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Advisory Boards

External Advisory Board

  • Michelle Benvenga, Vice President, T. Rowe Price Investment Technologies, Inc.
  • Leeanna Bradley, IT Business Solutions Manager, AT&T Business
  • Shirley Collier, President and CEO, Optemax, LLC
  • Patricia Elizondo, Senior Vice President, Major Accounts Industry operations, North American Solutions Group, Xerox Corporation
  • Sheila Heinze, Board Chair; President and CEO, SM Consulting
  • Greg Hodges, Director of Human Resources, Northrop Grumman
  • Patricia Keeton, Executive Director of Workforce Development, Howard Community College
  • Ovetta Moore, CIO, Office of IT, MD Dept. of Business and Economic Development
  • Kathy Oliver, Assistant State Superintendent, Maryland State Department of Education
  • Darlene A. Owens, Global Diversity, Dell, Inc.
  • Jignasha Patel, Director, Global Diversity and Inclusion, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
  • Beth Perlman, Chief Information Officer, Constellation Energy Group
  • Gena Pirtle, Gender & Diversity Manager, US Field Operations, Cisco Networking Academy Program, Cisco Systems, Inc.
  • Carol Sholes, Vice President, Information Technology, The Baltimore Sun
  • Pat Snodgrass, Program Manager - FPLS Project, Lockheed Martin Information Systems
  • Donna Stevenson, CEO, Early Morning Software
  • Bill Stewart, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
  • Shelonda Stokes, President and CEO, Greibo Media
  • Brian Sullivan, Vice President, Sogeti USA LLC
  • Debra Tillett, President, BreakAway Games, Ltd.
  • Barbara Waugh, Director, University Relations, Co-founder Worldwide E-inclusion, Hewlett-Packard
  • Joan Worthington, Vice President of Technology, Davis Inotek Instruments
  • Marie Zwickert, Area Academy Mgr., Cisco Networking Academy Program, Cisco Systems

    External Board - Ex Officio Members

  • Claudia Morrell, Executive Directory, CWIT, UMBC
  • Julie Kirk, Lead Instructor/Entrepreneur in Residentce for ACTiVATE; CEO, Applied Creative Technologies
  • Lynn Zimmerman, Vice Provost, UMBC


    Internal Advisory Board

  • Tulay Adali, Professor, Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
  • Dan Bailey, Director, Imaging Research Center
  • Marie desJardins, Assistant Professor, Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
  • Lauren Kean, Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Advancement
  • Carole McCann, Director, Women's Studies Program (on leave, 2003-04)
  • Pat McDermott, Special Assistant to the Dean
  • Yvette Mozie-Ross, Director of Admissions
  • Janet Rutledge, Associate Dean, Graduate School
  • Andrew Sears, Chair, Information Systems
  • Anne Spence, Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
  • Jack Suess, CIO, Office of Information Technology
  • Niya Werts, Ph.D., Information Systems
  • Michele Wolff, Director, The Shriver Center