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Current participants in The Public Administration Genome Project:
Founder:
John Dickey (jdickey@vt.edu)
Professor Emeritus of Urban Affairs & Planning and of Public
Administration & Policy
President, IdeaPlex, Inc.
PhD, Civil Engineering (Transportation), Northwestern University
Dr. Dickey has been involved in over 40 years of research
and consulting in scientific, teaching, engineering, computer,
and public management endeavors. He has worked on projects
in over 30 countries around the world, and with a wide variety
of firms and public agencies. He has written 12 books and
several software packages, including Quantitative CyberQuest
(QCQ) – which is being used extensively on this project. He
also has authored an extensive number of articles for scientific
journals and proceedings. He has given international presentations
before groups in over 25 countries.
Role: Project Director
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Major Participants:
Gilberto de Abreu Sodré Carvalho (gsodre@uol.com.br)
Consultant, New Businesses and Products
M.S. Public Law (Universidade Mackenzie, São Paulo)
B.S. Public Administration (Fundação Getulio Vargas,
Rio de Janeiro)
B.S. Law (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Mr. Carvalho is a lawyer and a lecturer, in São Paulo
and Rio, Brazil, with a large experience in projects and developments
of new businesses and products, providing integrated legal and
business view. During the last 35 years, he has been an in-house
or an outside consultant in this field to (among many others):
Citibank, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon, British American
Tobacco – B.A.T., IBOPE (Brazilian leading survey organization);
Lojas Americanas.Com (Brazilian leading department store chain).
Gilberto is an author of articles in the area of business law
and competiton. His is the author, among others, of the book
‘The New Business Organization in the Era of Competition and
Knowledge Management’, published in Portuguese by FGV Editora,
2003.
Role: : Advice in the design of PAG Project seen as a
product. |
Ian Birdsall (ibirdsall@lmi.org) (ibirdsal@vt.edu)
Consultant, LMI Government Consulting
PhD student, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
M.S. Management Science, State University of New York
Dr. Birdsall has more than 28 years of broad based military
and private sector logistics experience. On the staff of the
Secretary of Defense, he served as project leader for the DoD-wide
asset visibility project and logistics action officer for packaging,
ordnance, automatic identification technology, and supply chain
management. He developed logistics management policies for nuclear
and non-nuclear munitions for USAF munitions accounts worldwide.
He facilitated strategic planning meetings and authored operational
and strategic plans on subjects ranging from US Navy joint mine
countermeasures to integrating smart card technology into the
logistics systems and processes of the US Army.
Role: Development and theory integration of a case studies
on implementation, for example of the strategic plan for DoD’s
Joint Total Asset Visability (JTAV) Program. |
Ed Bunce (gebunce@vt.edu)
Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech
PhD Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1961-65 1st Lt and Capt. USArmy Medical Service Corps
USArmy Medical Research and Nutrition Lab, Denver, CO ('61-'63)
Tripler Army Medical Center (Chief of Clinical Chemistry) ('63-65)
1965-95 Ass't Prof, Assoc. Prof and Prof. of Biochemistry and
Nutrition, Virginia Tech
Sabbatical leaves at: University of Louvain, Belgium 1970-71
Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland 1981
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England Fall semester 1989
Research areas: (1) Magnesium nutrition and kidney stone disease,
(2) nutrition and cataract, (3) Zinc and parturition
Approx 50 publications on these topics.
Role: Advisor on analogies related to biological and chemical aspects of various genomes. |
Rong Cai (rcai@vt.edu)
Masters student, Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Tech
BS, Urban Studies and Regional Planning, Beijing University
BS, Economics, Beijing University
She has participated in many urban planning and tourism planning projects in China from her undergraduate study and acted as major member for several projects. She mastered several software products such as AUTOCAD, Photoshop, and ArcView GIS. Her concentrations are
1) Economic Development Planning
2) International Affairs
Role: Literature analyst relating particularly to urban sustainability. |
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Larkin Dudley (dudleyl@vt.edu)
Director, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia
Tech
PhD, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
Previous Positions: At Virginia Tech, Dr.
