Stevens China Program Faculty
 
  Thomas Brantle
Hong-Liang Cui
 Audrey Curtis
 Celia Desmond
 Thomas Lechler
 Donald Merino
 Michael Poli		 Beth Reidel
Richard Reilly
 Kevin Ryan
 Robert Seymour
 Clint Smith
 William Stahlin
 Robert Ubell
Tom Brantle is an Affiliate Faculty member in the Telecommunications Management Program at Stevens, as well as a Ph.D. student in Technology Management with a concentration in Telecommunications Management. Tom Brantle's telecommunications industry experience spans 17 years; 13 years with Bell Communications Research (Bellcore, now known as Telcordia Technologies) as a Sr. Systems Engineer across Bellcore's Technology Systems, Professional Services and Software Systems Divisions, and 4 years as a Sr. Account Executive in Lucent Technologies Worldwide Sales Global Account Management Division. While at Bellcore he authored numerous telecommunications industry Requirements (Generic Requirements (GRs), Technical References (TRs) and Technical Advisories (TAs)) published in the public domain. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from S.U.N.Y. at Cortland, an M.S. in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of Rhode Island, an M.A. in Statistics and Operations Research from the Pennsylvania State University, and has completed an additional sixty credits toward the Ph.D. including the M.S.M. in Technology Management degree requirements. He is presently engaged in doctoral dissertation research in the area of telecommunications and technology clusters. Additionally he holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Audrey Curtis, Director of Telecom Management Department at Stevens, has had a 27-year industrial career. She served as Chief Technology Officer for a communications start-up, eLink Communications, providing broadband services to small-medium sized business customers. She has 26 years experience at AT&T Labs, Bell Labs, and Concert. Her last assignment was as a Vice President for Technology Strategy and Product Alignment for the joint venture between AT&T and British Telecom (Concert). Her prior assignments included: leading the Internet Applications Development Lab (350 people); managing software development projects, leading major process improvement initiatives between Bell Labs and the Network Systems unit, small business systems planning & design, large scale consumer market research. She received B.A. from Simmons College, M.S. from Polytechnic University and Ph.D. in Random Walk Model for Same-Different Judgments in Word Recognition from New York University.
Hong-Liang Cui is a Professor of Physics and Engineering Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology and Director of the school's Applied Electronics Laboratory. He received his undergraduate education in applied physics with a concentration in laser optics from the Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics in Changchun, China, graduating at the top of his class with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. Afterwards, he came to the United States for graduate study as one of the first group of Chinese physics students in the CUSPEA program, obtaining the Ph.D. degree in theoretical condensed matter physics from Stevens. Since 1987, he has been on the faculty at Stevens. Cui has conducted research sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, the US Army, the US Navy, and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, with a total funding of more than $8 million. His research is in solid state electronics and nanoelectronics, optical communications and sensing, electromagnetic wave interaction with bioagents, and high-performance computer modeling of physical devices and phenomena. Cui has published more than 120 research papers and holds four current and eight pending US patents. A member of the American Physical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Optical Society of America, and Sigma Xi, he has served on numerous government and industry expert panels as well as acting as a technical consultant for numerous research and development organizations and high-tech industries.
 
Celia Desmond provides management and telecommunications training to leading corporations, is president of her own firm, World Class-Telecommunications. She is also a senior consultant for Procept Associates Ltd. An internationally recognized expert in project management and communications, earlier she was at Stentor Resource Centre Inc. where she held a number of key project management and other leadership positions. At Bell Canada, she held several senior posts, including associate director, Advanced Services Planning. Desmond helped create a new Masters of Engineering in Telecommunications for the University of Toronto and she has taught at Ryerson School of Business. A Senior Member of IEEE, she is president of IEEE Canada, president-elect of IEEE Communications Society, and a member of IEEE’s worldwide Board of Directors. Desmond, who has organized a number of successful international conferences, including ICC '97 in Montreal, ICUPC '93 in Ottawa, and Infocom '87 and CSECE '92 in Toronto, has been given three distinguished awards--Donald J. McLellan Award for meritorious service to the IEEE Communications Society, the Engineering Institute of Canada John B. Sterling Medal, and the IEEE Millenium Award. Desmond holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Psychology from Queens University. A Project Management Professional, certified by the Project Management Institute, she also holds a certificate as a certified teacher from Ontario Teachers College.


