Instructors

Bateman, Leanne M

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Project, program and portfolio management, PMO management, Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). B.A., Adelphi University, New York; M.A., University of Rhode Island.

Bird, Eric D.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Brooks, Charles Lockhart

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Software development, specifically in data network communications. Broad background in information security, including network security, VPN technologies, PKI, and developing secure software systems. Mr. Brooks has an MS in Computer Information Systems from Boston University, and holds multiple industry certifications including the CISSP and the C|EH.

Buko, Alex

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Caffrey, Daniel

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Daniel Caffrey, Ph.D., is a computational biologist at Pfizer Inc.

Campbell, Robert

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Executive Director and Worldwide Head of Strategic Operations for New Biological Entities at EMD Serono, with 23 years experience in biotechnology and drug discovery. Also an NIH-funded Adjunct Associate Scientist at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole working on drug discovery strategies for neglected tropical diseases.

Carter, Thomas

Program Coordinator for Management of Projects and Programs. Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Project and Program management best practices, PMO startup and Portfolio management. He is a member of the ASAPM, Project Management Institute and is a certified PMP.

Cheng, Alan

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Computer-aided drug design.

Cramer, Keith

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Software Engineering. Over fifteen years of professional software development experience and work with client/server, Internet, and object-oriented technologies. Extensive experience with Java, C++, Unix and Microsoft operating systems and software.

Devaux, Stephen

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Nineteen years of experience in the field of project management theory, training and consulting, in apllications that include software development, IT, pharmaceutical and medical device development, health care, aerospace/defense, energy generation, and automotive manufacturing. Has taught in the academic environment at the University of the West Indies, Bentley College, and U. Mass. Lowell, in addition to Brandeis University.

Farutin, Victor

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Flockhart, Ian T.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Python, Perl, CGI Programming, Database Programming, Database Management

Freedman, Steven

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: PowerBuilder 6.0/8.0/10.0, Sybase, MSSQL, Software Development Life Cycle, SQL, C and HL7

Gentile, Stephen A.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Certified Project Management Professional. Currently serves as Director, Project Management Office, at Babson Capital Management LLC. More than 25 years of experience managing systems and business projects.

Gibson, James R

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Software architect & project leader experienced in complex system architecture, database internals & software project management. Strengths include system design, database internals, strategic planning & the management of software development teams.

Goncalves, Marcus

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Expert in building top-producing enterprise application development and web services through extensive technical networks and standard committees, KM and change management. Hands-on experience in operational management, supply chain management, knowledge and project management, tactical direction setting, action plan development, goal accountability, and most importantly, team process leadership.

Greger, Valerie

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Human Genetics, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics

Guérin, Denise M.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Risk Management, Project Management for professional practices and for non-profits, Contracts and Procurement. Member of the Project Management Institute and a certified PMP. University of Pennsylvania, BA Boston University School of Law, JD Brandeis Unversity, MS in Project and Program Management

Hassey, James

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Experience in supporting and leading project/program technical teams. Work with project teams to define and implement improvements to project management processes and practices. Project Management Professional (PMP).

Hemdal, Erik

Academic Program Chair for the Software Engineering program and Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Software development and QA for trading floors, an Internet news service, printers and imaging systems, and control applications. My interests include Perl, the UNIX programming environment, software quality, and intellectual-property issues.

Holberton, Philip

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Consultant with a focus in strategic, financial and operational issues for established and start-up businesses.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga

Associate Professor of Classical Studies

Expertise: Roman and Greek art and archaeology. Latin language and literature. Mythology in Greek and Roman Art. Roman Social History and Daily Life.

LaCreta, Jim J.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies

Leiden, Stevan

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Major areas of technical expertise include: architecture, design, and implementation of very high speed communication networks and and their support for cooperative computing.

Lesser, Laurie

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Teaching, Consulting, Management, Organization and Leadership.

Loving, Kathryn

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Computational molecular modeling

Malkenson, Leo

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Over 20 years of Software Engineering experience. Expertise includes a strong background in Graphics, Data base, Geometric Modeling and customer support.

Languages: C++, C, Java, Fortran Operating Systems: Windows NT, Unix on various platforms

Marando, Anne

Coordinator of Distance Learning and Program Assessment; Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Project management, risk management, distance education, methodology/process management, and software engineering

Marin, Herbert

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Training Consultant to Hi-Tech corporations. Served in data communications for over 30 years in the areas of Contact Consulting, Systems Marketing, Technical Sales Support and Technical Education.

Martell, Leah

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Extensive background in Classical Mathematics and Statistics.

Martini, Paolo G.V.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: A molecular biologist with a broad range of experience in cell culture and protein expression and delivery in mammalian cells, antibodies and proteins engineering, microarrays, genes transcriptional regulation, ligand-binding interactions, reporter assays, RNA/DNA manipulation.

