Faculty – Doctoral

Degrees

PhD, Capella University
MS, Walsh College

Biography

Before coming to Walsh College, Dr. Richards spent more than 20 years in information technology where her responsibilities ranged from programmer, systems analyst, project manager, and finally multinational application manager, directing the efforts of a team of developers both in Michigan as well as in Chennai, India. She has held numerous positions in various levels of management and wrote her doctoral dissertation on leadership. She has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level for more than 15 years. In her present position, she is a full-time professor of Information Technology.

Degrees

DSc, Capitol Technology University
MS, Ferris State University
BS, Ferris State University

Licenses and Certifications

CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Biography

Dr. Dave Schippers brings decades of industry experience in information technology, cybersecurity, and project management to Walsh. In industry, he has worked on large core system designs, quality assurance testing and system implementations, impacting regional, national and international business operations nearing a billion dollars. From a technology support perspective, Dr. Schippers has been responsible for technology operations team, ensuring system operations in environments responsible for over $300 million in sales. As a technology leader, he directed a technology group and security operations, supporting 25 sites, three operations and thousands of users in a technologically diverse infrastructure. His leadership includes implementing over $8 million in technology bonds, acquiring federal USF funding, designing and implementing physical and video security systems, and engineering new security alert system components. He also consults as a professional investigator and cybersecurity professional, offering digital investigation and information security services.

Dr. Schippers began teaching as an adjunct instructor in 2013 with Ferris State University’s Information Security and Intelligence program, teaching forensics, advanced forensics, cybersecurity and geographic information systems courses. At Walsh, he has instilled in-depth hands on labs to technical courses. He was the architect of Walsh’s Advanced Team-Based Attack/Defend Techniques. Walsh’s Technology Advisory Board members hailed the class as a unique opportunity for students in Michigan to advance their cybersecurity skills. Also, Dr. Schippers created and designed Walsh’s Bachelor of Science Information Technology Automotive Cybersecurity concentration, setting Walsh as the first institution in the nation with an automotive cybersecurity program.

Dr. Schippers research and investigation experience includes digital image forensics with a focus on GPS data and GPS accuracy. He participated in and designed a multi-agency functional system test of emergency response/notification software for GPS accuracy and reliability. His GPS and image forensics work prompted a webinar for a global forensics company and a speaking engagement for their global forensics conference. Dr. Schippers has spoken frequently on GPS, cybersecurity, digital forensics, image forensics and technology leadership at local, regional, national and international conferences. In September 2018, he spoke at the Auto ISAC international automotive cybersecurity conference on talent generation in automotive cybersecurity and cybersecurity. He is also active in cybersecurity research and industry technology initiatives in the region.

Dr. Schippers has published the following:

Refereed Journal Articles
Journal Article (Published)
Barrios, R. M., Schippers, D., Heiden, C. M., Pappas, G. (2019). A cybersecurity strategy for Industry 4.0. SPIE DEFENSE + COMMERCIAL SENSING, VOLUME 11009

Journal Article (Published)
Barrios, R., Schippers, D., Heiden, C. M. (2019). A cybersecurity strategy for Industry 4.0. SPIE, 11009(11009OD).

Along with other intellectual contributions as:

Magazine/Trade Publication (Published)
Schippers, D. A. (2012). How To – The Black Bag Acquisition Part 1 (1st ed., vol. 1, pp. 16-19). eForensics Magazine Computer.

Magazine/Trade Publication (Published)
Schippers, D. A. (2012). How To – The Black Bag Acquisition Part 2 (1st ed., vol. 1, pp. 20-23). eForensics Magazine Computer.

Degrees

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BA, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Biography

Dr. Jen O’Meara is a writer and freelance web developer with an unusual professional and educational background. She has a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, specializing in 16th and 17th Century British literature but focusing in particular on 17th Century texts related to natural philosophy and natural philosophers. Her blend of savvy in both humanities and science makes O’Meara a versatile educator. She teaches courses at Walsh in both Communications and Business Information Technology.

Before joining Walsh College as an Adjunct Associate Professor in 2014, O’Meara served for seven years as the Chief Innovation Officer for an internet start-up. Performing simultaneously the roles of Information Officer, Project Manager, and Social Media Specialist, she facilitated internal and external communications, documented programming requirements and performed quality tests, and created content for blog and social media platforms. O’Meara served prior to that as the Chief Information Officer for a medical billing service, where she educated physicians and administrators about clinical documentation liabilities, compliance strategies, and the credentialing process.

In 2012 O’Meara published whatever.odt, an academic memoir that brings together opposite sources — print and web, humorous and painful, scientific and literary — to place her personal experiences as a genderqueer individual in a larger cultural context.

