René Leo E. Ordoñez is Professor of Business at Southern Oregon University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines, an MBA degree from the University of Akron, and a PhD in Management Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been a member of the SOU School of Business faculty since 1989 where he served as the Department Chair from 2004 to 2011. Currently, he serves as the Coordinator of the Graduate Programs in Business. He teaches Applied Business Statistics and Operations Management in the undergraduate business program and Strategic Operations Management in the MBA Program. He taught internationally—at Ateneo de Naga University (Philippines), the University of Guanajuato (Mexico), and the Copenhagen School of Business (Denmark). 

His research interest is in the use of technology in pedagogy. He has been actively involved in the design, development, and implementation of course curricula that incorporate technology in the classroom as well as in the delivery of course content. Over the past two decades, he created video demo lessons, narrated PowerPoints, and interactive Excel models as teaching supplements for various business statistics and operations management textbooks.