided Manufacturing Computer Aided Design (CADCAM) (1976-1982)
  
• Vice President and General Manager, International Operations (1973-1978)
  

  Raytheon Company(1967-1973)

• Manager Systems Design Dept., Equipment Division (1971-1973)
  
• Ph.D. Fellow Equipment Division (1969-1971)
  
• Senior Scientific Analyst, Space and Information Systems Division (1967-1969)
  

  The Mitre Corporation (1961-1967)

• Member of the Technical Staff (1966-1967)
  
• Co-op Student (1961-1966)
  

  Major Disciplines

  Management of Information Systems, Business Process Reengineering, Systems Development, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Multimedia Systems.

  Prizes and Honors

• Listed in Who's Who in the World (1980/81, 82/83)
  
• Listed in Who's Who in the Finance and Industry (1979/80,81/82,83/84)
  
• Listed in Who's Who in Finance and Industry (1979/80, 81/82, 83/84)
  
• Listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest (1988/89, 90/91)
  
• Raytheon Company Ph.D. Fellowship (1969-1971)
  
• Raytheon Company Author's Award (1969)
  
• Northeastern University Trustee Scholarship (1961, 1962)
  
• Boston Latin School Key Club Scholarship (1961)
  
• Listed in Directory of Distinguished Americans (Second Edition)
  

  Offices Held

  Society of Manufacturing Engineers

• Certification Program Chairman, 1983-1990
  
• Chairman-Elect South Pains Chapter 237, 1984
  
• Past Chairman South Plains Chapters 237, 1986
  
• Chairman-Elect South Plains Chapters 237, 1985
  
• Member of National Manufacturing Planning Division,1980-1983
  
• Member of National Technical Advisory Council, 1983-1986
  
• Co-Chairman National 85 CIMCOM Conference organizing Committee
  

  Professional Organizations

• IEEE Computer Society (1979-Present)
  
• Numerical Control Society (1983-1985)
  
• Decision Science Institute (1982-Present)
  
• Society of Manufacturing Engineering (1973-1995)
  
• Society of Information Management (1988-Present)
  
  Last Updated on September 15, 2006