Work Experience

September 2007 –

Senior Lecturer, Global Business and Transportation Department; Director of Online Programs, SUNY Maritime College

Scholarship

  • Managing the Business, paper submitted to the Third Annual Conference on Cutting Edge Issues in Shipping, Maritime College, February 2008. 

Teaching

  • Graduate level courses (14) in Transportation Management, The Logistics Channel Within Supply Chain Management, System Design and Control, and Management Information Systems in Transportation.
  • Member, Capstone Course Review Panel, Graduate Program (2005 – 2008).
  • Supervisor for three graduate theses; Caspian Energy, Maritime Domain Awareness Information Sharing, and A Methodology for Measuring Supply Chain Resilience: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach.
  • Independent study (2).

Service

  • Faculty advisor to the Society of International Trade and Transportation Club.
  • Member, Academic Council.
  • Member, Clay Maitland Endowed Graduate Scholarship Awards Committee.
  • Member, Committee on Nominations and Elections.
  • Member, Graduate Admissions Review Board (2008-2009).
  • Member, Graduate Program Policy Board.

Guest Lectures

  • Notes from the IT Frontline with Post 2003 Addendum, Introduction to Business Computing, Maritime College, September 2009.
  • Organizing for Effective Logistics, International Logistics undergraduate course, Maritime College, November 2008.
  • Order Processing and and Information, International Logistics undergraduate course, Maritime College, September 2009.
  • Procurement, International Logistics undergraduate course, Maritime College, November 2007.

  • The Next Frontier in IT Strategy: A McKinsey Survey, May 2007, Information Systems for Managers graduate course, Baruch College, September 2007.
  • Thinking About Logistics, International Logistics undergraduate course, Maritime College, March 2008

Other

  • Attendee, 2-3-98 Open Source Software Conference, SUNY Delhi, August 2009.
  • Attendee, Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte, New York, July 2009.
  • Attendee, The Ninth Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College. May 2009.
  • Attendee, Crossroads 2009 - Managing Supply Chains in Turbulent Times, MIT, March 2009.
  • Attendee, Conference on Computing in the Disciplines, FIT, October 2008.
  • Candidate for a Master of Arts in Diplomacy with an International Commerce concentration, Norwich University, expected degree date June 2011.
  • Evaluator, Accounting Assessment, Baruch College, June 2009.
  • Evaluator, Oral Communications Assessment Pilot Test, Baruch College, November-December 2007.
  • Evaluator, Technology Literacy and Global Awareness Assessment Pilot Test, Baruch College, December 2008.
  • Facilitator, The Eighth Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College. April 2008.
  • Member, IBM Academic Initiative.
  • Member, Westport Library Project, Harvard Business School Club of Connecticut Community Partners.
  • Reviewer, “Transportation and Logistics in Supply Chains,” The Handbook of Technology Management, to be published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Reviewer, Port Economics, by Wayne Talley (Old Dominion University), to be published by Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Student, America in the World, New York University School for Continuing and Professional Education and the New York Times, February 2008.

September 2006 – August 2007

Lecturer, Global Business and Transportation Department; Director of Online Programs, SUNY Maritime College

Teaching

  • Graduate level courses (8) in Transportation Management and Management Information Systems in Transportation.
  • Member, Capstone Course Review Panel, Graduate Program.

Service

  • Chairman, Task Force on Marketing, Outreach, and Recruitment, Global Business and Transportation Department.
  • Faculty advisor to the Society of International Trade and Transportation Club.
  • Initiated the SUNY Maritime Masters blog, a forum for graduate students.
  • Member, Academic Council and Admissions Board.
  • Member, Chancellor’s Award Committee.
  • The Graduate Faculty Excellence in Service Award, Maritime College and the Graduate Student Association.

Guest Lectures

  • Executives on Campus Freshman Seminar for Learning Communities, Baruch College, October 2006.
  • Introduction to Business and Economics, Maritime College, February 2007; International Logistics, Maritime College, March 2007 (x2).
  • IT Issues Within the Context of Globalization, Globalization and Technology graduate course, Baruch College, November 2006.

Other

  • Closing Speaker, CUNY Conference on Academic Integrity, Baruch College, March 9, 2007.
  • Facilitator, The Seventh Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College. April 2007.
  • Member, Writing Skills Assessment Team, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, November 2006. 
  • Self‑published “Drogan Notes,” a collection of all personally‑authored lecture notes for courses I teach.A copy has been placed on the reserve shelf in the Maritime Luce Library for use by students.

