David Garrison Email & Phone Number

League City, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

• Provides Organizational Leadership of the College of Science and Engineering, manages day-to-day operations of 3 locations, 6 departments, 18 academic programs, 200 full and part-time employees, over 2,000 student majors and a budget of over $10M.• Responsible for Change Management and Change Transition within the College for Performance Optimization.• Redesigned Graduate Admissions process. • Deeply involved in Strategic Planning and Assessment processes.• Involves Stakeholders in decision making through Shared Governance and enhanced Teamwork.• Resolves disputes between faculty and students.• Provides input into budgetary decisions.• Improves Policy and Procedure documents and information distribution systems.• Improves College By-laws and Procedures in concert with College Shared Governance.• Produces college annual reports.• Evaluates employees.• Launched effort to overhaul website.• Spearheaded effort to develop faculty mentoring.• Lead effort to develop peer evaluation system.• Served as Acting Dean.• Helped roughly 120 faculty pivot to online teaching in March 2020.• Involved in Reaffirmation Process with our Regional Accreditor in 2022.• Manages all college changes to the catalog.• Manages the building of course schedules• Manages Assessment Metrics for all Academic Programs and Centers for Performance Improvement.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Originally hired as a non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor but progressed from Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Professor• Appeared on an episode of “The Universe” on the History Channel.• Interviewed on Television, Radio, and the World Wide Web.• Interviewed as part of the HistoryMakers – ScienceMakers series now housed at the Library of Congress.• Won over $1M in grants and fellowships throughout career.• Taught advanced undergraduate and graduate level physics courses.• Negotiated several collaborations with NASA Johnson Space Center in areas such as Advanced Space Propulsion.• Conducted advanced research in Numerical Relativity, Cosmology, and Relativistic Plasma Physics.• Wrote and published over 25 articles, many with student co-authors.• Gave over 40 invited and contributed presentations at domestic and international venues.• Lead committee to Organize the Fall 2021 Hybrid Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society Meeting at UHCL. Over 200 people attended in person and online.• Built High Performance Computing cluster for the UHCL Physics Program.• Created online and flipped classes using active learning techniques.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Supervises the recruitment and admissions of students into all CSE Graduate Programs.• Ensures that admissions standards are consistent.• Reorganized a paper-based admissions process to a fully digital system.• Supervises 3 staff members for processing admissions applications.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Co-Founded UHCL’s Center for Faculty Development.• Partnered with upper administration on university policy.• Helped implement the addition of Freshman and Sophomore classes into UHCL.• Elected twice as Faculty Senate President by the UHCL faculty.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Created the UHCL Physics Program (BS, MS, Collaborative PhD, PSM Physics sub-plan in Technical Management, BS Engineering Physics sub-plan and BS Computational Physics sub-plan).• Lead Physics Program to become the 7th highest producing master’s Level Physics Program in US.• Established the UHCL Physics Guest Lecture Series and Distinguished Lecture Series.• Created Physics Advisory Board.• Helped develop the UHCL Computational Physics Laboratory, Physics Teaching Laboratory and Plasma Physics Laboratory.• Made it possible for over 60 Physics bachelor’s degrees and 80 Physics master’s degrees to be earned by UHCL students.

Friendswood, Texas, United States

• Involved in all aspects of Medical Spa Operations including Profit & Loss Responsibility, Securing Financing, Contract Negotiation, Hiring, and Employee Training, Managing Payroll, Marketing, Conflict Resolution, Developing Standard Operating Procedures, Budgeting & Finance, Determining Success Metrics, New Business Development and Managing Equipment. • Appeared on Season 10 of “The Blox” reality business competition.• Sold Business in February 2024

Houston, Texas

• Provide General Management of the College of Science and Engineering, oversee day-to-day operations of 3 locations, 6 departments, 18 academic programs, 200 full and part-time employees, over 2,000 student majors and a budget of over $10M.• Redesigned Graduate Admissions process. • Deeply involved in Strategic Planning and Assessment processes.• Resolves disputes between faculty and students.• Provides input into budgetary decisions.• Develops Policy and Procedure documents and information distribution systems.• Develops College By-laws and Procedures in concert with College Shared Governance.• Writes college annual reports.• Evaluates employees.• Lead effort to overhaul website.• Lead effort to develop faculty mentoring.• Lead effort to develop peer evaluation system.• Served as Acting Dean.• Helped roughly 120 faculty pivot to online teaching in March 2020.• Involved in Reaffirmation Process with our Regional Accreditor in 2022.• Oversees all college changes to the catalog.• Oversees the building of course schedules• Oversees assessment of all Academic Programs and Centers.

Houston, Texas, United States

O'Fallon, Missouri, United States

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

Dissertation: “Testing Binary Black Hole Codes in Strong Field Regimes” Dissertation Committee: Jorge Pullin, Pablo Laguna, Abhay.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma, Varsity FootballMajor in Physics, Minor in Earth Atmospheric & Planetary Science, and Concentration.

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