Jos Luis Gimnez Rigol

Professor at IESA's Management and Leadership

Center.

Education
Docteur en Sciences (Operations Research)
Universit Paul Sabatier
Toulouse, France, (1989)

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Imperial College of Science and Technology
London, UK (1977)

Electrical Engineer
Universidad Simn Bolvar
Caracas, Venezuela (1975)

Complementary education

Colloquium on Participant Centered Leraning

Harvard Business School. Boston, U.S. (2006)

Production Management Program

IESA. Caracas, Venezuela (1994)

Management for High Education Institutes

IESA. Caracas, Venezuela (1993)

Optimization in planning and operation of electric power systems

Association Suisse de Rcherche Oprationnelle. Switzerland (1992)
Research & Consulting activities

Competitiveness studies in several sectors

IESA representative in the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey

(IMSS)

Development of simulation tools in supply chain courses

Strategic key issues in service firms:

Re-engineering in manufacturing and service firms
Sectorial studies for supply firms of oil industry
Quality improvement in public sector institutions
Dynamic Programming algorithms applied to static and dynamic
nonserial systems.

Applications:
Electrical distribution design
Hydro-electrical reservoir systems
Systems simulation. Developed applications: rapid transit systems,
electrical distribution systems, hydroelectrical systems

Academic and administrative experience

Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracin (IESA).

Caracas, Venezuela (1998-present)

Responsible of following courses:

Operations Management, Service Management & Operations Research
(MBA Program)
Operations Planning and Control (Master in Operations Management)
Supply Chain Management, Service Management, Manufacturing
Strategies, Quality & Productivity, Operations Management (Executive
Education Programs)
Academic and administrative experience

Dean of Programs
Responsible for all academic programs at IESA (2008-2012)

Academic representative to IESA Academic Council (2000-2002, 2006-

2008)

Director of the Executive Program (the top program in Executive Education

in Venezuela), a 180-academic hour Executive MBA, followed each year by top
managers at Caracas. (2005-2007)

Director of Master in Operations Management, a 480-academic hour

program, followed each year by 50 managers at two IESA centers: Caracas
and Valencia (2000-2003)

Director of Advanced Management Program (Programa Avanzado de

Gerencia PAG), a 420-academic hour Executive MBA, followed each year by
140 managers at three IESA centers: Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia. (1998-
2008)

Full Professor
Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracin (IESA). Caracas, Venezuela
(1998-present)

Invited Professor Universidad ESAN

Lima, Per. From 2011

Designated as the Best Professor at ISEG MBA Program, a program

coordinated by ISM staff . July 2008.

Invited Professor INCAE

Central America From 2007

Invited Professor International School of Management

Paris, France (2005-2013)

Invited Professor
Instituto de Empresa. Madrid, Spain. From 2003
Academic and administrative experience

From 1996-1998, Dean of the Engineering Faculty

For design, coordination and planning of the following programs : Civil,
Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Systems Engineering.

Part Time Professor

Universidad Simn Bolvar. Processes & Systems Department (1990)

Full Professor
Engineering Faculty Universidad Metropolitana,

Director of the Electrical Engineering School. (1989-1996)

Professional experience

Swiss Re, Brasil, Colombia & Venezuela (1998)

General diagnostics of Rio de Janeiro, Medelln and Caracas Metro system.

Swiss Re, Venezuela (1993 y 1994)

General diagnostics of Compaa Annima Nacional Telfonos de Venezuela
(CANTV) system.

Sielectric C.A. (1991-1992)

Design and supervision of electrical grounding systems.

Consultancy for companies such as: Miller International, THG, Analytica,

IAP-Cunningham. (1991-2004)

C.A. Metro de Caracas (1985)

Development of functional specifications for automatic dispatch bus system.
Development of functional specifications for voice and data communications
system.
Professional experience

INELECTRA-SOFRETU (French-Venezuelan consortium) (1979-1984)

Senior Project Engineer
Responsible of Train Control and Communications team. Inspection of
following processes of Caracas Metro:
Specifications revision
Design and manufacturing of supervision & control systems (activities carried
on in France, May 1980-May 1982).
Installation, tests and set-up
Responsible of Operations Control Center team.
Development of functional specifications for automatic supervision system of
Operations Control Center (Caracas Metro system)
Representantive of INELECTRA-SOFRETU consortium in RAMS (reliability,
availability, maintenability, safety) committee.
Setting reliability and availability criteria for Caracas Metro system.
Techno-economical studies for CADAFE-ENELVEN interconnection.

Project Engineer. INELECTRA, S.A. (1975-1979)

Participated in several projects related to planning and optimization of electrical
systems, such as:
Electrical operation analysis of Electricidad de Valencia network
Zonification studies of Valencia (Venezuela) in order to decide the electric
supplier for different city zones.
Feasibility studies of encapsuled substations for La Electricidad de Caracas
 Publications
GIMENEZ RIGOL, Jos Luis Procedimientos para el proyecto, diseo,
adquisicin de equipos y montaje de redes de distribucin. Universidad Simn
Bolvar, Caracas.1975.

