Innovations:

• Led MSBA/MIS program to its first national ranking.
• Established new admissions process for the MSBA/MIS program to ensure the quality of the entering students and to align admissions with program capacity.
• Initiated new registration controls on MIS courses to ensure enrollments are limited to appropriately prepared and classified students.
• Created new classification for students admitted to, but not fully prepared for, the MSBA/MIS program.
• Designed and conducted open forum/advising sessions for graduate and undergraduate MIS students each semester.
• Formed the MIS Corporate Affiliate Program.
• Began MIS Department Convocations (for students, faculty, and industry representatives).
• Decentralized department level resource allocation decisions for faculty support funds (i.e., faculty now have discretion to use designated department funds for student assistants, equipment, books, software, travel, etc).
• Invested in over $40,000 in classroom infrastructure improvements (computers, projection systems, whiteboards, etc.).
• Managed change to an annual scheduling process (instead of semester by semester).
• Developed and managed MIS Department web site.

Growth:

• The number of MIS majors has increased 92% to over 600 during tenure as Department Chair.
• Enrollments in MIS courses have increased 24% to over 510 FTES during tenure as Department Chair.
• Hired three new Assistant Professors during tenure as Department Chair. 

Curricular Changes:

• Managed 17 course changes during tenure as Department Chair.
• Managed four program changes during tenure as Department Chair.
• Managed the introduction of one new course during tenure as Department Chair.
• Initiated the introduction of an Applied Information Technology Minor during tenure as Department Chair.

• Ph. D. in Computer Information Systems, College of Business, Arizona State University, December 1990. Concentrations in Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Database Systems, and Categorical Data Analysis.
• Master of Administration, University of California at Davis, June 1983.  Concentration in Management.
• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Oregon State University, June 1981.  Concentrations in Management and International Business, Minor in Science.

• Sandman, T., and T. Riley, "Selecting Middleware for N-Tier Applications " Journal of  International Technology and Information Management  (JITIM), Forthcoming Summer 2003.
• Sandman, T., "A Framework for Adapting a MS/MIS Curriculum to a Changing Environment." Journal of Computer Information Systems, Summer 1994, pages 69-73.
• Sandman, T., and M. Goul, "A Study of an Induction-Based Breadth-First Search Control Strategy for use in DSS Knowledge Acquisition Procedures," Heuristics, Winter 1994, pages 39-53.

• Sandman, T., with Gilliam, J., "Knowledge Based Analysis Of State Highway Construction Contract License Requirements" Proceedings of the IX International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Cancun, Mexico, November, 1996.
• Sandman, T., with Velianitis, S., and Karim, A., "Information Systems Development: Assessing the Impact of CASE Tools" Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the Information Resources Management Association, Washington, DC, May 1996.
• Sandman, T., "Decision Forest Enhancement Evaluation," Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference for the Association for Information Systems, Pittsburgh PA, August 1995.
• Sandman, T., with M. Goul, A. Philippakis, and A. Schamp, "Group Decision Support Systems and Distributed Knowledge-Based Systems," Proceedings of the 26th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Koloa, HI, January 1993.
• Sandman, T., "Induction Support for KBDSS Development: A Proposed System Design," Proceedings of the 25th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences - Volume III, Koloa, HI, January 1992.
• Sandman, T., with M. Goul, and C. Kuo, "Towards Synergizing the Active Object, Software Maintenance, and Algorithm Synthesis Metaphors for Integrated Modeling Environments," Proceedings of the 25th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences - Volume III, Koloa, HI, January 1992.
• Sandman, T., "The Design of an Induction-Based KBDSS Development Assistant," Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Cancun, Mexico, November 1991.

