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T. Grandon Gill
T.
Grandon Gill is an Associate Professor at University of South Florida, which he
joined in 2001. Previously, he taught at Florida Atlantic University. His
educational background includes three degrees from Harvard University: an
undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics (cum laude) from Harvard College, a
Masters of Business Administration (high distinction) from Harvard Business
School and a Doctor of Business Administration in the Management of Information
Systems, also from Harvard Business School. His teaching areas have included
programming, management of information systems, database design, the Internet
and case method research. Dr.
Gill’s research interests include artificial intelligence, the implementation
of complex information systems and IS education. He has many scholarly
publications to his credit, including two articles in MIS Quarterly, the most prestigious journal in the information
systems field. His work is also referred to in several MIS textbooks. He has
written well over a dozen business case studies, published by Harvard Business
School and Prentice Hall, and has authored a number of book chapters. He also
designed and created the graphics for 32 laminated software guides, the most
recent of which were published by Macmillan Computer Publishing in 1998. He
maintains an active consulting practice in the IT area, and has served as an
expert witness in computer-related litigation. He has written a textbook for
introductory C++ (Introduction to Programming Using Visual C++ .NET) and is
currently developing other texts in this area. Prior
to entering academia, Dr. Gill had extensive experience in management and
business. During the late 1970s, he was a nuclear-trained submarine officer,
serving on the USS Lafayette (SSBN 616), the USS Shark (SSN 591) and the USS Sam
Rayburn. Subsequent to his receiving his MBA, in 1982, he served as president of
SnCorp, Inc., an agricultural products and research firm located in Dallas,
Texas. In the mid-1980s, he was the Vice President of Technical Services for
Agribusiness Associates, a consulting firm located in Wellesley Hills, MA, that
specialized in providing strategic consulting services to clients involved in
the food and fiber industries. Among his clients included CocaCola USA, Standard
Brands, Farmland (the nation’s largest farm cooperative), Monsanto, Sears
World Trade and numerous major participants in the restaurant industry. His
specialty consulting area during that period was the development of computer
models for complex business situations. Dr. Gill has extensive experience in developing complex computer software, having programmed commercial applications in FORTRAN, BASIC, RPG, PL/1, 8086 Assembler and C/C++. Since he completed his doctorate, some of his more interesting programming projects included developing: 1) The College Expert: software that helped students choose what college to go to (marketed by Orchard House, Inc.), 2) McMap: a geographic information system that aided McDonald’s (Latin American Division) in locating new restaurants in Mexico, 3) PC Assembler-Simulator (PCAS): an MS Windows-based simulator that displayed the inner functioning of Intel’s 8086 processor chip, used for educational purposes and 4) FlowC, a windows-based flowcharting package that generates C++ code. |