 
Thomas Lechler specializes in project and innovation management, entrepreneurship, organizational structure and development, research methods and design, and applied statistics. The founder and CEO of Vivatech GmbHu. Co. KG, Lechler has also consulted for Mercedes Benz, Siemens, Schenck, SKL, Gaggenau Werke, IBM, Deutsche Flugüberwachung, and Lufthansa. Before coming to Stevens, he taught at Berlin University of Technology and at Karlsruhe and Dresden Universities.

 

 The author of Erfolgsfaktoren des Projektmanagements (P. Lang, 1997) and with H.G. Gemuenden, Gründerteams: Chancen und Risiken für den UnternehmenserfolgErgebnisse einer Befragung (2001), Lechler has also published a number of research papers in the management literature. In 1997, he received the German Association of Project Management Award for the Best Dissertation and in 1999, he was given the Best Paper Award at the Rent 13 Conference in London. Lechler earned both his Master’s in Engineering and Management and his Ph.D. at Karlsruhe University.
Donald N. Merino is a tenured Professor of Technology/Engineering Management. Dr. Merino spent 25 years in industry in executive positions in Standard Brands, Exxon, Mobil and Celanese (Hoescht). During his industrial career, Dr. Merino helped initiate the Quality Management Program at Celanese, developed corporate, business, and technical plans and directed corporate new business activities.

 		 He is the founding EMTM Academic Program Director and is now Director Emeritus. He is a Fellow and past President of the ASEM. He has received ASEM's the highest honor, the Bernard R. Sarchet Award, in 1996 and the Engineering Management Division of ASEE's highest honor, the Bernard R. Sarchet Award in 2001. Dr. Merino was also elected a Fellow of the ASEE in 1992.

Michael Poli is in his tenth year at the Stevens Howe School of Technology Management. Besides teaching project management, Michael as Associate Director of the Stevens Project Management program has been instrumental in growing the program. He earned his Ph.D. in Project Management from Stevens in May 2006. His dissertation topic "Project Strategy: The Path to Achieving Competitive Advantage/Value" is based on real life case studies from MGT 614. Michael created and developed MGT 610 Project Management Theory and Practice and MGT 614 Advanced Project Management. Additionally, he revised and developed a new curriculum for MGT 609 Introduction to Project Management. Michael has personally taught each of these courses many times. He contributed to the development of the online versions of MGT 609 and MGT 614. Dr. Poli has also taught MGT 609 in Paris and MGT 614 in Beijing. He continues to do research in project management and is a frequent presenter at PICMET, the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology conference. Michael has 33 years of industry experience prior to joining Stevens. He was with AT&T for 15 years. In his first four years, he was a Technical Supervisor of software development. Michael then taught the premier, intensive, week long Project Management Workshop the next eight years. The workshop assisted in jumping starting many AT&T projects. During this time, he also championed and developed the AT&T Bell Labs Best Current Practice in Project Management. In his last three years at AT&T, Michael worked as a project management consultant to internal projects. In his 18 years experience prior to AT&T, Michael held positions in software development, product management, operations management, and project management in companies such as IBM, EDS, Olivetti and Exxon Systems.
 

 

 
Beth Reidel has more than 20 years experience in the telecom industry, having held senior management and technical positions at such Fortune 500 firms as AT&T, Philips Electronics, Global Crossing and Avaya.  She currently works at Hoffmann-La Roche where she is responsible for managing the global supplier relationships and contracts for their IT organization. Beth has been teaching Telecommunications Regulation and Policy for the last five years.  Beth’s undergraduate degree, a BS of Computer Science and Math, prepared her for earning her MS in Telecommunications Management from Stevens.
Richard Reilly has published more than 50 chapters, articles, and books in various areas of human resources management. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Reilly has developed or taught courses in organizational behavior, human resources law, employee selection, research methods and advanced statistics.
 

 

 He developed the course, "Human Side of Project Management" as part of the Project Management program at Stevens. Reilly has consulted to industry and government for more than 25 years in employee selection, assessment, performance appraisal, and leadership development. Reilly received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. Prior to joining the faculty at Stevens, he was on the staff of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ and was a research psychologist at the AT&T. His research is in team behavior and performance and project leadership.
Kevin Ryan is a Distinguished Associate Professor in the Telecommunications Management Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. Before joining Stevens in 2001, Dr. Ryan was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. In his 23 years at AT&T Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, he worked on network access, education and training, data communications, high-speed optical networks, and wireless networking. At Stevens, he teaches graduate courses in wireless networking (architecture, protocols, evolution, and performance), voice and data networking, Internet, and telecommunications policy and regulation. He is also responsible for helping to introduce the graduate program for the management of wireless networks.

