Resume

• 1985

  Raytheon (previously E-systems

  now L-3) Greenville

  Texas

  Texas A&M University-Commerce

  From 1992 to 1999

  Dr. Pryor

  an E-Systems (Raytheon) executive

  served as Director of the Center for Excellence

  a partnership between E-Systems and Texas A&M University-Commerce. She assisted TAMU-C in strategic planning and continuous process improvement. In addition

  she consulted

  and built partnerships

  with a variety of organizations including K-12 schools as well as engineering

  manufacturing

  healthcare and service organizations. In 1998

  she spent 50% of her time leading Raytheon’s Six Sigma Initiatives for Greenville and Waco Operations

  both of which are ISO 9001 certified. \n\nFrom 1985 to 1992

  as Director/Manager of Quality/Production/HR

  Dr. Pryor and her team were responsible for design

  implementation

  and operation of the continuous process improvement system for E-Systems

  Greenville Division (Raytheon

  now L-3 Com). This included moving from inspection and detection in E-Systems shops and hangars to prevention of defects by working with people in Engineering

  Production

  and other departments. In addition to managing Greenville’s improvement initiative

  Dr. Pryor functioned as an internal consultant for other divisions of E-Systems. Baselines such as safety

  quality

  and cycle time were improved

  and “non-value-added” activities were eliminated. Costs were dramatically improved to the extent that proposals included significantly lower bids. She also interfaced with E-Systems suppliers

  as well as military and nonmilitary customers

  and assisted them with their continuous improvement efforts.

  Raytheon (previously E-systems

  now L-3) Greenville

  Texas

  Professor of Management

  As a tenured

  full professor of Management

  I teach Quality Management

  Strategic Management

  Transforming Organizations

  and a variety of other Management courses. As a CBT faculty mentor

  I work on research projects with a variety of CBT faculty members. We have won outstanding research awards for several papers and articles. Some of my most recent articles have appeared in Industrial Management

  The Harvard Business Review

  The Academy of Strategic Management Journal

  Journal of Management and Marketing Research

  International Journal of Management

  International Journal of Business and Economics Perspectives. My textbook is entitled Strategic Quality Management: A Strategic

  Systems Approach to Continuous Improvement.

  Texas A&M University-Commerce

  Beta Gamma Sigma

  Ph.D.

  Production Management

  Quantitative Methods

  Organizational Theory and Behavior

• Mildred