Dr. Brooks is President of RBAC, Inc.. He is an applied mathematician and senior systems designer with over thirty years experience in developing decision support systems for business managers and government policymakers. His main areas of technical expertise are mathematical optimization and simulation, statistical analysis, data base design, and systems integration.
Dr. Brooks' eclectic educational background includes an A.B. degree in Arts and Science from the University of California (1968), M.A. in Physics from the University of Texas (1972), and a Ph.D. in Management (specializing in Operations Research) from MIT (1975).
His doctoral research in natural gas transportation economics led to a variety of assignments with Federal and State government agencies to develop models for forecasting and analysis (1976-79). During the period 1979-83, as Vice President of Management Science Applications for Transportation & Economic Research Associates, he led the technical development of a large number of Federal, State, and local government energy and transportation consulting projects including the National Energy Transportation Study.
As Vice President of Software Development for PMD, Inc., Dr. Brooks designed a series of production and distribution management software which was implemented at over 40 sites in North America (1984 -87).
In 1987 he founded RBA Consultants. As his first action, he helped organize a team consisting of RBA, Ventana Systems, Inc., and Douglas Aircraft Company (DAC) in a project to discover the root causes of DAC's manufacturing cost and delivery problems. Dr. Brooks' roles on this project included data base design, system integration, and customer support. This led to further assignments with the company to develop decision support systems for planning, scheduling, and engineering design during the time frame 1989-94.
Between 1990 and 1995, Dr. Brooks was a principal developer for Logistics Solutions, Inc. in the design and programming of their GRIDNET software system for planning and operations management of natural gas marketing companies.
Dr. Brooks' principal efforts between 1995 and 1997 involved data analysis and modeling projects at The Boeing Company's Airlift and Tankers Division in California, and an operations management system for Hi-Tech Rubber, Inc. of Anaheim, California.
His more recent efforts have included application of new techniques for finding improved solutions to operations management problems (e.g. genetic algorithms), use of new Windows-based software such as Microsoft Access, Visual C , and Visual Basic for rapid development of decision support systems, and development of the GPCM® Natural Gas Market Forecasting System for the energy industry.
Dr. Brooks has documented much of his work in a variety of publications. Some of these are available on request.
Dr. Brooks is reachable via e-mail at: rebrooks@rbac.com.