 

 He has been invited to Beijing, China where he has taught courses from the Stevens graduate telecommunications management program at the Beijing Institute of Technology. Dr. Ryan was awarded the Alexander Crombie Humphrey’s Distinguished Associate Professor Teaching award in 2005 and the 2002/2003 Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management Outstanding Teacher Award. As a co-Principle Investigator on an NSF funded research project, he is part of a research team that is examining the application of dynamic spectrum access to mobile and fixed wireless networks. He recently co-authored a paper on this topic for the first IEEE international conference on dynamic spectrum access networks. Dr. Ryan has received his Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology, his master’s from MIT, and his bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College (all in EE).
Robert J. Seymour is an Associate Professor and Director of Integration of the Sciences in the Business and Technology program of the School of Technology Management. He earned a B.S in Physics and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from New York University. Before joining Stevens in 2000 he was a research scientist and research manager at Philips Labs and GTE (now Verizon) Labs. He held positions as general manager of a developmental business, strategist, field sales manager and global marketing manager (for a JV with a Japanese company) at Hoechst Celanese. At Stevens, he has taught courses in science and technology (for business majors), technology management and project management. He has worked in the electronics, telecommunications and chemicals and plastics industries. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

 
Clint Smith, P.E has over 20 years experience in all aspects related to fixed and wireless telecommunications including system design, project management, budgeting, operations, sales and management. He has specific design and operational experience with CDMA, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA, TDMA, iDEN, AMPS, LMDS, WiMAX, WiFi, PtP, and PSCS. Presently he is the Vice President of Rivada Networks, a company working with the US DoD, Federal and State agencies solving communication interoperability for First Responders.  Some previous positions included VP Engineering for CCS, Director for Planning with Cingular, Director of Engineering for NYNEX (Verizon) and Senior Engineer with Motorola. He is also an internationally known technical author whose books and industry trade articles are used extensively in the telecommunication industry. Current books published by McGraw hill include Wireless Network Performance Handbook, 3G Wireless Networks, LMDS ,Wireless Telecom FAQ, Practical Cellular and PCS Design, Cellular System Design and Optimization, 3G Wireless with WiMAX and Wi-Fi. Clint holds a Masters in Business Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also a registered professional engineer in NY and NJ, sci-fi author, member of IEEE, APCO, Authors Guild, Radio Club of America (RCA), Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in addition to an adjunct professor at Stevens.
William A Stahlin is a Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and Finance at Stevens. He has 25 years of college teaching experience. He has served on the faculty at Drexel University where he initiated the Executive MBA Program and was the Director of the Executive Education Center. Bill has also served as a full time faculty member at the College of New Jersey and Montclair State University.



 

 He has ten years of experience with Big Four auditing firms where he was a tax Training Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He also developed and taught a highly regarded Instructor Training program. He has extensive consulting experience in the manufacturing, importing and transportation industries. Additionally he developed and administered the New Jersey State Board of Accountancy’s Quality Review program. He earned a BA in German and an MBA in Accounting from Rutgers University and is a Certified Public Accountant
Robert Ubell, Executive Director of Stevens Institute for the Advancement of Online Learning and Professional Education,launched the school's first online graduate program, WebCampus.Stevens, in 2000. Earlier, Ubell held a number of positions in publishing. He was vice-president and editor-in-chief of Plenum Publishing Corporation, editor of the National Magazine Award-winning monthly, The Sciences, and American publisher of the premier British science weekly, Nature. He was also founding publisher of Nature Biotechnology. Ubell has also held senior posts as an Internet executive--president of BioMedNet and executive vice president for new media at Marcel Dekker. For more than a dozen years, he was head of his own traditional print and e-publishing consulting firm, Robert Ubell Associates. Ubell is the author or editor of five books and more than 50 scholarly articles. He has served on dozens of scholarly and corporate committees and boards and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Chinese chassis manufacturing company, Lianyungang Universal Vehicle Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and on  the Corporate e-Learning Advisory Board of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is also Vice President of the Board of the Parkinson Unity Walk Foundation. Ubell received his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College and has taught at MIT and Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons. He has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan, Hazen, IEEE, Mellon, Schalkenbach, an d Russell Sage Foundations and New Jersey Virtual University. Until recently, he was Principal Investigator of the Greater New York City Online Learning Center at Stevens, funded by the Sloan Foundation.
 
 
 

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