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• Graduated 1976 from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, with the B. Comm. in Management Information Systems
• Graduated from Concordia University, Montreal in 1985 with the MBA (MIS), and gained the Ph.D. (MIS), also from Concordia, in 1994

• Fall, 1997 to Present  Professor, Information Systems, Pace University
• Fall, 1994 to Summer, 1997 Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems, Baruch College, CUNY
• 1993 - 1994 Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Program, Concordia University
• 1987 - 1993 Lecturer, Management Information Systems, Concordia University
• 1984 - 1985 Research Assistant, MIS/Accounting, Concordia University

• Marketing Assistant, Allergan, Inc, Montreal, Canada
• Supervisor, Reader's Digest, Montreal, Canada
• English Circulation Analyst, Reader's Digest
• Accountant Trainee, Abitibi Paper, Toronto, Canada
• Ministry of Health, Kingston, Jamaica
• Office Clerk, Receptionist, Accounting Clerk, Montreal Neurological Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Thomas, J.D.E., Driver, M., Coppola, J. and Thomas, B. “Looking Forward to Look Backward: Technology and King Arthur”, Academy for Advancement of Computing in Education Journal, October 2008 forthcoming.

Gabberty, J.W. and Thomas, J.D.E. “Knowledge Management Research Imperatives Governing Multinational Corporation Expansion”, Multinational Business Review forthcoming

Thomas, J.D.E. “A Survey of Knowledge Management Skills Acquisition in An Online Team-Based Distributed Computing Course”, Journal of College Teaching & Learning – (TLC), Littleton, Colorado: Clute Institute, September, vol. 4(9), 2007.

Gabberty, J. W. and Thomas, J.D.E. “Driving Creativity: Extending Knowledge Management into the Multinational Corporation”, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management”, Volume 2, January 2007, p. 1-15.

Gabberty, J. W. and Thomas, J.D.E. “Modeling Creativity for the Multinational Firm”, International Business & Economics Research Journal, Volume 5, no. 10, October 2006, p. 73-76.

Thomas, J.D.E. “An MIS Approach to Case Analysis”, Journal of Business Case Studies, Cloute Institute for Business and Economics Research, 2005.

Thomas, J.D.E., Jean Coppola, Michael Braudy and Barbara Thomas, “Comparison of Teaching Java in a Computer Classroom /Traditional Classroom vs. Smart E-Classroom and its Effect on Critical Thinking: A Case Study", Information Systems Education Journal, 2005, 3 (29), http://isedj.org/3/29/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (Also appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2004: §2234. ISSN: 1542-7382.).

Thomas,J.D.E. "A Rubric for the Evaluation of Interactive Multimedia and the Impact of Instruction on Students Evaluations" Journal of Computer Information Systems, Summer 2002.

Thomas, J.D.E. "The Importance of Package Features and Learning Factors for Ease of Use", International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction,1996, 8(2), p. 165-187.

Thomas, J.D.E. and Morin, D. "Technological Supports and Students' Perceptions of Acquisition of Team-Building and Thinking Skills", in Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, October 13-17, 2006, p. 2436-2441.

Gabberty, J.W. and Thomas, J.D.E.” Driving Creativity: Extending Knowledge Management into the Multinational Corporation“, in Proceedings of the Academy of International Business, Quebec City, Canada, July 9-12, 2005.

Gabberty, J.W. and Thomas, J.D.E. “Toward a Theory of Creativity for the Multinational Firm”, in Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Conference XXII, Shanghai, China May 25 - 27, 2005.

Thomas, J.D.E. “Support of Students’ Acquisition of Knowledge Management Skills in Academia”, in Proceedings of 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 26-29, 2005, p. 3016-3019.

Gabberty, J.W. and Thomas, J.D.E. “Knowledge Management Research Imperatives and ICT Complexities as Governing Factors for Multinational Corporation Expansion”, in Proceedings of the Applied Business Research Conference, Cloute Institute for Business and Economics Research, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March 14-18, 2005.

Thomas, J.D.E. “Case Method Analysis: an MIS Approach”, in Proceedings of the Teaching and Learning Conference, Cloute Institute for Business and Economics Research, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March 2005

Thomas, J.D.E. and Morin, D. "The Effect of Technology Integration on Students’ Perceptions of Learning in a Graduate Introductory Business Statistics Course”, in Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2004.

Thomas, J.D.E., Jean Coppola, Michael Braudy and Barbara Thomas, “Comparison of Teaching Java in a Computer Classroom /Traditional Classroom vs. Smart E-Classroom and its Effect on Critical Thinking: A Case Study", in Proceedings of Information Systems Education Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, November 2004.

Thomas,J.D.E., Jean Coppola, Martha Driver and Barbara Thomas, "Educating in Real-time Robotel Classrooms",in Proceedings of EISTA, Orlando, Florida, July 2004.

Thomas, J.D.E. and Martha Driver,"Looking Backward: Studying Medieval Literature with Technology",in CD-ROM Proceedings of the International Applied Business Research Conference, SanJuan, Puerto Rico, March 14-19, 2004.

Thomas, J.D.E. "Traditional computer lab classroom versus smart e-classroom in a distributed computing course", e-Society conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 3-6, 2003.

Thomas, J.D.E. "Technology Integrated Classes versus Traditional Classes and their Impact on User Performance and Perceptions", in Proceedings of ICCE, 2002 International Conference on Computers in Education, Auckland, New Zealand, December 3-6,2002.

Thomas, J.D.E. "E-classrooms, Traditional Classrooms and Learning", in Proceedings of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, November 18-20, 2002.

Thomas, J.D.E., Jean Coppola and Barbara Thomas, "Different Technology Integrated Classes and Critical Thinking Skills", in CD-ROM Proceedings of the Information Systems Education (ISECON) Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 31-November 3, 2002.

