Contact Information:
MIS Department - Room 430X
The University of Arizona
1130 E. Helen Street
Tucson, AZ 85721
rschumak@eller.arizona.edu
Phone: (520) 621-9239
Fax: (520) 621-2433
 
Website:
www.robschumaker.com

Robert P. Schumaker
(Curriculum Vitae)
Rob is a fourth-year doctoral student in Management of Information Systems from the University of Arizona. He received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1997 and an MBA degree in Management and International Business from the University of Akron in 2001. He is currently at the University of Arizona with an expected degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management in 2007.

Research Interests

	Data Mining
	Textual Analysis
	Machine Learning Techniques
	Computer Mediated Communication

Teaching
Rob began teaching in Fall of 2000 while pursuing his MBA degree. He has an overall teaching rating of 4.230 on a 5.0 scale, covering 19 classes. He has taught mostly Computer Applications courses in intermediate and advanced features of Microsoft Access, Excel, and Visual Basic. He has also taught Business Information Systems and Advanced PowerPoint classes.

Experience
Rob has extensive knowledge of the retail hardware industry, working for 10+ years in a family-owned business. He also has vast experience in the IT field. While pursuing his MBA degree he was appointed the Interim Director of Technology and was directly responsible for the technology infrastructure needs of the University of Akron's College of Business. This responsibility included over 200 lab computers, 70 professor's desktop computers, nearly 40 laptops, 3 servers, and 3 mid-size computer-enhanced teaching classrooms. While there, Rob aggressively modernized the College's computing facilities replacing one- third of the equipment and personally completed the transition of all lab activities to a paperless medium.