Hi. I'm David Freeze. I work full-time as an IT Director and Project Manager for the George Fern Company in Cincinnati. I also work as an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati in an adjunct capacity.

I have only a small amount of education and experience regarding supply chain management (gathered during the pursiot of my MBA at Xavier University).

In my current role as a combined technical and business resource for what was historically a 'mom and pop' business I find myself delving more and more into supply change management issues. To that end, I'm here to learn (and hopefully contribute) as much as possible.

I just recently finished The Tipping Point recently and am currently reading "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. One of the ten forces that flattened the world, according to Friedman, is supply-chaining.

Hi, I'm Ben Skipper and just signed on to this site. I am a military (USAF) logistician and currently a PhD student at Auburn University. My experience is based in requirements determination, feasibility analysis, and wargaming. Current interest areas include supply chain disruptions, risk management, and contingency planning. I too am guilty by association as I knew then Lt Col Brady (first name sir) at AFIT.

I am the brother of our host and I do not have any connection to logistics and supply chain management (other than being at one end of it). I am an Assoc. Prof. of Ancient Hebrew and Jewish Literature at Penn State University and Dean of the Schreyer Honors College. Among the many programs that we run for our students one of relevance to this forum is a three day orientation that has a strong leadership component. In the past, they have read The Tipping Point.

I am a Space Loggie. My job title at the moment is Program Manager, Logistics for Orion, working for Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. under contract to Lockheed Martin, but over the past ten years, I've managed the Space Logistics Project, participated in studies, worked on proposals, managed and been a logistics engineer in Logistics & Maintenance for the International Space Station for United Space Alliance. I truly enjoy space and the freedom of thought it embraces. Space Logistics is such a young field, there are only a couple of academic courses and no programs yet. I get to be a "thought leader" in a new field, which isn't a bad place to end up after 27 years of figuring things out.

Like Steve, I had a misspent youth in the military as a soldier, an Army Ordnance Officer, and my career had much more uncomfortable twists and turns, I'm sure. I had fun, but when I hung up my rather muddy boots, it was time to move on. I occasionally get projects dealing with the military, and it's always fun to show off my #384 Order of Samuel Sharpe, designating me as a Master Gunner of Ordnance.

I have to admit that I came to the military as the second son of a second son who was a career Marine. Dad's a veteran of WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam, so I was well traveled as a kid. He was a great mentor while I was a soldier, and he came to understand why I had not followed in his footsteps and become a Marine. Mom was one of the first women to graduate under the GI Bill after her service as a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps officer.

I have three wonderful daughters who are much smarter than I am. Thank goodness I succeeded at something!

I am an Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Harrisburg campus of The Pennsylvania State University. I have been at this University since August. I served for 20 years in the Air Force as a Logistics officer (of various incarnations, as our career fields twisted, er, transformed over the years.)

I have (as you can guess from my interests here on the site) a strong interest in Space Logistics and Supply Chain, as well as a strong interest in Collaborative Supply Chain Management. I view management as something that truly must integrate and blend the quantitative and the qualitative.

I could post more, but not sure how much you can all take!