Malleswara Rao TallaMalleswara Talla is currently working as a sessional Professor in the department of Decision Sciences and MIS at John Molson School of Business in Montreal. Malleswara received his Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) degree in 1979 specializing Electroics and Communications Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (J.T.U) College of Engineering, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He received his Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree in 1981 specializing in Microwave and Radar Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T), Kharagpur, India. Later, Malleswara joined Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Bombay and worked on several software systems engineering, reengineering, design, and development projects involving several companies as a systems consultant in North America, Europe, Middle-East, and Asia. In 1988, Malleswara joined Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautics (SITA) in Montreal, Canada and worked on several data and messaging services involving mainly airline data communications. In 1995, Malleswara received his Ph.D. degree specializing in Computer Communications and Networks from Concordia University, Montreal. Dr. Talla later moved to SITA Equant JV projects involving organization’s performance excellence in their Quality and Performance Management department. As a result of Equant’s merger with Orange Business Services, Dr. Talla is serving the airline customers of Orange Business Services. Dr. Talla is a member of Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS), Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Project Management Institute (PMI), The Association for Operations Management (APICS), and The Institute for Internal Controls (THEIIC). Dr. Talla’s teaching and research interests are mainly in operations management, management Information Systems, systems re-engineering, business intelligence, software engineering and evolution, software architecture, design, and development. Read More Read Less