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Thomas H. Witt
Senior Lecturer, Information   Systems

School of Business & Technology
University of Wisconsin – Parkside
900 Wood Road – Box 2000
Kenosha, Wisconsin 53144 -2000

 

Contact Information:

  • Office: Molinaro 326E
  • Phone: (262) 595-2719
  • Home: (262) 552-0169
  • Fax: (262) 595-2680
  • Email: witt@uwp.edu

 

Classes – Spring 2009:

·         MIS 221 – Business Programming

o   Section 1: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 to 1:45, MOLN D112

 

·         BUS100 – Introduction to Business

o   Section 1: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 1:00PM - 1:50PM, MOLN D107

o   Section 2: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30PM - 4:45PM, MOLN D107

 

·         Link to my Windows Live site which contains course related materials

o   BUS100: http://tinyurl.com/bus100

o   MIS221: http://tinyurl.com/mis221

 

Office Hours, MOLN 326E

            Monday, 2:00 – 4:00

        Tuesday, 11:30 – 12:30 and 2:00 – 3:30

        Wednesday, 2:00 – 4:00

        Tuesday, 11:30 – 12:30 and 2:00 – 3:30

        Other hours by appointment

 

Cirriculum Vita

 

EDUCATION

  • Master of Science - Computer Science - June 1966

University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin

  • Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics - June 1964

Dominican College - Racine, Wisconsin

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 1999-present

Lecturer – Information Systems, School of Business and Technology - University of WI - Parkside, Responsible for teaching Management Information Systems courses at the undergraduate level.

 

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

  • Director of the Solutions for Economic Growth (SEG) Center – effective September 2007
  • Search and Screen Committees for Operations Management Visiting Professor and Computer Technology Services Network Manager
  • Member of the Advising Committee, the Athletics Committee and the SBT Marketing Committee

 

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

·         Company: Kraft Foods, Inc.

        Position:  Director, Year 2000 Program Office

January 1997 to April 1999

Duties:  Program Office was responsible for project planning and monitoring, status reporting, financial controls, communications, compliance certification, business partner assessment, contingency planning, vendor systems compliance and general administration.

Position:   Director, Application Development Technology

May 1995 to January 1997

Duties:  Design and maintain the application development architecture. 

Position:   Director, SAP Competency Center

        January 1995 to May 1995

        Duties:  Establish the technical environment for the SAP system.  The SAP project at Kraft was cancelled in May 1995.

 

        Position:   Director, Information Technology and Research

July 1987 to January 1995

Duties:  Responsibilities included mainframe hardware, software and operations, plant hardware and software, PC/LAN support, help desk, database technology, development support, telecommunications, administration and finance. Annual budget was over $10,000,000.  In January 1995, Kraft consolidated I.T. staffs.

 

        Other positions at Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation:

        Computer Center Manager - February 1978 to July 1987

        Technical Services Manager - February 1973 to February 1978

        Data Processing Supervisor - February 1971 to February 1973

                Computer Systems Supervisor - August 1969 to February 1971

                Operations Research Analyst - September 1968 to August 1969

 

·         Company: AC Electronics Division, General Motors Corporation

                Position:  Operations Research Analyst - June 1966 to September 1968

 

AREAS OF INTEREST

  • Information Systems Management
  • Computer Programming Languages
  • Business Data Communications and Networking

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

  • Association for Computer Machinery since 1965

 

Publications

·         Hawk, S & Witt, T. A Survey of Telecommunications Curricula in MIS Programs, accepted at Third Annual Telecommunications / Information Technology Conference, Louisville, KY, April 1-3 2004.

·         Hawk, S. & Witt, T.  Telecommunications Courses in Information Systems Programs, accepted for publication in International Journal of Information Technology and Communication Education, tentatively scheduled for Vol.1, Issue 5.

 

PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • United Way of Kenosha County LAN redesign project, October 2000 to present
  • Kenosha Achievement Center, Computer Lab proposal, Fall 2001
  • Kenosha Achievement Center-Early Head Start Program, Computer Network Improvement project, Fall 2001 to Spring 2002
  • Spanish Center Learning Lab, Summer 2002
  • Kenosha Girl Scout Web Page, Summer 2002
  • Greater Kenosha Area Foundation, LAN Improvement Project, Summer 2002
  • Kenosha Achievement Center-Early Head Start Program, Zero to 5 Resource Line Database project, Fall 2002 and Spring 2003
  • Hospice Alliance, LAN Inventory, Fall 2002
  • Spanish Center Server Based LAN, Spring 2003
  • Kenosha Literacy Council, DSL Cost Reduction, Spring 2003
  • Kenosha United Way and Kenosha Foundation, Remote Access, Fall 2003
  • Racine/Kenosha Community Action Agency, LAN Redesign, Fall 2003
  • Kenosha Community Health Center, Electronic Prescription System, Spring 2004
  • Kenosha United Way, Community Building Software Web Site, Fall 2004
  • Kenosha Shalom Center, LAN Inventory, Spring 2005
  • Kemper Center, Infrastructure review, Fall 2005
  • Birds of a Feather, Network Installation Proposal, Fall 2005
  • The Root River Environmental Education Community Center (REC), Spring 2009

 

 

(updated 8/9/2009 12:44 PM)

 

 

 

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