• Sandman, T., "One model of IS Department/Industry Relations," Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference, Chicago, IL, October 1999.
• Sandman, T. with Velianitis, S., and Karim, A., " Users' Perspectives of the Impact of CASE Tools on Information System Development Productivity," Proceedings of the 26th National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Boston, MA, November 1995.
• Sandman, T., "M.S. in Information Systems: the Scottish Perspective," Proceedings of the 25th National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Honolulu, HI, November 1994.
• Sandman, T., and Martin, M., "What Will Be the Management Information Systems Issues in 1995: A Delphi Study," Proceedings of the 25th National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Honolulu, HI, November 1994.
• Sandman, T., "Integrating IEF into the CSUS Undergraduate MIS Curriculum," Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference, Phoenix, AZ, November 1993.
• Sandman, T., "A new Course to Help Integrate IEF into the CSUS Undergraduate MIS Curriculum," Proceedings of the 1st Annual IEF Education Day Conference, Orlando, FL, April 1993.
• Sandman, T., "Decision Forest Learning in a Simulated Jobshop Manufacturing Environment," Proceedings of the 24th National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Washington, DC, November 1993.
• Sandman, T., and M. Ongkasuwan, "Adapting a MS/MIS Curriculum to a Changing Environment," Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference, Nashville, TN, October 1992.
• Sandman, T., and T. Constantinides, "Applied Integration of Decision Support and Expert System Technologies in the Aircraft Maintenance Environment," Proceedings of the 22nd National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute - Volume II, Miami, FL, November 1991.

• Sandman, T.,  “An Exploration into the Learning Styles of Undergraduate Telecommunications Students,” Submitted to the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Manzanillo, Mexico, April, 2004.
• Sandman, T., with T. Riley, “Selecting Middleware for N-Tier Applications,” Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Las Vegas, NV, April, 2002.
• Sandman, T., with J. Sovik, “Two-Tier vs. N-Tier Client Server Architectures: Toward Selection Heuristics,” Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Kapalua, HI, April, 2000.
• Sandman, T., with B. Stokes, "Object Relational DBMS: Benefits and an Application," Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Puerto Vallarta, MX, March, 1999.
• Sandman, T., with J. Davis, "Weighted Decision Forest: Attribute Relationship Weighting Technique," Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Waikoloa, HI, March, 1996.
• Sandman, T., with L. Kolleda, "A Definition Of The Client/Server Paradigm," Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Wailea, HI, March, 1994.
• Sandman, T., "Strategies for Induction Support Systems," Proceedings of the 2nd CSU Artificial Intelligence Symposium, June 1991.

• Sandman, T., "1998-1999 Annual Report," July 1999 (http://www.csus.edu/mis/MISANNUALRPT9899.PDF)
• Sandman, T., "1997-1998 Annual Report," July 1998 (http://www.csus.edu/mis/MISANNUALRPT9798.PDF)
• Sandman, T., "Incorporating Machine Learning into Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems: the Case for Learning from Examples," DSRC Technical Report #89-5, Decision Systems Research Center, Arizona State University, October 1989.

• MIS Department Corporate Affiliate Program, $40,000 Continuing Support, 1996 - present.
• Intel in support of Texas Instruments' IEF University Program, $3,000 Continuing Sponsorship, July 1994.
• Texas Instruments' IEF University Program Maintenance (I-CASE Tool Upgrades), $90,000, August 1994.
• 2 week Faculty exchange with Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, March 1994.
• Patton & Patton Company, $9,000 Software grant, September 1993.
• Intel in support of Texas Instruments' IEF University Program (I-CASE Tool), $15,000 Sponsorship, September 1992.
• Texas Instruments' IEF University Program (I-CASE Tool) for the creation of an I-CASE Lab in the College of Business Administration, approximately $600,000, Spring/Summer 1993.
• Hewlett-Packard Equipment Grant for the creation of an I-CASE Lab in the College of Business Administration, approximately $100,000, May 1993.
• Granted Texas Instruments IEF Fastrack 5 Week Training, $25,000, May 1992 (Note: One of first two professors in the United States to successfully complete this training!)
• "Machine Learning: the Case for Learning From Examples." Competitive Grant Award from the Decision Systems Research Center at Arizona State University. ($1,500) Summer Stipend, 1989.

• "Induction Support Systems: Transferring Emerging Machine Learning Technology to the Business Environment"
  This research investigates heuristics to improve the use of inductive machine learning algorithms. Incorporating and evaluating these heuristics in an Induction Support System will foster the development of normative approaches for using inductive machine learning algorithms.
  Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. K. M. Goul.
  Dissertation Committee Members: Dr. Eck, Dr. Goul, Dr. Philippakis, Dr. Wilson.

• California State University System, Summer Fellowship Program, $10,000, Summer, 1995.
• California State University, Sacramento, Fall Fellows Program Participant, 3 units release time Fall, 1994.
• California State University, Sacramento, "Learning Decision Forests" 6 units release time Spring 1993.

