About Me
"I leapt headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands & the rocks, than if I stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly song, and took tea and comfortable advice."
John Keats
I am a teacher and management consultant with 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. I am experienced in the design, development and teaching of undergraduate and graduate education. I have major strengths in business engineering and information technology strategy. As an imaginative out-of-the-box thinker with an emphasis on ideas, innovation and long-range planning, I have often been involved in first-of-a-kind projects. My focus is on producing real outcomes from fact-based systematic thinking. Over an extensive career I have established a reputation as an excellent team player with a strong commitment to students and customers.
I recently retired as a Senior Lecturer in the Global Business and Transportation Department at the Maritime College. I was the Chair of the the Global Business and Transportation Department from April 2012 – December 2015; Acting Director of the Graduate Program in International Transportation Management from May 2005 – August 2006.; Director of Online Programs at Maritime from September 2007 – April 2016. I taught graduate and undergraduate courses in international business, logistics, supply chain, marketing management, intermodal freight transportation, management information systems, systems design and control, transportation systems, and transportation management. I have also tought the Leadership course to incoming freshman each fall. I designed, developed, and delivered the first distance learning course at Maritime.
Prior to joining the Maritime College, I was affiliated with Baruch College as an Adjunct Professor in the Marketing Department where I taught a graduate level course in international logistics. I was a member of the Steering Committee of the Executives-on-Campus Program and a member of the Business Advisory Council of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communications Institute. I assisted Kingsborough Community College gain a Kauffman Collegiate Entrepreneurship Network grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. I was co-author of the first Adjunct Faculty Handbook at Baruch College.
I have been a guest lecturer at Baruch and Maritime colleges, Northwestern and Quinnipiac universities on such diverse topics as communications, ethics, information technology, marketing, and international business.
More about me can be found at Work Experience.