GIMENEZ RIGOL, Jos Luis Power Systems Design for Varying Loads.
Master of Science Thesis. Imperial College, Londres, 1977.

DELEUZE, Joaqun / GIMENEZ R., Jos Luis / VINCENTELLI, Antonio

Simulador de Sistemas de Trnsito Rpido. III Jornadas Nacionales de
Po-tencia, Maracaibo,1982

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / CALVET, Jean-Louis Une Analyse de la Mthode

de Programmation Dynamique Spatiale. Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse
des Systemes, Toulouse, 1986.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis Contribution a la Dcomposition de Systemes

Interconnects par Programmation dynamique non serielle. Application a des
systemes de puissance. These de Doctorat. Universit Paul Sabatier, Toulouse,
1989.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / CALVET, Jean-Louis Dcomposition par

programmation dynamique non srielle du probleme de conception optimale
d'un rseau de distribution. Journes de l'Optimisation, Montreal, 4/5 Mayo
1989.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / CALVET, Jean-Louis A non serial dynamic

programming technique for optimizing energy flow in distribution networks. 1989
American Control Conference, Pittsburgh,21-23 Junio.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / CALVET, Jean-Louis A non serial dynamic

programming based approach for short-term optimization of a multireservoir
power system. IFAC World Congress, Tallinn, Estonia, Agosto 1990.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / CALVET, Jean-Louis An application and spatio-

temporal decompositions by nonserial dynamic programming. Second IEEE
Conference on Control Applications. Vancouver, Canad, Septiembre 1993.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / CALVET, Jean-Louis A nonserial dynamic

programming model with an application to the optimal design of distribution
networks. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 46, pp 160-173, Marzo
1995.
 Publications
GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / CALVET, Jean-Louis / ALONSO, Alfonso A two-
level dynamic programming in the optimal design of sewerage networks. IFAC
Symposium on Large Scale Systems, London, Julio 1995.

ALONSO, Alfonso / CALVET, Jean-Louis / GIMENEZ, Jos Luis Dynamic

programming for optimal control of systems with banded state transition
patterns. 8th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory and
Applications, Universidad de Patras, Grecia. 15-17 Julio 1998.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / SANCHEZ, Benito. La enseanza de la ingeniera

en Venezuela. Visin desde cuatro perspectivas diferentes. I Jornadas sobre
Enseanza de Ingeniera en Venezuela, Barquisimeto, octubre 1998.

DIAZ MATALOBOS, Angel / GIMENEZ, Jos Luis Manufacturing in

Venezuela. An impossible mission? 1999 Global Manufacturing Research
Group, Madrid, Junio 1999.

ALONSO, Alfonso / CALVET, Jean-Louis / GIMENEZ, Jos Luis

Structural application of dynamic programming to discrete systems. 2001
American Control Conference, Arlington, Junio 2001.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / DIAZ MATALOBOS, Angel / LORENZO, Oswaldo.

Teaching Supply Chain issues: the logistics simulation SILOG. International
Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Valladolid, septiembre 2004.

PEREZ, Cndido / GIMENEZ, Jos Luis. Ventas de automviles y tasas

de inters en Amrica Latina: los casos de Brasil, Mxico y Venezuela,
Academia, vol. 35, pp 1-8, 2005.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / PEREZ, Cndido. Can Supply Chain performance

be improved. The Beer Game revisited. BALAS Conference 2005, Madrid, May
2005.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / PEREZ, Cndido / GONZALEZ, Milko Introducing

the arborescent Beer Game: bullwhip effect remains?. EurOMA Conference
2005, Budapest, June 2005.
 Publications
DALVANO, Luigi / GIMENEZ, Jos Luis. Tres retos conceptuales en la
prestacin de servicios. Debates IESA, vol X, nm 3, pp 24-27, 2005.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / CASTRO, Natalia. Supply chain issues in the

Venezuelan manufacturing industry at a glance. POMS Conference 2006,
Boston, May 2006.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis. Pocos lotes grandes o muchos lotes pequeos?.

Debates IESA, vol XI, nm 3, pp. 68-71, 2006.

DIAZ, Angel / LORENZO, Oswaldo / GIMENEZ, Jos Luis. A proposed

framework of best practices for the optimization of spare parts in asset-intensive
industries. EurOMA Conference 2006, Glasgow, June 2006.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis. Realmente usamos el just-in-time en

Venezuela?. Research Annual Workshop, IESA, 2006.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis / DIAZ, Angel / LORENZO, Oswaldo. Lean

manufacturing principles: Are Venezuelan firms applying them? POMS
Conference 2007, Dallas, May 2007.

DIAZ, Angel / LORENZO, Oswaldo / GIMENEZ, Jos Luis. Teaching

Process Management. A Multimedia-based Case Approach. POMS Conference
2007, Dallas, May 2007.

GIMENEZ, Jos Luis. The application of JIT principles in Venezuela.

Comparisons with other IMSS countries. EurOMA Conference 2007, Ankara,
June 2007.

DALVANO, Luigi / GIMENEZ, Jos Luis. En busca de un servicio

superior: innovar es la clave. Debates IESA, vol XII, nm 3, pp. 60-63, 2007.