Our Faculty

The faculty of the IS Program include participating full-time faculty of the College of Engineering plus adjunct part time lectures selected for their teaching proficiency and professional experience as Information Systems practitioners. Faculty biographies are provided to introduce our instructors and professors to potential students. Students may link to the instructional web sites used by the faculty members by viewing their biographies.

Kal Bugrara

Program director

I hold a Ph.D. in computer science in algorithm design and analysis from Indiana University. I taught in the Computer Science Dept. at Northeastern University for many years and have been the Director of the Information Systems Program within the Graduate School of Engineering there also for several years.

Rabah Ahmed

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Rabah Ahmed is a technology professional with over ten years of experience in both managing projects and developing solutions. He acquired industrial experience through many development positions in Computer/Software Engineering fields, and academic experience through teaching positions at various institutions.

Deborah A. Cicerone

Adjunct Faculty

Over twenty years of diversified experience in the computer industry.  Various positions have included enterprise architect, system architect, systems designer, product manager, application manager and application programmer.  She has IT experience in the financial, health insurance, life insurance and oil and gas industries.

Vincent Lattuada

Adjunct Faculty

Area of Specialty
Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Database Systems, Enterprise Architecture

 

David Lovece

Adjunct Faculty

An analytical and innovative software development leader with managerial expertise and demonstrated success in applications development, requirement definition, and implementing agile methodologies. Drives software development, achieving consistent and robust products with highest quality standards. Motivates developers and leads to surpass benchmark goals. Maintains leading technical architecture and development. Manages software programs that deliver cost effective, timely and high quality products.

Dan Maranan

Adjunct Faculty

Specialty areas:
    Business Analysis, Application Architecture, Enterprise Resource
Planning Software, and Product Management

Tricia McConville

Adjunct Faculty

Tricia’s primary research interest is in the field of leadership, international business, and economic development for women in the developing world.  Through Tricia’s direct experience with micro-lending programs for the economically-disadvantaged in the metropolitan Boston area, her desire is to work internationally developing women leaders of small business.

Robert Morgan

Adjunct Faculty

Mr. Morgan is Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and Clinical Development. During his 23 year career in the pharmaceutical industry, he has submitted and maintained multiple IND, NDA, and International regulatory filings and has been the team leader for FDA in the new international standard Common Technical Document format. Mr. Morgan has held positions in medical research and clinical/regulatory settings with EPIX Pharmaceuticals, DuPont, Genzyme, PAREXEL.

 

Nancy O'Hare

Adjunct Faculty

Nancy O’Hare is a Health Care Strategist with a deep commitment to innovation in health care and a strong interest in improving health care services, payment structure, care quality and coordination of care. Throughout her career, Nancy has worked towards creating novel solutions to health care challenges with team structures that bring people together from all levels and aspects of the health care industries. Most recently, Nancy has focused on generating innovative ways to deliver primary care. She has worked on numerous projects involving the strategic design of health care services and facilities. Nancy is clinically trained as a Physiologist and has worked extensively in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Nancy enjoys speaking, writing, and sharing health care information across the media.

Nancy holds a Doctorate in Applied Anatomy and Physiology from Boston University. She is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Nancy, a Sloan Fellow, received her MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She is a member of the Board of Women in Healthcare Management and the New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Yusuf Ozbek

Adjunct Faculty

 

 

 

 

Joseph Raynus

Adjunct Faculty

Professor Raynus teaches courses in Information Systems Planning and Management and Business Process Engineering. His interests are in research and development of innovative methodologies in the areas of Corporate Quality, Information Technology, Software Lifecycle Management and Program Management.

 

Richard Sherman

Adjunct Faculty

Area of Specialty
Data warehousing & business intelligence, Data integration, Project management, Software engineering

Hakki Ozgur Unver

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Unver specializes in Virtual Enterprises, Technology Strategy and Business Process Engineering. His recent research interests include use of Information Technologies for Environmental Sustainability, re-configurable architectures and process automation. In his last position with Supply Chain Strategy group of Oracle Inc., Dr. Unver led Product Strategy of Business Intelligence applications in emerging sustainability and manufacturing markets. He holds an MBA from Sloan School from Management and Engineering Systems Division at MIT, and advanced degrees in Computer Integrated Manufacturing.

 

Adindu Uzoma

Adjunct Faculty

Mr. Uzoma conducts research and development work on Data Privacy & Security, Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Hippocratic Databases, Relational Database Watermarking, Privacy Preserving Health Information Exchange, Novel Architectures for Sentinel Networks and Virtual Hospitals, Advanced Fraud Detection Algorithms, Clinical Prediction Models & Advanced Analytics.

Mr. Uzoma is the author of the Virtual Hippocratic Database (VHD), an innovative (database and applications agnostic) privacy enforcement technology that allow users within and across enterprises to create HIPPA and ARRA-compliant virtual data aggregates & extracts from remote databases on the fly.