Rainer Sommer
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Enterprise Engineering
rsommer@gmu.edu
703-993-2267
413-826-8202
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information please visit Rainer Sommer's
website: http://bambam.gmu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Information Technology, George Mason University
Ph.D., Software Engineering, Columbia Pacific University
MS, Information Systems Engineering, George Mason University
BIS, Business Information Systems, Virginia State University
Biography
Dr. Sommer is Associate Professor of Public
Policy and Enterprise Engineering at the
George Mason University School of Public
Policy. At George Mason University he has
held several research and teaching positions
in the fields of Business-to-Business (B2B)
electronic commerce and supply chain integration,
international telecommunication, Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation
and design, and most recently ERP-based
Business Process Engineering methods.
Since 1994 Dr. Sommer's research efforts
have been concentrated in the area of integrated
enterprise modeling to facilitate the development
of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System-based
supply chain solutions. During that time
Dr. Sommer provided research and consulting
services to a multitude of national/international
public and private sector organizations
on ERP business process and technical infrastructure
implementation. Past efforts include projects
with the Naval Air and Sea Systems Commands
to define the technical requirements for
three large scale ERP system projects.
Other research is focused on the development
of a planning methodology that maps narrative
strategic information into a formal process-planning
model with which to begin the business
planning and ERP implementation effort.
Dr.
Sommer was a founding member and past
director of the George Mason University
Enterprise Engineering Laboratory. The
laboratory is dedicated to ERP-based
Business-to-Business electronic commerce,
supply chain optimization, and ERP "Back-Office"
integration research. He was awarded
the Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering
in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in Information
Technology in 1998 (Specialization --
Management Information Systems).
In 2002,
Dr. Sommer was the Mason project leader
on the Boeing Aerospace e-Business trading
exchange demonstration project for the
government of Taiwan. Most recently,
Dr. Sommer was the project lead for a joint George Mason University/Computer
Sciences Corporation research study on
federal Electronic Business System best
practices.
Areas of Research
- Enterprise Systems
- Strategic Planning and Telecommunications