Milne, Lydia

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Certified Project Management Professional. Twenty years Information Technology Consulting working for Ascend Consulting and CSC Consulting.

Nagappan, Ramesh R.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Applied Cryptography, Information Security and Identity Assurance including PKI, Smartcards and Biometrics.

Natarajan, Madhusudan

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Information Transduction in Biological Systems. a. Biological Data Mining and Modeling - Computational and Systems Biology Approaches. b. Biological and Biomedical Feedback Systems - Modeling & Control.

Parker, Jeffrey S.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Partensky, Michael B.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Research in Physics and Biophysics, chemical and biological interfaces, modeling of membranes and proteins (mostly published under the alias "Partenskii"). Teaching Math and Science from High School to graduate level. Popularizing science.

Perkins, Phil

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Phillips, Cynthia

Academic Program Chair for the Information Technology Management and Security and Compliance programs; Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Organization and management, software engineering methodologies, software requirements engineering, distance education, managing information technologies.

Pollastri, Michael P.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Areas of expertise are organic synthesis, microfluidics/flow chemistry, biological and medicinal chemistry, green chemistry and parallel synthesis technologies.

Raben, Richard

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Financial Systems, Client/Server, Web Applications, MS Project, Segue Silktest, COBOL, Ethernet, LoadRunner, C, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, Unix, VOS, and Multi-platform configurations.

Reinhart, Albert

Instructor for the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Al Reinhart's interests are business, technology, and law focusing on entrepreneurship and business development, creativity and innovation, intellectual property, information security, compliance, and forensics, and technology law. Al's Interests include the application of information technology in distributed enterprise computing environments, service-oriented architecture and design, and object oriented, multi-tier application development for the Windows and Linux platforms.

Russo, John

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Systems Analysis, Database Management Systems and programming languages. Software: C++,VisualBasic, SAS, Microsoft Project, Windows, Unix,, Oracle, MatLab, MathCad

Schaffer, Michael E.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies

Selinger, Douglas W.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: biological data mining, computational biology, high throughput biology

Sherman, Eliot

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Authored professional education seminars in Planning and Budgeting, The Business Plan, Negotiating Debt and Equity Financing, and Building Relations with Debt and Equity Partners. Author of Business Perspectives in Project Management (Dubuque, IA; Kendall-Hunt Publishing; 2009)

Stewart, James P.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Project and program management, project scope and risk planning, troubled project recovery, training and mentoring. Working with teams internationally to plan major phases of projects. Specialties in high-tech and healthcare

Svet, Olga

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Areas of expertise include: VC++,MFC,COM/DOM,multithreading; WIN NT, UNIX, AS/400 and LINUX. Designed and developed enterprise scaled software applications for leading IT companies:IBM,EMC(Israel, USA), Migdal(Israel)

Taylor, Deanne

Academic Program Chair for Bioinformatics and Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Develops computer programs to aid in the discovery of new drug targets and therapeutics.

Todd, Amy

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies

Verabelli, Raghu

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Software Analysis, Development, Implementation, Database Design and Administration, Performance and Tuning, Cross Platform Porting, Technical Support and Product Support Engineering.

Wallace, Robert S.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Embedded systems design / development. Software design in highly regulated industries (FDA). Medical device design/development. Managing remote teams. Multi-discipline project management (software, electronics, mechanical). Risk Management.

Wynn, Thomas A.

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Hit-to-lead state drug discovery projects involving techniques such as; structure based drug design, small library synthesis with limited automation, resin based parallel medicinal chemistry and classical synthetic methods. Aided in the development of a software system which provides a 3 dimensional visual of structural data.

Yurik, Aline

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Virtual Team Management, Software Engineering, Architecture of Enterprise Systems, E-Business Portals, Object-Oriented Design & Development, Distributed Systems, Project Management, Databases and Data Modeling, Transaction Processing

Yurik, Vitaly

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies.

Expertise: Possesses over two decades of software development and teaching experience. Areas of expertise: ¿ Web and Enterprise Application Development, E-Commerce, E-Business, Financial Applications ¿ Java SE and EE Technologies: JSP, JSTL, EJB 3.0, JSP, Servlets, JSF, JDBC, JNDI, Collections, Swing, Multithreading, Networking, Generics. ¿ Web and Enterprise Frameworks : Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Seam ¿ AJAX Frameworks and Libraries ¿ Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). ¿ Design ...

Zilbermints, Sergei

Instructor in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Divison of Graduate Professional Studies

Expertise: Extensive experience in software development (15 years), mainternance, training (9 years) and support for business applications. Designed and developed multiple complex client-server and web applications using various industry accepted methodologies.