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GISAB People

Avijit Sarkar, Associate Professor and Director 
Avijit_Sarkar@Redlands.edu
(909) 748-8783

Avijit Sarkar received his Ph.D. (2004) and M.S. (2002) degrees in Industrial Engineering from University at Buffalo - The State University of New York. His research interests are in business analytics and geographic information systems in business. His research articles have been published in Journal of Geographical Systems, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, and Computers and Operations Research. At Redlands, Avijit teaches a variety of quantitative courses in operations management and management science. He is a recipient of the University of Redlands Faculty Review Committee Awards for Outstanding Research (in 2010) and Outstanding Teaching (in 2009). He is also former director for four years of School of Business undergraduate programs.

James B. Pick, Professor
James_Pick@Redlands.edu
(909) 748-8781

James Pick is founding director of the Center for Business GIS and Spatial Analysis. He is professor in School of Business at University of Redlands. He is past chair of the Department of Management and Business and past assembly chair of the School of Business. He is the author of 120 journal articles, book chapters, and refereed proceedings in the research areas of management information systems, geographic information systems, urban studies, population, and renewable energy, and author or co-author of eleven books, including The Mexico Handbook: Economic and Demographic Maps and Statistics (1994), Geographic Systems in Business (editor, 2005), Geo-Business: GIS in the Digital Organization (2008), and Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach (2012). His current research focuses on web-based and mobile-based spatial systems and on spatial statistical analysis of the global, Chinese, and Indian digital divides. He was visiting researcher at University of California Irvine in 2005 and winter 2009 and visiting scholar at Lingnan University, Hong Kong in spring of 2009. He has received awards including a Fulbright Senior Scholar award for Mexico, and has been funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Ford Foundation and other agencies, and serves on five journal editorial boards. He holds a B.A. from Northwestern University, M.S.Ed. from Northern Illinois University, and Ph.D. from University of California Irvine.

Mak Kaboudan, Professor
Mak_Kaboudan@Redlands.edu
(909) 748-8772

Mak joined the School in 2001 after spending 17 years with Penn State School of Business. Prior to joining Penn State, he worked as a management consultant for five years. His consulting work is mostly in economic and business planning as well as energy and macro-economic modeling. Mak’s undergraduate degree is in Accounting from Cairo University (1970). His graduate work was completed in the US. He holds an MBA (1974) from Marshall University (West Virginia), an MS (1978) and a Ph. D. (1980), both in Economics, from West Virginia University. Mak’s major areas are economics and statistics. His current research interests are focused on forecasting business, financial, and economic conditions using statistical, spatial and geospatial techniques, and artificial intelligence modeling algorithms. His work is published in many academic journals such as the Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Real Estate Literature, Journal of Applied Statistics, Computational Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Computers and Operations Research, and Journal of Geographical Systems.

Monica Perry, Associate Professor 
Monica_Perry@Redlands.edu
(909) 748-8780

Monica Perry is an associate professor in the School of Business at the University of Redlands since 2004. She has served in administrative capacities, including past Director of the Undergraduate Program and past Assistant Dean. She worked with ESRI coordinating the academic portion of the ESRI GIS Business Summit, participated in the University’s Small Business Association Grant, including developing and presenting the marketing GIS aspect of workshops for small businesses and has taught a graduate level GIS marketing related course. Her current research includes small businesses use of technology for customer relationships and marketing communication.

Monica has a PhD in Marketing from the University of Maryland, College Park, an MBA from Penn State University, and a B.S. in Psychology from the College of William and Mary.

Hindupur (Rama) Ramakrishna 
Hindupur_Ramakrishna@Redlands.edu
(909) 748-8782

Hindupur Ramakrishna (Rama) is a Professor of information technology (IT) in the school of business at the University of Redlands. He joined the university in 2003. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University, India and a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University. He has taught in a variety of business schools in the US during the past 32 years. At the university, he is the founder and the director of the study-abroad program to India and also the coordinator of the MSIT program. His teaching and research interests are in organizational value of IT. Human resources (HR) management as it applies to IT, IT curriculum, business analytics including geographic information system (GIS) and spatial analysis (SA), and outsourcing/offshoring IT are some organizational value issues he is currently studying. His research articles have been published in the Interfaces, Journal of CIS, Omega, Information and Management, Human Performance, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Computer Personnel, and other journals.


Leonard P. Dominguez, Center Research Assistant 
Leonard_Dominguez@Redlands.edu
(909) 844-8024

Leonard Dominguez as research assistant supports the Center’s programs, activities, technology, and marketing. He is an MBA student in School of Business with emphasis in GIS. He has worked in companies in business development, customer relationship management, Media Advertising and public relations. He holds a B.A. in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing from Cal State San Bernardino.

Vanessa Siliezar, Administrative Specialist
Vanessa_Siliezar@Redlands.edu
(909) 748-8769

Vanessa Siliezar joined the University of Redlands in 2008. Since that time she has managed special projects and public events for centers in the School. She also had duties in the Academic Support Center of School of Business, which supports the research and teaching of the faculty in the School of Business.