Mauricio Jiménez

Professional Summary

Mauricio Jiménez joined the Army-Baylor MHA/MBA program in July 2020 as an Assistant Professor. His work experience includes working for Fortune 500 companies in the areas of Management Consulting, Engineering Management, Project Management, Logistics, and Continuous Improvement. Previously, he held a position as Assistant Professor and Civilian Advisor for the Engineering Management Program at the Department of Systems Engineering at West Point. Jiménez also conducted research for the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech in highly-detailed, agent-based healthcare simulations.

Jiménez joined the Army Reserve in 2010 and continues to serve as a Major (Environmental Science Engineering Officer) for Public Health Command-Central. Jiménez holds certifications as a Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives, Project Management Professional, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Certified Professional Engineering Manager, Certified Manager of Quality, Human-Systems Integrator, and as a Senior Army Instructor. Jiménez is the Diversity Chair for the ACHE South Texas Chapter.

Education

• 2001 – BS in Systems Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
• 2004 – Master’s in Engineering Management, George Washington University, Washington, DC
• 2010 – MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• 2013 – MPH (Infectious Diseases Concentration), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• 2014 – PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Courses

• Quantitative Methods I
• Quantitative Methods II
• Quantitative Methods III
• Healthcare Operations Management
• Project Management
• Computational Epidemiology

Professional Affiliations

• American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
• Project Management Institute (PMI)
• American Society for Quality (ASQ)
• American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)

Selected Papers

• Pires, Bianica & Goldstein, Joshua & Molfino, Emily & Ziemer, Kathryn & Orr, Mark & Jiménez, José. (2023). Knowledge sharing in a dynamic, multi-level organization: an agent-based modeling approach. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 1-26. 10.1007/s10588-023-09373-8.
• Adhikari B, Lewis B, Vullikanti A, Jiménez JM, Prakash BA (2019) Fast and near-optimal monitoring for healthcare acquired infection outbreaks. PLOS Computational Biology 15(9): e1007284. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007284
• Jimenez, Jose and Beigh, Matthew. “Project Management Building Blocks: A Hands-On Approach to Teaching Earned Value Management.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Management 2020 International Annual Conference. ISBN: 97819384961-9-6
• Jimenez J, Lewis B, Eubank S. Hospitals as Complex Social Systems: Agent-Based Simulations of Hospital-Acquired Infections. Complex Systems: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer International Publishing; 2013. Complex Systems: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-03473-7_15