Dudley has served as Visiting Assistant Professor, Political
Science (1990-1991); Academic Advisor, University Academic
Advising Center, (1990-1991); Research Associate, Institute
for Public Management, College of Architecture and Urban Studies,
(1987-1989); Coordinator, Management Studies on Virginia Tech
Grant for Supply and Transportation Functions, (1986-1987);
Instructor, College of Architecture and Urban Studies (178-1987);
Coordinator for International Student Programs Office, (1976-1978)
and Instructor, Sociology (1974-1976). In addition, she has
served as Instructor, In-Service Education, Sociology, University
of Georgia and Instructor, Lane Community College, Eugene,
Oregon.
Major Areas of Specialization: Public-Private
Relations; Public Management; Organizational Theory. Dr. Dudley
has also pursued interests in women and world development,
legislation and lobbying, and the application of law in organizations. |
Sujata Govada (udpcltd@netvigator.com)
Director, Urban Design and Planning Consultants Ltd.
Assistant Professor (Part Time), The University of Hong Kong
PhD, Environmental Design and Planning, Virginia Tech
Dr. Govada is a qualified urban designer and certified town
planner with almost 20 years of international multi-disciplinary
experience in Hong Kong, PRC, India and USA. She is an urban
design and planning consultant specializing in urban design
and strategic planning, development master planning, land use
and transit oriented development, urban redevelopment. She has
coordinated and worked on several multi-disciplinary strategic,
master planning, urban design, pedestrianization and transit
related development planning projects. She has ten years experience
in Hong Kong and the region working for public and private clients.
These include the Planning Department, Mass Transit Railway
Corporation, private developers, planning and landscape firms.
Dr. Govada coordinated the Proyecto CITIES project on Hong
Kong for the Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management,
The University of Hong Kong, as part of an international project
organized by Fundacion Metropoli in Madrid, Spain. Her research
interests include strategic planning, urban form, urban sustainability,
comparative urbanization and urban regeneration. She is currently
working on a paper on the “Sustainability of Hong Kong’s Urban
Form”. Over the last three years, Dr. Govada has been teaching
several planning and urban design workshops and courses for
Master’s Program in Urban Planning in CUPEM, and the Master
of Urban Design Program, in the Dept. of Architecture, HKU.
Dr. Govada also taught urban design courses for the Hong Kong
Institute of Planners and at University Extension, University
of California, Irvine, CA.
Role: Theory development and related case studies, especially related to new land use developments in Asia. |
Amanda Roe Lang (innovator@comcast.net)
Innovation Consultant
PhD, Technology Education, Virginia Tech
Dr. Lang has worked as an educator, researcher/ethnographer,
and consultant in organizational and technological innovation,
strategic business development, and commercialization processes
in both the private and public sectors. She is an experienced
facilitator in creative problem solving techniques, innovation
strategies, business venture/product development, and CRADAs.
Most recently, Dr. Lang has acted as an innovation consultant
assessing permanency options for children in custody of the
state of Georgia.
Role: Case studies of innovation and change;
qualitative methods. |
Richard Larkin (dlarkin@westga.edu)
Assistant Professor, Political Science and Planning, University
of West Georgia
PhD, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
Prior to joining the faculty at UWG, he held similar positions
at Concord College in Athens, WV and the University of Southern
Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. He has completed post-doctoral
studies in quantitative techniques for the social sciences and
complexity theory at the University of Michigan. He has served
as a consultant to several local, state, national, and international
organizations. His current research interest include new methods
for program evaluation and review, the application of neural
networks and other forms of artificial intelligence to the study
of public policy, current issues in economic development, non-profit
organizations, and aviation management. He is the author or
co-author of numerous publications and sponsored research reports.
Role: Theory development and application to urban planning
and educational technology. |
John Levy (levy@vt.edu)
Professor Emeritus of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
PhD, Urban Public Policy Studies (New York University, 1979)
M.A. Economics (City University of N.Y., 1970)
B.A. Biology (Oberlin College, 1956)
Main experience: Director of Research, Planning Dept., Westchester
County, NY Publications:
Essential Microeconomics for Public Policy Analysis,
Praeger, 1995.
