Dr. David W. Letcher

Profesor of Information Systems Management

My Professional Activities during 2002

  1. Invited to be club advisor for TCNJ's MIS Society, a student-run club consisting of students majoring primarily in information systems management. Other interested persons are welcome too!
  2. Presented a three-hour talk on E-Government to twelve elected county officials at the N.J. State House on January 18th. This talk, entitled "E-Government: Concepts and Findings", was one of five seminars sponsored by the New Jersey Association of Counties and The College of New Jersey. Two other speakers, Mr. Robert Yokavonus of the Unisys Corporation, and Mr. Marc Pfeiffer, Deputy Director, Community Affairs of the State of New Jersey, also gave presentations, that day, on E-Government.
  3. Mentoring an Independent Study Student learning ABAP/4 a computer programming language used to develop applications in SAP R/3. SAP R/3 is an example of Enterprise Resource Planning Software
  4. Taught a Collegebound class on February 23rd how to create an Access database and a visual basic 6.0 application that allows the user to retrieve records from the database. The Access database consisted of one table containing records of animals in a zoo. Each animal was described in fields such as animal name, type, date of birth, and disposition. A photograph of each animal was included too. Collegebound is a program that enables high school students to come to a college environment and get a taste of college life and learning.
  5. Arranged for a speaker from IBM, Inc. to talk to our MIS Society meeting of Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2002. The speaker presented a multimedia-supported talk on IBM's commitment to Linus.
  6. Arranged for a speaker from TCNJ's IT department to talk to our MIS Society meeting of Wednesday, March 27, 2002. The speaker talked about our campus computer network, and current and future network designs
  7. Arranged for a speaker from Bristol-Myers Squibb to talk to our MIS Society meeting of Tuesday, April 23, 2002. Mr. Jaime Pinto talked about Enterprise Resource Planning with focus on SAP R/3.
  8. Attended and Participated in the Third Annual TCNJ Instructional Technology Workshop held on May 14, 2002 here on the campus of The College of New Jersey.
  9. Attended and Actively Participated in the 2002 SAP University Alliance Faculty Workshop at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia from Sunday, June 2 through Friday, June 7, 2002. This workshop was sponsored by SAP Canada and included a total of nine (9) tracks. I completed a track entitled, "Reporting in SAP" which covered LO930, Logistics Information Systems Reporting, CA705 Basics of the Report Painter/Report Writer, and AC615 Executive Information System I - Reporting. The other eight (8) tracks were: Financial Accounting, Controlling, Human Resource Planning, Production Planning, Accelerated SAP and CATT, Financial Accounting, Controlling, and Systems Administration.
  10. Attended the 2002 conference of the International Business Schools Computer Association in Savannah, Georgia from July 14 to July 17, 2002. I and my wife presented a paper dealing with how schools of business can reach out to help solve technology problems inherent to non-profit agencies
  11. Attended a seminar entitled, "Application Service Providers and the NonProfit Sector" sponsored by Druker, Rahl & Fein, a member of the Mercadien Group. This seminar was held on September, 19, 2002.

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