 

December 2003 – August 2006

Lecturer, Acting Director of the Graduate Program in International Transportation Management (May 2005 – August 2006), Global Business and Transportation Department, SUNY Maritime College

 

 

Scholarship

  • Delivered a paper, "Connect, Communicate, Learn," at the CIT 2005 conference at Binghamton University, May 23-26, 2005.

Teaching

  • Designed, developed, and delivered the first distance learning course at Maritime, Transportation Management, March 2004.
  • Graduate level courses (14) in Business Logistics, Marketing Management, Intermodal Freight Transportation, Management Infromation Systems, and Transportation Management.
  • Member, Capstone Course Review Panel, Graduate Program.
  • Undergraduate course in International Logistics (4).

Service

  • Assisted Continuing Education in developing a research proposal to a major global container shipping company for investigating The Future Involvement in Surface Transportation Services.
  • Assisted in Continuing Education in developing the application for a grant (ED-GRANTS-092304-001) from the US Department of Education for SUNY Maritime College in cooperation with the Istanbul Technical University, Faculty/student exchange and trade seminars. October 2004
  • Facilitator, The Sixth Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College. April 2006.
  • Facilitator, The Fifth Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College. May 2005.
  • Facilitator, The Fourth Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College. April 2004.
  • Faculty advisor to the Society of International Trade and Transportation Club.
  • Member of the GBAT Curriculum Committee and Academic Council.
  • Member, Faculty/Staff Search Comittees: Director, Graduate Programs 2004-2005; Chairman, Department of Global Business and Transportation 2005; Manager of Communications, Development/Public Relations 2005.

Guest Lectures

  • Fundamentals of Marketing, Maritime College, October 2004.
  • Introduction to Business and Economics, Maritime College, November 2005, February and March 2006.
  • Globalization and Technology, Globalization and Technology, Baruch College, September 2004.
  • Notes from the IT Frontier, Information Systems for Managers, Baruch College, February 2005.

November 2001 – November 2003

Adjunct Professor, International Business Department, Baruch College

 

Scholarship

  • Delivered a presentation, "A Business Person's View of Writing in a MBA Course; Issues, Observations, Actions", CUNY WAC Faculty Presentations, Professional Programs. May 2003.

Teaching

  • Graduate level courses in International Logistics. Spring 2002, Spring 2003.

Service

  • Assisted Kingsborough Community College gain a $50,000 2003 Kauffman Collegiate Entrepreneurship Network grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. January 2003.
  • Co-author of the first Adjunct Faculty Handbook at Baruch College. June 2003.
  • Facilitator, The Third Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College. October 2002.
  • Member of the Business Advisory Council of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communications Institute. April 2002 – November 2004.
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Executives-on-Campus Program. Responsible for designing and implementing the Executive Student Partnership program. This program utilizes the experience of members of the Baruch Executives on Campus program to mentor graduate students in the fulfillment of their career desires. March 2003 – June 2005.
  • Panal participant in A Discussion on Technology, Privacy and Ethics for The Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, and Governance Association, Baruch College, October 2003.

Guest Lectures

  • Barriers and Catalysts in Global Transportation, Northwestern University. May 2003.
  • Ethics, Freshman Seminar, Baruch College. September 2003.
  • International Business Issues, Export Management, Quinnipiac University. October 2002.
  • Negotiating Group Membership Through Communications, Communications Strategy, Baruch College. March 2003.
  • Notes from the IT Front Line 1965-2003, Information Systems for Managers, Baruch College. October 2003.
  • Notes from the IT Front Line 1965-2003, Information Systems for Managers, Baruch College. March 2003.
  • Organizational Culture, Managerial Communications, Baruch College. November 2002.
  • Transactions and Technology, Introduction to Information Systems and Technologies, Baruch College.November 2003.

September 2001 – October 2001 Independent Management Consultant

June 1965 – August 2001 Various Positions at IBM

Extensive experience in assisting transportation, logistics, retail, distribution and computer services firms around the world improve the performance of their businesses through the application of information technology; imaginative out-of-the-box thinker with an emphasis on ideas, innovation and long-range planning; often involved in first-of-a-kind projects.

May 1965 Graduated from Southern Illinois University, BS in Applied Science

A more extensive CV is available upon request.