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Faculty Profile - Rick E. Himmer

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Phone: (334) 844-2457
Email: himmere@auburn.edu
Office: 452 Lowder Business Bldg.
Website: http://business.auburn.edu/~himmere

At Auburn since 2000

Education:
MBA, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 1980
BSBA, Bucknell University, 1967

Areas of Expertise:
Transportation management
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Warehouse and Distribution Center Management
Fleet Management
Human Resource Management
Project Management

Professional Activities:
Mr. Himmer has thirty two years of work experience in transportation and logistics with fourteen of those years being at the CEO level. Responsibilities have included: president of two large trucking companies, supply chain management of three company divisions, management of several corporate warehouse and distribution centers.

Professional memberships: American Trucking Association, Private Carrier Conference, Alabama Trucking Association, Council of Logistics Management, and Florida Trucking Association. Numerous presentations were given at these organization meetings and conferences.

Mr. Himmer also served three years in the Army Transportation Corps. in Germany and Vietnam and reached the rank of Captain.