Professional Activities

 

            Societies:

 

                        Active memberships from 1970 to the present in:  Association for Information Systems (AIS), The Academy of Marketing Science, Association for Computing Machinery, Fulbright Alumni Association, Operations Research Society of America (Full Member), Decision Sciences Institute (Past Officer), the Institute for Manage­ment Science, and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

 

                        Faculty Associate in:  Alpha Iota Delta (Past Officer) and the Intercollegiate Studies In­stitute.

 

 

            Grants:

 

ITELEHEALTH, Incorporated, $80,000 grant to develop an NIMH Suicide Prevention Website. (2002).

 

                        Leading Market Technologies, $29,000 grant of decision support software for various academic uses.  (2000)

 

The Shriver Center Higher Education Consortium, $2500 grant to develop a course involving Decision Systems Integration for Service and Non-Profit Management.  (1999).

 

                        Leading Market Technologies, $29,000 grant of decision support software for various academic uses.  (1999)

 

Leading Market Technologies, $150,000 grant of commercial networked decision support software for research and educational purposes.  (1998)

 

                        Leading Market Technologies, $29,000 grant of decision support software for various academic uses.  (1998)

 

                        Leading Market Technologies, $21,000 grant of decision support software for various academic uses.  (1997)

 

                        Department of Defense Housing Revitalization Support Office, $30,000 grant to develop an econometric model that forecasts default costs of MHPI risk categories and to incorporate the methodology within the Housing Revitalization Support Office System (HRSOS). (1996)

 

                        Department of the Army, $20,000 grant to update the Housing Analysis Decision Technology System (HADTS) in a way that will accommodate Monte Carlo simulation of offpost housing markets and alternative onpost housing assignment policies for the Corp of Engineers. (1995)

 

                        Department of Defense Housing Revitalization Support Office, $30,000 grant to develop a methodology that evaluates the financial feasibility of Army-venture capital housing projects and to incorporate the methodology within the Housing Revitalization Support Office System (HRSOS). (1995)

 

                        Department of the Army, $60,000 grant to update the Housing Analysis Decision Technology System (HADTS) in a way that will accommodate enhanced data warehousing, access, and analysis for the Corp of Engineers. (1995)

 

                        Department of the Army, $98,227 grant to update the Housing Analysis Decision Technology System (HADTS) in a way that will accommodate housing-market-area-specific and automatic econometric modeling for the Corp of Engineers. (1995)

 

                        Department of the Army, $61,973 grant to design, develop, and implement an enhanced, forms-based-retrieval executive information system component for the Corp of Engineer's Housing Analysis Decision Technology System (HADTS). (1995)

 

                        Department of the Army, $67,034 grant to design, develop, and implement a database management system for the Corp of Engineer's housing requirements database. (1993)

 

                        Department of the Army, $4,070 grant to conduct a feasibility study for the Census updating needed to support the HADTS decision technology system. (1992)

 

                        Department of the Army, $27,500 grant to expand and validate the MSHMA econometric model using 1991 data from 47 installations and 1990 Census economic data.  (1992)

 

                        Department of the Army, $71,285 grant to design, develop, and implement a decision technology system that assists senior officials in visually locating available housing, managing housing information, and determining housing deficits and surpluses for Corp of Engineering Housing Market Areas. (1992)

 

                        Westinghouse, $107,000 Maryland Industrial Partnership grant to expand the capabilities of the intelligent manufacturing decision support system that facilitates the company's concurrent engineering processes. (1991-1992)

 

                        Westinghouse, $50,000 Maryland Industrial Partnership grant to design, develop, and implement a prototype intelligent manufacturing decision support system that facilitates the company's concurrent engineering processes.  (1991)

 

                        Department of the Army, $42,200 grant to design, develop, and implement a decision support system that assists field officers in determining housing deficits and surpluses for Corp of Engineer Housing Market Areas (HMA). (1991)

 

                        Department of the Army, $20,600 grant to design, develop, and implement a decision support system that identifies for field officers the Corp of Engineer HMAs most in need of a segmented housing market analysis (SHMA). (1990)

 

 

                        AT&T, $8000 supplemental grant (through Bucknell University) of 10 Sceptre NAPLPS terminals for a videotex enhancement of a UMBC microcomputer lab.  (1989)

 

                        AT&T, $128,000 grant of state of the art videotex equipment and software.  Designed, developed, and implemented a videotex enhancement of a microcomputer lab at UMBC. (1987)              

 

                        Frito Lay, $75,200 Ben Franklin Grant to design, develop, and implement MIS and DSS systems at the company's Muncy bakery.  Supervised a student staff of approximately 30 people and worked with a staff of about 50 Frito Lay managers from operations, technical services, and materials and inventory control. (1985‑86)

 

                        AT&T, $50,000 grant of state of the art computer graphics and communications equipment.  Designed, developed, and implemented managerial applications of the equipment at Bucknell University and Frito Lay.  (l984)

 

 

            Consulting Experience:

 

                        Idea Group, Inc. (1998).  Reviewed three chapters, "Introducing IT – Lessons from Case Studies on the Implementation of Corporate E-Mail," “ENI Company,” and "Setting Up to Fail: The Case of MBA, Inc.," for the book ANNALS OF CASES ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS.

