Donna Dufner, Ph.D., MBA, MS, PMP® is an Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis (ISQA) in the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). Dr. Dufner received the UNO Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award in 2002, the UNO Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006, and in 2008 she received the Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award, the University of Nebraska's highest honor in teaching (photo upper left). In 2005 she was recognized by the Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education for efforts to integrate Service-Learning into the education of students at UNO. Before joining UNO in 2000, Dr. Dufner taught at the University of Illinois for three years where she was named a University Scholar in 1998, the highest honor awarded by the University of Illinois for excellence in research and teaching.
Dr. Dufner earned a Ph.D. in Management Computer and Information Science at Rutgers University where she was a Teaching Fellow and was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. She also earned an MS in Computer and Information Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), the project management profession's most recognized and respected global credential.
Before becoming an educator, Dr. Dufner spent over 15 years in the business world managing software engineering and telecommunications programs and projects with budgets ranging from several hundred thousand up to 20 million dollars. Experienced in both private and public sector project management, she has successfully managed projects for AT&T, Chemical Bank Corp., ARDIS (a joint venture of IBM and Motorola), Bell Atlantic Nynex, the City of Omaha and Douglas County, Nebraska.
Dr. Dufner has received recognition for her work as a project manager e.g., "It is important to emphasize the enormity and relative success of the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant MIS (JAIBIG MIS), development and implementation process. Large-scale MIS development involving multiple agencies and differing data formats has frequently resulted in failure if not outright catastrophe in terms of time, cost, and usefulness of the end product. Our overall evaluation of the JABIG MIS development effort is that it has been quite successful, both in terms of providing a repository for data collection and sharing, and as a vehicle for promoting inter-agency coordination and cooperation." Source: Martin, J. and Else J. "Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant: Phase III Evaluation Report".
Her professional and research interests include Project Management, Service-Learning, and Private and Public Sector Information Technology. Dr. Dufner's research has been published in a variety of scholarly journals including the Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation, the Journal of Organizational Computing, Communications of the Association of Information Systems (CAIS), and Public Productivity and Management Review (PPMR). She served as an Associate Editor for CAIS and as a Senior Referee for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE. In May, 2007 Dr. Dufner was elevated to Senior Member in the IEEE the first woman in Omaha, NE to receive the honor of being elevated to Senior Member Status in the IEEE.
Dr. Dufner was selected to participate in the 2004-2005 Leadership Omaha Program, which is one of the oldest and most respected community leadership programs in the nation. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who of Teachers and Educators.
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