Turning Scientists and Technologists into Managers - Dr. Andrés G. Fortino, Sep 10, 2003
Summary:
There comes a time in every technical professional's career when they have to decide to go into management, and how to get acquire the skills and knowledge to be effective and successful in their new role. Training helps but education is best. Deep transformational experiences with competency-building results occur most often in educational program rather than in training sessions. Why is the creation of science and technology managers imperative for society to derive the most benefit from good science and technology? What is the best route for acquiring these skills? What are the barriers for scientists and technologies that keeps them from acquiring these effectively and efficiently?
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Dr. Fortino is an industry leader, an engineer by profession, an educator and an executive. He is also a passionate teacher. Currently he serves as Associate Dean for Academic Development at the George Mason University School of Management. He has a doctorate in electrical engineering and has been practicing the application of information technology to solve business problems for the past thirty years. He is an Associate Professor of MIS at George Mason University. He has taught electrical engineering at Temple University and Cooper Union in New York. Most recently, he was a guest faculty at the executive MBA program at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile. He has lectured on technology extensively world-wide. He has led over 180 high technology seminars for Learning Tree International over a period of seventeen years, reaching over 2,600 executives and engineers in the United States, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Holland, Sweden, England and Canada and Chile. He has published seven books, the last three for McGraw Hill on computer networks. Before joining Mason in 1998 he was as VP of Finance and the Chief Information officer of a medium size nonprofit organization for over five years. He worked for IBM Corporation in their Advanced Technology Division where his work in semiconductor research yielded several papers and two patents. As Associate Dean, Dr. Fortino is primarily responsible for creating and developing new and cutting edge educational programs. He is currently developing a Masters in Bioscience Management program which is entering its first year of operation using a blended model of distance education. Formerly he developed and directed the Masters in Technology Management program (1999-2003) and also directed Mason's MBA program (2000-2003). He conducts seminars and briefings for executives on the effective application of IT. In 2002 he was a founding member of the Technology Management Education Association and serves as its current president. He has Professional Engineering license. He enjoys travel and is an avid photographer.
Dr. Fortino received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the City College of New York and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the City University of New York.
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