 

                        Idea Group, Inc. (1996).  Reviewed two chapters, "DSS for Strategic Decision Making" and "A Comprehensive Process Improvement Methodology: Experiences at Caterpillar's Mossville Engine Center (MEC)," for the book CASES ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT IN MODERN ORGANIZATIONS.

 

                        University of Nebraska at Omaha (1996).  Served on the team that reviewed the programs of the Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis (ISQA) Department and wrote the report for the team.

 

                        National Science Foundation (1994).  Served as an expert reviewer for a concurrent engineering proposal received in response to Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

 

                        Health Care Financing Administration (1993-94).  Served as a panel reviewer for applications received in response to HCFA's Office of Research and Demonstrations' grants/cooperative agreement solicitation announcements.

 

                        Moldovan-U.S. Bilateral Grants Program-II of the CRDF (U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union). Served as an expert reviewer for a decision support system proposal received in response to a CRDF solicitation.

 

                        Article Reviewing.  Since 1984, served as an article reviewer for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING, JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, INFORMATION SYSTEM FRONTIERS, ELECTRONIC MARKETS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING, MANAGING HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS WITH WEB-ENABLED TECHNOLOGIES, COMPUTERS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (JAIS), TOPICS IN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, THE HAWAII CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS SCIENCES, ANNALS of CASES on INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS and MANAGEMENT in ORGANIZATIONS, OMEGA: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, INTERFACES, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS AND QUANTITATIVE MANAGEMENT, MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, HUMAN RELATIONS, CIS EDUCATOR's FORUM, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, and other scholarly journals.

 

                        Editing.  Served on the editorial board of the JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION, ANNALS of CASES on INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS and MANAGEMENT in ORGANIZATIONS, and CHALLENGES FACING GENERAL SYSTEMS SCIENCES IN PRACTICE.  Served as associate editor for ANNALS of CASES on INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS and MANAGEMENT in ORGANIZATIONS.

 

                        Department of the Army, Baltimore District, Corps of Engineers Subcontract No. 87‑0071‑1 with Hughes Service Company.  Presented courses covering economic analysis of housing alternatives to Corps of Engineer management personnel.  Subject matter included cost element and cost kind analysis, regression analysis workshop, cash flow diagrams and present value, inflation workshop, and sensitivity analysis workshop applied to the evaluation of housing alternatives. (1982)

 

                        ARAWAK Corp., Arlington, VA.  Economic Consultant on a study for the U.S. Department of Energy dealing with

                        the estimation of the cost of capital for privately­owned electric utility firms. (1980)

 

                        General Research Corporation, McLean, VA  (1979‑1980). Economic Consultant in the Resource Management Operations Divis­ion.  Active participation in research, proposal writing, and project implementation.  Developed and implemented:

 

                                    *          a cost/benefit framework for the analysis of Navy retirement programs.

 

                                    *          a manpower system‑costing methodology for the Air Force ISEM program

 

                                    *          an econometric framework for the analysis of paylines involving DOD civilian blue‑collar workers

 

                                    *          a goal‑programming framework for the analysis of Air Force mission capability

 

                                    *          a statistical methodology for forecasting manpower require­ments in the DSAA foreign military aid program

 

                                    *          a quantitative assessment plan to position military occupa­tions

 

 

 

                        LaVerne College, California (1976).  Curriculum consultant to the Director of the Graduate Management Program.  Developed and implemented courses in Deterministic Decision Models and Stochastic Approaches to Decision Making.

 

                        Text/Software Reviewing.  Since 1974, served as a textbook and software reviewer for Addison‑Wesley, Prentice‑Hall, Houghton‑Mifflin, Science Research Associates, Holden-Day, Wiley-Hamilton, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Wadsworth, The Dryden Press, and Macmillan.

 

                        Environmental Task Force, City of Pomona, California (1972).  Economic and Quantitative Methods Consultant.

                        Active participation in research, project implementation, and policy recommendations. 

 

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