Business Administration Faculty

Carrie grew up in Texas, which might explain why she would drive from Philadelphia to Orangeburg to teach Economics.

Education:

BA – Cornell University (Government)
MA – Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (European Studies and International Economics)

Experience:

Senior Vice President – Wells Fargo – held various roles serving international corporates including relationship management and portfolio manager. Relocated to London and stayed for 15 years.

I was born as raised in the Bronx. Attended public school after third grade. My family was told that I was not smart enough to attend the Catholic school everyone else in my family attended. This sounds like bad news for me, but it was a blessing to me. In fourth grade, I met my future wife. We helped each other through middle school, high school and college. I could not have done the things I have without her support. I have worked my way up the corporate ladder as I used my AAS degree to get as job as an electronics technician on a production floor. Then used my BS to get a job as a software engineer, used training to start my networking career, and finally used the MS to move into IT management. Go figure, I now work at and teach in a Catholic College. I wish I could back to the people that removed me from Blessed Sacrament in the Bronx to let them know where I ended up.

Education:

A.A.S Academy of Aeronautics Queens NY, Major in Electronics
B.S. Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry NY, Major Computer Information Systems
M.S. Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY, Major Computer Information Systems

Work Experience:

• Bear, Diagnostics Division Tarrytown NY, 5 years as an electronics technician
• Bear, Diagnostics Division Tarrytown NY, ten years as a software engineer in R&D
• Bear, Diagnostics Division Tarrytown NY, 3years as a Network administrator
• GreategMacbeth, New Windsor NY, ten years managing IT services in 5 US sites
• Dominican University, Orangeburg NY, 9 years as Executive Director of IT, 5 years as an adjunct instructor, 1year as Academic Technology Coordinator

Seminars & Presentations

Adjunct Professor, “Digital Technology in the Workplace”, College of Westchester
Adjunct Professor, “Social Media Marketing and Advertising”, College of Westchester
Learning Facilitator, Technology Curriculum Development K-12 Education, MOUSE
Moderator, “Food for Thought” Business Workshop, Grace Institute
Presenter, “Technophobia”, Blackbaud Software Conference
Volunteer, Mentor, YWCA “Girl Talk” Technology Educational Program
Keynote, “Destroying the Myth Of The New Techno-Girl” Hampton University
Keynote, “Technology and Gender Compatibility”, Virginia Enrichment Seminar
Panelist, “The New Black Conservative” Columbia Business School MBA Conference
Vice- President/Presenter, New York Library Association, Marketing and Public Relations Committee

Partial List of Clients and Employers

Metropolitan Opera, Young Adult Institute, New School for Social Research, Signature Theatre, Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, Fedcap, Good Samaritan Hospital, Montefiore-Nyack Hospital, Cosmetic Executive Women’s Foundation…

Education:

B.A., Union College
L.L.B., Albany Law School
J.D., Albany Law School 

Work Experience:

Professor Jerrold Fleisher graduated Union College and Albany Law School. He entered private practice and then started a legal research service for attorneys. He now operates Research Associates on a full time basis as well as teaching in the Business Administration Division on law related courses.

Education:

MBA – St. Thomas Aquinas
BS, Business Administration/Management – Mercy College
AAS – Rockland Community College

Mike lives in West Nyack with his wife and two children and is involved in a number of community organizations including being a member of the West Nyack Little League Board of Directors for the past fifteen years.

Education:

B.S. Accounting – Fairfield University
M.B.A. Finance – Fordham University
C.P.A. New York State

Work Experience:

Public accounting Eisner, Grant Thornton – senior audit manager
Lecroy – Director of financial reporting
Ziff Davis Media – Corporate controller
Parisi Sports Inc. – Chief Financial Officer
Major League Soccer – Controller

Dr. Hsu is 1% top rank all-star at the Linkedin social network, with 5,000+ global business partners and clients.

