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Academic Experience - Professional Experience - Government Experience - Education - Language & Cultural Skills - Publications
TOWSON UNIVERSITY, TOWSON MD
August 2003 - Present
Assistant Professor, e-Business and Technology Management (Tenure-Track)
August 2005 - Present
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, Fall 2008 (2 sections)
Internet Technology, EBUS 367, Fall 2008 (1 section)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, Summer 2008 (1 section)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311,
Spring 2008 (2 sections)
Current Development in e-Business, EBUS 469,
Spring 2008 (1 section)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, January 2008 (1 section, Panama City,
Panama)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, Fall 2007 (2 sections)
Internet Technology, EBUS 367, Fall 2007 (1 section)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, Summer 2007 (1 section)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, Spring 2007 (2 sections)
Current Development in e-Business, EBUS 469,
Spring 2007 (1 section)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, Fall 2006 (3 sections)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, Spring 2006 (2 sections)
Current Development in e-Business, EBUS 469,
Spring 2006 (1 section)
Principles of e-Business, EBUS 311, Fall 2005 (2 sections)
Information Technology, MNGT 337, Fall 2005 (1 section)
May 2006 - Taught in the Executive MBA program at the University of Lodz Polish-American Management Center in Lodz, Poland.
Service (past and present) - Department of e-Business and Technology Management representative to the College of Business and Economics Learning Excellence Committee; Chair of College of Business and Economics Technology Resources Committee; Department of Marketing and e-Business representative to the College of Business and Economics Technology Resources Committee; Member of the e-Business Advisory Board; Department of Marketing and e-Business Webmaster; Co-Chair Department of Marketing and e-Business Assessment Committee; College of Business and Economics representative to the School of Technology Task Force.
Advising - Extensive mandatory advising of 50-60 students per semester.
Instructor, Management Information Systems (Department of Management)
August 2003 - June 2005
Information Technology, MNGT 337, Spring 2005 (3 sections)
Information Technology, MNGT 337, Fall 2004 (3 sections)
Information Technology, MNGT 337, Spring 2004 (3 sections)
Information Technology, MNGT 337, Fall 2003 (3 sections)
LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, MD
July 1992 - August 2005
Adjunct Professor
January 1997 - August 2005
Information and Technology for Management, GB 704, MBA course, Summer 2005
Management Information Systems, BA 251, Spring 2002
International Marketing, GB 748, MBA course, Fall 2001
Special Topics in IT: Lattanze Seminar Series - Current Topics in IT, GB 759, MBA course, Spring 2001
Business Support Technologies, GB 757, MBA course, Summer 1999
International Business, BA 382, Summer 1999
International Marketing, BA 448, Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Fall 2001
High-tech classroom utilized for every course; very high course evaluation ratings (3.5+
on 4.0 scale).
Visiting Professor
January 2003 - June 2003
Database Design and Implementation, GB 756, MBA course, Spring 2003
International Marketing, GB 748, MBA course, Spring 2003
International Marketing, BA 448, Spring 2003 (2 sections)
Executive Director- Lattanze Center
October 1999 - December 2002
Directed all activities of Lattanze Center for Executive Studies in Information Technology; researched topics, scheduled, coordinated, and attended 24 seminars per year on a wide variety of IT areas; developed contacts and established relationships with high-level IT executives; maintained membership levels (nearly 50 local, regional, and national organizations) and recruited new members; coordinated special events such as IT Career Fair Day (for Loyola and other area schools students) and IT Executive of the Year Award program; created, published, and maintained Center website for promotional and informational purposes; Developed and delivered executive presentations to World Trade Center Institute, Hunt Valley Business Forum, and Loyola Center for Closely Held Firms; Provided consulting as member of Loyola Web Advisory Group; American Experience Program Director for Loyola UAH Chilean MBA program.
European Study Tour Coordinator
July 1992 - August 1998 (Part-time position while working full-time at
Baltimore Gas & Electric Company)
Gained valuable marketing expertise under the direction of Dr. Doris Van Doren, Professor of Marketing; coordinated all aspects of the MBA program’s International Business & Marketing European Study Tour including the creation, production, distribution, and presentation of promotional materials to MBA students, faculty, administration, leaders of the local corporate community, and participating companies; developed contacts (cold calling, networking), established relationships with high-level executives, and arranged for tour group visits to more than seventy-five companies in Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Switzerland; designed tour schedules and itineraries, organized travel arrangements, recruited MBA student participants, and guided the tour through Europe; created, published, and maintained study tour promotional/informational website.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
August 1998 - July 1999
Part-time Instructor
May 1999 - July 1999
Database Program Development, IFSM 410, Summer 1999
Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant
August 1998 - May 1999
Software and Hardware Concepts, IFSM 310, Fall 1998, Spring 1999 (Rated top 10% UMBC instructor)
Performed ten hours of research work per week for Dr. Aryya Gangopadhyay, Assistant Professor of Information Systems; research focused on Oracle database technology and electronic commerce.
