Associate Director Of Information Systems And Operations Announced For Smeal College
Associate Director Of Information Systems And Operations Announced For Smeal College
Frederick T. Houlihan is has been named as the Associate Director of
Information Systems and Operations for Penn State's Smeal College of Business
Administration.
Houlihan is joining the Research, Instruction, and Information Technologies
(RIIT) Group in Smeal College after a 30-year career with IBM and as an
IT consultant to several major financial organizations. In his new role,
Houlihan's responsibilities will include implementing new technology initiatives
and provide leadership to academic and program units of Smeal College
to translate technology objectives into strategic plans and system development
across Smeal College. He will assume his new responsibilities immediately.
From 1984 through 1991, Houlihan led IBM's Penn State systems engineering
technical support team for campus computing and networking. Houlihan retired
from IBM in 1995 and was a consultant to The Vanguard Group investment
services Web Release Engineering Group prior to joining Smeal College.
The Smeal College of Business is a pre-eminent learning community, shaping
business practice for tomorrow's converging economies. With 6,400 undergraduates,
Smeal College has the third largest undergraduate business program in
the country. In addition to the nationally ranked undergraduate program,
Smeal College is home to internationally ranked MBA and Executive Education
Programs. Smeal College's seven academic departments and ten research
centers and institutes present programs and studies in leading-edge areas
such as converging economies, supply chain management, e-business, and
entrepreneurship along with the traditional areas of marketing, management,
finance, real estate, accounting and information systems.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
