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Connie White, PhD (ABD)

E‑Mail: connie.m.white@gmail.com

Education

· 2009 Cyber Terrorism Summer School, UC Berkeley. Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology.

· 1999-present New Jersey Institute of Technology, Information Systems, Graduate Division of Computing Sciences, PhD Candidate, (ABD) in Information Systems, advisor: Dr. Murray Turoff.

· 1999 ECCAI Machine Learning Summer School, Crete, Greece. Advanced Courses on Artificial Intelligence for 1999 (ACAI-99) by the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society.

· 1997 – 2002 Forensic Science Training: Specialized Training – Threat Assessment and Violence Potential, Crime Scene Analysis, Criminal Profiling, Psychopathy Assessment.

· 1997 Two semesters completed at Tulane University, School of Engineering, Computer Science, Graduate Division.

· 1996 Master of Science in Teaching Mathematics, Loyola University.

· 1993 Bachelor's Degree. Concentration: Computer Science, Southeastern Louisiana University.

· 1990 Four semesters completed at the University of Southern Mississippi, School of Business. Major: Management Information Systems, Minor: Economics.

· Associate of Arts degree, Meridian Community College. Major: Business Administration.

· 1987 Real Estate Institute. Dallas Commercial College, Inc. I filled the requirements necessary for Real Estate certification.

Teaching Experiences

· Undergraduate Lower Division: Intro to Terrorism, Disaster Hazards, Management of Information Systems, Business computing, Introduction to Computer Science, Programming Language Concepts, Linear Algebra, Algebra, Developmental Math

· Undergraduate Upper Division: , Research Methods in Emergency Management, Homeland Security: Planning and Preparedness, Information Technology for Emergency Management, Information Systems and Decision Systems, Advanced Information Systems, Principles of Information Systems Management, WWW Development, Data Structures, Database Management Systems, Computer Programming Techniques, Discrete Mathematics for CS Majors, Formal Logic

· Graduate Courses: , Research Methods for Emergency Management, Current Issues in Homeland Security, Current and Emerging Technologies in Emergency Management, Enterprise Database Management, Telecommunications Management, Database Management Systems, Java

2009- present

Jacksonville State University, Instructor, Institute of Emergency Preparedness.

2008-2009

Arkansas Tech University, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Administration and Management. F2F and Distance Formats.

2008 New Jersey Institute of Technology, College of Computing Science, Information Systems Department.

2007 New Jersey Institute of Technology, MBA program.

American Sentinel University, Distance. Technology Executive MBA.

2006 American Sentinel University, Distance. Technology Executive MBA.

2004-2006

Grantham University, Distance. The College of Engineering.

2003 Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business.

2002 – 2003

A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, Adjunct ISDS.

Southeastern Louisiana University, Visiting Asst. Professor MIS. Duties included: creating graduate MBA IS concentration, grant writing, and course creation.

2002 University of Southampton, UK. Research Fellow at IAM (Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia) Summer Term.

1999 – 2002

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Special Lecturer. Specialized in distance

learning.

1998 Logos Corporation, Translation Software Corporation, consultant working on the design and implementation of research projects in the area of statistical learning theory using Java 2.0 as the programming language.

1997 University of New Orleans. Speaker at a workshop on Education and

Technology, Internet.

1997 Tulane University. Instructor in the School of Engineering.

1996-1997

Loyola University at New Orleans. Instructor in the Math and Computer

Science Department.

1995 Southeastern Louisiana University. Instructor for Developmental Mathematics.

10 Years Experience Teaching in Online Mode – webCT, Blackboard, Webboard, Moodle

Current Research

My interests lie in creating systems for very large distributed groups of experts who work collaboratively on complex problems involving decision making under uncertainty. I study the emergency domain in particular due to it having the characteristics under which this sort of system is best utilized. When the consequences of even small decisions can have monumental consequences, the information can be changing at a very fast pace, and thus, so too must the decisions.

In particular, I study judgments made by experts utilizing Thurstone’s work as a basis to extrapolate expert groups’ opinions. Delphi characteristics are utilized to handle the group dynamics and complement best the way humans think. My studies include aspects of Virtual Organizations as distributed teams collaborating for a collective intelligence utilizing emerging technology and the Internet. Within this I study High Reliability Organizational characteristics, as they best complement the emergency domain for an approach to obtain the most efficient and effective response, and Communities of Practice. The combination of these techniques can redefine how emergencies are approached and handled such that these disastrous events can be handled in the best manner possible. I am presently building a Delphi system using open source software – Apache, PHP and MySQL. I have a background in building systems using numerous languages as well as building expert systems. This system will potentially have all capabilities as outlined in my research. This work is outlined in a publication titled A Dynamic Delphi Method. (see below)

Last, I enjoy searching for and writing up grants. If I could only list the ones I went for and didn’t receive! There is a lot of financial opportunity in my area of expertise and I enjoy developing research that can be built off of such opportunity and submitting applications.

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Murray Turoff, NJIT. Other references upon request.

