VITA

George A. Geistauts

PERSONAL BACKGROUND

Born: July 31, 1940, Ventspils, Latvia Naturalized U.S. Citizen Divorced

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1970

Master of Science in Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1966

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1963

EXPERIENCE

Professor ofBusiness Administration - 1987 to present College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Teaching in the general area of strategic management.

ChairlDirector of the MBA Program, (1991 - 1999 & 2002 -- 2005). Responsible for development and implementation of major revision of the School's MBA program, and for day­to-day administration of program. Member, UAA Graduate Affairs Board. Chair, UAA University Honors Council. Member and/or chair of faculty recruiting and faculty evaluations committees, and various other committees in the college.

Co-developer and participant in UAA American-Russian Center training programs for Russian entrepreneurs. Developer of strategic management course materials for use in Russian university programs, and mentor to Russian faculty in Magadan and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Led development of global logistics management curriculum at UAA. 8(a) minority entrepreneurship trainer.

Associate Professor ofBusiness Administration - 1984 to 1987 School of Business and Public Affairs, University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Taught in the areas of strategic management and business policy, information systems, and quantitative methods.

Associate Professor ofManagement Sciences - 1981 to 1984 Alaska Pacific University Director of Master of Science in Management Program, and Coordinator of Management Sciences Concentration.

Taught business policy and various areas of general management.

Responsible for all aspects of undergraduate and graduate management degree programs; redesigned undergraduate management curriculum; designed and implemented new graduate masters program; Chairman of Academic Affairs Council (the faculty senate); member of President's Cabinet; member of Graduate and Undergraduate Councils; member of Faculty Review Committee; member of Long Range Planning Committee; Small Business Institute Director. Taught courses in areas of strategic management, systems, quantitative analysis, finance, international business, and impact of technology. Wrote proposals and secured funding for research on tourism potential, and on the future of Alaskan development.

Assistant, then Associate Professor ofBusiness Administration - 1974 to 1981 School of Business and Public Administration, University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Taught courses in areas of management, systems, quantitative analysis, and business policy; about two thirds of teaching was at graduate level. Participated in design of graduate and undergraduate curricula; developed integrative block of capstone graduate courses and alternative approaches for teaching quantitative methods.

Graduate Program Director for School from 1975 to 1980; responsible for all admission decisions, counseling, program plans and standards, graduate examination process, etc. for five different graduate degree programs and three certificate programs.

Wrote grant and obtained funding from Energy Research and Development Administration for faculty development institute focusing on energy development problems, and obtained additional funding from Alaska Humanities Forum to conduct public forum on energy development.

Also, Chairman of the UAA Computer Users Committee, member of the Statewide Computer Users Committee, Academic Affairs Board Representative, Chairman of Graduate Program Committee, member of Dean Selection Committee, coordinator for quantitative courses, member of School Planning Committee, IPA Grant Administrator, and Small Business Institute Director. Participated in several Urban Observatory research projects and wrote a number of grant proposals.

Assistant Professor ofBusiness Administration - 1970 to 1974 College of Economics and Business, Washington State University.

Taught in the areas of production, computer simulation, systems, and business policy.

Application Engineer - 1963 to 1965 Cleveland Crane and Engineering Company, Cleveland, Ohio.

Responsible for designing automatic material handling systems for heavy industry.

Independent Management Consultant - 1975 to present

Provide management consulting and training for business and other organizations; clients have included ARCO, Control Data, Cook Inlet Region, Ahtna, Alpetco, Internal Revenue Service,

Access Alaska, Bristol Bay Native Association, and various Alaska state agencies. Former member, Board of Advisors for Debenham Electric.

RESEARCH

Book

Alaska's Future: Commentary on a Delphi Perspective, Alaska Pacific University Press, 1986 (co-authored with T. Eschenbach)

Other Publications

"A System Dynamics View of Engineering Ethics," invited section in chapter on ethics in 6th Ed. of Managing Engineering & Technology by Lucy Morse and Dan Babcock, Prentice-Hall, 2013 (with Ted Eschenbach & Elisha Baker, IV)

"Business Strategy and Purchasing," chapter in Fundamentals of Purchasing and Supply Management, Philip M. Price and N.J. Harrison, eds. Access Education, 2012

"Situational Strategic Analysis for Balancing Economic and Social Performance of Larger Indigenous Shareholder Corporations," Proceedings of the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Business

"Engineering Ethics: A System Dynamics Approach," Engineering Management Journal, V. 3, #20, pp. 19-26 (with Ted Eschenbach & Elisha Baker, IV)

"Engineering Ethics: A System Dynamics Approach," presentation/proceedings of 27th Annual ASEM Conference, October 2006 (with Elisha Baker, IV and Ted Eschenbach)

"A Situational Model for Management of Native-Owned Corporations," presentation & proceedings (CD format) of the 2006 International Business & Economic Research Conference, October 2006.