BALTIMORE GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MD
December 1988 - August 1998
Information Technology Analyst
October 1995 - August 1998
Performed various project management tasks for the rollout of Oracle Financials ERP client/server database application (Business Information System - BIS); promoted BIS, delivered presentations, and obtained customer acceptance in Inventory, Purchasing, and Accounts Payable areas; created and managed BIS Intranet Web site, and gained expertise in web page design using Microsoft FrontPage, Image Composer, Cold Fusion, and HTML; interviewed internal customers, designed work-flow models, and developed new procedures for Inventory, Purchasing, and Accounts Payable areas; designed classes, authored educational materials, and instructed more than fifty BIS training classes; recruited, interviewed, hired, and supervised summer interns (Loyola College students); designed, created, tested, and implemented new Microsoft Access networked application (100+ users) for problem and issue tracking; gained extensive experience in the use of many software tools including Oracle Applications Display Manager, SQL*Forms, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Oracle Reports, Business Objects, Windows 95/NT, Office 97, FrontPage 98, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Visio, PaymentNet, and CorpTax.
Disaster Recovery Coordinator
February 1992 - September 1995
Promoted the importance of disaster recovery planning throughout the company and gained the support of upper management; assessed the priority of critical plans for multiple departments, resolved conflicting components, and arranged and coordinated the extensive recovery and testing of several disaster recovery plans; developed procedures and created disaster recovery plans for the Information Systems Department; provided consultation and developed working relationships with multiple departments (Finance, Purchasing, Nuclear Support, Customer Service, Telecommunications, etc.).
Systems Programmer/Analyst
December 1988 - January 1992
Installed and maintained IBM (MVS & VM) operating system software on multiple large-scale mainframe computing systems; developed and executed comprehensive project plans for complex mainframe operating system upgrades (MVS/SP to MVS/XA to MVS/ESA, VM/SP to VM/XA); supported software and assisted programmers in the use of a wide array of mainframe subsystems (CICS, CA-1/TMS, CA-3, CA-7, CA-11, Panvalet, Strobe, etc.) and programming languages (COBOL, Assembler, Fortran, Pascal, SAS, etc.); developed SAS/Assembler-based mainframe storage management system and several PC-based database applications written in R:Base (Online Documentation Library, Project Tracking System).
MERCANTILE SAFE-DEPOSIT & TRUST CO., BALTIMORE, MD
November 1987 - December 1988
Systems Programmer/Analyst
Functions similar to that described above for BGE Systems Programmer/Analyst.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, MD
November 1985 - November 1987
Systems Programmer/Analyst
Functions similar to that described above for BGE Systems Programmer/Analyst.
GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE:
U.S. ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD
May 1984 - August 1984; May 1985 - September 1985
Mathematician
Performed various project tasks for conventional and nuclear weapons testing and simulation; converted analog field test data to digital data; used Internet-connected Cray XMP supercomputers at NASA Ames Research Center to scale conventional blast data to nuclear explosion simulations; That's right - I was actually using the Internet (ARPAnet) in 1984!; secret clearance.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Ph.D., Information Systems, 2005, 4.00 GPA
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
M.S., Information Systems, May 2000, 4.00 GPA
LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
M.B.A., January 1993, 3.62 GPA
WESLEY COLLEGE; DOVER, DELAWARE
B.S., Information Systems, May 1985, Magna Cum Laude, 3.95 GPA
HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE; BEL AIR, MARYLAND
A.A., Data Processing, June 1983, High Honors, 3.86 GPA
English - Native speaker; excellent oral and written communications skills.
German - Working knowledge; moderate oral and written communications skills.
Italian - Basic conversational, reading/writing skills; completed 6-month Berlitz 1 & 2 program.
French - Introductory conversational, reading/writing skills; two semesters completed.
Spanish - Introductory conversational, reading/writing skills; multimedia self-study.
Extensive European business travel; negotiations & logistics experience.
Extensive Latin/Central American personal travel.
Taught undergraduate course in Panama.
Extensive experience teaching international students (Towson 10-15%, Loyola 10-15%, UMBC 30-40%).
Steffes, E.M., Burgee, L.E. (Accepted July 2008, forthcoming). Social Ties and Online Word of Mouth: Do the Rules Hold?. To appear in Internet Research.
Burgee, L.E., Steffes, E.M. (2007). Lurkers and Participation Inequality in Service Electronic Word of Mouth (SeWOM). State College, PA: Proceedings of The Northeastern Association of Business, Economics and Technology.
Steffes, E.M., Burgee, L.E. (2007). The Effects of Service Electronic Word of Mouth in Academia. State College, PA: Proceedings of The Northeastern Association of Business, Economics and Technology.
Harris, J., Burgee, L.E. (2007). Shop And Share: How Top Retail Websites Incorporate C2C Communication. Nacogdoches, TX: E-Business Review/International Academy of E-Business, Vol. 7, 107-110.
Van Doren, D.C., Burgee, L.E. (2007). Using the World Wide Web to Facilitate an International Study Tour. Las Vegas, NV: 14th Annual Conference of American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1678-1687.
Burgee, L.E., (2005). Visual Interfaces: Moving from Paper to Large-Screen Visual Display Units to Small-Screen Visual Display Units. Proceedings of HCI International 2005 – Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Advanced Interfaces, Vol. 1, 130-138.
Burgee, L.E., (2001). Internationalization of Websites: The Next Great Challenge in Interface Design. Proceedings of HCI International 2001 – Usability Evaluation and Interface Design, Vol. 1, 106-110.
Burgee, L.E., (2000). The Virtual Model and the Interactive Virtual Apparel Platform. Proceedings of the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics 2000 (SCI 2000), Vol. 10, 547-551.
References are available upon request.