• Accepted to the Decision Sciences Institute's New Faculty Development Workshop, Miami, FL, November 1991.
• Nominated to, and accepted to, the Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference on Information Systems, Boston, MA, December 1989.
• Accepted to the Doctoral Student Consortium of the Decision Sciences Institute's 20th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 1989.

• Sandman, T., "Towards an Induction-based KBDSS Development Assistant," paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Fall Joint National Meeting, Denver, CO, 1988.
• Sandman, T., with M. Goul, "Expertise Elicitation: Can the Knowledge Engineer be Replaced?," paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Fall Joint National Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 1987.

• Sandman, T., "Career Options in Higher Education: CCs to UCs”, UC Davis Graduate Student Seminar Series, January 1998.

• MIS 114 - Database Management Systems for Business. DBMS concepts, database design, and the network, hierarchical, and relational data models. 16 sections.
• MIS 127 - Decision Support and Expert Systems. Decision Support and Expert Systems course emphasizing these technologies as managerial tools, IFPS and VP-Expert software packages. 2 sections.
• MIS 175 - Computer Information Systems for Management. Undergraduate introductory course emphasizing the computer as a managerial tool. 11 sections.
• MIS 195 - Internship. Supervised undergraduate interns with local firms working in the MIS area.
• MIS 199 - Special Problems in MIS. Supervised undergraduate students conducting independent research.
• MIS 205 - Introduction to Computer-Based Information Systems. Graduate MBA course emphasizing the computer as a managerial tool. 5 sections.
• MIS 211 - Information Systems II. Introductory Graduate level Programming and Database course. 4 sections.
• MIS 218 - Decision Support and Knowledge-Based Systems. Graduate level Decision Support and Expert Systems course emphasizing these technologies as a decision aiding managerial tool. 3 sections.
• MIS 232 - Management Science. Graduate level quantitative decision making course (e.g., decision analysis, linear programming, etc). 1 section.
• MIS 295 - Internship. Supervised graduate interns with local firms working in the MIS area.
• MIS 299 - Independent Study. Supervised graduate students conducting independent research.
• MIS 502 - Master's Degree Project. Supervised student projects on the integration and/or use of DSS, OO Database, Expert System, CASE, and Client-Server technologies. 13 students.

• CIS 200 - Computers in Business. Lecture and examination responsibility for two sections of 35 students each.
• CIS 440 - Systems Analysis and Design. Course responsibility for teaching CIS 440 (four semesters). Taught traditional Analysis and Design techniques, Database Design methods, Decision Support System and Expert System development approaches.

• CIS 200 - Computers in Business. Taught DOS, Word Perfect, and Supercalc 4 in lab recitation sections with 30 students. Supervised by Dr. O'Leary.
• QBA 550 - Decision Analysis. Taught several sessions of this graduate-level decision analysis course, graded homework and developed examination questions. Supervised by Dr. Keefer.
• QBA 791 - Multiobjective Decision Analysis. Graded homework and performed literature searches for this doctoral seminar in multiobjective decision analysis. Supervised by Dr. Kirkwood.

• Developed a library of journal articles from the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, and Database Systems. Worked with Dr. Goul.
• Used inductive machine learning in a knowledge acquisition effort to identify optimization decision models from spreadsheet models. Worked with Dr. Goul and Dr. Roy.
• Used the Ada programming language for modeling distributed systems. Focused on the "Dining Philosopher" problem. Worked with Dr. Eck.
• System Administrator for Departmental Xerox 1186 Artificial Intelligence Workstation. Duties included file maintenance, student user training, presentations to faculty, development of users' guide, and general consulting and debugging of Lisp code. Worked with Dr. Goul.

University Level :

• Faculty Advisor, College Republicans student organization, 2003 - present.
• WASC Steering Committee, 1994 - 1996.
• Military Studies Advisory Board, 1994 - 1995.
• University Data Owners and Standards Committee, 1993 - 1995.
• Chair, University Academic Standards Subcommittee, 1992 - 1994.
• University Academic Standards Subcommittee, 1991 - 1999.
• Reviewer, Committee on Research and Creative Activity, 1993.
• Academic Senate International Programs Committee, 1994 - 1996.
• Academic Senate Representative, 1992 - 1993.
• Academic Senate Committee on Committees, 1993.

