Project Team

Jane Fedorowicz is the Rae D. Anderson Professor of Accounting and Information Systems at Bentley University, located in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. She holds a joint appointment in Bentley’s Accountancy and Information & Process Management departments. Her MS and PhD degrees in Systems Sciences were awarded by Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently principal investigator of a National Science Foundation project team studying interorganizational design issues for public safety networks. She also served as principal investigator for the Bentley Invision Project on interorganizational information sharing and coordination infrastructures in supply chain, government, and health care. Dr. Fedorowicz has published extensively and has served in a governance capacity for a number of professional associations including INFORMS, AAA and AIS. She was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2006 For more information, please visit here.

E-mail: jfedorowicz@bentley.edu

M. Lynne Markus is the John W. Poduska, Sr. Professor of Information and Process Management at Bentley University. Professor Markus’s three primary research areas are enterprise and inter-enterprise systems, IT and organization change, and knowledge management. Dr. Markus has received research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, The Advanced Practices Council of SIM International, the Financial Executives Research Foundation, the Office of Technology Assessment (US Congress), and Baan Institute. She is the author of three books and numerous articles in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Communications of the ACM, Sloan Management Review and Management Science. She has served as AIS VP for Education, SIM VP for Academic Community Affairs, and on the editorial boards of several leading journals in the information systems field. She was named Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2004. For more information, please visit here.

E-mail: mlmarkus@bentley.edu

Steven Sawyer conducts research in the social informatics tradition with a focus on the ways in which people organize to work together and use information and communication technologies. Sawyer leads courses that focus student’s attention to the design, development and implementation of information systems, managing these projects, and to the roles of information and communication technologies relative to organizational and social change. For more information on Steve Sawyer, please visit here.

E-mail: ssawyer@syr.edu

Christine B. Williams is a Professor of Government at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She holds MA and PhD degrees in Political Science from Indiana University. Dr. Williams currently serves as an Associate Editor and on the senior Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics and on the Meetup Politics & Governance Advisory Council. Her research area is political communication, with emphasis on new and emerging technologies. Current projects include two cross-disciplinary research collaborations, “Design Principles for Effective Interorganizational Public Safety Response Infrastructures,” and “The Challenge of Interagency Integration,” which have been funded by the National Science Foundation, Digital Government Program and the IBM Center for the Business of Government, respectively. Her work has appeared in academic publications such as the Journal of Political Marketing, Journal of Direct, Data and Digital Marketing Practice, the International Journal of Information Technology and Management, and the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society; in trade and professional association publications such as Campaigns & Elections and IEEE Computer; as well as in national and regional news media outlets in the US. For more information, please visit here.

E-mail: cwilliams@bentley.edu

Joseph V. Treglia is an Adjunct Instructor in both the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. He earned his Master of Science in Information Resources Management from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and he has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Syracuse University as well. He is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholar in the PhD program in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. He is Director of Programs and Development for the Jim Marshall Farms Foundation, Inc. and Assistant Director of the Wireless Grids Lab. He was previously a Director for ARISE, Inc., a large nonprofit human services agency in Central New York. Mr. Treglia has 25 years experience in law enforcement and criminal justice having worked as an officer, investigator and administrator. He is founder of United Information Services, an internet services and information systems consulting group. His research interests include information assurance, cyber security issues, intelligence and information sharing within and across organizations with a focus on government and law enforcement entities at all levels and internationally.

E-mail: jvtregli@syr.edu

Arthur Tomasino is a PhD student in the Information and Process Management department at Bentley University. He is broadly interested in the process of technology adoption and innovation in information technology organizations. Specifically he is interested in the use and effectiveness of pervasive information systems for individuals and organizations. Arthur’s advisor is Dr. Jane Fedorowicz.

E-mail: tomasin_arth@bentley.edu

Martin Dias is a PhD student in the Information and Process Management department at Bentley University. Martin is generally interested in design and implementation strategies for information systems (IS) that mediate or facilitate cooperative work. More specifically his research focuses on the formation and evolution of collaborative information systems (both public and private sector) from a design science perspective. He is currently examining the factors driving the establishment, successful operation, and expansion of public safety networks in the United States - using a sociotechnical approach. Martin’s adviser is Dr. Jane Fedorowicz.

E-mail: dias_mart@bentley.edu

Dax Jacobson is a PhD student in the Information and Process Management department at Bentley University. Dax is interested broadly in the impact of information technology on organizations, groups, and individuals. More specifically his research interests include the use of technology in inter-organizational collaboration, IT governance, and the diffusion of technology and innovations. Dax’s adviser is Dr. Lynne Markus.

E-mail: djacobson@bentley.edu

Michael Tyworth is a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences & Technology. There he is researching the use of information and communications technologies to facilitate the development of situational awareness in cyberspace. Prior to taking his current position, Michael spent a year as a visiting assistant professor in Washington & Jefferson College’s Information Technology Leadership department where he taught courses in programming, databases and networking. Michael earned his Ph.D. from Penn State University and his Masters degree from Indiana University at Bloomington. For more information, please visit here.

E-mail: mtyworth@ist.psu.edu

Sonia Gantman is a doctoral student in Information & Process Management department at Bentley University, located in Waltham, Massachusetts , USA. She earned her B.A. degree in Economics and Computer Sciences from Tel Aviv University (Ramat Aviv, Israel), and the Master degree in Accountancy from Bentley College. Sonia’s research interests include different aspects of information systems design, in particular – IS alignment with business processes, inter-organizational integration, legacy data management, adoption of new IS. Sonia’s academic adviser and dissertation committee chair is Dr. Jane Fedorowicz.

E-mail: sonia.gantman@gmail.com

This project, #IIS-0534877 & #IIS-0534889 is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.