Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Marcial Lapp is Managing Director of the Revenue Engineering group at American Airlines. His group is responsible for the systems and business process, including forecast & optimization of yield management, pricing and ancillary services/products that power our Revenue Management and Network Planning groups.

Marcial Lapp began his career in 2010 as an intern, where he developed the optimizer for the overbooking system, which is still in use today (though it’s been significantly enhanced since then). Following his internship, Marcial joined as Chief Scientist RM, where he led the development of an improved network controls model and managed a number of domestic markets. Following a period managing the Mexico, Caribbean & Latin America region, most recently Marcial had been leading the Operations Research and Data Science group, responsible for the technical implementations of systems that drive revenue outcomes.

Marcial earned a Doctorate in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan. He lives in Arlington with his wife, Allysen, and his son, Otto.