College of Business Level

• College of Business Academic Council, 2003 - present.
• College of Business Secondary Level Review Committee, 2003 - present.
• College of Business Executive Committee, 1996 - 2002.
• College of Business Administrative Committee, 1996 - 2002.
• College of Business Academic Standards Committee, 1996 - 2002.
• College of Business Council of Chairs, 1996 - 2002.
• College of Business Travel Committee, 1996 - 2002.
• College of Business Faculty Accreditation Steering Committee, 1997 - 2002.
• College of Business Internationalization Committee, 1994 - 1998.
• Chair, College of Business Committee on Committees, 1994 - 1996.
• College of Business Committee on Committees, 1993 - 1996.
• Chair, College of Business Undergraduate Programs Committee, 1992.
• College of Business Undergraduate Programs Committee, 1992 - 1996.
• College of Business Faculty Prof. Development Committee, 1992 - 1996.
• College of Business Economics Coordination Committee, 1991 - 1996.

MIS Department Level

• MIS Graduate Student Advisor 1995 - present.
• MIS Department Performance Salary Step Increase Evaluation Committee, 1996.
• MIS Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1994 - 1996.
• MIS Department Affirmative Action Representative, 1993 - 1996.
• MIS Department Library Coordinator, 1993 - 1996.
• MIS Department Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1991 - 1996.
• Course Equivalency Evaluator.
• Classroom Computer Coordinator, 1992 - present.

• 1999 Faculty Merit Increase (Merit Pay) Award, 1.5% salary increase
• 1998 Faculty Merit Increase (Merit Pay) Award, 2.69% salary increase
• 1997 Performance Salary Step Increase (Merit Pay) Award, 9.6% salary increase
• 1989 Teaching Excellence Award in Decision and Information Systems, Arizona State University, $100 cash award.
• 1989 Society of Information Management Doctoral Fellow.
• 1988 Alpha Iota Delta National Honor Society

• National President-Elect of Alpha Iota Delta National Honor Society. 2000 to 2001.
• Exhibits Co-Chair, AIS Conference Committee, 2001 AIS Conference, Boston, MA.
• Exhibits Chair, AIS Conference Committee, 2000 AIS Conference, Long Beach, CA.
• Session Chair, Western Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Puerto Vallarta, MX, March 1999.
• Placement Chair, AIS Conference Committee, 1996 AIS Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
• National Vice President of Alpha Iota Delta National Honor Society. 1994 to 1996.
• Western Region Vice President of Alpha Iota Delta National Honor Society. 1993 to 1994.
• National Officer of the Decision Sciences Institute - Alpha Iota Delta Executive Committee. 1992 to present.
• Committee of the Decision Sciences Institute - Alpha Iota Delta Liaison Committee. 1992 to present.
• Steering Committee, Information Systems Education Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 1993.
• Session Chair, Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, Honolulu, HI, November 1994.
• Discussant, Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, Honolulu, HI, November 1994.
• Discussant, Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, Honolulu, HI, November 1994.
• Session Chair, Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, Washington, DC, 1993
• Track Chair, Information Systems Education Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 1993.
• Table Topic Chair, Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, Washington, DC, 1993.
• Session Chair, Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1992.
• Session Chair, Association of Management National Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 1992.
• Discussant, Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, Washington, DC, 1993.
• Discussant, Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1992.
• Discussant, Western Decision Sciences Institute Regional Conference, Reno, NV 1992.

Active:

• Alpha Iota Delta National Honor Society (AID).
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Association for Information Systems (AIS), Charter Member.
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Past:

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
• The Decision Sciences Institute (DSI).
• The Institute of Management Science (TIMS).
• The International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS)
• The International Association of Knowledge Engineers (IAKE).

Felicenne Ramey, Ph.D.
Former Dean,  College of Business
CSUS
rameyfh@csus.edu

Michael Goul, Ph.D
College of Business
Arizona State Unversity
Mike.Goul@asu.edu
(480) 965-5482  

Jaime Alvayay, Ph.D.
Chair,  OBE Department
College of Business
CSUS
alvayayj@csus.edu
(916)278-6463

Ed Christenson, Ph.D.
MIS Department
CSUS
christensonea@csus.edu
(916)278-7105

• Married, no children
• Excellent Health.