Roy Schmidt

Associate Professor

Baker Hall 309
(309) 677-3718
roy@bradley.edu

Ph.D., Management Information Systems, Indiana University
M.B.A., Management Information Systems, St. Mary's University
B.S., Business Administration, University of Maryland
B.A., Chinese Language and Culture, University of Maryland

Professional Experience

Military

  • US Air Force Electronic Security Command/NSA. (February 1967 - June 1989).

Previous Academic Positions

  •  Founding Faculty and Asst. Prof., Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, 1992-1998.

Professional Memberships

  •  Working Group 8.2, International Federation of Information Processing. (December 1995 - Present).
  • Charter Member, Association for Information Systems. (November 1994 - Present).
  • INFORMS. (November 1989 - Present).
  • Association for Computing Machinery. (October 1989 - Present)

Teaching

  • BMA 372 Management Information Systems
  • BMA 373 Business Data Communication
  • BMA 379 Information Systems Security

Scholarship

  • "Productivity Gains from Use of Dual Monitors"
    Discipline Based - Research in-Progress - Experiment with 74 subjects demonstrates dramatic increase in productivity from use of dual monitors in simple office tools task.
  • "Survey of AACSB-accredited MIS programs"
    Learning and Pedagogical - Research in-Progress - Comparison of schools for majors offered, core courses, and adherence to IS-2002 model curriculum for the major.
  • "Software Project Risk Countermeasures"
    Discipline Based - Research in-Progress - Based on interviews with project managers, study seeks insight into common techniques used to mitigate project risk in software development projects.

Service

College

  • Committee Member, FCBA Technology Committee. (August 1999 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Awards Committee (September 2005- May 2007)
  • Committee Member, Global Scholars Program, (2001-2006)

Professional

  • Program Committee, International Conference on Information Systems, (1997-1998)
  • Program Committee, Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems, (1996-1997)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Information Technology (1999-2003)
  • Senior Editor, Journal of Information Technology. (2003 - Present)

University

  • University Senator At-Large, Bradley University. (May 2005 - May 2010).

  • Committee member, Committee on Application of Technology to Education, Bradley University (September 2010 - present).

National

  • Chair, Board of Directors, American Go Association (2006-2010).
  • Treasurer, American Go Association (September 2011 - present).