Current Appointment

Harbert Eminent Scholar in Business Analytics in the Department of Systems and Technology in the Harbert College of Business at Auburn University. I am a Professor with higher education administrative experience including 12 years as a Department Chair (Florida State and Auburn), 4 years as a research center director (Texas A&M), and 4 years as Senior Associate Dean (Florida State University College of Business).

• FSU Faculty Senate Library Committee (Chair and Member)
• FSU Information Technology Governance Council (Member)
• FSU Program in Interdisciplinary Computing Steering Committee (Chair and Member)
• FSU University Sabbatical Review Committee (Member)
• SACS Quality Enhancement Plan Implementation Committee (Member)
• SACS Quality Enhancement Plan Advisory Board (Chair)
• Search committee participation
  • Associate Provost for Information Technology (Texas A&M)
  • Dean of the Libraries (FSU)
  • Director of the Dunlap Student Success Center (FSU)
  • Chair, Department of Family and Child Sciences (FSU)
  • Director, FSU Quality Enhancement Plan

• Participated in overall strategic planning, budgeting, and policy setting for the FSU College of Business
• Involved in development of AACSB definitions of academic / professional qualification and participating / supporting faculty
• Involved in college-wide faculty evaluation and reward
• Oversight responsibility for thirteen academic programs for 5700+ undergraduate students, an MBA and five specialized masters programs for 400+ graduate students and one doctoral program (seven majors) for approximately 75 doctoral students
• Oversight responsibility for the FSU Panama City campus business program
• Managed admissions and advising staffs of 15 people

• Chair of Department of Systems and Technology in Harbert College of Business in 2015 - 2020 (Auburn)
• Served seven years as MIS department chair at Florida State University
• Managed department budget
• Defined original AACSB, SACS and SMALCS accreditation goals and assessment mechanisms
• Implemented shared governance (by-laws) in MIS department
• Responsible for annual strategic planning and assessment
• Responsible for annual evaluation of faculty and staff
• Supervised university’s “quality enhancement review” of MIS program
• Worked with wide range of faculty: Eminent Scholars, professors at all ranks, teaching faculty, adjuncts, and doctoral students who were teaching
• Had oversight responsibility of undergraduate, MS, and PhD programs
• Scheduled classes for all MIS programs
• Formalized department doctoral program policies
• Created proposal for Mobile Applications Development Center
• Committed resources to teaching development for adjunct faculty
• Developed strategy for auxiliary fund use to provide broader support for research faculty
• Mentored faculty through tenure and promotion processes
• Managed terminations of two faculty
• Managed dismissal of four doctoral students who failed to achieve program requirements

• Member or chair of over 50 doctoral dissertation committees
• Published over 70 refereed journal articles and other publications
• Officer in Association of Information Systems Special Interest Group for Decision Support Systems
• Doctoral Consortium Faculty participant for IFIP 8.3 WG conference (2004, 2006, 2008) and AMCIS (2002, 2003, 2019)
• External reviewer for over 30 promotion and tenure cases
• EditorEditor-in-Chief, Foundation and Trends in Information Systems, 2020 – 2022.
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Information Technology and the Systems Approach, 2008 – 2010.
• Associate Editor, Information Resources Management Journal, 2006 – 2010.

• Mortarboard Award (Auburn, Teaching)
• Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award Winner (Texas A&M)
• Decision Sciences Institute Innovative Teaching Award Finalist
• University Teaching Award Nominee (FSU 2010)
• Wakonse Teaching Conference Participant
• Active in Center for Teaching Excellence (Texas A&M)
• Teaching experience:
  • Undergraduate, MBA, MS, and PhD levels
  • Online and hybrid course formats
  • Satellite campus (FSU Panama City campus)
  • Executive development programs

• Dissertation Chair for student at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (Germany), 2020 – 2022
• Active in International Federation for Information Processing 8.3 Working Group for Decision Support Systems (Global)
• External Examiner, PhD Thesis of Yutong Song, Monash University, Australia, 2018
• External Examiner, PhD Thesis of Gregory Hill, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2009
• Rapporteur, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, for Professor Frederic Adam, 2008 (Paris, France)
• Research Associate, Charles Darwin University School of Information Technology, 2004 – 2008 (Darwin, Australia)

• Maintain relationships with firms interested in supporting our programs in the Department of Systems and Technology (Auburn)
• Responsible for development activities involving approximately two dozen of the Florida State College of Business top 150 donors
• Assisted Founding Director of Center for MIS (Texas A&M University) in establishing initial $250,000 funding of Center
• As Director of Center for MIS, managed relationships with 20 – 25 Board of Advisors contributing $5000 annually for participation (Texas A&M)
• Managed development of online MS in MIS program which generated auxiliary money for Florida State MIS Department (approximately $2500 / student / semester; FSU)
• Developed Women in IT Symposium for MIS Department (approximately $10,000 annually; Texas A&M and FSU)
• Developed Mobile Technology Applications Project as a proof of concept for MIS Department Center Proposal (FSU)
• Developed relationships with various donors for student scholarships (Texas A&M and FSU)

• Work with firms to enhance the Business Analytics and Information Systems programs in the Department of Systems and Technology (Auburn)
• Worked with Board of Advisors as Director of Center for MIS (Texas A&M)
• Developed MIS Case Competition involving executives as judges (Texas A&M)
• Developed Women in IT Symposium (Texas A&M and FSU)
• Supervised Mobile Application Development Project involving a major Disney resort and smaller local corporate entities (FSU)
• Worked with MIS Department Industry Advisory Council (FSU)
• Worked with MIS community to develop MS in MIS curriculum (FSU)

• Transformative Futures Foresight Institute, Board Member. 2022 – present (Wichita, KS)
• Gogue Performing Arts Center, Engagement Council Board Member. 2021 – present (Auburn, AL)
• Technical Advisor to Information Systems Advisory Committee, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, 2008 – 2010 (Tallahassee, FL)
• Member of Board of Advisors, Municipal Code Corporation, 2004 – 2008 (Tallahassee, FL)
• Member, Texas Association of State Systems for Computing & Communications Board, 1996 – 2000 (Austin, TX)