My professional career is divided equally between success in academia and in the private information systems sector. My focus has always been on effective use of technology and human-computer interaction.My academic credentials are eclectic. I am currently an associate professor of Business with NAU Yuma. Previously I was professor of Computer Information Systems at Arizona Western College. . At the University of the Virgin Islands, I earned a Masters Degrees in Education and a Masters in Business Administration while also serving as full-time faculty and covering various administrative positions. UVI faces unique instructional challenges and I was very active in creating distance education technology solutions to address those issues.I was a Louisiana State University Board of Regents Fellow as I earned my PhD with a focus on Instructional Technology and Computer Information Systems. My dissertation is a case study on Considerations in Internet Survey Design. BIRAT, my Internet based survey system demonstrates my finding and is in international use.My primary research interests are: * Effective use of instructional technology; * Internet based survey design, delivery, and analysis; * Internet based collaborative decision making; and * Diffusion of innovation. I then went on to create, build, and sell two business consulting agencies based in the United States Virgin Islands focused on training users and adapting business software to the unique staffing, accounting, and shipping needs of Caribbean businesses. I next spent two years as sole author developing an Internet based Decision Support System for a major stock broker.Specialties: Diffusion and adoption of new technology, Instructional technology, Internet based survey design, delivery, and analysis, Internet based collaborative decision making, Emerging technologies and their impact on IT and business.