2006-07 SCMSA LEADERSHIP

Tyler Thomas -- President
tyler.r.thomas@gmail.com
Tyler Thomas is a second year MBA student at Brigham Young University studying Supply Chain Management. He is also pursuing an MS degree in Manufacturing Systems. Tyler earned a Bachelor's degree from BYU in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. He worked for 5 years for Questar Gas in various assignments while earning his Bachelor's degree. In the summer of 2005, Tyler spent 5 weeks in Shenzhen, China visiting manufacturing companies to collect data for his Master's thesis.

This past summer Tyler was a lean expert intern at Honeywell in Phoenix, Arizona. He was involved with a project to reduce product lead time and improve the flow of product through a manufacturing cell. Some of the skills he gained experience in were: group technology, full work analysis, and setup detail analysis. He was also able to obtain Green Belt Certification while working for Honeywell.

Tyler enjoys time with his family, snowboarding, most outdoor sports, and traveling (though his current student budget doesn't allow for that). He and his wife have two wonderful children--Allyssa and Caleb.

Jessica Fields -- Vice President
jlf23@byu.net

After getting a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Jessica worked for seven years in California and Arizona for a grower and shipper of baby spinach and spring mix. While at Classic Baby Vegetables, Jessica held several positions including sales representative, cooler manager, and assistant general manager. Her responsibilities included overseeing the company’s food safety and good agricultural practices program, coordinating demand planning, forecasting, and capacity planning, as well as managing sales to both internal and external customers. In addition, Jessica developed a time-series forecasting model which is still used for production planning.

Currently, Jessica Fields is a second year MBA student studying Supply Chain Management. This past summer, Jessica did an internship in Omaha, Nebraska with Union Pacific Railroad. Her internship project focused on the Supply Warehouse Operations department’s customer service metric, back order days.

In addition to working with the Supply Chain Management Student Association, Jessica is also involved in Women in Management.

Autumn Humphries -- Vice President
autumnhumphries@byu.net
Autumn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from BYU in International Politics and Russian. She spent several years working in various industries such as a law firm, accounting firm, hospital, and greenhouse before coming back to pursue a MBA degree. Her favorite job was working at a greenhouse where she was point of sales manager.

Currently, she is a second year MBA student studying Marketing and Supply Chain Management. She spent her summer at Lowe's in North Carolina working in the Special Order Sales Department where she gave recommendations on how to increase customer awareness of Special Orders.

Autumn is also involved in the MBAA Executive Council where she holds the VP of Communications position.

Dave Watkins -- Vice President
dwatkins@byu.net
Dave Watkins is a second year MBA student at Brigham Young University studying Supply Chain Management. Paul received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the Brigham Young University. After completing his bachelor’s degree Dave accepted a position as a Math Teacher at Paso Robles High School in Paso Robles, CA. In addition to teaching a variety of Math classes, Dave also coached Swimming and Water Polo.

Dave spent the summer in Medford, Oregon at the headquaters of Harry and David working in the Operations Finance department as a Distribution Analyst.

Dave likes to spend time with his wife, Mandy, and their daughter Madeline.

Christopher Schmidt -- Undergraduate Representative
csschmidt@gmail.com
Christopher Schmidt is currently a Senior majoring in Supply Chain Management.

This past summer, Christopher worked as an Inventory Planner Intern with Woodgrain Millwork in Fruitland, ID. He was a purchaser for their Alder wood moldings product line. He also worked on various projects including; a daily fill rate report, a supplier scorecard, and an inventory balance report. The summer before, Christopher worked as a Manufacturing Associate Intern with Micron Technology in Boise, ID. While there, he directed the creation of a new quality control process to reduce defects and improve wafer yield. Before college, Christopher also worked at Kaysun Corporation, a plastics manufacturing company in Manitowoc, WI. His job titles included; substitute team leader, forklift driver, and quality control specialist.

Christopher enjoys spending time with his wife, Katrina. They enjoy the opera, mountain biking, and playing racquetball.

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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