UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND WESLEY COLLEGE; DOVER, DELAWARE HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE; BEL AIR, MARYLAND STEVENSON UNIVERSITY, OWINGS MILLS MD, Howard S. Brown School of Business
and Leadership Department Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information
Systems Teaching:
Additional Activities and Accomplishments:
TOWSON UNIVERSITY, TOWSON MD, College of Business and Economics Assistant Professor, e-Business and Technology Management
Taught in the Executive MBA program at the University of Lodz Polish-American Management Center in Lodz, Poland, 2006. 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)
LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, MD, The Sellinger School of
Business and Management Adjunct Professor Graduate Courses:
Undergraduate Courses:
High-tech classroom utilized for every course; very high course evaluation ratings (3.5+ on 4.0 scale). Visiting Professor
Executive Director- Lattanze Center 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 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 Part-time Instructor Database Program Development (IFSM 410): Summer 1999 Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant 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. Steffes, E.M., Burgee, L.E. (2009). Social Ties and Online Word of Mouth. Internet Research (Journal), Vol. 19, No. 1, 42-59. (This article was honored by Internet Research for "Awards for Excellence - Outstanding Paper Awards - Highly commended"). 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. BALTIMORE GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MD Information Technology Analyst 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 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 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 Systems Programmer/Analyst FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, MD Systems Programmer/Analyst U.S. ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD 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. English - Native speaker; excellent oral and written communications skills. Extensive European business travel; negotiations & logistics experience. Extensive experience teaching international students (Towson 10-15%, Loyola 10-15%, UMBC 20-30%). References are available upon request. |