O’Meara is a prominent member of the local racquetball community. She is a board member of the Racquetball Association of Michigan, and functions as the web and media strategist for 6-time world champion racquetball player Cliff Swain. She has also organized and directed her own sanctioned racquetball tournament, donating the proceeds from the event to a different charity or organization every year.

Degrees

PhD, University of Southern Illinois
MA, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
BA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Biography

Michael Francesco Alioto is adjunct professor of Marketing at Walsh. He teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in marketing research, consumer insights, global research, political science, qualitative methods, and quantitative applications. He also teaches in the DBA and DM doctoral programs where he has responsibilities for the research methods courses.

Alioto is a consultant for Global 1000 companies on the agency side of the business and has worked in the automotive, manufacturing, and telecommunication sectors. He has been involved in product and services development, branding, and marketing studies from both a qualitative and quantitative standpoint. Alioto has specialized in the global and multicultural areas with experience in 20 countries across four continents, as well as working with the applications of behavioral approaches and methods to marketing and marketing research problems.

He is a frequent speaker at American Marketing Association (AMA) and ESOMAR conferences where a number of his works have been published. He contributed to the edited books, ESOMAR: Excellence in International Research (years 2002-2004, where his papers were nominated for the Best Paper Award). Alioto also presented frequently at the ESOMAR Latin American and Qualitative Conferences, as well as at various ESOMAR Congress around the globe. He has also contributed works to various American Marketing Association Conferences and has been published in the AMA Marketing News, Alert Magazine, Survey Magazine, and ESOMAR RW Connect. Alioto is a member of the AMA, ESOMAR, and the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences.

Alioto’s applied and academic research interests include the humanization of marketing research, behavioral economics, non-linear complexity modeling, the psychological framework of the consumer, regime change in Southern Europe and Latin America, European coalition government formation, and globalization.

He specializes in both quantitative and qualitative methods, with a main focus on the comparative method, formal logical theory/game theory, ethnographies/anthropological methods, causal analysis, and theory building.

Degrees

PhD, Wayne State University

MA, Eastern Michigan University

BS, Eastern Michigan University

BS, Eastern Michigan University

Biography

Jenny Tatsak, Ph.D. and Associate Provost, Associate Vice President, Director of Doctoral Programs, Professor of Business Communications at Walsh. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses as well as courses in the doctoral program.

Dr. Tatsak has extensive leadership communication experience as a senior strategist and primary spokesperson for municipal, statewide, regional, and national campaigns. She developed general messaging strategy, direct mail, web content, as well as television and print advertisements to generate support and raise unprecedented dollars.

She developed and enacted crisis communication and image restoration plans and served as a speech writer and media coach for on-camera interviews and debate preparation. She was selected by the non-partisan National Commission on Presidential Debates to study presidential and vice-presidential debates. Her findings led to recommendations used to improve the presidential and vice-presidential debate formats.

Knowing firsthand impact of innovative and audience-relevant communication, Dr. Tatsak designed the first-ever service-learning course in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University and subsequently wrote and was awarded a Michigan Campus Compact Venture Grant that expanded the service-learning partners and opportunities available to Schoolcraft College students and faculty.

Consequently, the National Communication Association invited her to conduct a seminar on best practices for service-learning. She began her career in the Office of Student Affairs at Lawrence Technological University.

Dr. Tatsak researches persuasive campaigns, organizational communication and rhetoric, and teaching pedagogy. She serves as a presenter, on strategic communication, to professional and community organizations. She presents her research at regional and national conferences.

Her research was recognized by the National Communication Association with two top paper awards. Her research on the impact of positive communication in higher education is included in two books: Positive Communication in Health and Wellness and Communication in the Classroom: A Collection of Great Ideas in Teaching Speech (G.I.F.T.S.). She is a contributor to the London School of Economics’s USAPP-American Politics and Policy blog on issues related to the American political process.

Degrees

PhD, Walden University
MSM, Colorado Technical University
BS, Strayer University

Biography

Dr. Michelle Moore is a professor, researcher, cyber security policy analyst and author in the areas of cyber security doctrine and globally dispersed enterprise governance. With over two decades of experience as a Cyber Security Professional and almost ten years of experience as a professional educator, her work supports both national and international defensive cyber strategies.

Within the field of technology, she specializes in the governance policies, disaster recovery protocols, physical security defenses, and academic matters relating to the protection of critical infrastructure that supports the interests of the nation’s defensive posture in cyberspace. As an educator, Dr. Moore has a broad range of instructional experience on the subjects of business, management, and cyber security at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with various universities.

Throughout her career, Dr. Moore has supported multiple organizations as a government contractor and as a civilian government employee. These include Northrop Grumman, SAIC, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, and MCI WorldCom. She currently supports the United States Marine Corps Headquarters Office, where she leads the Contingency Planning and Physical Security efforts for cyberspace and sits on the National Security Agency (NSA) TEMPEST Advisory Group as the primary representative for the Marine Corps.