Dr. Saenz has more than twenty years of teaching experience in Higher Education. Currently, he serves as Professor of Practice in the Enterprise and Logistics Engineering unit, College of Engineering and Computing at FIU. He worked in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department at West Virginia University, and he was, for eleven years, Director of a Mathematics and Science Partnership Project (MSP), Professor and Department Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at a private university in Puerto Rico. Dr. Saenz has advised Continuous Improvement/Lean Capstone projects in multiple industries (e.g., aerospace, pharmaceutical, medical devices, food & beverages, insurance, healthcare), published several research papers in the STEM education area, written ABET Self-Study reports, and taught graduate courses in Advanced Engineering Project Management, Advanced Production Planning & Control, Total Quality Management, and Supply Chain Management.
Before joining the Academia, Dr. Saenz worked for fifteen years in industry as Production Manager and Project Manager leading Projects during their life cycle from proposal preparation to project planning, scheduling, hiring and organizing teams, and directing activities to achieve the required deliverables.