CANCELED: June PDM – What Inquiring Management Minds Need to Know: The Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Security

• What is the Cloud? Are we in it? Can my business use it?

• Will robots take over our jobs? Can artificial intelligence help my organization?

• How can I protect my technology and information at home? How can I make sure I have an organization that is safe from hackers?

• I will answer these questions and more as we explore these subjects from a business manager’s perspective, not from an IT perspective.

• In addition, I’ll offer many tips about these topics to help make you both smarter in your personal and business lives and more valuable to your organization.

• Whether or not you attended the recent ASCM/ASQ presentation about blockchain, come and find out about these other hot topics in the technology realm.

About Tom

• Mount Saint Mary College MBA students avail of my expertise when they sit for my Management Information Systems class.
• I most recently worked for Oracle Corporation as a technical communications manager. My group develops documentation, training material, and screencasts about Oracle software products that help businesses to plan their manufacturing and distribution functions.
• Previously, I’ve worked as a systems analyst, corporate trainer, implementation consulting manager, and information systems director.
• In my career, I have met and advised manufacturing and financial implementation teams and company management in a wide variety of industries–from doors and windows, steel fabrication, computers, aircraft engine overhaul, and retail furnishings to hand grenades and golf clubs.
• I’m APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (LSSYB), and serve as the Secretary for the Mid-Hudson Chapter of the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM).
• Also active in the Society for Technical Communication (STC), I served the New York Metro Chapter as 2d Vice President and the Santa Barbara and Los Angeles Chapters as Treasurer. I have been a judge, a team lead judge, and the online entries manager in the New York-Philadelphia-New England-Atlanta-Houston-Rochester Regional TechComm Competition.
• I have a B.S. with honors in Psychology from Marist College and a M.S. in Information Management from Syracuse University.
• Other jobs I have had are instructor at community college, a counselor of autistic children, a paramedic, and a 911 dispatcher.