Resume

Education

2012 New Jersey Institute of Technology, College of Computing Sciences, Newark, New Jersey, USA Ph.D. in Information Systems

2008 State University of New York, College at Brockport, Brockport, New York, USA B.Sc. in Computational Science

2008 State University of New York, College at Brockport, Brockport, New York, USA B.Sc. in Computer Science

Academic Appointments

2018 - Present Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems Pennsylvania State University, Erie, PA

2017 - Present External Examiner, Doctor of Business Administration Program Nobel International Business School (NiBS), South Legon, Ghana

2015 - 2017 Assistant Professor, Information Systems University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX

2012 - 2015 Assistant Professor, Information Systems University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX

Research Areas

Social Media Use

User Experience & Design

Group Decision Making

Information Processing & Management

Teaching Interests

Data Analytics

Data Warehousing

Social Media Management and Analytics

Professional Memberships

2020 - Present Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

2010 - Present The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

2008 - Present Association of Information Systems (AIS)

2010 - 2012 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

Courses taught at Pennsylvania State University

MIS 481 Business Analytics (Graduate MPAcc) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

MIS 345 Data Analytics (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

MIS 415 Socia Media Management & Analytics (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

MIS 447 Data Warehousing (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

MIS 496 Independent Studies (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

MKTG 343 Marketing Analytics (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

MIS 495 Internship (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

MKTG 495 Internship (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Face-to-Face

Courses taught at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

INFS 1301 Computer Information Systems (Undergraduate) - Online, Hybrid, & Face-to-Face

INFS 2300 Data Modeling Management Tools (Undergraduate) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

INFS 3336 Systems Analysis (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

INFS 3390 Management Information Systems (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Online, Hybrid, & Face-to-Face

INFS 4308 Project Management (Undergraduate Capstone) - Hybrid & Face-to-Face

INFS 4312 E-Commerce Design (Undergraduate Upper Division) - Online, Hybrid, & Face-to-Face

INFS 6330 Information Systems for Managers (Graduate MBA) - Online, Hybrid, & Face-to-Face

Awards & Honors

2021 Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, Black School of Business, Penn State Erie

2020 Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, Black School of Business, Penn State Erie

2020 Scholarship Excellence Award, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend

2019 Learning Analytics Community Grant, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Penn State University Park

2019 Travel Stipend to attend NSF-Funded Workshop on Digitally-Mediated Team Learning, University of Central Florida

2019 Academic Sponsorship Fellow, St. John's University

2018 Summer Research Grant, Black School of Business, Penn State Erie

2016 Faculty Travel Support Program, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

2015 Faculty Research Council, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

2015 Undergraduate Research & Service Learning, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

2014 Mentoring Excellence Award, Department of Computer Information Systems & Quantitative Methods, University of Texas-Pan American

2014 Mentoring Excellence Award, Undergraduate Research Initiative, University of Texas-Pan American

2012 Faculty Development Funding Program, The University of Texas-Pan American

2011 Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

2011 Doctoral Symposium Fellow, Social Computational Systems

2011 Doctoral Colloquium Fellow, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

2010 Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on GROUP Work (GROUP)

2010 Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)

2008 Computing Sciences Undergraduate Research Award, Computer Science Department, State University of New York, College at Brockport

2008 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, State University of New York