William Petty
- Specialty Areas:
- 35 years of manufacturing experience in relating the financial/controllership function to resource and operations management in different industrial settings
- Education:
- University of Cincinnati (BS & MBA)
- Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:
William Petty left his position as a Field Engineer for the Alabama Productivity Center at the University of Alabama to become a full time Instructor at the University in August 2007. Starting his career in Industrial Engineering, he migrated to the accounting area and has been the Controller for thirteen different companies in the Midwest and South, ranging from a grocery chain to a cookie/snack company to an armored car company to a produce processor to a steel fabricator to ZF Lemforder Corporation here in Tuscaloosa, a supplier to Mercedes.
Mr. Petty was the President of the West Alabama Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) for 3 years and has served on the board of IMA in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. He has also served as Vice President on the board of the Gulf South Council of the IMA which serves about 3000 members in 16 chapters in the Southeastern states. He has been an active member of the APICS organization for over twenty years having served in most capacities on the board including President of the Cincinnati Chapter. He is currently a Vice President in the BAMA Chapter of APICS in Birmingham. He is the President of the Tuscaloosa Thursday Morning Rotary Club for 2007-2008. He was an Adjunct Professor at four local colleges in the Cincinnati area (teaching Contemporary Management, Operations Management and Materials Management), and was on the Advisory Board for the Lean Manufacturing Certificate offered by the University of Alabama. He is one of three certified Integrated Enterprise Management Instructors in the Cincinnati Chapter of APICS and has taught Basics of Supply Chain Management and Fundamentals of Operations Management in the APICS organization. Additionally, he is an Advisor for the SOMS (Society of Operations Management Students) chapter and the APICS Student Chapter at UA. He also started a Student Chapter of AAMA (Alabama Automobile Manufacturing Association) at UA the first student chapter in the state. In 2008, he became certified as a CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) through the APICS organization.