Education:

B.S. Taiwan Cheng Kung University
M.S. Fordham University
Ph. D., Fordham University

Work Experience:

Dr. Donald Hsu has earned a PhD from Fordham University, was the Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University and Columbia University. At Felician College, Dr. Hsu founded the Computer Science Department, served as the Chief Information Officer, and received hundreds of thousands of dollars in computer grants from the State of New Jersey. At Dominican University, he was the Director of Business Division for six years, managing 7 full-time and 35 part-time MBAs and PhD staff. He consults with 5 CEOs in New York area companies. He is the president of Chinese American Scholars Association (CASA), a non-profit firm in NYC. CASA ran 17 successful E-Leader conferences in Asia and Europe since 2006.

Lori is passionate about empowering the next generation to be their best selves for the world. She is a faculty member at Lehigh University’s Iacocca Global Entrepreneur Summer Intensive Program for high school students. She serves as an advisor to the Girls Leadership Institute, an organization that empowers girls to create change in their world. She is also an advisor and faculty member to E-School4Girls, a summer program at NYU designed to empower young women to become confident leaders and entrepreneurs. Lori maintains a blog, LoriMassad.com, that focuses on empowering women, and strengthening a culture of women supporting women.

Education:

BSBA – University of Delaware
MBA – Harvard University

Experience:

From 2006 to 2016, Lori served as the Head of Human Capital and Chief Talent officer at AB, a global asset management firm. Before joining AB, Lori was the Chief Operating Officer at Marakon Associates, a global strategy consulting firm. She was a founding member of two start-ups – Spencer Stuart Talent Network and EmployeeMatters, a human resources outsourcing firm. Lori spent eight years at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where she was a senior manager on the consulting staff and leader of the firm’s recruiting, training and career development programs. During her tenure at BCG, Lori was an adjunct professor at New York University’s (NYU) Leonard N. Stern School of Business, teaching MBA courses.

Education:

BA in Mathematics, NYS Teaching Certificate (7-12) – Mount Saint Mary College
MBA – Mount Saint Mary College

Experience:

Rachel has over 12 years of experience working in Higher Education in various different roles. Professionally, she has worked in Student Affairs and Student Activities as an undergraduate student, a Graduate Assistant, and full-time. She also has part-time experience in both the Registrar and the Purchasing office at a previous institution. During her undergraduate career, Rachel was highly involved in clubs, student government, holding many positions (including Executive Vice President of the Student Body), and her student programming board.

In 2019, Rachel was awarded “Advisor of the Year” for the Charger Activities Board, here at Dominican University.

Education:

BA – Colorado College
MA – Stanford University

Experience:

Senior Instructional Designer and Educational Program Director for higher education, educational technology companies and organizations, including Teachers College/Columbia University, Farm Sanctuary, The Girl Scouts USA, The College Board, Sesame Workshop, National Geographic, and others. Adjunct professor for information technology.

B.A., Fordham University
M.B.A., Iona College
Ph.D., New York University

Work Experience:

Author of various journal articles and college textbook supplements
Former corporate manager at AT& T, BellSouth, MCI

Matt resides in Rockland County, NY with his wife of 30 years. When he’s not managing our Business Division’s Instagram page, he’s performing with his Classic Rock cover band: ‘Vinyl Countdown.’

Education: 

B.S. Cornell University (1990); Hotel Administration, Marketing Concentration
M.B.A. University of Texas at El Paso (1994)

Work Experience:

Chief Marketing Officer, Contec, Inc.; 2017 – 2021
General Manager, PDI, Inc.; 2007 – 2017
VP, Marketing, Irving Consumer Products; 2003 – 2007
Marketing Director, Johnson & Johnson; 1998 – 2003
Account Director, IRI, Inc.; 1995 – 1998
U.S. Army (1st Lieutenant); 1990 – 1994

Prof. Ivan is a lifelong resident of Rockland County and a graduate of Nyack HS. He and his wife have 3 children. Prof. Ivan is also “Coach Ivan” – as he coaches the Dominican University rowing team. He is a Director of the Rockland Rowing Association, a not-for-profit community program for youth and adults. He is also on the board of the Nyack Center.

