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Congratulations to Branyan Booth, W.L. Berry Scholarship Recipient
Congratulations to Branyan Booth, an evening MBA student, who is the first recipient of the W.L. Berry Scholarship. The scholarship was created and named for Professor Bill Berry upon his retirement. Funding for the endowment, provided by the Center for Operational Excellence and Bill’s many admirers, honors his contributions to Fisher College and the field of operations management.
In addition to graduating from the Fisher MBA program, Booth is a third generation graduate from the Ohio State University Medical School (2004). She comes from a family of physicians. With her experience in medicine and her close family ties in the field, she has firsthand knowledge of the critical need for improvements in the healthcare industry. Shortly upon completing medical school, Booth realized she wanted to merge her interests in medicine and business and began pursing her MBA.
She finds operations and LEAN coursework fun and exciting and is eager to apply her knowledge within a healthcare setting. Her short term goals are to acquire more experience — most likely in a hospital setting — and focus on two goals: improving quality and cutting costs. After initially pursuing medicine and clinical research, Booth has now found her passion in LEAN and process improvement and a profession to pursue that she is confident that she will enjoy.
Congratulations to the Operations and Logistics Management Scholarship Recipients 2008
Each year the COE, in coordination with the faculty, awards scholarships to the top first year MBA students who are majoring in Operations Management and Logistics Management. In this way, the COE can contribute to the development of future leaders who impact operational excellence. We congratulate each of these talented young students and thank each of the COE member companies for their financial support to award these scholarships. Pictured below are the recipients with Peter Ward and Doug Lambert. We have included a brief summary of this years’ five OLM scholarship recipients:
Shireesh Annam holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India. He started his career in 2004 in the industrial electronics and robotics division at Larsen & Toubro Limited in Mumbai, India. Prior coming to Fisher College of Business, he started an embedded systems technology startup company where he built and led the team that designed, delivered, and marketed real-time graphics technology for industrial automation companies and government organizations. Shireesh plans to major in Operations Management and also focus on strategy, new business development and entrepreneurship.
Nitin Goel is a first year student at Fisher College of Business. He is planning to major in Operations and Corporate Strategy. Nitin completed his Bachelors of Technology (Engineering) in Information Technology from Kurukshetra University, India. He developed business applications and retail web portal for some of the top US retailers while working as a software developer with Infosys Technologies Limited (Bangalore) for over two years. Currently Nitin is working as a Communication in-charge with Office of Minority Student Services at Fisher College of Business. He plans to work this summer at The Dow Chemical Company as a supply chain analyst. His areas of interest are global supply chain and related issues.
Travis Helmholds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Wyoming, and a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Utah. Prior to entering Fisher in the full-time MBA program, he worked at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a Quality Assurance Auditor. Travis is majoring in Operations and Logistics Management with career tracks in Six Sigma Management Practices, as well as in Entrepreneurship and New Business Ventures.
Scott Legler grew up in Borger, Texas, a small town in the Texas panhandle. Scott graduated from Texas Tech University (TTU) in May of 2007 with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Management. During his time at TTU, he studied abroad in Honefoss, Norway, and completed a Certificate in International Entrepreneurship. Scott is currently majoring in Operations and Logistics Management and taking classes in International Business. His goal is to work for an international oil/energy company and focus on supply chains in developing countries.
Luv Sharma isa first year student specializing in Supply Chain and Operations Management. He completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology in India. On completion of his undergraduate he worked for two years as a business application developer in Infosys Technologies Ltd and SAP Labs. In 2007, he graduated from OSU with a Masters Degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering. Luv’s areas of interest include forecasting techniques, risk and its impact on the customer service, and inventory management policy.
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