Donald F. Costello
Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering
Department Supply Chain Management and Analytics
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68508-0115
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Recent Activities
Teaching
Computer Science and Engineering
Software Engineering, Cryptography, Network Security, Computational Intelligence, Computer Performance Modeling.
Supply Chain Management and Analytics
Advanced Supply Chain
Business Analytics
Applied Research
ERP Systems
Role of Decision Theory in Responding to a Supply Chain Attack Performance Modeling, Computational Science
IT Security Management in an era of expanding attacks. Computational Intelligence, Computer Science and Management Honors.
Distinguished Lecturer ACM, Fellow British Computer Society, Arista, Scholarship La Salle Academy, Manhattan College, University of Notre Dame, University of Nebraska, Pi Mu Epsilon, Sigma Xi, and many academic lecturing awards. Related Positions and Consultancies
Business Work Experience
USAF Intelligence Officer Major USAF (Retired)
Airborne Telecommunications Officer
President Costello & Associates
President Expert Medical Systems
University Work Experience
Lecturer Supply Chain and Analytics Department
College of Business Administration University of Nebraska Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska – 2000- 2020 Senior Management Consultant and Scholar - NCITE Project Visiting Lecturer University of Notre Dame - 2011
Research Scholar International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis 2000- 2018
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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 150 organizations throughout the world.
Selected Courses Taught
• Software Engineering
• IT Network Security
• Computer Performance
• Computer Organization
• Business Analytics
• Introduction to Supply Chain Theory and Practice
• Software Testing
• Software Engineering
• Cryptography
• Data Base Management
• Computer Simulation and Modeling
• Systems Design and Analysis
• Computational Intelligence
• Performance Management and Capacity Planning
• Software Engineering Courses – Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, C++, FORTRAN, APL, HTML, XML
• Business Systems Modeling
• MIS
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.
2001- Present Administrator/Associate Professor/Senior Management Consultant/ Senior Lecturer/
Research Associate Professor: In administrative
role at the University of Nebraska. I was
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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
2018 – Present
Representative Project Experience
IT Security Consultant. University of Nebraska Guest Lecturer Security Awareness Month October 2018
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 set up a Risk Retention Group in a brief time frame to meet demands placed by client base. Established infrastructure in 151 days.
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Senior Management Consultant for German Systems Project involving planning and development of small community lying South of Leipzig concerned with providing employment opportunities in the IT world. Education
BS Mathematics, Manhattan College New York,
MS Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
Ph. D Work Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska