Northern Arizona University - Yuma
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Program - NAU's Statewide Program in Business
David A. Parmenter, PhD, CPIM
Assistant Clinical Professor
Serving in Tucson at Pima Community College - West Campus
Disclosure: This is an old picture (a new one is in the works)
Contact Information:
  • Office: Room A104 at Pima Community College - West Campus
  • Office Phone: (520) 206-6744
  • Cell Phone: (520) 903-8812 (for emergencies or during off-campus office hours)
  • Fax: (520) 206-6744 (the departmental fax, not my personal fax, so make sure to label what you send as being for me)
  • e-mail: david.parmenter@nau.edu (note that students can also contact me using the e-mail inside the course's Vista shell)
  • Snail-mail address:  NAU-Tucson at Pima College West, 2202 West Anklam, Tucson AZ 85709-0040
Academic Credentials:
  • MS in Management Information Systems, Governors State University (August 2008)
  • PhD in Business Administration, University of Arizona (December 1992)
    • Major = Operations Management
    • Minor = Applied Statistics
  • MBA, University of Arizona (December 1983)
  • BA, University of Arizona (May 1980)

Courses Taught for NAU:

  • BBA 300: Principles of Management in a Global Economy (also the BSBA version - MGT 300)
  • BBA 330: Supply Chain and Operations Management (also the BSBA version - MGT 301)
  • BBA 380: Management for Environmental Sustainability & Durable Competitive Advantage
  • MGT 470C: Business in Society
  • MGT 490C: Strategic Management
  • Note that I created the online versions of MGT 470C and BBA 380 and am currently doing so for BBA 330

Other Courses Taught:

  • Statistics for Management
  • Quality Management
  • Service Operations Management
  • Interdisciplinary Team-Building
  • MBA-level Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Strategic Management
Other Information:
  • At NAU since 2006 (grew up in Tucson - very happy to be able to get back home)
  • Previously taught at Governors State University (1992-2003, tenured in 1998) and West Texas A&M University (2003-2006)
  • Served as GSU Faculty Senate President in 2000/2001
  • Won GSU Faculty Excellence Awards in 1994, 1997 and 2000
  • Faculty Advisor to GSU Student Chapter of APICS (won Faculty Advisor of the Year in 1996 and 2002)
  • Achieved APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) in 1994
  • Published in Journal of Operations Management, Quality Management Journal, Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business and Leadership: Research, Practice and Teaching, and International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management (with an article forthcoming in Academy of Educational Leadership Journal)


 

last updated 11/19/2008