EXPERIENCE
- New Jersey Institue of Technology. September 2004 to present
Associate Professor of Information Systems
- teaching business process innovation, decision support systems, and management of information systems
- Director of the MSIS program
- University of Michigan. September 1993 to August 2004
Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer and Information Systems
- created the MBA course, Electronic Commerce (first taught Fall 1995)
- directed MBA student teams working with such companies as:
American Express, Citibank, Ford, Microsoft, and Oracle- taught the MBA and BBA information systems core courses
- ran hands-on sessions about the Internet for Executive Education
- Chairperson of IFIP Working Group 8.3 on Decision Support Systems, 1994 to 2000.
- Editor for the ISWorld Research and Scholarship division, 1995 to 2002.
- University of Southern California. September 1986 to August 1993
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
- created a new MBA course on business process reengineering
- advised three Ph.D. student dissertations
- taught the decision analysis and decision support systems courses
- reorganized the curriculum for the information systems major
- developed a new Ph.D. course on systems theory
- chaired decision support systems conferences in the USA and Europe
- Mobil Oil Corporation. December 1981 to April 1983
- managed all local business data processing at the Beaumont Refinery
- converted the site from IBM to HP distributed processing
- General Dynamics Corporation. January 1975 to November 1981
- managed the data processing for a division
- converted all business processing at a site to distributed processing
- built models for corporate tax filings and for compensation policy
- analyzed pension fund manager performance
- performed logistics support analyses for the F-16 program
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Information Systems, School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, ICIS Doctoral Fellow, dissertation entitled Preference Directed Reasoning in Decision Support Systems, Chairman: Ronald M. Lee, December 1986.
- M.S., Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, National Science Foundation Trainee, January 1975.
- B.E.S., Engineering Science, College of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Graduated Summa Cum Laude, May 1973.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
TEACHING INTERESTS
- Information Systems Design Theory
- Knowledge-based Systems
- Learning and Collaboration in Virtual Communities
- Business Process Innovation
- Management of Information Systems
- Decision Support Systems
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