Lawrence E. Burgee, Ph.D.

eMail: larry@burgee.com - Additional contact information and biography available at http://www.burgee.com/larry/ .

Education - Academic Experience - Publications - Professional Experience - Government Experience - Language & Cultural Skills


EDUCATION:

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Ph.D., Information Systems, 2005, 4.00 GPA

Dissertation - The Effects of Screen Size, Information Organization, and Time on User Comprehension of Text-Based Information Presented in a Web Browser

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., International Business, 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


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

STEVENSON UNIVERSITY, OWINGS MILLS MD, Howard S. Brown School of Business and Leadership
August 2009 - Present

Department Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems
August 2009 - Present

  • Relational Database Design & SQL with MS Access (IS 150): Fall 2009 (2 sections); Spring 2010 (2 sections)

TOWSON UNIVERSITY, TOWSON MD, College of Business and Economics
August 2003 - June 2009

Assistant Professor, e-Business and Technology Management
August 2005 - June 2009

  • Principles of e-Business (EBTM 311): Summer 2009 (1 section); Spring 2009 (3 sections); January 2009 (1 section, Panama City, Panama); Fall 2008 (2 sections); Summer 2008 (1 section); Spring 2008 (2 sections); January 2008 (1 section, Panama City, Panama); Fall 2007 (2 sections); Summer 2007 (1 section); Spring 2007 (2 sections); Fall 2006 (3 sections); Spring 2006 (2 sections); Fall 2005 (2 sections)
  • Current Development in e-Business (EBTM 469): Spring 2009 (1 section); Spring 2008 (1 section); Spring 2007 (1 section); Spring 2006 (1 section)
  • Internet Technology (EBUS 367): Fall 2008 (1 section); Internet Technology, EBUS 367, Fall 2007 (1 section)
  • 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.

Selected by the The President's Leadership Institute and completed the prestigious Towson University Leadership Program during the 2006-2007 academic year.

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 Towson University School of Technology Task Force; Advisor to the Electronic Business Association (student organization).

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); Fall 2004 (3 sections); Spring 2004 (3 sections); Fall 2003 (3 sections)

LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, MD, The Sellinger School of Business and Management
July 1992 - August 2005

Adjunct Professor
January 1997 - August 2005

Graduate Courses:

  • Information and Technology for Management (GB 704): MBA course, Summer 2005
  • 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

Undergraduate Courses:

  • Management Information Systems (BA 251): Spring 2002
  • International Marketing (BA 448): Fall 2001; Fall 1999; Spring 1999; Spring 1998; Spring 1997
  • International Business (BA 382): Summer 1999

High-tech classroom utilized for every course; very high course evaluation ratings (3.5+ on 4.0 scale).

Visiting Professor
January 2003 - May 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 the Association of Information Technology Professionals, 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): Spring 1999 (Rated top 10% UMBC instructor); Fall 1998

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.


PUBLICATIONS:

Steffes, E.M., Burgee, L.E. (2009). Social Ties and Online Word of Mouth. Internet Research (Journal), Vol. 19, No. 1, 42-59.

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.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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 (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) and eMail in 1984!; secret clearance.


LANGUAGE & CULTURAL SKILLS:

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 business & personal travel.
Taught undergraduate courses multiple times in Panama.
Taught in an Executive MBA program in Poland.

Extensive experience teaching international students (Towson 10-15%, Loyola 10-15%, UMBC 20-30%).

References are available upon request.