Professor Thomas GULLEDGEPresident, Enterprise Integration, Inc. &Professor Emeritus of Public Policy & Engineering, George Mason University Internet: thomas.gulledge@eiisolutions.net or http://www.eiisolutions.net Thomas Gulledge is the President of Enterprise Integration, Inc. and Enterprise Integration Pte Ltd (Singapore). He is also a co-director of the Enterprise Consulting Alliance, a consulting organization with operations in the USA, Asia-Pacific, and Australia. He is also Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Engineering at George Mason University and Director of the Policy Analysis Center within the School of Public Policy; retiring in January 2008 after 20 years at GMU. His competence areas are Logistics, Extended Enterprise Integration, Product Lifecycle Management, Engineering Management, Logistics, and Supply Chain Integration & Management. Professor Gulledge has directed the Ph.D. Program in the School of Public Policy, and he was a co-founder of the MS program in Enterprise Engineering & Policy, a joint sponsored program by the School of Public Policy and the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He has led many technology-related projects, most relating to information technology-enabled organizational transformation. He was the Director of the corporate sponsored International Electronic Commerce project (project Pathfinder) with the Oracle Corporation, which focused on B2B e-Commerce, and the development of the first generation Oracle e-Hub, which evolved into the Customer Data Hub. He also developed the Enterprise Engineering & Policy Laboratory, which is sponsored by Microsoft, IDS Scheer, Oracle, ILOG, and SAP. He is also the Program Manager for a series of on-going initiatives relating to supply chain integration and electronic commerce, including initiatives in Europe and Asia. Some of these initiatives are large-scale, including a complex project that required working with the Boeing Company to implement an eHub for Boeing suppliers in Asia. Dr. Gulledge also conceptualized, launched, and managed the Fairfax Electronic Commerce Resource Center, which focused on implementing electronic commerce solutions. Dr. Gulledge has worked on many large-scale implementation projects. He was the technical lead in developing the information architecture for GAMA Industries in Ankara, Turkey, as well as the information architecture for the BULOG in Jakarta, Indonesia. He also led a supplier integration effort for Newport News Shipbuilding, and worked with European companies on the same topic. The European work evolved into the refinement of an automated performance measurement product for enterprise solutions and eventually the alignment of the Oracle e-Business Suite with the Supply Chain Council Operational Reference (SCOR) model. This SCOR alignment was implemented as a new product offering with PROMATIS AG of Karlsruhe, Germany. Dr. Gulledge is currently involved in the major consulting initiatives of Enterprise Integration, Inc. (EII). EII is working on issues related to the management and technical aspects of Advanced Technology, Enterprise Integration, Logistics, Product Lifecycle Management, eBusiness, and Supply Chain Management. EII helped the US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) and the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) with the implementation of large-scale ERP solutions. These projects were the first end-to-end multi-module SAP implementations in the US public sector. Professor Gulledge also led a study on ERP interoperability, defining technical and management strategies for integrating the aviation value-chain across NAVAIR and the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP). The EII Team also developed the “Converged” Navy ERP architecture and helped define the strategy for merging four SAP projects into a single solution. The EII Team also supported the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) in the development of the Business Enterprise Architecture for Logistics (BEA-Log), which defined how logistics should be implemented in the U.S. DoD in the 2008-2015 time period. EII developed the Single Army Logistics Enterprise (SALE) Architecture for the U.S. Army, and Dr. Gulledge continues to advise on issues related to achieving the SALE vision through the evolution of data integration methodologies and a Business Process Management Framework. The EII team developed the Joint Medical Logistics Architecture (with Karta Technologies) and the USTRANSCOM Joint Distribution and Deployment Architecture (with Computer Sciences Corporation). EII is also supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Business Transformation) on policy issues related to on-going DoD business transformation initiatives, including the consolidation of defense organizations in Guam. A most recent accomplishment is a successful transportation management solution for BAX/Schenker, a large Singapore-based third party logistics provider. The current focus is on aligning business with IT, using commercial technologies. The projects involve a number of vendors and project sponsors, including the U.S. Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). Professor Gulledge received his Ph.D. in 1981. His research has been supported in the past by the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I), the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Office of the Director of Defense Information, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the US Navy. Most recently, EII is funded by the U.S. Government under the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program to develop service-oriented solutions for product lifecycle management using the PLCS standard. Professor Gulledge is a past President of the Military Applications Society and also a past Vice president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He is currently the head of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Network of Excellence Group on Supply Chain Integration & Management and the Vice Chairman for the Americas of the IFIP Working Group on Integrated Production Management. He is a senior editor for the International Journal of Management & Enterprise Development, and associate editor for others, including Electronic Government and for Industrial Management and Data Systems. He is also a past associate editor for Management Science, Naval Research Logistics, and the International Journal of Production Economics. |