Ricky P. Thibodeau
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- School: Hudson Valley Community College
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- Department: Marketing
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80 Vandenburgh Ave
Troy, NY - 12180 - Dates at Hudson Valley Community College: March 2015 - April 2020
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Professor Thibodeau is one of the best teachers in the business department. He is very caring professor. He understands that things will come up and he will work on that with you.
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I had Prof. Thibodeau for Fall 2019. He was top notch. He used his corporate past experience and would bring recent events into the classroom for discussion. He's also really there for his students and cares about them. I transferred to HVCC and he is by far my favorite professor. I actually changed my major to marketing because of this course. I would highly recommend it!
Biography
Hudson Valley Community College - Marketing
Department Chair, School of Business at Hudson Valley Community College
Education Management
Ricky P.
Thibodeau
Albany, New York Area
Proven leader with over 25 years of work experience in industry and academics. Currently the Department Chair, Faculty, School of Business and oversee the School of Business Advisement Center at HVCC. Also adjunct faculty at MSU. Past experience includes overseeing the operations for the Regional Center for Semiconductor and Nanotechnology Education center at HVCC. As the RPI Assistant Dean, directed the overall operations at RPI's Lally School of Management and Technology including enrollment management, career services, alumni affairs, student services, industry relations, and IT; over 10 years of localization / internationalization experience including several years working with partners in China, Japan, Korea and Europe. Dedicated, loyal, enthusiastic, hard worker, and always positive. Speaks fluent French.
Specialties: Academics - department chair (responsibilities include leadership, overseeing faculty, curriculum development, hiring faculty/staff, assessment & unit planning, budgets, board of advisors, teaching, oversee School of Business Advisement Center, academic advising). Also enrollment management; staff development; career services; alumni affairs; student services; international residencies; curriculum development; IT; revenue growth; competitive analysis; healthcare programs; overall budget responsibility.
Industry - global product / project management; global marketing; competitive analysis; business development; global industry partnerships; internationalization / localization; engineering; strategic planning; staff development; P&L.
Experience
Hudson Valley Community College
Faculty / Academic Advisor
Faculty - School of Business
> Teaching courses in Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Academic Advisor - School of Business Advisement Center
> Provide academic advising, program and curriculum support and assist students in evaluating academic abilities, establishing academic goals and objectives.
> Plan, develop, market and evaluate programs related to the discipline and career preparation.Hudson Valley Community College
Associate Director
Regional Center for Semiconductor and Nanotechnology Education (RCSNE)
Responsible for the overall administration of the Northeast Advanced Technological Education Center located at Hudson Valley Community College. NEATEC is an Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Regional Center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Long-term goal is to establish the Tech Valley ATE Center for Semiconductor and Nanotechnology Workforce Development, led by HVCC, whose mission is to bring together business, educators, and government in a collaborative effort to build a highly-skilled technical workforce to meet the burgeoning employment demands of these rapidly growing industries in the northeast region. Industry/college partnerships include GlobalFoundries; SEMATECH; GE Global Research Center and GE Energy; IBM; Applied Materials; Tokyo Electron Ltd; SUNY Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE); Penn State’s Nanotech center; RPI; UMass Amherst; RIT; FMCC, MVCC and several other colleges throughout the country.
Focus was on establishing a nanotechnology program at the college which will include the delivery, refinement, and maintenance of existing curricula; development of new curricula; training qualified college faculty; training qualified high school teachers; providing and securing laboratory equipment; instructor/student content; and developing a repository of training activities. Work closely with school districts to provide nanotechnology education to high school students; assist in the oversight of the design and delivery of customized distance learning initiatives; build a network of industry partners who will provide institutions the necessary industry expertise; facilitate the partnering of identified institutions with industry support; oversee the budget and track NSF grants as well as other grant-related program expenditures and income.Hudson Valley Community College
Department Chair
> School of Business - Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Departments
> Faculty - teach courses in Marketing and Entrepreneurship
> Oversee School of Business Advisement Center
> Committees include Strategic Planning Committee, National Executive Search Committee, Enrollment Committee, Strategic Technology Group CommitteeJ&J Consulting Services
Higher Education Professional / Healthcare Services / Globalization Consultant
Principal at J&J Consulting Services
2009 - Present
Education - enrollment management; career services; alumni affairs; student services; international residencies; staff development; IT; global industry partnerships.
Healthcare - work with partners in developing leadership programs geared toward senior level healthcare managers; business development activities include establishing affiliations with institutions focused on acute care, long-term care, and rehabilitation.
Industry - consult with software companies on global product management initiatives including internationalization and localization requirements; setting up global partnerships to establish offices and resellers overseas.
** Completed projects -
1. Academics - retained by a local college that established a new campus in NYC with a primary focus on their allied health program – specifically their nursing program. Business development activities included securing hospital affiliations to handle the nursing student’s clinical rotations. Helped launch a new Radiologic Technology program by developing business relationships with hospitals and healthcare clinics for their student clinical rotations.
2. Healthcare - coordinating the implementation of an executive leadership program geared toward senior healthcare professionals.
3. Project lead for a University on developing an executive program for a Chinese delegation. Included curriculum development, devising budget analysis, contracts, site visits to local/state/federal agencies and visits to fortune 500 companies, including all administrative details.
4. Partnering with a European start-up company in devising a business plan for the introduction of a project management tool for the IT and healthcare sectors.J&J Consulting Services
Globalization Consultant
While pursuing my MBA, I worked with several software companies getting their products engineered for entering markets overseas which required internationalization of code, building localization kits, establishing partnerships overseas, and global product market analysis to determine which markets to enter.
