Thomas W. Ferratt

Indicators of My Values and Contributions

Collaboration, breadth, innovation, and quality   Leadership   Project management   Vision  

• Co-taught undergraduate and graduate courses with at least eight different faculty
• Co-authored over 50 journal and conference papers and 2 books
• Taught undergraduate and graduate students, executives, and non-managers
• Taught management information systems, computer programming, organizational theory and behavior, production and operations management, business policy, and research methodology
• Developed new courses with funding from curriculum development grants
• Received awards for quality of research (SIM Best Paper, SBA Research Excellence)
• Received student evaluations that average 3.0 on a 0 (low) - 4 (high) scale

• Chaired various committees, e.g., faculty search, curriculum revision, tenure review
• Proposed and directed the development of the MIS Advisory Board at the University of Dayton
• Served as Program and Conference Chair for ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research (SIGCPR now merged with SIGMIS) and served as the SIG Chair; helped revive the conference, increase international participation, and revitalize leadership participation by the SIG members
• Currently serve as an associate editor for Information Systems Research and a senior editor for The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems 

• Conducted research for the Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information Management on recruitment and retention of IT professionals.  Included strategic audits of IT human resource practices, presentations to Chief Information Officers and other managers, and publication of articles and a book.
• Provided coordination, documentation, and evaluation for a project with the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association to build a network for sharing patient information across seven hospitals
• Directed an information systems development project for the New Futures Initiative funded by the Casey Foundation. Managed a development team that augmented the information system of the Dayton Public Schools to report various indicators of success for at-risk students

• As Associate Dean led $400,000 of revisions to SBA classrooms and labs over three years (1997-2000) incorporating and updating technology to enhance teaching and learning
• Developed a strategic plan for using information technology to support the educational mission of the SBA
• Recommended and obtained approval to expand full-time information technology support staff from 2 to 5 over a three year period while also doubling the budget (from $25,000 to $50,000) for part-time support
• Initiated and directed a revision of the undergraduate management curriculum while chair of the management department at Drake University