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WILLIAM GOODWIN III

After graduating from CHS I attended The University of the South, in Sewanee, TN. I lettered in swimming my freshman year and was elected captain of the swimming team in 1965. I flunked out of Sewanee in 1966 after three years of terrible grades.
I joined the Naval Reserve in Baltimore, married Ann MacLaughlin (CHS ’65), and worked for a year before going on active duty in August of 1967. I spent January through May 1968 in the U.S. Naval Hospital in Naples, Italy, recovering from surgery. In late May, 1968, I reported for duty as a Seaman Apprentice aboard the USS Shangri-La (CVA-38).
I returned to Sewanee in August, 1969. I was on the Dean’s List through my last semester in the Fall of 1970. My first son Mark, was born in April, 1971. I finally graduated in June, 1971.
Thanks to the guidance of a young professor at Sewanee, I was admitted to graduate school at Purdue where I earned a MA and PhD in measurement and applied statistics. My younger son Jamie was born just before I completed my dissertation in August, 1976.
I took a job as Director of the Bureau of Measurement and Research at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL in the Fall of 1976. I also taught statistics in the school of business.
In 1981 I was recruited to Ryder System’s world headquarters in Miami; yes, the truck company. I started there as an internal statistical consultant, and later became the project manager for logistics systems. My group developed one of the first computer programs for optimizing the routing and scheduling of vehicles and crews. We spearheaded the use of personal computers for applied operations management decision making. Our software was used at over 200 distribution centers run by Ryder. During this period I served as a panel chair for the Florida Foster Care Review Project, a United Way group that organizes citizen review panels to help reduce the amount of time children spend in the foster care system.
In 1993 I was appointed head of logistics training and education for Ryder Integrated Logistics, one of the operating divisions of Ryder System. I served in that capacity until 1998 when our division got a new president, and I left Ryder to return to academia.
I was named the Founding Director of the Ryder Center for Logistics in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University, the state university in Miami. I established a Logistics Major and taught four courses during my tenure at FIU.
On Memorial Day, 2000, my younger son Jamie was in an automobile crash in Walnut Creek, CA. The driver of the car fell asleep at the wheel. Jamie was asleep in the back seat and not wearing a seat belt. He was thrown from the vehicle when it rolled over. When we received the call at 4 A.M., the trauma center doctors did not expect him to survive the night. It was every parent’s worst nightmare. Ann wrote his obituary on the flight to Oakland.
Jamie survived; he was in a coma for over a month. In addition to multiple skull fractures, lacerations, abrasions, and a shattered knee, he suffered a very severe traumatic brain injury. . Ann and I quit our jobs in order to focus all of our resources to help Jamie recover. Ann moved into his apartment in Berkeley for four months while he was in inpatient rehabilitation; I flew back and forth between Miami and San Francisco during that period.
After Jamie got out of inpatient rehab, we moved him back to Miami. He was in outpatient rehab in Miami for the following nine months.
After Jamie returned to California in the Fall of 2001, I returned to the University of Miami, this time in the College of Engineering as a visiting professor, focusing on supply chain management, specifically for the cruise line industry. I ran seminars and did consulting work for all of the major cruise lines.
In October, 2003 I was invited to review the operations of the Center for Executive Education at the Brookings Institution, the oldest and largest public policy think tank in Washington, DC. In April, 2004 they offered me the position of Senior Director of the Center. We officially moved to DC in July, 2004.
I left Brookings at the end of 2008 to start my own consulting firm, PaideiaPro, LLC. I developed a series of executive development seminars for small to medium sized companies in the supply chain industry.
Recently much of my time has been spent as a contract instructor for Management Concepts, a training company in Tyson’s Corner, VA. I teach a weeklong course called The Analytics Boot Camp. I travel around the country visiting (mostly) VA hospitals working with staff in quality measurement, finance, and other operations areas. I love what I’m doing right now, so I have no plans to retire in the foreseeable future.
My older son Mark, teaches philosophy of science at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He has three children, Maddy, 17(Class of ’17 @ Johns Hopkins), Liam, 10, and Nate, 5. My younger son Jamie, runs the coffee bar at Canyon Market, in the Glen Park neighborhood in San Francisco.
We live on Capitol Hill in DC, where I serve as Chair of the Board for The Corner Store, a lively neighborhood center for the arts.

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