Missouri State University
Adjunct Faculty
Teaching an online course - Entrepreneurial Finance for Vineyard and Winery Business, utilizing Blackboard/D2L with live sessions through Zoom. Also experience with Saba/Centra. Member of curriculum committee and a board member of the National Science Foundation National Visiting Committee at MSU / VESTA (Viticulture Enology Science and Technology Alliance).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Assistant Dean
http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu
My responsibilities included directing the overall day-to-day operations of the school while serving as a key leader in the overall administration. This included developing and managing the budget, overseeing all graduate and undergraduate programs as well as student services, student advising, office of executive programs, MBA enrollment / admissions, career services, alumni relations, external relations including corporate / industry / academics, development of continuing education programs, develop community contacts to provide qualified MBA adjunct faculty and overseeing IT in support of the Dean.
Other initiatives included devising education programs in the technology, energy and healthcare industries and developing an Executive MBA international residency for the first time which required collaborating with varying facets of the global community. I was instrumental in working with GE Energy and NYSERDA in creating a comprehensive 16 week executive education program which included the development of the curriculum and logistics for senior managers from China Three Gorges Project Corporation. Lally also developed a Masters in Technology Commercialization & Entrepreneurship and created a center focused on Technological Entrepreneurship that helps enhance new generations of successful entrepreneurs through outreach programs, education and support systems.
While overseeing the MBA program, we made sure our students were well versed in the workings of the Office of Technology Commercialization that supports researchers in protecting intellectual property and bringing discoveries into the commercial marketplace. I participated with a committee on AACSB accreditation making sure that our institution met all the requirements for continued accreditation.
I was also part of the Dean’s executive leadership team that establishes the schools performance plan and budget for the President and her cabinet.
Education
Hudson Valley Community College
AAS
Computer Information Systems
Hudson Valley Community College
Faculty / Academic Advisor
Faculty - School of Business > Teaching courses in Marketing and Entrepreneurship Academic Advisor - School of Business Advisement Center > Provide academic advising, program and curriculum support and assist students in evaluating academic abilities, establishing academic goals and objectives. > Plan, develop, market and evaluate programs related to the discipline and career preparation.Hudson Valley Community College
Associate Director
Regional Center for Semiconductor and Nanotechnology Education (RCSNE) Responsible for the overall administration of the Northeast Advanced Technological Education Center located at Hudson Valley Community College. NEATEC is an Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Regional Center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Long-term goal is to establish the Tech Valley ATE Center for Semiconductor and Nanotechnology Workforce Development, led by HVCC, whose mission is to bring together business, educators, and government in a collaborative effort to build a highly-skilled technical workforce to meet the burgeoning employment demands of these rapidly growing industries in the northeast region. Industry/college partnerships include GlobalFoundries; SEMATECH; GE Global Research Center and GE Energy; IBM; Applied Materials; Tokyo Electron Ltd; SUNY Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE); Penn State’s Nanotech center; RPI; UMass Amherst; RIT; FMCC, MVCC and several other colleges throughout the country. Focus was on establishing a nanotechnology program at the college which will include the delivery, refinement, and maintenance of existing curricula; development of new curricula; training qualified college faculty; training qualified high school teachers; providing and securing laboratory equipment; instructor/student content; and developing a repository of training activities. Work closely with school districts to provide nanotechnology education to high school students; assist in the oversight of the design and delivery of customized distance learning initiatives; build a network of industry partners who will provide institutions the necessary industry expertise; facilitate the partnering of identified institutions with industry support; oversee the budget and track NSF grants as well as other grant-related program expenditures and income.Hudson Valley Community College
Department Chair
> School of Business - Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Departments > Faculty - teach courses in Marketing and Entrepreneurship > Oversee School of Business Advisement Center > Committees include Strategic Planning Committee, National Executive Search Committee, Enrollment Committee, Strategic Technology Group CommitteeRensselaer Polytechnic Institute - The Lally School of Management and Technology
MBA
State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
BS
Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Assistant Dean
http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu My responsibilities included directing the overall day-to-day operations of the school while serving as a key leader in the overall administration. This included developing and managing the budget, overseeing all graduate and undergraduate programs as well as student services, student advising, office of executive programs, MBA enrollment / admissions, career services, alumni relations, external relations including corporate / industry / academics, development of continuing education programs, develop community contacts to provide qualified MBA adjunct faculty and overseeing IT in support of the Dean. Other initiatives included devising education programs in the technology, energy and healthcare industries and developing an Executive MBA international residency for the first time which required collaborating with varying facets of the global community. I was instrumental in working with GE Energy and NYSERDA in creating a comprehensive 16 week executive education program which included the development of the curriculum and logistics for senior managers from China Three Gorges Project Corporation. Lally also developed a Masters in Technology Commercialization & Entrepreneurship and created a center focused on Technological Entrepreneurship that helps enhance new generations of successful entrepreneurs through outreach programs, education and support systems. While overseeing the MBA program, we made sure our students were well versed in the workings of the Office of Technology Commercialization that supports researchers in protecting intellectual property and bringing discoveries into the commercial marketplace. I participated with a committee on AACSB accreditation making sure that our institution met all the requirements for continued accreditation. I was also part of the Dean’s executive leadership team that establishes the schools performance plan and budget for the President and her cabinet.
