David Kroenke has many years of teaching experience at Colorado State University, Seattle University, and the University of Washington. He has led dozens of seminars for college professors on the teaching of information systems and technology; in 1991, the International Association of Information Systems named him Computer Educator of the Year. In 2009, David was named Educator of the Year by the Association of Information Technology Professionals-Education Special Interest Group (AITP-EDSIG).
David worked for the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Computer Services. He was a principal in the startup of three companies, serving as the vice president of product marketing and development for the Microrim Corporation and as chief of database technologies for Wall Data, Inc. He is the father of the semantic object data model. David's consulting clients have included IBM, Microsoft, and Computer Sciences Corporation, as well as numerous smaller companies. Recently, David has focused on using information systems for teaching collaboration and teamwork.
His text Database Processing was first published in 1977 and is now in its 15th edition. He has authored and coauthored many other textbooks, including Database Concepts, 9th ed., Using MIS, 11th ed., Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS, 3rd ed., SharePoint for Students, and Office 365 in Business.
Randall J. Boyle received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Florida State University in 2003. He also has a master's degree in Public Administration and a B.S. in Finance. He has received university teaching awards at Weber State University, Longwood University, the University of Utah, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has taught a wide variety of classes, including Introduction to MIS, Cyber Security, Networking & Servers, System Analysis and Design, Telecommunications, Advanced Cyber Security, Decision Support Systems, and Web Servers.
His research areas include deception detection in computer-mediated environments, secure information systems, the effects of IT on cognitive biases, the effects of IT on knowledge workers, and e-commerce. He has published in several academic journals and has authored additional textbooks, including Using MIS, 11th ed., Corporate Computer and Network Security, 4th ed., Applied Information Security, 2nd ed., and Applied Networking Labs, 2nd ed.
Andrew Gemino has taught at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University (SFU) for 20 years. He is an accomplished teacher who received the SFU Teaching Excellence Award, the TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award with the Beedie School of Business, and the MBA Teaching Excellence Award at the University of British Columbia.
Andrew is the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the Segal Graduate School in the Beedie School of Business. He is a past President of the Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design in the Association of Information Systems and founding director of the Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University. He teaches and consults in IT project management. He co-founded a software company that specialized in professional sports scouting and scheduling/payroll systems for sports and entertainment companies.
Andrew's research has been funded through grants from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). His work has been published in Communications of the ACM, Journal of MIS, European Journal of IS, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. He lives in Coquitlam, B.C., with his wife and two children.
Peter Tingling has worked in information-intensive industries for more than 30 years. He has held senior line and staff positions at a variety of top-tier firms, and has provided consultations to government, startup, and Fortune 500 companies across North America.
Peter's research interests include decision process and analysis. He has worked with clients and organizations from banks and financial institutions to professional sports associations and small businesses. Peter's research has been published in academic and practitioner journals and has often been referenced in the public media.
Joining academia because he was interested in “why,” Peter considers himself an eclectic reader, although he prefers biographies. His favourite authors are Feynman, Halberstam, Lewis, and Ferguson. Peter is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and the founder and chief executive officer of Octothorpe Software Corporation, a Decision Sciences Company. He lives in Vancouver with his partner of 30 years.
