Rick Mathieu is the McDonald Bradley Fellow and Chair of the Department of Computer Information Systems and Management Science in the College of Business at James Madison University.

From 1999 until 2005 he taught in the Department of Decision Sciences and MIS in the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. From 2003 until 2005 he served as department chair. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Virginia and his B.S. from the University of Delaware. From 1991 until 1999 he taught in the Department Information Systems and Operations Management in the Cameron School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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Rick is active in the information systems research community. He is the column editor in IT Systems for Computer (IEEE) and is on the editorial board for the International Journal of Services and Operations Management. He has published over twenty-six peer-reviewed journal articles, three peer-reviewed book chapters, one book, and thirty-four conference proceedings. His research has appeared in publications such as Communications of the ACM, Computer (IEEE), Computers and Industrial Engineering, Production Planning and Control, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Computers in Industry. He has received fourteen research grants totaling over $138,000.
Rick supervised over a dozen directed independent studies at Saint Louis University in the area of text mining, XML data management, data warehousing, and remote computer lab design. In May of 2003 he received the Thomas Knapp, SJ, Faculty Member of the Year Award for the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University.

Rick has served as a consultant in both industry and government, and has published numerous articles on critical success factors in the development and implementation of information systems in manufacturing organizations. His book, Manufacturing and the Internet (published by Engineering & Management Press), was recently honored with a first place award in the Association Trends 1996 Publications Contest. Rick is a regular speaker on manufacturing information systems and has spoken at conferences sponsored by the Institute of Industrial Engineers, APICS, Internet World and the National Technological University.