Supply Chain Business Analyst

Donald F. Costello

Room *** Avery Hall

University of Nebraska

Lincoln, NE 68508-0115

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Recent Activities

Teaching

Cryptography and Network Security, Artificial Intelligence. Software Engineering,

Special attention to evolving issues concerning Cybersecurity, AI, Ransomware, Malware, Identity Theft, Phishing, and related cyberwar matters.

Advanced Supply Chain

Supply Chain Defense

Robotics, Computer Performance Modeling,

Guest Lecturer at 40 institutions around the world including International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, University of Leeds, University of Notre Dame. University of Louvain, University of Gratz, Manhattan College, SUNY University at Binghamton, Air Force Academy, George Washington University, Colorado State University, University of Vienna, Manhattan College, Queens University

Applied Research

It Security Management in an era of expanding attacks.

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Management

Performance Modeling, Computational Science

Voice Driven Systems

Round off Error on HPC.

ERP Systems.

Solar Energy Software University of Graz

Honors.

Distinguished Lecturer ACM, Fellow British Computer Society, Arista, Scholarship La Salle Academy, Scholarship Manhattan College, University of Notre Dame, University of Nebraska, Pi Mu Epsilon, Sigma Xi, and many academic lecturing awards

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Related Positions and Consultancies

Business Work Experience

USAF Intelligence Officer

Airborne Telecommunications Officer

President Costello & Associates

President Expert Medical Systems

President Expert Financial Systems

Missouri Valley Planning Information Center

University Work Experience

Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska – 2000- 2016

Senior Management Consultant and Scholar - NCITE Project

Visiting Lecturer University of Notre Dame - 2011

Research Scholar International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis 2000- 2018

Full Member of the Graduate College since 1985

Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin 1975

Assistant Professor Colorado State University 1978t

* Management Consultant - Integrated Systems- Thyson Elevator

* Project Leader - SAP Field Team (SM, PS, SD)

* E-Commerce Testing and Capacity Planning

* Data Base Manager -

* * Project Manager - Banking

* Project Manager - Insurance

* Project Consultant - Manufacturing

* Project Consultant- Education

* IT Consultant - United Nations – World Bank

Have consulted on Analytic aspects of IT with over one hundred organizations throughout the world.

Selected Courses Taught

IT Network Security

Cryptography

Cybersecurity Awareness

Computer Performance Modeling

Computer Organization

Software Engineering

Robotics For Teachers

Steganography

Numerical Analysis

Data Base Management

Computer Simulation and Modeling

Computing and Statistics

Systems Design and Analysis

Compiler Construction

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Software Testing & Quality Control

Performance Management and Capacity Planning

Client-Server and ERP systems

Software Engineering Courses – Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, C++, FORTRAN, APL, HTML, XML

Decision Theory

Mathematical Statistics

Mathematics of Finance

Computational Intelligence

Intellectual Property Management

Business Systems Modeling –

MIS

E-Learning Standards (Summer of 2002) Educational Psychology Department

I have thirty papers and presentations that I have published.

Work Experience[1]

1980 Present Owner: Costello & Associates

An International Management Consulting firm with 150 clients served throughout the world. Have worked as advisor, lead and player-coach in major IT initiatives.

1963 1987– with breaks Administrator/Associate Professor/Senior Management Consultant/ Senior Lecturer/ Research Associate Professor: In administrative role at the University of Nebraska. I was responsible for line and staff functions delivering information processing services to a multi-campus university. At the same time, I designed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the departments of Computer Science, Statistics and Management Science.

Big data design and Data Collection

Network Security Courses and Consulting

2013 – Present Founder and Director Nebraska Hall of Computing

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Representative Project Experience

IT Security Consultant. University of Nebraska Guest Lecturer Security Awareness Month October 2018, 2021, and 2022

IBM ERP Implementation PAC Worldwide Redmond WA 2018

Senior management Consultant – Review and assess technical aspects of CLASS Project, a $15M Department of Education sponsored project. 2014

Senior management Consultant - Contribute to the Research and development of e-Learning plans for universities.

Team Lead and Senior Management Consultant of corporate-wide systems project for international Fortune 500 organization seeking to meet Y2K requirements through a RAD conversion to SAP. Served in staff position, advising corporate executives while heading up Service Management (SM), Project Systems (PS) and Sales and Distribution (SD), Testing and Training teams. Coordinated testing in advanced manufacturing facility. Advised firm on Y2K potential problems and solutions.

Project Manager of corporate web page design for C&A clients including design of data capture through varied databases and other client specific IT systems. Success built on twenty-five plus years working with traditional database-oriented systems requiring quick response and detailed analysis.

Project Manager: Pioneer Project for regional banking establishment attempting to update service bureau software to meet requirements for two hundred banks in their client base.

Senior Management Consultant and Project Manager for Insurance Company attempting to rapidly establish a Risk Retention Group so as to meet demands placed by client base. Established infrastructure in 151 days.

Senior Management Consultant for German Systems Project involving planning, development of small community’s south of Leipzig concerned with providing employment opportunities in the IT world.

Director of IT Organization for three large US universities involving the management of two hundred staff and a budget more than $15,000,000.

Interviewer Training University of Michigan Survey Research Center

Recent papers and Presentations

Worked with PAC a manufacturing firm in Belleview WA on Systems acquisition and Development 2006 to 2019 and continuing.

