Dr. Alberto Marquez
Assistant Professor
Graduate Advisor for Masters of Engineernig Management
Office: (409) 880-8809
Fax: (409) 880-8121
Email: alberto.marquez@lamar.edu
Resume

Education

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering. Arizona State University. 1999.

M.S. Management Sciences. Tecnologico de Monterrey
Campus Estado de Mexico. 1990.

B.S. (Industrial Eng.) Tecnologico de Monterrey
Campus Estado de Mexico. 1986.

Areas Of Expertise

Simulation
Production planning and inventory management
Statistical Quality Control
Scheduling
Heuristics and decision support systems
Information theory applications

Illustrative Papers/Presentations

  1. SIMD tabu search for the quadratic assignment problem with graphics hardware acceleration. Zhu, W., Curry, J., Marquez A. Accepted by the International journal of Production Research. (to appear in 2009).
  2. Tabu search based metaheuristic algorithm for software system reliability problems. M. Caserta and A. Márquez, Computers and Operations Research Vol 36 (2008). Pp 811-822.
  3. A set covering formulation for agile capacity planning within supply chains. J.K. Cochran, A. Marquez. International Journal of Production Economics. Vol. 95 (2005) pp 139-149.
  4. Two-stage simulation optimization for agile manufacturing capacity planning. Marquez, A. Cochran, K. Shunk D. International Journal of Production Research. Vol. 41 06/2003. 1181-1197
  5. A Cross Entropy Algorithm for the Knapsack Problem with Setups, M. Caserta, E. Quiñonez and A. Márquez, Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2008, 241-252.

Experience

Tecnologico de Monterrey – Industrial Eng. Dept Chair.

Tecnologico de Monterrey – Assistant Professor researcher

Instituto Federal Electoral (Tecnologico de Monterrey) -Modeling and decision-making using spreadsheets

IBM Canada Supply Chain Management Practice - Senior Consultant

Arizona State University – Motorola.  Wafer fab APS implementation (i2 Factory planner)

Tefen USA – Motorola. (Phoenix, AZ). Wafer fab manufacturing capacity studies.

Tefen USA - Burr-Brown (Tucson, AZ). Wafer fab manufacturing capacity studies

Tefen USA – Motorola (Chandler, AZ). Wafer fab layout studies

Arizona State University - Research Assistant

Grupo Vitro.  (Mexico city). Operations Manager & Operations

Planning Manager.

Procter & Gamble Mexico.  (Mexico city). Logistics supervisor.

Workshops

Industrial Engineering @ Real-Time.  Marquez A. Computers and industrial Systems Congress. Tecnologico de Monterrey. Campus Veracruz.  May 2002

The Industrial Engineer in logistics services.  A prospective for the next 15 years. VII Congreso Nacional de Ingeniería Industrial. November 2003.  National college of Industrial Engineers (Mexico)

Recent/Current Research

Modeling range, heterogeneity, mobility and uniformity in manufacturing flexibility.