Smith School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management with a minor in Operations Management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining the Smith school for the second time, he was an Assistant professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management - UMass Amherst. He also has practical experience in logistics management as he previously managed shipping and port operations for Maersk in Sierra Leone.