Management High School

CRAIG LASSEIGNE

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CAREER SUMMARY

Skilled Academic Leader and Educator with proven expertise in leading training, professional services, technical support, and engineering organizations. Has a passion for teaching and managing people, projects, and processes within technical/professional environments such as R&D, Professional Services, Technical Support, Training, and Documentation. Recognized for innovativeness, “can-do” positive attitude, and management style. Attained a full circle of experience in a variety of management and staff positions. Held U.S. government secret clearance. Talents include:

• Teaching & education administration

• Strong technical and management breadth

• Direct customer & third party relationships

• Executive communication & interpersonal skills

• Proven success in turnaround situations

• P&L responsibility

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT, Dallas, Texas 8/2015 – Present Part-Time Professor

Develop and teach technology and business courses in the Early College High School program at Brookhaven College; a dual-credit program with high school students taking high school and college courses. KAPLAN COLLEGE, Arlington, Texas 2/2015 – 10/2015

Director of Education

Support diploma and undergraduate students seeking an education that leads to a degree and ultimately career success, and the faculty and others joining in that pursuit. Responsible for all programs at the Arlington campus including Medical Assistant, Medical Billing & Coding, and Dental Assistant diploma programs; and Criminal Justice and Computer Networking Technology associate degree programs. Also, responsible for academic compliance.

DEVRY EDUCATION GROUP, Chicago, Illinois & Irving, Texas 2002 – 2014 Dean, Business Programs; DFW Metro, 2007 – Present Support undergraduate and graduate business students seeking an education that leads to a degree and ultimately career success, and the faculty and others joining in that pursuit. Responsible for all North Texas campuses. Lead Business bachelor degree programs, and the Keller Graduate School of Management MBA, Project Management, Accounting & Financial Management, and Human Resource Management masters degree programs. Managed other degree programs such as health information technology and web graphic design. Oversee the Study Abroad and Internship programs.

• Developed a data-reporting model that significantly improved the quality and intelligence of information necessary to manage Academics. Model helped other areas improve their decision-making capabilities.

• Launched new degree programs: Network Systems Administration and Web Graphic Design.

• Key participant in DeVry University’s ACBSP application and study. Received ACBSP accreditation in 2012 for the College of Business & Management and the Accounting programs.

• Delivered an executive speaker series for students. Executives from Frito-Lay, Mary Kay, and other companies spoke. For instance, Mark Cuban talked with students about being an entrepreneur.

• Authored approved detailed program documents and other materials to give students more information about their degree programs, and help with optional course choices.

• Promoted pilot initiatives such has 8-week course formats and laptop-for-students programs.

• Held successful business programs reviews (April 2007), worked on initiatives with local ISDs, and improved the quality of data reporting for Academics.

• Managed the computer and networking degree programs until a new Dean was hired (6 months).

• Promoted a DeVry / Keller / Becker alignment to better position these DeVry schools for accounting students.

• Received a TEACH Recognition Award for Accountability and Integrity for Spring 2013. CRAIG LASSEIGNE Page 2 of 2

Associate Professor (Chicago, IL Campus), 2002 – 2006 Developed and taught a fulltime load of courses in technology and management: computer courses, UNIX course, telephony courses, networking courses, management courses, web development courses, and the Senior Project course; including adjunct teaching at DeVry‘s Keller Graduate School of Management. Chair, NSA & NCM Programs (rotating position), 2003 – 2004 Managed Dean tasks related to student advising, curriculum design and management, faculty staffing and review, and course scheduling for the Network Systems Administration (NSA) and the Network & Communications Management (NCM) degree programs.

• Oversaw/taught in a dual-credit program aligned with Chicago Public Schools offering high school students an associate degree program, called DeVry Advantage Academy, during their high school education.

• Restructured the networking sequence of courses to remove duplication and cover more content. KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Oak Brook, Illinois 1998 – 2006 Faculty

Developed/taught courses such as Groupware & Internet Technologies (TM588), Strategic Management of Technology (TM583), and Database Concepts (IS582). LAKEVIEW TECHNOLOGY, INC., Oak Brook, Illinois 1998 – 2001 A worldwide leader in availability management software for IBM AS/400® computers with its MIMIX® solutions suite, multi-platform data movement and transformation products, and clustering functionality. Manager, Solution Development Group

Led the design and development of service offerings, and delivery of services, for Lakeview’s products through direct and partner channels consulting services, customer and partner training, and partner certifications.

• Implemented a strong infrastructure for services delivery that included marketing materials, documented processes, certification programs, and all supporting collateral.

• Formalized the customer and partner training previously offered free. New training model, launched in July 1999, resulted in first year revenue of $230K and $332K in 2000. DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, KELLSTADT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Chicago, Illinois 1992 – 2000 Adjunct Professor, MBA and certificate programs

Developed and taught courses in the areas of quality, technology, innovation, leadership, and change. EDUCATION & HONORS

DBA (ABD status), Information Systems Management, Northcentral University (regionally accredited) Research Interests: (1) the history of technologies, (2) the symbiotic construction of ideas, (3) education credentialing and occupational alignments, (4) business and competitive intelligence through data analytics. MBA, Operations Management, DePaul University; Chicago, Illinois B.S., Electronic Engineering Technology, University of Houston; Houston, Texas Honor Societies: Tau Alpha Pi (technology), Sigma Beta Delta (business), Delta Mu Delta (business; International), and the Golden Key International Honour Society. TECHNICAL SKILLS

UNIX/Linux, Windows 3.1 – Windows8, Windows NT – Server 2008, OS/400, client/server technologies, cloud computing/services, VMware, MS Office 95 – 365, eCollege, Blackboard, MS Visual Studio, MS Project, VB, VBA, C, Java, SQL, Oracle, Discoverer Viewer Plus, Photoshop, Visio, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, PageMaker, Publisher, Acrobat, Cognos, Report Studio, and Internet tools (HTML, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, FTP, etc.) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Guest speaker at numerous company executive or professional organization gatherings on topics such as new product development (Japan, America, and Europe perspectives), managing technology and innovation, competitive intelligence, and quality business practices

• Created and copyrighted Technology Foundation and the Industry Evolution Process, to help businesses

• Inducted into Who's Who in America in 1997.

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