Education:

B.A., Cornell University (Economics and Soviet/East European Studies)
M.B.A., Columbia University (Marketing and Finance)
CFA, Chartered Financial Analysts Institute

Experience:

Senior Vice President, AllianceBernstein – held various senior roles over a 27-year career at AB, including senior portfolio manager, head of business development and co-head of global marketing. Prior to AB, he worked at AIG focusing on new product development and at Kwasha-Lipton as an actuarial analyst. Author and co-author for many investment-related articles, including “Beyond Interest Rate Anticipation: Strategies for Adding Value in Fixed Income” (2000) and “Assigning a Duration to Inflation-Protected Bonds” (1999), both published in the Financial Analysts Journal. He also wrote “Managed Synthetics,” (1998) published in The Handbook of Stable Value Investing, and “LDI: Reducing Downside Risk with Global Bonds” (2012), published in The Journal of Investing.

A native of the Bronx, John has taught, worked, and travelled in Europe and elsewhere. He lives in Westchester County, NY, when teaching at Dominican and spends his remaining time in the U. S. Virgin Islands (St. Thomas), where his wife resides and works as a Registered Nurse.

Education:

B.B.A. Pace University
M.B.A. New York University
Certificate in Management Accounting (CMA)

Work Experience:

John’s business experience includes positions as a corporate officer in the advertising industry (Vice President—Finance of Euro-Advertising Holding Company, BV, an international group of advertising agencies based in the Netherlands; Corporate Assistant Treasurer of J. W. Thompson Company—JWT, one of the world’s largest advertising agencies). He also has small business experience in real estate management.

John brings his business and international experience to the classroom. He primarily teaches economics, but has also taught numerous courses in finance, accounting, and management at the college level during the course of fifty years. He has taught at Dominican since 1996 and was Business Administration Division Director for seven years; prior to that he was a tenured faculty member at Pace University and taught as a visiting Professore at Franklin University in Lugano, Switzerland.

Denise relocated to NY to advance her career in Higher Ed. She’s originally from North Carolina with Jamaican heritage. Denise is the Advisor to the Caribbean Dance Crew at Dominican University. She’s “chargedup” and ready to activate. Her overall theme is “Reach Back, Lift Up”.

Education:

BS – Human Resource Management, Winston Salem State University
MS – Adult Education, North Carolina A&T State University

Experience:

Denise Dawkins is a Higher Ed Professional with over 10 years of experience and counting. Denise has held various positions for HBCUs, Minority owned-businesses, private HIED institutions, State funded agencies, grant funded organizations, and health disparity programs. Currently she holds a BS in Human Resource Management and a MS in Adult Education – HIED Administration. She comes to Dominican University with aspirations to create more efficient opportunities of office administration, build long term rapport with the student body, bond with all students, but emphasize on creating a forging relationship with the brown and black student body of Dominican, continue marketing for the Business Administration program and most importantly providing student advocacy to the body.

As a student-athlete in Track and Field and Cross-Country at Dominican University, Jovan earned All-Conference and team MVP honors in Cross-Country, received the top male senior scholar-athlete award at Dominican (4.0 GPA), and was selected as a Division II Academic All-American. He was also a Dean’s List student and competed for the Track and Field team while completing his Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance at the University of Calgary. Outside of collegiate athletics, he earned a gold medal in the 4x400m relay and 5th place in the 800m at Serbian National Championships.

Jovan teaches courses in mathematics, physics, and IT at Dominican University. Outside of Dominican, he has served as an advisor to the Virginia Tech chapter of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and was elected to a three-year term as a member of the global SIAM Education Committee to discuss policy, curricula, and promotion of education in applied mathematics.

Education:

M.S – Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
B.A – Mathematics (Minor: Computer Information Systems), Dominican University New York
B.Comm. – Finance, University of Calgary

Experience:

Jovan Žigić joined Dominican University in 2021 after earning his Master’s degree at Virginia Tech. His master’s thesis at Virginia Tech contributed new research to the fields of optimization and model reduction, developing a “splitting” algorithm for identifying an optimized basis in low-dimensional reconstruction of nonlinear dynamical systems. Prior to Virginia Tech, Jovan worked as a substitute teacher, math instructor, and math tutor in the NYC metropolitan area after receiving his Bachelor’s degree from Dominican University.