Assistant Professor of Enterprise Operations   Address: TCU Box 298530 Dept. of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management Neeley School of Business Texas Christian University Tandy Hall 292C Fort Worth, Texas  76129  USA   Phone:  +1-817-257-5069   Email:  t.browning@tcu.edu   URL:  TysonBrowning.com

Dr. Tyson R. Browning is Assistant Professor of Enterprise Operations in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.  He teaches Operations Management (MBA Core) and Project Management (MBA elective) and conducts research on managing complex enterprises, projects, programs, and processes.  He has served as a consultant for several companies, including General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Seagate, and Southern California Edison.

Prior to joining TCU, he was a Senior Project Manager (E6) in Integrated Company Operations at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Fort Worth, where he was the technical lead and chief integrator of the enterprise process architecture and author of company policies and processes driving the transition to a process-based company.  Before joining Lockheed Martin, he worked with the Product Development Team of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), conducting on-site research at Boeing (extensively), Texas Instruments (now Raytheon), Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), General Electric Aircraft Engines, Sundstrand (now Hamilton Sundstrand), and Chrysler (now Daimler Chrysler).  Browning has also worked for Honeywell Space Systems in Clearwater, Florida (where he grew up) and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

He received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Abilene Christian University and two Master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from MIT.  He has authored over 30 papers on aspects of managing complex engineering projects—publishing in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Mechanical Design, Production & Operations Management, Project Management Journal, Systems Engineering, and others.  He is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and he serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Systems Engineering.