He served as an Associate Professor in the College of Business at the University of St. Thomas where he held the Honeywell Endowed Chair in Global Technology Management.  He was the Director of the Information Technology Management concentration in the MBA program.

Bill has several years of industrial experience.  He was an industry analyst with D. H. Brown Associates and an Enterprise Information Architect in 3M's Information Technology division.

He has been actively engaged in professional organizations and industry groups that are committed to promoting open systems computing and industry standards.  He served on the Board of Governors for The Open Group and he is currently a member of The Open Group Architecture Forum. He is also a member and past chairman of the Board of Advisors for the Computers and Automated  Systems Association, an affiliate of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Focus Areas:

• Strategic Information Technology Planning
• Enterprise Information Architecture
• Open Systems and Industry Standards
• Open Sourcecode and Innovation Communities
• Distributed Component Frameworks and Service-Oriented Architectures
• Information Security and Privacy Management
• Collaborative Commerce

Professional Organizations and Societies:

• The Open Group - Architecture Forum

• Internet Society
• Securities Industry Middleware Council - Board of Directors

• Academy of Management - Technology and Innovation Management forum
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Bill holds a Ph.D. in Education Administration from Illinois State University and Masters of Science and Bachelor of Science in Technology Education from Eastern Illinois University.

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