Frank Appunn Email & Phone Number

Waterville, Me, Us

United States

Aid graduate education through better degree design, teaching methods, support, and research. Content knowledge includes cyber security, project management, innovation, change, and entrepreneurship. January 2011: Added Dissertation Chair and Committee Member for Ph.D. and DBA dissertations. March 2012: Included comprehensive examination faculty role.March 2014: Included more dissertation preparation courses.November 2015: Subject matter expert for project management in master's and Ph.D. degrees.April 2016: Lead Faculty, Computer Information Security at the master's and doctoral level.2016: Appointed as a Distinguished Core Adjunct ProfessorFebruary 2017: Transferred to the School of Technology as Lead Faculty for security and cyber course in the MS and doctoral degrees. Developer for multiple new cyber and project management courses.July 2019: Faculty of the Year, School of TechnologySeptember 2019: Appointed as Professor in the School of Technology2020-21 led the launch of an updated MS Cyber degree with specializations2021 Provost's Award of Excellence for serving the institution's mission and its students.2021 Launched the PhD Cybersecurity with four specializations, aided by an excellent team of collaborators.2022 Department Chair, Computer Science and Cybersecurity.

Watervile, Me

Appointed as Professor of Information Technology and Management, teaching at bachelor’s and master’s degree levels. Courses include management, entrepreneurship, innovation, computer science, project management, and the security domains. 2013 Motivated and led the inclusion of Information Security and Cyber Security minor for IT and CS students. Introduced a Project Management minor for business and computer science majors, a MBA project management major (MBA-PM), and recognition by the Project Management Institute.2014 Created a security and cyber defenses major. 2015 Conceived and led the inaugural Thomas Cup, drawing school students into technology and STEM. The success of the event led to this becoming a Signature Event at Thomas.2017 Led the adoption of an 8-week teaching schedule and the creation of a MS Cybersecurity.2020 Teaching load reduction.

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Active in the School of Advanced Studies:1) Taught Information and Systems Technology courses in the doctoral program2) Dissertation chair/mentor and committee member.Integrated rich media into courses to improve student outcomes.September 2010: Recognized as the top SAS faculty member for the quarter.June 2012: Received Faculty of the Year Award, 2012, for Group Studies across the the School of Advanced Studies.December 2012: accepted a Master Mentor role to aid doctoral dissertation committee members & chairs.October 2015: Subject Matter Expert in the doctoral IST program.July 2017: Published an article relating to distance education and technology innovation.September 2019 Focused on aiding dissertation completion.

Taught 3rd and final year students in the fields of Technology, Business, and Management.September 2008: Faculty Lead of the Technology and Management Bachelor's Degree January 2009: Capstone Lead for capstone courses across three degrees, 2010: Five degrees.June 2010: Faculty Lead for the International Business Bachelor's DegreeJuly 2010: Faculty Lead for the Management and Organizational Leadership Bachelor's Degree, replacing the other degrees.September 2010: I Introduced rich media teaching that integrated live classes and remote students with live audio, presentations, and video by integrating WebEx and Skype's solutions to provide a robust, yet cost-effective solution for SPC and their students.January 2011 - May 2011: realign strategy content leading to a new capstone and adoption of higher standards of rigor, live cases, and critical thinking across multiple areas of the school.March 2011: Member of the regional accreditation Working Group (SACS).April 2011: I Promoted and led the introduction of a project management concentration and post-baccalaureate certificate - both closely aligned with the PMP and the PMI. Lead the institution in the pursuit of rapid REP, followed by GAC accreditation.September 2012: Reduced my role to Online Remote adjunct position, while maintaining the project management role.October 2015 aided PMI adjustments for new evaluation expectationsJanuary 2016 updated project management advanced course

Teaching in the Master of Sciences degree, Information Security program. On course for CAE and ABET accreditation. Started the use of live remote seminars to enhance student learning.

Teaching senior courses in the School of Business and Management in the Strategy and Policy arena. Used both synchronous and asynchronous techniques.March 2010: Added the use of rich media to improve student learning in seminars.September 2010: Added Information Technology, teaching courses in information security and assurance.

Lecturer at Kaplan-Andover covering areas including entrepreneurship, Marketing, HR, Network Security, Telecommunications, Applications, Economics, Web design, and Project ManagementLecturer at U Maine (Orono) Business and IT NetworkingLearner at Capella - completed a PhD in Organization and Management with a focus in Information Technology and a dissertation researching business users of IT security and information assurance.

Led the company to growth and success at a national level ensuring a sound footing in the financial, marketing and administrative areas.International business included the rest of Africa, USA, and Europe.Closed the most complex sales personally and interfaced at the highest levels for advanced consulting and strategy services.Subject matter expert to clients on strategy, planning, security, systems management and web analytics.Maintained extremely low staff turnover in all areas.

I formed this Technology company specializing in global deployment of systems management and systems migration solutions. Provided knowledge services to large organizations such as De Beers, Impala Platinum, BHP Biliton, Telkom, and various banks. Channel partners included CSC, Microsoft, Dimension Data, TSystems, and many more. The scope of operations included a number global deployments covering North America, Europe, and Africa.

Formed Centre Group that specialized in being a leading edge distributor of technology that provided reliable business benefits. Solutions included email, collaboration and networking software. Brands included advanced and developer level products from Novell and Lotus. Many other hand-selected products became the leading solutions in Southern Africa.Frank Appunn and Centeer Group were a nationally recognized as leaders in the creation of business value for new technology.

Phd Completed May 31, 2008, Technology Management And Organizational Behavior, With A Cybersecurity Dissertation.

Dissertation:- Computer user security: A model facilitating measurement

Mba, Management And Decision Support

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma SigmaCompleted additional credits for a dual focus degree that includes both Business Management.

Corporate Governance, Sarbanes Oxley Focus

These studies covered corporate leadership and technology perspectives of governance and the Sarbanes Oxley Act of (2002). [Bisk delivery.

B .Comm, Dual Major: Accounting & Economics

Activities and Societies: President AISECB.Comm

Cissp, Security, Assurance, Cybersecurity

Remain current and "in good standing". Verifiable at www.isc 2.org