Resume

• 2009

  University of Missouri

  Lincoln Financial Group

  The University of South Dakota

  Zions Bancorporation

  University of Nebraska at Omaha

  Clearfield

  UT

  Provide financial consulting to Project and Program Management.\nConduct Estimate at Completion (EAC) valuations on commercial aircraft projects.\nProvide financial comparison analyses to upper management for use in bid decisions and logistical planning.

  Program Analyst

  Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK)

  Omaha

  Assistant Professor of Management

  University of Nebraska at Omaha

  Shareholder Value Added (aka EVA) analysis

  especially in the area of Non-Interest Income. Derivation

  validation and analysis of current and future models to be used in driving compensation plans and business strategy.

  Financial Analyst

  Greater Salt Lake City Area

  Zions Bancorporation

  Columbia

  MO

  Teach business strategy capstone course and conduct research in the areas of corporate wrongdoing and technological innovation.

  PhD Candidate

  University of Missouri

  Vermillion

  SD

  I teach our Business Strategy Capstone course to undergraduate and graduate students using the latest technology and innovative techniques intended to engage students and provide opportunities to apply materials as soon as they are exposed to them. I also founded the Beacom Consulting Group as a mechanism to provide the best students at USD real strategic consulting opportunities to local and regional businesses and non-profits.

  Assistant Professor of Strategic Management

  The University of South Dakota

  Create

  interpret

  and distribute reports to middle and upper management. Provide ad hoc data requests. Calculate pricing amendments and life table expansions for Institutional Pension dept. Design and create annuitization program

  in Visual Basic

  for SPIA dept. Provide technical and actuarial support to Death Claims

  Annuity Pricing

  Pension

  Agent Compensation

  and other departments.

  Actuarial Analyst

  Fort Wayne

  Indiana Area

  Lincoln Financial Group

  Strategic Management Society

  Academy of Management

  Rotary International

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Business Administration and Management

  Strategic Management

  University of Missouri-Columbia

  College of Business

• 2006

  MBA

  Intramural soccer

  The Bottom Line men's a capella group

  Finance club

  Corporate and Business Strategy

  Business Policy and Strategy

  Organizational Behavior

  Financial Literacy

  Strategic Management

  Strategic Managment

• 1998

  Spanish

  Statistics

  Actuarial Science

  Activities:\nIntramural Soccer and basketball\n\nHonors:\nMu Sigma Rho Honors Society\nDean's List\nUniversity Scholarship\n\nGPA: 3.77 on 4.0 scale\n\nSOA Exams: 1/P

  2/FM

  3/M

  Brigham Young University

• The Beacom Consulting Group (BCG) was created to give students interested in management consulting a chance to experience it first-hand.\n\nEach semester

  BCG selects a number of requests from regional businesses and non-profit organizations to perform various consulting tasks. Contributing to the positive impact that the Beacom School of Business has on the business community

  BCG delivers valuable strategic advice to these groups pro-bono.

  The University of South Dakota

  GMAT

  Business Strategy

  VBA

  Strategy

  Statistics

  Teaching

  Data Analysis

  Microsoft Excel

  Management

  Research

  SAS

  Strategic Planning

  Finance

  Statistical Modeling

  Program Management

  Access

  The Ethical Implications of Using Genetic Information in Personnel Selection

  Biology

  during the last decade in particular

  is making substantial headway into our social theories of business and behavior. While the social sciences rush to keep up with the advancement of knowledge

  we highlight the need for an ethics discussion to also keep pace. While the implications to theory are important

  our focus is on how new knowledge has the capacity to alter the formulation and practice of business policy

  which we believe is potentially profound (Goodenough & Tucker

  2010; Rothenberg & Wang

  2006). Furthermore

  the ethicality of a set of issues can depend heavily on one’s perspective

  and differing views may not always be compatible. With this in mind

  we discuss the ways in which one area of emerging biological knowledge—behavioral genetics—invites a rethinking of the nuances of four longstanding topic areas of business ethics surrounding personnel selection; and we do so from two perspectives—that of the employer and of the job seeker. The four ethical topics are (1) the static (mostly) nature of genetic information that is out of an individual’s control

  (2) faking and lying during selection processes

  (3) privacy

  and (4) stigmatization of minority groups.

  The Ethical Implications of Using Genetic Information in Personnel Selection

  Chris Robert

  Purpose\nWe propose that constant exposure to advances in technology has resulted in an implicit association between technology and success that has conditioned decision makers to be overly optimistic about the potential for technology to drive successful outcomes. Three studies examine this phenomenon and explore the boundaries of this “technology effect.”\nDesign/Methodology/Approach\nIn Study 1

  participants (N = 147) made simulated investment decisions where the information about technology was systematically varied. In Study 2 (N = 143)

  participants made decisions in a resource dilemma where technology was implicated in determining the amount of a resource available for harvest. Study 3 (N = 53 and N = 60) used two implicit association tests to examine the assumption that people associate technology with success.\nFindings\nResults supported our assumption about an implicit association between technology and success

  as well as a “technology effect” bias in decision making. Signals of high performance trigger the effect

  and the effect is more likely when the technology invoked is unfamiliar.\nImplications\nExcessive optimism that technology will result in success can have negative consequences. Individual investment decisions

  organizational decisions to invest in R&D

  and societal decisions to explore energy and climate change solutions might all be impacted by biased beliefs about the promise of technology.\nOriginality/Value\nWe are the first to systematically examine the optimistic bias in the technology effect

  its scope

  and boundaries. This research raises decision makers’ awareness and initiates research examining how the abstract notion of technology can influence perceptions of technological advances.

  The Technology Effect: How Perceptions of Technology Drive Excessive Optimism

  The Beacom Consulting Group is the premier provider of bro-bono consulting services in the state and region. Each semester

  BCG selects a number of requests from local and regional businesses and non-profits to perform various consulting tasks. BCG’s threefold mission is to (1) engage students of the Beacom School in hands-on business projects that will make them more effective business professionals

  (2) enhance the impact of the Beacom School of Business on the community

  and (3) deliver valuable strategic advice to local and regional small businesses and non-profits.

  CBA Case Study Competition

  Students are placed in the role of a consulting firm and asked to analyze and develop recommendations to a complex business problem.\n\nWorking under pressure

  student teams have one week in each round of the competition to digest a complex business situation

  develop a creative and practical solution

  and build a presentation that incorporates their analyses and recommendations.

  Brent B.

  Clark

  Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK)