Shakeel Sadiq Jajja - Institute of Business Administration

Shakeel Sadiq JajjaObjectiveStatementI want to become a world-class operations management scholar and thereby servethe global society by producing impactful and socially responsible research,teaching, and service.Education Ph.D. Management (5 th year – 1 st draft of dissertation submitted)Dissertation Title: SCM and Organizational Performance: Strategy andInnovation AspectsPhD Advisors: Prof. Syed Zahoor Hassan (PhD, Stanford; M.S. Stanford)PhD Advisors: Prof. Shaukat Ali Brah (PhD, U o Houston; M.S. Iowa SU)Session 2008 – Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB)Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore Pakistan. M.S. Total Quality Management (2006)(1 st position in the university) University of the Punjab, Lahore. B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (Honors) (2004)University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.ResearchFellowships, Awards & Research Grants Doctoral Fellowship 2012-13 of Association of Management DevelopmentInstitutions of South Asia (AMDISA). Seven weeks research work atfamous Indian business schools such as ISB Hyderabad and IIM Bangalore. Won 2013 Global Family Enterprise Case Writing Competition(January 9-12, 2013) at The University of Vermont School of BusinessAdministration (USA) on the case study “QADRI-Group: SustainingGrowth for Another 100 Years.” 2012 Best Student Paper Award at 43 rd Annual Meeting of the DecisionSciences Institute (DSI) at San Francisco, USA, on April 17-20, 2012. The Emerging Economy Doctoral Student Award (EEDSA) at 23 rdAnnual Conference of Production and Operations Management Society(POMS) at Chicago, USA, on April 20-23, 2012.o The EEDSA included award plaque and prize money US$2000. Best Graduate Student Paper Award at 40 th Annual Meeting of WesternDecision Sciences Institute at Portland, USA, on Apr 5-8, 2011. Session Chair in a session on supply chain strategy in the supply chainmanagement track at 23 rd Annual POMS Conference at Chicago, USA, onApril 20-23, 2012. SDSB-LUMS Fully Funded PhD Scholarship worth about US $50,000 forthe period 2008-12.

Research(Cont’d.)Management Case Studies (Cont’d.) Qadri Group: Strategy of Next 100 Years (Revise-and-Resubmit from CaseResearch Journal, North America) MTL: Supply Chain Innovator (2 nd draft stage) DESCON: Next Winning Game (2 nd draft stage) Orient Electronics: Implementation of SAP (Data collection stage)Research Project Proposal (Under-review) A US $60,000 research project proposal to document thirteen organizationalinnovation examples and study the impact of supply chain strategy onproduct innovation and organizational performance of Pakistanicompanies. The proposal is under review with the Higher EducationCommission Pakistan. A US $60,000 research project proposal to study innovation ecosystem ofPakistan’s software products/services development sector is under reviewwith Pakistan Strategy Support Program by USAID grant.Working Book Chapter(s) Jajja, M.S.S. & Chatha, K.A., 20XX. Optimal shelf space allocation usingsystem dynamics approach: A case study in the shoe retailing industry. InRai, S.K., B.A. Metri & Rai, S. eds. Global business. MDI India.Work ExperienceAcademicAssistant Professor at Institute of Business Administration, KarachiPakistan (From 01-01-2013 onwards)Adjunct faculty at SDSB LUMS (2012 Fall)Understudy of an MBA Operations Management course with Prof Dr SyedZahoor Hassan at SDSB LUMS (2012 Spring) Research Associate at SDSB LUMS from 01-01-2012 to 31-12-2012. Guest sessions on Structural Equation Modeling during a PhD course onResearch Methods at Lahore School of Economics, Lahore Pakistan(Spring 2012). A seminar course on Organizational Excellence in PhD Total QualityManagement program at the University of the Punjab Pakistan (2011 fall). A course on Business Research Methods in MBA program at GIFTUniversity Gujranwala Pakistan in (2010 spring) A course on Operations Management in BBA program at GIFT UniversityGujranwala Pakistan (2009 fall)Industry Assistant Engineer at Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory AuthorityIslamabad and China from November, 2006 to August, 2008.Development Engineer at Pakistan International Airlines Karachi fromNovember 2005 to November 2006.Trainee Engineer at Dawood Hercules Chemicals Ltd. Lahore fromMarch, 2005 to October, 2005.

Work Experience(Cont’d.)Internships Dawood Hercules Chemicals Ltd Summer 2004 Wall’s Ice Cream Factory (Unilever Pakistan) Summer 2003Skills inResearchSoftwareAMOS (for structural equation modeling)SPSS (for statistical analysis in survey research)iThink (for system dynamics modeling)EndNote (for referencing and bibliographic management)MS Excel (for statistical analysis)Media/NewsAppearances1. Newspaper column “Heads up for Pakistan's 100 fastest growingcompanies” in The Daily Express Tribune (Business Section 6 th Aug 2012)2. Blog titled “The economic reality of US threats” in The Verdict section onThe Express Tribune, dated 03-10-2011.3. TV channel News One in program Gehri Soch with Sajid Mir on 29-03-2011.4. Higher Education Commission Pakistan’s monthly magazine News &Views, page 27, Issue May 2011.5. Higher Education Commission Pakistan’s monthly magazine News &Views, page 27, Issue June 2012.Trainings1. Three days training on Structural Equation Modeling at LUMS Lahore.2. Three months training on probabilistic safety assessment of plantequipment Beijing China.3. Upper-Intermediate training on English communication skills at UETLahore.4. Level-1 training on power plant equipment by Pakistan NuclearRegulatory Authority (PNRA).5. Level-2 advance training on power plant equipment by PNRA.6. Training on root cause analysis by Conger & Elsea Inc. USA.7. Seminar on safety analysis and event investigation by PNRA.MembershipsandExtracurricularActivities1. Life Time Member Pakistan Engineering Council (MPEC)2. 2012 Student Member Production & Operations Management Society(POMS) USA3. 2012 Student Member Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) USA4. Class Representative in MS TQM in PU Lahore5. Class Representative in Final year of B.Sc. in UET Lahore6. Proctor in 3 rd year of B.Sc. in UET Lahore7. Member PIA Emergency Response Team (ERP)