Dr. Stonebraker received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Supply Chain Management at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches the Intro to Operations, Quality Control, Statistics, and Supply Chain and various synchronous virtual courses for the Quinlan School of Management. Dr. Stonebraker is an emeritus professor from Northeastern Illinois University and has taught in both full-time clinical and adjunct capacities at Loyola, Northwestern, DePaul, Northern Illinois, and Illinois Institute of Technology. As the recipient of a USIA grant, he spent eight months in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg teaching management and supply chain operations. Dr. Stonebraker wrote the APICS Master Planning course, the foundation for the current Master Planning of Resources course, and his book, Operations Strategy, was the foundation for much of the APICS Strategic Management of Resources course.

He has authored four books in the compensation, operations management, and operations strategy areas, including Production and Operations Management, coauthored with Fogarty and Hoffmann and, Operations Strategy, coauthored with Leong, and over fifty academic and practitioner-focused articles, published in such journals as The Journal of Management Development, International Journal of Manpower, International Journal of Operations, Supply Chain Management: International Journal, Production Management, and The International Journal of Production Economics.

Dr. Stonebraker has been twice recognized as a finalist in the Decision Sciences Institute’s Instructional Innovation Award and once as the annual award winner. In addition to APICS, Dr. Stonebraker is a member of and has held a variety of service positions with the national Academy of Management, the Decision Sciences Institute, the International Society for Inventory Research, and others. He has consulted with numerous small and Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing and distribution, and has been recognized as the APICS Chicago Chapter Instructor of the Year and Member of the Year on several occasions. He has taught the APICS CPIM courses for some 20 years in public formats and in-house formats to some 15 area firms. He is currently an advisor to the Chicago Chapter of APICS.

Dr. Stonebraker served more than 20 years in the U. S. Army, primarily in intelligence, operations, and logistics positions and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1985.

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