Taught Performance Modeling course and began work on Modeling Prairie Fire, a newly acquired advanced parallel processor machine at the University of Nebraska

Consult on Performance Modeling with campus –wide Computing Environment

Revised Approach to Software Engineering Course (Advanced C++ and Java) with more emphasis on ADT’s, STL’s, Java Libraries and testing

Led switch to Java as basic introductory course (CS01) with four TA’s and two other faculty members

Planned, Designed, and taught combined undergraduate/graduate course for Education, Management and Computer Science students entitled “Standards, Technology and SCORM.” 2002

Designed new Course in Software Performance Measurement

Developed Basic principals of Digital Signatures lecture for Local Industry

Consultant on the introduction of security courses into basic computing curriculum.

Invited faculty consultant to Microsoft, Redmond Washington on .Net futures.

Consultant to evaluation project of $500,000 Office of Education grant on Distance Learning.

Work in the study, selection and design and implementation of ERP systems with particular emphasis on SAP. (1997-2000)

I worked with e-commerce start-ups to help design their approaches to testing in a fast start-up mode of operation. (1999-2000)

Designed training for Distance Learning Project in Elevator and Home delivery systems.

Named a Distinguished Lecturer of the ACM.

Plan directed and led the creation of the first integrated Library/City/Industry Web site managed by a City Library in the US in Papillion Nebraska. In addition to the technical issues, the plan included getting the library to assume control of the responsibility for the Web site and getting the architects for the new library to include the existence of citizen access site in that design. Also recruited and established a citizen advisory committee to oversee the operation. This activity appeared in a number of papers

Worked with the City of Visselhovede in Germany to establish a site like Papillion but concentrating more on the employment problem. See Alternativer Landschaftsplan fur eine kliene attraktive Stadt in der Inforationsgesellschaft – Beispiel Visselhovede. UFZ Bericht 13/1997 by

Worked with the Leipzig Sud commission to establish a long rage plan for this depressed are after it had become a part of the new Germany. See Entwicklungsstrategien in der Informationsgesellschaft, Springer 2001 My chapter is entitled An Advanced Business Park.

Another set of work concentrated on how to improve the unemployment situation in Germany by concentrating on the opportunities possible for building on or leapfrogging other IT developments in small lab clusters. Innovationsforderung zur Schaffung von Arbeitsplatze – Ergebinisse aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, Dokumentation einer Fachtagung der Europaischen Kommission, des Bundeministeriums fur Arbeit und Sozialordung und des Instituts fur Arbeitsmark – und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Bundesansanstalt fur Arbeit. By Costello, D.F., W.D. Grossman (1997)

I lectured in Berlin for an EU meeting on these matters

I am also a referenced authority in Modeling Sustainable Regional Development in the European Information Society (MOSES) submitted August 2000.

Education

BS Mathematics, Manhattan College New York,

MS Mathematics, University of Notre Dame

Ph. D Work Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska

Professional and Community Associations (Past/Present)

Association for Computing Machinery: Faculty Advisor, and International Lecturer. Presently Distinguished Lecturer

British Computer Society Fellow Member since 1983; Fellow since 1992.

Association of Educational Data Systems: National Board of Directors; President of the Nebraska Chapter.

American Association for Information Systems: Institutional Representative

CAUSE: Institutional Representative, National Nominating Committee.

EDP Auditors Association

Certified Systems Tester

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Sigma XI National Scholastic Honorary Society: Full Member, 1982.

Nebraska Academy of Sciences

Society of University Patent Administrators: Chairman Sub-committee of Computer Programs.

National Systems Programmers Association

Boy Scouts of America, 1977-1987.

House of Hope, Inc: Board of Directors and Treasurer. 1985-1990

CRC Home and School Association: Officer, Board of Directors, 1967-1970 1980-1981.

Certified Software Test Engineer; 1990

Matt Talbot Kitchen – Founder, Board of Directors 1991-1994; Board of Directors – 2001- 2006

SIGNIFICANT CONSULTING CLIENTS

Square D Company, Lincoln, NE

TriCarbon Corporation, Crete, NE

United Nations Development Program, New York, NY Sophia Machine Tool Institute

Dover Elevator, Inc., Memphis, TN

Sound Elevator, Inc., Kirkland, WA

O’Keefe Elevator Inc., Omaha, NE

PAC International, Redmond WA

Thyssen Elevator, USA

Cushman Motors Inc. Lincoln, NE

Greater Colombo Economic Commission, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Gallup Organization, Princeton NJ

Runzá Drive Inns of America, Lincoln, NE

Nielsen Marketing Research, Lincoln, NE

American Charter Federal Saving & Loan Association, Lincoln, NE

City of Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

City of Ogallala, Ogallala, NE

Duke University, Durham, NC

Lincoln Electric System, Lincoln, NE

Nebraska Department of Education, Lincoln, NE

The Clark Enersen Partners, Lincoln, NE

Union Insurance Company, Lincoln, NE

U.S. Civil Service Commission, St. Louis, MO

University of Nebraska Foundation, Lincoln, NE

Charter Risk Retention Group Insurance Company, Omaha, NE

Nebraska State College System, Lincoln, NE

National Bank of Commerce/Computer Services Corp., Lincoln, NE

Erickson & Sederstrom P.C., Lincoln/Omaha, NE

World Bank, Washington, DC

Douglas County Bank and Trust, Omaha, NE

Berkley Corporation, New York, NY

First Greatwest Corporation, Omaha, NE

Nebraska Guaranty Fund, Lincoln, NE

Nebraska Hospital Association, Lincoln, NE

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

NETV – Class Project – Senior Management Consultant

NCITE – Scholar

Duke University North Carolina

Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, MI

Nebraska Department of Banking, Lincoln, NE

Nebraska Department of Health, Lincoln, NE

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