Resume

• 1985

  Spanish

  French

  Greek

  English

  Master's

  Computer Science

• 1973

  Ph.D.

  Romance Languages & Literatures

• 1967

  Bachelor's

  Mathematics

• Knowledge Management

  Data Analysis

  Data Mining

  Analysis

  Social Media

  Computer Science

  Project Management

  Team Building

  Teaching

  Research

  Palesis

  John

  Palesis

  Virginia Commonwealth University

  Randolph-Macon College

  Vitro Corporation

  Altria Client Services

  Focused primarily on expert systems and hypermedia methods for operational support

  maintenance

  and training for the US Navy; also developed an Intelligent Tutoring System prototype that employed a rule-based inference method to diagnose student errors.

  Vitro Corporation

  Virginia Commonwealth University

  Currently

  teaching a graduate course in Business Intelligence in the Information Systems Department while working as a Distance Learning Consultant in the School of Business Global Strategic Initiatives Department to develop a new online Business Foundations Certificate Program. Other courses I have taught at VCU include: Social Network Analysis

  Algorithm Analysis and Design (graduate courses in Computer Science)

  and Introduction to eBusiness Technologies (Information Systems undergraduate course taught both online and in-classroom). I have also worked as a Social Network Analysis Consultant at the VCU Medical Center collaborating with a team of doctors and psychologists to mine a wide variety of medical records and discover how inter-professional collaboration impacts healthcare outcomes.\n\nRelated publications/presentations include:\n- Boling

  P.

  Palesis

  J.

  DiazGranados

  D.

  Lockeman

  K.

  Dow

  A. W. (2015). Using Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Geriatric Interprofessional Virtual Teams. American Geriatrics Society 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting

  National Harbor

  Maryland.\n- DiazGranados

  D.

  Dow

  A. W.

  Perry

  S. J.

  & Palesis

  J. A. Understanding patient care as a multiteam system. In R. Ramos

  M. L. Shuffler

  & E. Salas (Eds.)

  Research on managing groups and teams. London

  UK: Emerald

  2014. \n- DiazGranados

  D.

  Appelbaum

  N.

  & Palesis

  J. (2014). A Social Network Analysis Assessment of Grant Collaborations. Presented at the XXXIV Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis

  St. Petersburg

  FLA. \n- Palesis

  J.

  DeShazo

  J.

  Ghosh

  P.

  Abdelzaher

  A.

  & Al Musawi

  A. (2013). Effects of Doctor Coordination on Pneumonia Patient Outcomes. Presentation at the XXXIII Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis

  Hamburg

  Germany. \nPalesis

  J. & Nugent

  J. (2012). Applying Social Network Analysis to Web-Based Student Interactions. Presentation at Educause

  Baltimore

  Maryland.

  Adjunct Faculty

  Richmond

  Virginia Area

  I played a leading role in developing IT-based organizational capability and business solutions in a variety of business areas including Research and Development

  Manufacturing

  and Sales. My accomplishments include the following: \n• development of text and data-mining capability for knowledge discovery in unstructured data (documents) and structured data (databases) \n• Expert System development for product design and manufacturing process control\n• Artificial Neural Networks modeling for pattern recognition and classification\n• implementation of Communities of Practice (CoP) technical and business infrastructure for collaboration and knowledge management \n• implementation of Virtual Classroom (synchronous eLearning) technical and business infrastructure for Sales Force training\n• Web-based training development\n\nMy multi-disciplinary education and experience have enabled me to drive creativity & innovation in my work.

  Altria Client Services

  Assistant Professor

  As a member of the Computer Science Department

  I taught Artificial Intelligence

  Expert Systems

  Computer Architecture

  Programming

  and other courses. (1986 to 1987)\n\nAs a member of the Foreign Languages Department

  I taught French Language

  Literature and Cinema

  Foreign Language Teaching Methods

  and other courses; also developed Computer-Based Training for foreign languages. (1980 - 1985)

  Randolph-Macon College