Experiencing MIS, Fourth Canadian Edition Plus MyLab MIS with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (4th Edition)

David Kroenke has many years of teaching experience at Colorado State University, Seattle University, and the University of Washington. He has led dozens of seminars to college professors on the teaching of information systems and technology; in 1991, the International Association of Information Systems named him Computer Educator of the Year.

David worked for the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Computer Services. He was a principal in the startup of three companies. He also was vice-president of product marketing and development for the Microrim Corporation and was chief of technologies for the database division of Wall Data, Inc. He is the father of the semantic object data model. David’s consulting clients have included IBM, Microsoft, and Computer Sciences Corporations, as well as numerous smaller companies. Recently, David has focused on using information systems for teaching collaboration.

His text Database Processing was first published in 1977 and was released in its twelfth edition in 2011. He has published many other textbooks, including Database Concepts, fifth edition(2011), and Using MIS, fourth edition (2011). David lives in Seattle. He is married and has two children and three grandchildren.

Andrew Gemino (www.andrewgemino.com) has taught at Simon Fraser University (SFU) for over a decade. He is an accomplished teacher who received the SFU Teaching Excellence Award, the TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award with the Beedie School of Business, and the MBA Teaching Excellence Award at the University of British Columbia.

Andrew is a past President of the Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design in the Association of Information Systems. He teaches and consults in IT project management for a variety of clients (www.PMPerspectives.org) and founded a software company that specialized in professional sports scouting and scheduling/payroll systems for sports and entertainment companies.

Andrew is a researcher, whose work is funded through grants from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). His work has been published in Communications of the ACM, Journal of MIS, European Journal of IS, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Andrew lives in Coquitlam, B.C., with his wife and two children.

Peter Tingling has worked in information-intensive industries for more than 30 years. He has held senior line and staff positions at a variety of top-tier firms, and has provided consultations to government, startup, and Fortune 500 companies across North America.

Peter’s research interest is in decision process and analysis and his work has involved organizations that run the range from banks to professional sports organizations. Peter’s research has been published in academic and practitioner journals and has often been referenced in the public media.

Joining academia because he was interested in “why,” Peter considers himself an eclectic reader, although he prefers biographies. His favourite authors are Feynman, Halberstam, Lewis, and Ferguson. Peter is the founder and chief executive officer of Octothorpe Software Corporation and now lives in Vancouver with his wife and four children.