Academic Appointments

Western Connecticut State University   Danbury, CT
           Adjunct Writing Instructor/Writing Mentor

             Adjunct writing instructor for the MFA in Creative and Professional writing program .

    City University of New York, NY, NY        

Adjunct Lecturer

Baruch College – Zicklin School for Business

Courses offered: 
Management Fundamentals
   Business Policy/Strategic Management

    Daemen College , NY, NY        

Adjunct Instructor

Graduate Program in Global Business

Courses offered: 
The Global Competitive Framework

Moral and Ethical Aspects of Global Business

   Strategic Planning in the Global Market

Metropolitan College of New York,  NY, NY
Assistant Professor of Media Management

Full time Assistant Professor of Media for this nationally acclaimed and accredited NYC College.  Playing key role in strategic program and curriculum development for the school’s start-up graduate MBA programs in Media Management, General Management, Multimedia and E-Commerce, and Sports, Recreation and Leisure Management.

 

Degrees and Academic Awards

                    Connecticut State University,    Danbury, CT
     College of Arts & Letters

     Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Summa Cum Laude, 2009

                             Concentrations: Professional/Creative Nonfiction Writing

                                                                  Thesis:  Escape from Redneckistan: Stories of a Sensitive Boy

                                               
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI  
        UM Graduate School of Business

Masters of Business Administration (MBA), 1984 
                         Concentrations:  Finance and Marketing

  

                                 
       
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI  
        College of Literature, Science and the Arts

        Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, 1978 
                         Concentrations (dual degree):  Political Science

           French Language and Literature

       Honors Program Thesis: 
          “La Crise de la Ville” 

     French Culinary Institute, New York, NY
 
     Degree in Culinary Arts awarded

     Certification of completion of 600 hours of intensive culinary training and testing

                                      Named graduating class valedictorian