Kevin R. Parker, Ph.D.

 

Service:

Professional & Editorial Editor of Journal of Information Technology Education. Member of the Editorial Board of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge and Management. Information Technology Management Track Chair for the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) 2007 Annual Meeting. International-Linkage Member of Curtin University of Technology's Tier 1 University Research Centre - Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence (DEBII). Reviewer for IEEE’s Transactions on Software Engineering, International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, International Journal of Electronic Commerce and Business Media, Communications of the ACM, Electronic Markets, and Mountain Plains Journal. Reviewed papers for the AMCIS 2002 Intelligent Agents Track, the AMCIS 2003 Education Track, ICIS 2001, the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Informing Science + IT Education Joint Conferences, and the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS). Reviewed texts for D.C.Heath and Company, West Publishing Company, McGraw-Hill, Course Technology, Addison-Wesley, Prentice-Hall, and Wiley. Served as an external peer reviewer for the Purdue University College of Technology Promotion Committee.   Served as an outside evaluator for the University of New Mexico-Gallup Rank and Tenure Committee. Served as an external peer reviewer for the University of Nevada, Reno College of Business Administration Promotion and Tenure Committee.  Served as external referee for 2007 Curtin University of Technology Promotion Committee. Program Committee member of the First Online Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MSR'05). Program Committee member of the InSITE (Informing Science + IT Education) 2004 conference. College & University Chair of Student Recruitment Committee Chair of the Faculty Support Committee Member of Athletic Advisory Board Member of the Campus Planning Council Coordinator for United Way for ISU College of Business (2000-2006). Former Member of the Web Course Incentive Group (Technology Mediated Instruction Incentive) at Idaho State University. Served as a member of the recruiting and interview team for new assistant professors and instructors at both Idaho State University (1999, 2000, 2004) and Saint Louis University (1996, 1996, 1997, 1998). Advised students in course selection as well as career decisions. Established and acted as Faculty Advisor for the MIS Club student group at Saint Louis University for three years. Served as a member of the Saint Louis University Computer Science Advisory Committee which analyzed the impact of the consolidation of multiple campuses and its impact on the respective computer based programs. Dissertation & Thesis Committees K.L. Chin School of Information Systems Curtin University of Technology Dissertation Title: An Ontology-based Approach to the Organization of IT Educational Knowledge and an Application to IS Curriculum Design Associate Supervisor Roy Morien School of Information Systems Curtin University of Technology Dissertation Title: Agile System Development: Theory and Practice Associate Supervisor Kit Na Goh GIS Training and Research Center Idaho State University Thesis Title: Developing A Geo-Spatial Search Tool Using A Relational Database Implementation of the Geo FGDC CSDGM Model Committee Member