Rod Heisterberg

Summary

Rodney Heisterberg serves as Professor in the School of Business and Management at Notre Dame de Namur University. He teaches courses on the application of Information Technology (IT) for enabling strategic management decision-making in virtual enterprises for the Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Systems Management degree programs. He applies the learnings of those principles and practices as Managing Partner of Rod Heisterberg Associates for clients who are IT users and vendors. Dr. Heisterberg has over 25 years of experience in the field of IT. He holds BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University studying industrial engineering, computer science, and business administration. He has worked and consulted for numerous Global 500 companies, including British Aerospace, Eli Lilly, Ford, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi, Procter & Gamble, Sunbeam, South African Breweries, and US Steel, as well as the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon. Career highlights include serving as Program Director for a Personal Computer industry initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of State to establish a PC manufacturing industrial base for economic development of the Government of Iraq. He was Director of Information Technology Management Consulting for Gartner in San Jose where he performed technology product forecasting and led engagements for eBusiness transformation strategy and applications architecture development. His responsibilities focused on strategic planning for Collaborative Commerce including formation, implementation, and operation of businesses as virtual enterprises. This role leveraged his decade of experiences as a virtual enterprise architect for Lockheed Martin. This provided the credentials for him to be appointed as U.S. industry advisor to NATO where he continued to work as virtual enterprise architect for a collaborative ecosystem of multinational government-industry programs. See complete bio attached.