He received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Mathematics from Brigham Young University. Prior to joining Wright State, he taught Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Logistics at Penn State, Brandywine; SUNY, Old Westbury; and Long Island University, where he was the founding director of the Logistics Management Institute.