Contemporary Urban Planning, Prentice-Hall, 1988. Seventh
edition, 2006.
Economic Development Programs for Cities, Counties and
Towns, Praeger, 1981. Second edition, 1990.
Urban and Metropolitan Economics, McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Role: General overview and commentary
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Jill List (jlist9@comcast.net)
Human Resources Policy and Analysis Consultant
PhD, Educational Research, Statistics, and Evaluation, Virginia Tech
MBA, Management, Virginia Tech
Dr. List has provided vision and strategic direction to private and public sector corporations in the manufacturing, transportation and energy industries as well as county government. She is highly effective in translating complex issues into policies and practices by applying research, technical and business expertise. Past clients include Volvo White Truck Corporation, Hercules Incorporated, Duke Energy, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Right Management Consultants, and the County of Roanoke, Roanoke, VA. She also has authored several journal articles for educational journals and human resource publications.
Role: Development of case studies and statistical analyses. |
David Moore (dmoore@vt.edu)
Special Research Faculty, Institute for Innovative Governance, Virginia Tech
MPA student, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
BS Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech
Mr. Moore currently serves as an appointed member of the Montgomery
County Planning Commission, an alternate for the Board of Zoning
Appeals and a liaison to the Economic Development Commission.
As a Consulting Engineer, Mr. Moore has worked extensively in
the fields of technology development, management systems, information
systems, organizational assessment and business development.
Mr. Moore has published over a dozen quick reference guides
on topics ranging from regulatory compliance to engineering
management systems to social capital. Mr. Moore is interested
in applied research in the areas of social capital, nonprofit
capacity building, organizational development, volunteerism,
economic development, and human networks.
Role: Case studies of innovative local government programs. Group participation. |
Susan Pandy (spandy@nacha.org)
Assistant Director, Internet Council, NACHA – The Electronic
Payments Association
PhD student, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
MPA, Cleveland State University
Susan is responsible for advancing the mission of the Internet
Council, which is to facilitate the development of global electronic
commerce over open networks in a secure and cost effective manner.
In recent months, she has managed a project within the Council
to study the growth of Internet-initiated (WEB) and Telephone-initiated
(TEL) ACH Debits and is currently organizing a project to address
ACH data security and authentication issues. She previously
led the Center for eGovernance at the National Academy of Public
Administration (the Academy), a congressionally chartered think
tank in Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for developing
a grassroots effort to address the challenges posed to government
by the rise of digital technologies and the Internet. Her accomplishments
at the Academy included: organizing a virtual network of 25
universities, dubbed the College for eGovernance, developing
two online clearinghouses related to egovernance education and
privacy-related subject matter, and fundraising and development.
She has been published with the Organization for Economic Development
and Cooperation and The Public Manager.
Role: Development and theory integration of a case study on issues related to making payments over open networks. |
Rosalind Thomas (Rosalind.Thomas@dla.mil
) (rothoma3@vt.edu)
Chief, Acquisition Policy Branch, Acquisition Division, Defense
Logistics Agency
PhD student, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
MPA, George Washington University
Master of National Resource Management, Industrial College of
the Armed Forces
Operational contracting experience at Defense Energy Supply
Center and Naval Air Systems Command.
At DLA Headquarters:
o Procurement Process Team Leader for Business Systems Modernization.
o Program Manager for Supplier Relationship Management implementation.
o Deputy Program Manager for Strategic Sourcing Initiative.
o Program Manager for acquisition matters at several DLA Supply
Centers.
o Member of DoD Rapid Improvement Team that created the first
Strategic Supplier Alliance.
o Sub-team leader for DoD-wide Product Support Reengineering
Team.
o Procurement representative to numerous DLA-Military Service
joint projects.
Role: Development and theory integration of a case study on DoD contracting in supply chain material management. |
Ray Wyatt
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University
of Melbourne (Australia)
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