2005-06 SCMSA LEADERSHIP

Joshua Ford -- President
jford@byu.net
Joshua Ford is a second year MBA student at Brigham Young University studying Supply Chain Management. He has an undergraduate degree in Operations Management. While in his undergraduate program, Joshua helped to organize and participated in a study abroad to Southeast Asia to study offshore business operations. He also had an internship at Micron Technology in Boise, ID. Later he accepted a full-time position in their Lehi, UT facility which at the time was just starting manufacturing operations.

At Micron he worked as the Inventory Control Coordinator and later as a Capacity Analyst. His accomplishments included 4 years of 100% accuracy on external inventory audits by Price-Waterhouse. He also managed a continuous flow production process, and automated a floor space requirements forecast. He also was responsible for forecasting equipment needs and the production operator staffing requirements for the Boise and Lehi Test departments. He also earned his APICS certification.

This past summer he was an intern at Union Pacific in Omaha Nebraska. His primary internship project dealt with evaluating the existing warranty claims process and quantifying the dollar amounts associated with missing the opportunity to file a warranty claim.

Joshua enjoys time with his family, music, and traveling (though his current student budget doesn't allow for that). He and his wife, Heather, have two wonderful daughters--Karoline and Elizabeth.

Matt Dalebout -- Vice President Logistics
mattdalebout@hotmail.com

Matthew Dalebout is a second year MBA student at Brigham Young University studying Supply Chain Management. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering (ME) also from BYU. As part of the ME capstone program, Matt worked on developing a geophysical product for a start-up geophysical division (AquaTrack) of Sunrise Engineering in Salt Lake. This project entailed elements of product development, electrical and mechanical engineering, and statistical process control. Upon completion of this project he accepted a position for Product Development at Sunrise.

Because of the start-up nature of the AquaTrack division, Matt’s position expanded from Product Development to include marketing, data analysis, cost modeling and contract negotiation. He acquired contracts that increased revenue in the 5 person firm from $250K to$1.5mm in 3 years. The resultant instrument from his development reduced field time by over 60% reducing variable labor costs by nearly the same amount.

This past summer he was an intern at FedEx Freight in Arkansas in their Logistics Solutions department. His focus was on auditing and re-engineering internal process for the optimization of unique, large-scale shipments. In addition to internal processes, he was in charge of conceptually designing customer-facing web pages.

Joshua Erickson -- Vice President Communications
joshua_erickson@byu.edu
Joshua Erickson is in his first year of Brigham Young University's MBA program, studying Supply Chain Management and Finance. Originally from California, Joshua earned a BA in Economics from BYU in 2002. As an intern with Charles Schwab, he developed a web site to track call-center data and helped develop processes that shortened customer wait time and increased outbound call volume.

Joshua worked as a project coordinator and process consultant for Enterprise Project Management from 2000 to 2002 and as a project manager for BYU's Center for Instructional Design from 2002 to 2004. He also earned a Project Management Mastery Certificate from Stanford Advanced Project Management Course. He is worked on a Field Study project with the LDS Church Purchasing department during Winter Semester 2005.

Joshua spent his summer at an internship with KB Home in Pleasanton, CA where he helped implement a QA software package for home building and worked in Land Acquisition. He enjoys water polo, mountain biking, and photography. He and his wife, Rachel, are the proud parents of 1 year old daughter, Makayla.

Paul Osterhaus -- Vice President Operations
Paul.Osterhaus@byu.net
Paul Osterhaus is a second year MBA student at Brigham Young University studying Supply Chain Management. Paul received his undergraduate degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. After completing his bachelor’s degree Paul accepted a position as a developer at Kind Consulting, a firm specializing in developing applications to manage the creation of legal documents. Paul worked for Kind Consulting for 3 years, after which he accepted a programmer/analyst position at Lands’ End in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. While at Lands’ End, Paul had the opportunity to work closely with offshore teams in India, which he enjoyed immensely. His position at Lands’ End progressed from being a specialist in integrating internet applications to backend systems, then working on CRM integration implementations. Paul was then the technical lead for the development of a new corporate customer database project. Paul then moved into an enterprise designer position where he developed IS application roadmaps and project plans to adapt to the business strategy.

Then Paul had the crazy idea to come back to school. He really enjoyed working hard during his first year of school, and has been very grateful for the opportunity to be here at BYU.

For his internship this past summer he returned to Lands’ End, working in the transportation department. Although Paul enjoyed his internship he would like to return to the area of business IT strategy.

Paul likes to spend lots of time with his wife, Kari, and two great kids, Maggie and Sam. He enjoys playing basketball, home remodeling projects and woodworking.

Eric Christensen -- Vice President Finance
ac5@email.byu.edu
Eric Christensen is a second year MBA student at Brigham Young University studying Supply Chain Management. He has an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University. After graduating in accounting, Eric went to work for Spitzer & Parker, P.C. (a public accounting firm in Arlington, Texas).

While at Spitzer & Parker, Eric was involved in preparing tax returns, performing audits, and managing clients’ books and financial statements. He was a client manager and was responsible for satisfying customer demands and helping them improve their profitability through improved financial management and tax strategies. Eric worked for Spitzer & Parker for two years before leaving to come back for his MBA degree.

This past summer, Eric worked at an internship position with ICEC (International Commodities Export Corporation) where he was the project manager for the implementation and customization of their new accounting system. ICEC is the largest logistics provider for liquid sulfur in the United States. Additionally, ICEC provides logistics for transportation of sulfur and other chemicals to nearly all countries in the world.

Eric loves to be with his wife, Christine, and his 2-year-old son, Bryce. He also enjoys swimming, hiking, camping, and golf. He recently has taken up the hobby of RC airplanes, but lacks the finances and the time to pursue it actively.

Brian Hanks -- Undergraduate Representative
ac5@email.byu.edu
Brian Hanks is a Senior in the BYU Supply Chain/Logistics undergraduate program. He will graduate December 2005. During his undergraduate experience at BYU, Brian has stayed involved in many applicable clubs and activities. He is an Institute of Supply Management (ISM) and Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) member and was recently awarded a scholarship by the local CSCMP chapter for a presentation on RFID.

Brian has worked as an intern at L-3 Communications where he worked in their finance department. He was offered a full-time position as a cost accountant after a short time and worked for a year forecasting and tracking material expenditures for mulit-million dollar projects. Since then, he has worked as the accountant for a small business in Utah County where he developed budgets, sourced project materials, and overhauled the shipping department.

Brian has a zest for life and loves to try everything. He loves tennis, mountain biking, reading, and is a huge movie buff. His current project is trying to learn how to hit a golf ball straight!

Prof. William Sawaya -- Faculty Advisor
wjs2@email.byu.edu
William J. Sawaya received his M.S.E and Ph.D. in industrial engineering with an emphasis in operations research from Arizona State University. He has worked for AT&T in Long-Range corporate planning, as Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and Product Development for Daw Technologies Inc. and in many consulting projects in Operations Management. His research is in production and quality systems as well as human resource / operations interface. He has published several articles in these areas. He has been the recipient of the outstanding Teacher award from the MBA department at Brigham Young University and Outstanding Colleague from the Institute of Business Management also at BYU.

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