Dr. John Wasileski
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Dr. Wasileski received his Ph. D. in Mathematics from The Pennsylvania State
University and has held faculty positions ranging from Assistant Professor
at Texas A&M University to tenured full Professor and Chair of the
Division of Sciences for Iowa Wesleyan University.
In 1980, John became an adjunct faculty member and a Research Director for
Pepperdine University. Here he had an opportunity to put into practice
many of the project management and information-oriented systems design
principles he had developed. It was at Pepperdine that John pioneered a
methodology for rapid systems development and this has led to his project
management approach and to his being appointed the chief information and
planning officer for the University of Alaska, Fairbanks where he also
held adjunct faculty appointments in the department of Mathematics and
the School of Business.
While in Alaska, John continued to demonstrate that good project management
techniques result in robust systems that can be developed more quickly.
He subsequently moved to Arizona to thaw-out and continue his work in
systems design. While working for Arizona State University, John created
a data warehouse that received both national and international recognition
for its design as well as the rapidity of its development (it took only
six months to move from inception to full scale pilot). This was possible
due to the project management and team-based approaches he had employed
and refined. During this same period he created the Arizona State
Economic Development Database (an early application using "browser"
technology) and was appointed by the governor of Arizona to represent
the State in the information systems designs to support NAFTA.
He has been a consultant to state governments (Arizona and Iowa),
colleges and universities, and major corporations (American Express,
Sybase, and others). He has worked for Vanderbilt as the University
Data Administrator, for the AmerUs Group as Vice President for Data
Warehousing and is now the Associate Vice President for Information
Systems at the University of Memphis.
John has been a past member of the Iowa Philosophical Society; held joint
appointments in mathematics, information systems, and philosophy departments;
has numerous publications; has been a keynote speaker for Sybase and
educational groups; and has been a national committee member for
both CAUSE and EDUCAUSE
His interests include: logical and physical database design; the
application of technology to informational needs of education; the
implications these have for change and reengineering; and, of course,
project management.
He has had consulting assignments for universities and large corporations
in statistics, systems design, data warehousing, and project management.
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