Jerry Banks retired in June, 1999 as Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He then worked for two years as Senior Simulation Technology Advisor, Brooks Automation, Planning and Logistics Solutions, AutoMod Product Team. He is currently on the faculty of Technológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, México as a professor with the title Academic Leader. He is the author, co author, editor or co-editor of thirteen books, one set of proceedings, several chapters in texts, and numerous technical and other papers. He is the editor of the Handbook of Simulation, published in 1998 by John Wiley. This book won the award for Excellence in Engineering Handbooks from the Professional Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, Inc. He is a co author of Discrete Event Systems Simulation, 5th ed., published by Prentice Hall in 2009. He is also author of the text Getting Started with AutoMod, 2nd ed., published by Brooks Automation in 2004. He is the co-author of Introduction to SIMAN V and CINEMA V, published by John Wiley, New York, in 1995. He is also the co-author of Getting Started with GPSS/H, Second Edition, published by Wolverine Software Corporation, Annandale, Virginia, in 1995. Other titles include a co authored text Forecasting and Management of Technology, 2nd ed. in press, and the single authored text Principles of Quality Control published in 1989, both by John Wiley, New York. He is also a co-author of RFID Applied. With Rajagopal, his completed text Crafting Managers: 100 Principles for the Excellent Manager is expected from Nova Science Publishers on March 31, 2010. It was published by John Wiley in 2007. He was a founding partner in the simulation-consulting firm Carson/Banks & Associates, Inc. located in Atlanta. The firm was purchased by AutoSimulations, Inc. (now part of Applied Materials) in May of 1994. He is a full member of many technical societies including the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) for which he served eight years as that organization's representative to the Board of the Winter Simulation Conference, including two years as Board Chair. He received the Outstanding Fellow Award from the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Alabama in 1965. He was named a Distinguished Fellow by the College of Engineering, University of Alabama in 1997. He was the recipient of the INFORMS College on Simulation Distinguished Service Award for 1999. He was named a Fellow of IIE in 2002. He is the 2010 Melvin Lohmann Medal Winner given by the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology of Oklahoma State University.