Thomas, J.D.E., Jean Coppola and Barbara Thomas, "Smart E-Classrooms, Traditional Classrooms and Critical Thinking", in Proceedings of E-Learn 2002-World Conference on E-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Montreal, Canada, October 15-19, 2002.

Thomas, J.D.E., Jean Coppola and Barbara Thomas. "The Effect of Technology Integration and Critical Thinking Skills in a Graduate Introductory Information Systems Course", in CD-ROM Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference (ISECON), Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 1-4, 2001.

Thomas, J.D.E. "Technology Integration and Higher-Order Learning", in Proceedings of Conference in Advanced Technology in Education Conference, Banff, Calgary, Canada, May 2001.

Navendranauth Mahabir, Jennifer Thomas, and Ravi Ramasmmoj, "A Virtual Classroom to teach Hindustani Music", in CD-ROM Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference (ISECON), Philadelphia, PA., Nov. 9-12, 2000.

Thomas, J.D.E. "Preliminary Investigation of Interactive Multimedia (IMM) Evaluation Instrument", in CD-ROM Proceedings of the 2000 ED-MEDIA-Telecom 00 World Conferences on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and on Educational Telecommunications, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 26-July 1, 2000.

Thomas, J.D.E. "Support offered User Performance Speed, Memory, Effort and Comfort by Package Features", in CD-ROM Proceedings of the 1999 ED-MEDIA-Telecom 99 World Conferences on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and on Educational Telecommunications, Seattle, Washington, June 19-24, 1999.

Thomas, J.D.E. "An approach to interactive multimedia evaluation for end-users", in Electronic Proceedings of the First Annual Congress on The Impact of Technology Upon Learning, Wake Forest University - ICCEL, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 1-3, 1999

Thomas, J.D.E. "Skill Transfer in User Training and Learning", in Proceedings of the International Association for Computer Information Systems '98 Conference, Cancun, Mexico, Oct. 1-3, 1998, p. 411-417.

Thomas, J.D.E. "Evaluating Software Ease of Use based on Speed, Memory, Effort and Comfort", in CD-ROM Proceedings of the 1998 ED-MEDIA-Telecom 98 World Conferences on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and on Educational Telecommunications, Freiberg, Germany, June 20-25, 1998.

Thomas, J.D.E. and London, L. "Using the Reeves and Harmon Model to Evaluate Interactive Multimedia", in Proceedings of the 1997 ED-MEDIA/ ED-Telecom 97 World Conferences on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and on Educational Telecommunications, Alberta, Canada, June 14-19, 1997.

Thomas, J.D.E. and London, L. "The Evaluation of Interactive Multimedia Applications", in Proceedings of the 1996 Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Washington, D.C., May 19-22, 1996, p. 436.

Thomas, J.D.E. "Conceptual Hurdles faced by First Time Users of Business Software", in Proceeding of the AIS International Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa., August 1995, p. 69-71.

Thomas, J.D.E. "Factors Affecting Computer Anxiety and Its Effects on Ease of Use of Business Software", in Proceedings of the 1994 Information Resources Management Association International Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 1994, p. 51-53.

Thomas, J.D.E. "The Application of Correspondence Analysis to the Assessment of Business Software Design Features", in Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, Crete, Greece, 1993

Thomas, J.D.E. "Suggestions for MIS Research on Information Presentation"' in Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Human Factors in MIS, Sacramento, CA, 1989

Thomas, J.D.E. "Relating Cognitive Traits to Online Assistance and User Performance", in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1988

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (Refereed)

Thomas, J.D.E. "Suggestions for MIS Research in Information Presentation", in Human Factors in Information Systems: an organizational perspective, Jane M. Carey, ed., Ablex Publishing, Norwood, NJ, 1991, p. 219-232.

Presented Papers and Exhibitions Performances

Lecturer in International MBA and Executive MBA programs at University of the West Indies, Institute of Business, Trinidad and Tobago, Summer 2003

Seminar Lecturer in Multimedia to Doctorate in Professional Studies Students, 2002

Invited Speaker - "An approach to interactive multimedia evaluation for end-users", First Annual Congress on The Impact of Technology Upon Learning, Wake Forest University - ICCEL, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 1-3, 1999.

Seminar in Information Management to Senior Aviation Managers, International Aviation Management Training Institute (IAMTI), Montreal, Canada, July 1990

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The Effect of Experience on User Performance
• Evaluation of Multimedia Applications
• Computer Anxiety and its effects on User Performance
• Expert and Novice Opinion of Package Design Features
• Evaluation of Ease of Use of Software and the Novice User
• Deterrents and Remedies to Learning, and their Relationship to the Learning of Software
• Effects of Technology Integration on Learning
• Knowledge Management
  

Reviewer for:

• Decision Sciences Institute
• Information Systems Conference (ISECON)
• European Journal of IS
• Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conferences
• Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) Conferences
• Prentice Hall
• Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Conferences
• Association for Information Systems (AIS) Conference
• John Wiley Sons, Inc.
• CHI (Computer-Human Interaction)
• Information Technology & Management
• International Association for Computer Information Systems
• Academic Press
• Hawaii International Conference on System Science
• Administrative Sciences of Canada (ASAC)
• Third Human Factors in MIS Symposium
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Courses Previously Taught

• Undergraduate - Introduction to CIS
• Undergraduate - Multimedia - Theory and Applications
• Graduate - Information Systems for Managers
• Graduate - Multimedia - Theory and Research
• Undergraduate - Interdisciplinary Beowulf and Multimedia
• Undergraduate - Web Design for Non-Profit Organizations
• Graduate/Undergraduate - Independent Studies
  

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