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Key Contacts
Bio Information for Certificate Creators/Instructors
(listed
in alphabetical order for each certificate)
Emergency Management
Dr. Mike Chumer:
He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Communication and
Information Science. He teaches and conducts research within the
Information Systems Department at the New Jersey Institute of
Technology. His research focuses on command and control as used in the
military and its application to emergency response during multi-agency
collaboration such as experienced in Katrina and the recent Tsunami
disasters. He has been nominated by the IS Department for excellence
in teaching in 2004, 2005, and 2006. He has written about command and
control and is turning that writing into a book for the Department of
Defense's series in Command and Control. As a Marine Corps Officer he
started the first Systems Analysis and Design function at the United
States Marine Corps (USMC) Automated Services Center on Okinawa Japan
and consulted with the Chinese Marines on Taiwan in the development of
large mainframe systems. He also worked with the C4 organization at
Headquarters Marine Corps assisting in the design of satellite based
Battlefield Information Systems. He is co-editor of "Managing
Knowledge: Critical Investigations of Work and Learning" a book that
investigates issues surrounding the present formulation of IT based
Knowledge Management.
Dr. David Mendonca:
His research is concerned with modeling and supporting improvised
decision making by individuals and organizations in situations
characterized by high risk, time constraint and the presence of
unplanned-for contingencies. This has principally involved work on
emergency response decision making, particularly in the restoration of
critical infrastructure systems. He received his B.A. from University
of Massachusetts, M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and Ph.D. from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has conducted a number of
observational and archival studies (funded by the National Science
Foundation) of improvised decision making in emergencies. These
include field studies in New York City on organizational response to
the September 11, 2001 attacks and laboratory studies with emergency
response personnel at the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's
National Fire Academy and at the Port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands.
The key product of this work is a model that explains how skilled
individuals use improvisation to address unplanned-for contingencies
in emergency response. A current five-year NSF-funded project is
employing event-driven simulation to investigate the impact of risk
and time constraint on improvisation by groups, thus providing a
foundation to extend this prior work. He is currently developing a
computer-executable version of this model within the ACT-R cognitive
architecture.
Dr. Katia Passerini:
She is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the
School of Management of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
with a joint appointment in the College of Computing Sciences. She
teaches courses in MIS, Knowledge Management and IT Strategy. She has
published in refereed journals (Computers & Education, Communications
of AIS, Society and Business Review, Campus-Wide Information Systems,
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia) and several
peer-reviewed proceedings, particularly in the area of
computer-mediated learning, IT productivity and mobile communications.
Her professional IT experience includes multi-industry projects at
Booz Allen Hamilton and the World Bank. Dr. Passerini earned both a
MBA and a Ph.D. degree in Information & Decision Systems from the
George Washington University in Washington DC.
Dr. Murray Turoff:
He is a distinguished professor in the Information Systems Department
at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has been engaged in
Research and Development of Computer Mediated Communication systems
since the late 60’s. He was the designer of EMISARI which was the
first group communication oriented crisis management system and which
was used for the 1971 Wage Price Freeze and assorted federal crisis
events until the mid eighties. He is co-author of the Network Nation
which predicted all the current Web based communication systems in
1978. He is one of the founders of ISCRAM (Information Systems for
Crisis Response and Management:
http://iscram.org) and he was program chair of their third
international meeting in May of 2006. He has published a number of
recent papers on the design of Information Systems for all aspects of
crisis planning and management.
Network Security and
Information Assurance
Dr. Dennis Karvelas:
He is with the CS Department of NJIT where he has held positions as
Lecturer, Assistant Professor, and Director of the M.S. program in
Telecommunications.
He received his Ph.D. from the EE Department of the University of
Toronto in the area of Computer Communication Networks. He has
graduated several Master and Ph.D. students and has been a member of
several M.S. and Ph.D. Committees in both the CS and ECE Departments
of NJIT. He has taught various Computer Science courses at NJIT and
has introduced four graduate courses (CIS-654, CIS-656, CIS-696,
CIS-697) and three undergraduate course (CIS-357, CIS-456, CIS-458) in
the areas of communication networks and network security. He has
taught repeatedly at various AT@T sites, at Drew University, and for
the National Technological University (NTU). He has organized and
chaired several technical sessions in prestigious conferences in the
area of communication networks, including INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, and ICC,
and has published over thirty research articles in this area.
His areas of expertise and research include modeling, analysis, and
design of Gbps local, metropolitan and wide area networks, capacity
planning for web services, multicast routing over wide area networks,
SANs, NAS, and metro storage networking, and network security.
Physical &
Digital Counter-Terrorism
Robert Statica:
He has over 15
years computing, networking and homeland security industry experience in
private & public sectors. For the past few years he's been at New Jersey
Institute of Technology where he teaches undergraduate/graduate
courses in computer science & information technology and conducts research with both private and public
sectors.
Currently Dr. Statica is the Director of the
Computer Forensic and Cybersecurity Lab and serves as the
NSA's POC for the
Center
of
Academic Excellence
in Information Assurance Education. He is also the co-founder of the
NSF's U/I
CRC
Center for Information Protection
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