Publications

2009 - Murray Turoff, Connie White and Linda Plotnick. Book Chapter: Real Time Decision Making. Dynamic Emergency Response Management for Large ScaleDecision Making in Extreme Hazardous Events, CRC Press, release date 2010.

2009 - Connie White and Linda Plotnick. A Framework to Identify Best Practices: Social Media and Web 2.0 Technologies in the Emergency Domain. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (IJISCRAM). Volume I, Issue IV. IGI Publishers, 2009.

2009 - Guest Editor – October Issue – Linda Plotnick and Connie White. A Social Media Tsunami: The Approaching Wave. Online Social Networks to Support Community Resilience Through Collaborative Web 2.0 Technologies. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (IJISCRAM). Volume I, Issue IV. IGI Publishers, 2009.

2009 – Linda Plotnick, Connie White, and Maria Plummer. The Design of a Social Networking Site for Emergency Management: One Stop Shop. Americas Conference on Information Systems, (AMCIS) San Francisco.

2009 - Connie White, Linda Plotnick, Jane Kushma, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, and Murray Turoff. An Online Social Network for Emergency Management. Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), Sweden.

2009 - Connie White and Murray Turoff, The Potential for Social Networks in Emergency Management. International Association of Emergency Managers. IAEM Bulletin, February Special Edition.

2009 - Connie White, Dynamic Delphi. Methodologies for Identifying and Ranking Sustainable Transport Practices In Urban Regions. Research Report to Transport Canada Project, Barry Wellar, Principal Investigator.

2008 – Murray Turoff, Star Roxanne Hiltz, Connie White, Linda Plotnick, Art Hendela and Xiang Yao. The Past as the Future in Emergency Preparedness and Management, The International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management IJISCRAM, Vol. 1, Issue 1 December 2008.

2008 – Connie White, Linda Plotnick, Ronja Aadams-Moring, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz. Leveraging A Wiki to Enhance Collaboration in the Emergency Domain. 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (HICSS).

2008 – Connie White, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, and Murray Turoff. United We Respond: One Community, One Voice, Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM, 2008 Washington, DC.

2008 – Connie White, Randy McDaniel, Carrie Higbie, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz. Wireless Telecommunications and Virtual Organizations: The Resurrection of Emergency Response For Disaster Management. Under development for Journal of Homeland Security.

2007 – Connie White, Murray Turoff, and Bartel Van de Walle. A Dynamic Delphi Process Utilizing a Modified Thurstone Scaling Method: Collaborative Judgment in Emergency Response. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Information Systems on Crisis and Response Management, (ISCRAM), Delft, Netherlands.

2007 – Connie White, Linda Plotnick, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz. A Dynamic Voting Wiki Model. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, Colorado.

2007 – Connie White, Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff. Finding the Voice of a Virtual Community of Practice. International Conference on Information Systems, Quebec, Pre-ICIS Sixth Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2007).

2007 – Connie White and Murray Turoff. A Dynamic Delphi System. The Network Nation and Beyond

A Festschrift in Honor of Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Invited for Journal submission , Jan. 2008.

2007 – Murray Turoff, Connie White, and Linda Plotnick. Dynamic Emergency Response Management For Large Scale Extreme Events. International Conference on Information Systems, Pre-ICIS SIG DSS 2007 Workshop.

2007 – Linda Plotnick, Liz Avery Gomez, Connie White and Murray Turoff. A Dynamic Thurstonian Method Utilized for Interpretation of Alert Levels and Public Perception. Proceedings of the 4th Annual ISCRAM, Delft, Netherlands.

2002 – Connie White and Mike Jones. The Performance of JIT, EDI, Expert Systems and Agents During Unexpected Supply Interruption: An Investigation of Electronic Purchasing Performance During The October Dock Strike. The 14th Annual North American Research/Teaching Symposium on Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.

Invitation

2009 The Ogma Workshop: Exploring the Policy and Strategy Implications on the Practice of Homeland Security, to be held at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security, June 30-July 1, 2009.

2007 - RFI Contributor on Collaborative Knowledge Exchanges (CKE) for Emergency Management, DARPA on Strategic Management, 2007.

Conference Organization

2010 - ISCRSM Special Session, co-chair - Virtual States: the Proliferation of Geospatial Intelligence as Visualized Information Streams into the Emergency Response Sector http://sites.google.com/site/iscram2010virtualstates/

2009 – ComTech Workshop Chair – Communities and Technology: Online Social Networks to Support Online Collaboration

2009 – AMCIS Co-Chair – Americas Conference on Information Systems – Emergency Response Information Systems. San Francisco, 2009.

2008 -ISCRAM Mini-Track Chair – Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), Trust in Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington DC, 2008.

Reviewer

Information Systems for Emergency Response, Book Chapter, due out 2008.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Delphi Systems.

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), eBusiness Web 2007.

Grants

2002 - $30,000 Summer School Program in Industrial Technology, Southeastern Louisiana University.

$85,000 PC Cart, portable lab. Department of Management

2001 - $90,000 Software from Borland, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Membership: Psychometrika, Association for Information Systems, Information Systems for Crisis and Response Management (ISCRAM), International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM).