Dr Jay Heizer is a Professor Emeritus, holding the Jesse Jones Chair of Business Administration, at Texas Lutheran University. He received two degrees from the University of North Texas and a Ph.D. in Management and Statistics from Arizona State University, and CPIM certification from APICS. Prior to his academic career, Jau served in the US Army, worked as a production planner at Westinghouse, and then in the Engineering Department at General Dynamics. For many years
he was also President of the consulting firm, Operations Management, Inc. Before joining Texas Lutheran, he was on the faculties of the University of Memphis, University of Richmond, University of Oklahoma, and served as Chairman of the Management Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. His teaching has taken him to assignments in Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic. It was during one of these assignments that he met Barry, which was the precursor to a long friendship and collaboration on books.