"Toward a Control System Model of Business Ethics," Proceedings of2003 International Economics & Business Research Conference, Las Vegas, October 2003, CD

"Evaluating the Attractiveness of a Technology: A Dual Technology Developer/Technology Buyer Perspective," in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Management of Technology, (on CD-ROM) Orlando, Florida, Feb. 1998 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Integrative Modeling of the Technology Management System," Proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, (on CD-ROM) Portland, OR, July 1997 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Regional Science and Technology Policy: Goals and Strategies," Management of Technology V: Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Management of Technology, Miami, Feb. 1996 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Promoting a State's Economic Development," Proceedings of the ASEM National Conference, Arlington, VA, Sept. 1995 (With T. Eschenbach)

Anchorage Delphi Study Report and Anchorage Delphi Study Executive Summary, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce & UAA School of Business, March 1994.

"Nurturing Technological Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Alaska Science and Technology Foundation Experience," Management of Technology IV: Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Management of Technology, Miami, March 1994 (With E. Baker and T. Eschenbach)

Statewide Telecommunications Network Delphi Study Final Report, study completed for the Governor's Telecommunications Information Council, September 1993

"Strategic Management of Oil Spills: Some Lessons from the Exxon Valdez Disaster, in proceedings of the UAA/OPEC Conference on Energy Issues For the 1990s (Anchorage, July 1992). Revised version published in special edition of Opec Review

"An Integrated Technology Management Model,"in Proceedings of International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, October 1991 (With E. Baker and T. Eschenbach)

"A Strategic View of Engineering," in Strategic Management: Methods and Studies, B.Y. Dean and lC. Cassidy, Eds., North-Holland, 1990. (With T. Eschenbach) Recently translated into Japanese.

"The Five Technology Domains of Technology Management," in Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of ASEM, St. Louis, 1990 (With E. Baker and T. Eschenbach)

Book review of Managing Technology by Lowell W. Steele in Engineering Management Journal, June 1990.

"Toward Strategic Propositions for Technology Management," in Management of Technology II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Management of Technology, Miami, 1990 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Alaska's Infrastructure and Limits to Growth," Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, March 1989 (With T. Eschenbach and A.T. Stoddard)

The Alaska Small Business Planning Guide, a manual for entrepreneurs published by the University of Alaska Small Business Development Center, 1989.

"Technology Transfer in Alaska: A Developing Region of A Developed Nation," in Technology Management 1: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technology Management, Miami, 1988 (With T. Eschenbach and G.N. Jones)

"Role of Technology in Strategic Management," Engineering Management International Winter 1987 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Strategically Focused Engineering: Design and Management," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, May 1987 (With T. Eschenbach)

"The Changing Role of Engineering Management in a Strategic Age," in Management of Evolving Systems: 1987 IEEE Conference on Management and Teclmology, Atlanta, 1987 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Bridging the Gap Between Forecasting and Action," chapter in Judgmental Forecasting, George Wright & Peter Ayton, Eds., Jolm Wiley & Sons, 1986 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Guiding Alaska into the Future," The Northern Engineer, SummerlFall 1986 (With T. Eschenbach)

"The Strategic Use of Teclmology, " Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Management, Washington, D.C., September 1986 (With T. Eschenbach)

"A Delphi Forecast for Alaska," Interfaces, Vol. 15, No.6, November-December 1985, pp. 100­109 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Strategic Solutions vs. Engineering Solutions," Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Management, Portland, October 1985 (With T. Eschenbach) Best written paper award.

"Alaska's Infrastructure and Limits to Growth," Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Management, Portland, October 1985 (With T. Eschenbach and A. T. Stoddard)

"Delphi Forecasting Methodology: A Case Study," a paper presented at the 34th Alaska Science Conference in September 1983. Revised in December 1983 for publication with selected papers from the conference. (With T. Eschenbach)

"Delphi Panelists Forecast Alaska's Economic Future," Alaska Business and Industry, November 1983, pp. 27-35 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Capital Projects, Alaska's Industries and State Policies for Development," The Northern Engineer, Summer 1983, Vol. 15, No.2, pp. 22-29 (With T. Eschenbach)

A Delphi Forecast of Alaska's Development: The Year 2000 & Beyond Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development, June 1983 (Co-authored with T. Eschenbach, G. Rutledge, R. Basi, and K. Yaworski). Condensed version published in Alaska Journal of Commerce and Pacific Rim Reporter, August 8, 1983, Vol. 7, No. 32, pp. 9-28. Selected results also published as the long-range portion of Alaska Pacific Bank's annual economic forecast.

"Construction of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline," OMEGA, Vol. 10, No.3, pp. 259-265, 1982 (With V. Hauck)

Toward a More Effective Board, a manual published by the Alaska Public Broadcasting Commission, 1982

The Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline Project, including teaching note, Harvard Case Clearinghouse, 1980 (With V. Hauck).

