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Stevenson University Appoints New Department Chairs
in Brown School of Business and Leadership (SU
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Biography: In August, 2009, Dr. Larry Burgee started a double-promotion as Department Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, School of Business and Leadership, Stevenson University (Position Announcement). He currently teaches IS 150 Relational Database Design & SQL with MS Access. In May 2010, Dr. Burgee will lead the first Stevenson University International Marketing European Study Tour. Dr. Burgee was an Assistant Professor of e-Business and Technology Management at Towson University from 2003 to 2009. He taught EBTM 311 Principles of e-Business, EBTM 367 Internet Technology, EBTM 469 Current Development in e-Business, and MNGT 337 Information Technology and consistently earned outstanding teaching evaluations from students and faculty (peer reviews). He was selected by the The President's Leadership Institute and completed the prestigious Towson University Leadership Program during the 2006-2007 academic year. He played a pivotal role in the development and implementation of Towson University's first Mobile Technology Classroom. Additionally, Dr. Burgee was a member of several University-level and College-level technology-focused committees and task forces. In May 2006, he taught in the Executive MBA program at the University of Lodz Polish-American Management Center in Lodz, Poland. In January 2008 and January 2009, he taught Principles of e-Business at Quality Leadership University, Towson's affiliate in Panama City, Panama. Dr. Burgee has been associated with Loyola University Maryland since 1989. He was a Visiting Professor in 2003 and has been an Adjunct Professor since 1997. He has taught GB 704 Information and Technology for Management, GB 748 International Marketing, GB 756 Database Design and Implementation, GB 757 Business Support Technologies, and GB 759 Lattanze Seminar Series in the MBA Program, and BA 251 Management Information Systems, BA 382 International Business, and BA 448 International Marketing in the Undergraduate Program. He earned his M.B.A. at Loyola in 1993 and was the International Business & Marketing Study Tour Coordinator from 1993 to 1998. Dr. Burgee coordinated, attended, and guided six consecutive annual European Study Tours. He developed marketing strategies, established relationships with high-level European executives, and arranged for group visits to more than 75 companies in Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Switzerland. From 1999 to 2002, he was the Executive Director of Lattanze Center @ Loyola College, the Center for Executive Studies in Information Technology. Dr. Burgee was also Loyola's American Experience Program Director. In 2001, he hosted a ten-day educational and cultural visit to Baltimore for 20 Chilean business executives from the Loyola MBA program in Santiago, Chile. In 2005, Dr. Burgee earned a Ph.D. in Information Systems at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with a dissertation topic entitled The Effects of Screen Size, Information Organization, and Time on User Comprehension of Text-Based Information Presented in a Web Browser. He has also conducted considerable research examining human-computer interaction issues from an international and cultural perspective as they relate to the global e-Business environment. As a Part-time Instructor at UMBC, he taught Software and Hardware Concepts and Database Program Development. From 1988 to 1998, Dr. Burgee was employed by the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company. From 1995 to 1998, he was an Information Technology Analyst and was responsible for Oracle Financials Technical Support. He performed extensive project management work for the implementation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and became very knowledgeable in supply-chain management technology. He was also responsible for the Company's Business Information System Intranet web site and authored more than 200 web pages. From 1992 to 1995, Dr. Burgee was BGE's Disaster Recovery Coordinator, responsible for the recovery activities of Information Systems, Telecommunications, Customer Service, and Nuclear Support Services. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Systems Programmer and maintained large-scale mainframe operating systems (IBM-MVS). From 1985 to 1988, Dr. Burgee was a VM and MVS Systems Programmer for First National Bank of Maryland (Allfirst Bank) and Mercantile Safe-Deposit and Trust. In 1984, he started his career as a Mathematician at the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory where he worked on conventional and nuclear weapons testing and simulation. Dr. Burgee is also an e-Business and Technology Consultant at Burgee & Associates where he consults in the areas of website design, development, and usability where he has created a Web presence for many clients. He also develops and conducts training seminars on a variety of topics:
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