Dr. David Sachs
Pace University
 Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
Pleasantville, New York

Phone: (914) 471-0852
Fax: (914) 763-9324
E-mail: dsachs@pace.edu 

          Dr. Sachs served Pace University as Assistant and then Associate Dean and Professor of Information Technology in Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems from 1984 until 2012. Dr. Sachs has served the University as a Tenured Full Professor in the Information Technology Department from 2012 – present.  As Assistant and Associate Dean, he developed and implemented a wide array of computer science and telecommunications courses for the corporate community. As founder and manager of the Pace Computer Learning Center, Dr. Sachs was responsible for the many hundreds of days of personal computer, computer science, and telecommunications education that were provided each year to corporations throughout the United States and around the world such as AT&T, IBM, MCI, PepsiCo, The Reader's Digest, and others. Dr. Sachs has worked closely with teachers, administrators and others to think about the most effective ways to introduce technology into public and private schools.

Since 1999, Dr. Sachs has been actively involved in the development of telecommunications courses that are taught asynchronously online. Dr. Sachs is the founder of and served as the co-director of the award-winning NACTEL Program (http://csis.pace.edu/nactel) - a program that provides AS and BS in Telecommunications Degrees to many thousands of individuals from Verizon, AT&T, Frontier, and CenturyLink, many of whom are members of CWA and IBEW. In addition, Dr. Sachs was the Principle Investigator for a $1,000,000 FIPSE Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnership Grant (1999 - 2002) as well as for almost $2,000,000 in grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1996 - 2002).  He has also co-authored 9 books that focus primarily on the Internet and Web-related software.  

Dr. Sachs was a co-principle investigator for a $100,000 New York City PilotTech Telehealth Grant in 2013, which focused on remote patient monitoring.  Dr. Sachs was the co-author of a $1,400,000 grant that was awarded to the Westchester Public Private Partnership in May 2014.  This three-year grant is being used to provide remote patient monitoring services to 600 adults located in Westchester County, NY and in Lackawanna and Wayne Counties, PA.

Currently Dr. Sachs teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on social media.  His research interests focus on social media and telehealth solutions.  Dr. Sachs has been a member of the Sloan-C Advisory Board for the annual ALN conference since 2007.

PAPERS AND CONFERENCES 

Dr. Sachs frequently presents papers or workshops about the Internet and the World Wide Web. More recently, he has presented at conferences that focus on telehealth issues or solutions.  Seminar topics include: Search Engines For Your Intranet; The 7 Keys To Effective Web Sites; Distance Learning; Outcomes Assessment as an Integral Part of Program Improvement and Web Demographics. Following is a partial list of some of the many presentations he has made:

• Tel e-Learning 2004 - Embedded Assessment: Better Information in a More Timely Fashion - February 2004 - San Diego 
• ASTD Southern Connecticut Chapter - Pioneering Industry Wide Partnerships - December 2003 - Stamford 
• NYS Education Department Board of Regents Distance Learning Session - September 2003 - Albany 
• Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference - January 2003 - Baltimore 
• ABET National Conference on Outcomes Assessment - October 2002 - Pittsburgh 
• House Information Technology Forum - October 2002 - Washington, DC 
• Internet World 2002 - April 2002 - Los Angeles 
• FIPSE 2001 - November 2001 - San Diego 
• Internet World - July 2001 - Chicago 
• FIPSE 2000 - November 2000 - San Diego 
• ISECON 2000 - November 2000 - Philadelphia 
• ALN 2000 - November 2000 - Adelphi, Maryland 
• Internet World 2000 - October 2000 -New York City 
• Distance Learning 2000 - August 2000 - Madison 
• Chicago Internet World 2000 - July 2000 
• NUTN 18th Annual Conference - June 2000 - Toronto 
• Sloan Seminars on Distance Learning - New York City 
• CAEL '99 Conference - Seattle 
• Fall Internet World '99 - New York City 
• Syllabus '99 - Los Angeles 
• United States Information Agency - Spring '99 - Distance Learning Seminar 
• Spring Internet World '99 - Los Angeles 

GRANTS

1. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - December 2002 - $350,000 to provide Coop Students to work for businesses and non-profits impacted by the World Trade Center attacks. 
2. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - December 2001 - $850,000 to focus on providing Coop Students to work for businesses and non-profits impacted by the World Trade Center attacks and to develop at least 50 online courses for Pace University by September 2002.
   
3. FIPSE/LAAP Grant - August 1999 - August 2002 - $1,000,000 to focus on enhanced student support services, online testing, and mentoring with the NACTEL Project
   
4. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - August 1998 - $500,000 to develop the NACTEL project (an AS in Telecommunications Degree; taught 100% online - see http://csis.pace.edu/nactel
   
5. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - June 1997 - $227,000 to develop the Graduate Certificate in Telecommunications to be taught 100% online
   
6. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - June 1995 - $29,000 to develop two courses to be taught online 

BOOKS

Dr. Sachs has co-authored the following books:

• Sachs & Stair, The 7 Keys To Effective Web Sites, Upper Saddle River, PTR Prentice Hall, 1997
  
• Sachs & Stair, Hands-On Netscape, A Tutorial and Video for Windows Users, Upper Saddle River, PTR Prentice Hall, 1996
  
• Sachs & Stair, Instant Internet With Websurfer, Englewood Cliffs, PTR Prentice Hall, 1995
  
• Sachs & Stair, Hands-On Mosaic, A Tutorial for Windows Users, Englewood Cliffs, PTR Prentice Hall, 1995
  
• Sachs & Stair, Hands-On Internet, A Beginning Guide for PC Users, Englewood Cliffs, PTR Prentice Hall, 1994
  
• Kronstadt, Sachs & Knowlton, Discovering Microsoft Works 3.0, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1994
  
• Sachs & Kronstadt, Discovering Microsoft Works 2.0. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1992
  
• Sachs & Kronstadt, Discovering Microsoft Works: Projects, Applications & Exercises, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1989
  
• Sachs & Kronstadt, Discovering Microsoft Works for the IBM Personal Computer, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1988
  

EDUCATION

Dr. Sachs received his B.A. from Colgate University, his M.A. from New York University, and his Ed.D. from Columbia University.