Contact Information:
Information Systems Department
The Hagan School of Business
Iona College
715 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
rschumaker@iona.edu
Phone: (914) 633-2065
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Robert P. Schumaker (Curriculum Vitae)
Rob is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at Iona College.
He received his PhD in Management from the University of Arizona in 2007, an MBA degree in Management and International Business from
the University of Akron in 2001, and a Bachelors of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1997.
Research Interests
Rob's overall research interests involve the uses of technology to acquire, deliver and make predictions in a variety of Business-related environments. These interests further branch into computer mediated communications, design science, human computer interfaces, machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, technology acceptance models and textual data mining.
Teaching
Rob began teaching in Fall of 2000 while pursuing his MBA degree and has proven to be a very effective teacher with an overall rating of 3.33 on a 4.0 scale that covers 30 classes to date. He has strong teaching interests in technical subjects such as Business Information Systems, Data Mining, Network Construction, Quantitative Investment and Telecommunications. Rob's teaching philosophy is to make the material relevant to real-world business problems and to teach it in an engaging yet enjoyable manner.
Experience
Rob has extensive knowledge of the retail hardware industry, working for 10+ years in a family-owned business. He also has vast experience in the IT field. While pursuing his MBA degree he was appointed the Interim Director of Technology and was directly responsible to the Associate Dean for the technology infrastructure needs of the University of Akron's College of Business. This included over 200 lab computers, 70 computers for faculty/staff, nearly 40 laptops, 3 servers and 3 computer-enabled teaching classrooms. While there, Rob aggressively modernized the College's computing facilities replacing a third of the equipment and personally completed the transition of all lab activities to paperless form.
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