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, monograph published by the East-West Resource Systems Institute, Honolulu, 1979 (With V. Hauck)

Mass Transit in Anchorage, Anchorage Urban Observatory, 1977 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Model for an Executive In Residence Program," AACSB Bulletin, 1974 (With C. Lillis)

Other Papers

"Strategic Analysis for Balancing Economic, Cultural, and Social Performance of Larger Indigenous People's Corporations"- presented at the UAA 2013 Native Studies Conference ­with Bob Poe

"The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Corporation: A Case Example for Indigenous Peoples Business Development?" - presented at the UAA 2013 Alaska Native Studies Conference - with Sharon Guenther Lind

"The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Corporation: A Case Example for Indigenous Peoples' Business Development ," presented at the 2011 Annual Hawaii International Business Research Conference, abstract in proceedings (with Sharon Lind)

"Causal Loop Modeling of Ethics Force Structures: An Exploration," presented at the 27th

International Conference of the System Dynamics Society (with Ted Eschenbach & Elisha Baker, IV)

The Feedback Structure of Business Ethics." INFORMS NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Seattle, October 2007 (With T. Eschenbach & Elisha Baker, IV)

"Technology Strategy Compatibility with Societal Norms and Forces," INFORMS NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Seattle, October 1998 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Evaluating the Uncertainties of a Technology: Developer vs. Buyer Perspectives," ASEM Technical Conference on New ProductIProcess Development and Software Development Management, Dallas, 1997 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Scenario Development Using Large Delphi Panels," TIMS XXXII International Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, June 1994 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Strategies for Improving the Implementability of Judgmental Forecasts," presented at the TIMS XXVII International Meeting, Gold Coast, Australia, July 1986 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Strategic Models for Non-Profit Organizations," presented at the TIMS XXVII International Meeting, Gold Coast, Australia, July 1986 (With V. Hauck)

"Evaluating Judgmental Forecasts," Joint National TIMS/ORSA Meeting, Los Angeles, April, 1986 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Evaluation of Delphi Forecasts," 36th Alaska Science Conference, Fairbanks, September 1985 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Approaches to Technological Forecasting," Anshan, China, May 1985 (With T. Eschenbach) "Consensus Processes in Regional Economic Planning: An Alaskan Case Study," Second Pan­Pacific Conference, Seoul, May 1985 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Forecasting and Public Policy Formulation: Closing the Feedback Loop," 1984 AAAS-Arctic Division Conference (With T. Eschenbach)

"Delphi: Short Term Events and Long Range Forecasts," 1984 ORSAITIMS National Meeting (With T. Eschenbach)

"Interpretation, Summarization, and Presentation of Delphi Data," International Symposium on Forecasting, London, July 1984 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Long Range Forecasting in Developing Regions: Lessons from an Alaskan Delphi Study," XXVI International TIMS Conference, Copenhagen, June 1984 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Analyzing and Presenting Results from a Delphi Survey," Joint National ORSAITIMS Meeting, San Francisco, May 1984 (With T. Eschenbach)

"The Future Course of Alaska's Development," 34th Alaska Science Conference, September 1983 (With T. Eschenbach)

"Increasing Productivity: A Management Challenge," 1983 ASTD Conference, Anchorage

EXTERNAL SERVICE

Former member of Board of Supervisors and Treasurer for Glen Alps Limited Road Service Area Former member of Board of Directors - Internship Program for Alaska. Assisted Anchorage Arts Council in goal setting and directed development of their long range plan. Conducted government/industry workshop for Alaska Department of Environmental Quality on resolving differences in setting environmental standards. Assisted Cook Inlet Native Association in goals and objectives development. Conducted workshops for South-Central Health Systems Agency. Advised Alaska Department of Commerce on Delphi process. Designed plan for a consensus based economic development policy determination process for Resource Development Council. Time management seminar trainer for Anchorage Police, IRS, Small Business Administration, Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations. Conducted seminars on proper function of boards of directors for various non-profit organizations. Conducted seminars on systems concepts, information systems, productivity, strategic management, and other subjects before a variety of public or professional bodies.

Speaker on management subjects and education before professional or civic groups and government agencies.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Seminar on MBO (1976) Workshop on Project Management Curriculum, East-West Center (1978) Professional Associate at East-West Center (January, 1979) AACSB Workshop on Teaching International Business (1980) Seminar on Doing Business with the Japanese (1981) Seminar on Theory Z (1983) Workshop on export trading (1983) Seminar on scenario construction (1984) Seminar on international finance (1985) Seminar on Pacific Rim economic development (1985) Chinese government sponsored tour of universities & industries in Peoples Republic of China (1985) Workshop on restructuring MBA programs (1996) Seminar on logistics management (2000) Audited graduate course on Alaska Native Issues (2007)

Attendance at conferences on technology management, operations research, data processing, simulation, forecasting, world futures, and Alaska development--including international conferences in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, and Korea.

Member: World Future Society, Strategic Management Society, Strategic Planning Society, System Dynamics Society

Inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society -- April, 1998

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