Lewis University Online Faculty

Dr. Rami Khasawneh

Rami Khasawneh is the Dean of the College of Business and the chair of the department of management information systems. He is an author with one book and over 20 papers in refereed journals. He is the associate editor for the International Management Review Journal. He has been invited by IEEE and ACM to chair many IT conferences and to review hundreds of papers. Currently he is involved in the organization of three international conferences. Khasawneh has over 13 years' experience in the IT field, primarily in the development and implementation of IT strategic plans, IT security plans, IT infrastructure, project management, and e-business. His industry experience includes process reengineering, technical leadership, capacity planning, performance evaluation, design validation, and system analysis. He has managed more than 50 projects for clients including Citibank, Nicor Gas, SBC Ameritech, Tenneco Packaging, United Airlines, EKCO group, Alcatel, Chicago Transit Authority, Universal Studios, Bank One, Resurrection Healthcare System, and Sears.

Education:

• B.Sc., Yarmouk University, 1987
• M.Sc., Western Michigan University, 1989
• Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1993

Dr. Ray Klump

Ray Klump earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August, 2000. His dissertation, A Computational Framework for Assessing Voltage Security Using Energy Methods, developed an algorithm for predicting the maximum amount of power an electric utility system can serve before a blackout occurs. From May, 1996, through August, 1998, he worked as General Engineer at Mid-America Interconnected Network in Lombard, IL, where he developed a software platform for calculating maximum power system transfer capabilities and posting these numbers to a secure web site used by marketing and reliability firms. Starting in October, 1997, Dr. Klump began working for PowerWorld Corporation, a software manufacturer based in Champaign, IL. Working first on a part-time basis and then in a full-time capacity, Dr. Klump wrote software for calculating and displaying the conditions of an electric power system in ways that help system operators and engineers understand the system much more easily than they could if they used only tables and graphs. Dr. Klump continues to work part-time as Software Engineer and Senior consultant for PowerWorld, where he is the principle developer of PowerWorld's Retriever product, which displays the real-time measurements of an electric power system as reported by phasor measurement units and SCADA systems.

Dr. Klump began his career at Lewis in August, 2001. He has taught undergraduate courses in C++, Java, software engineering, database design and implementation, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, microcomputer software applications, and college mathematics. Dr. Klump has published 18 papers, mostly in the field of computer applications for power systems. He has consulted, through PowerWorld, for projects with Commonwealth Edison, City Water Light and Power of Springfield, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Bonneville Power Administration, Southern Company, Entergy, Mid-America Interconnected Network, and PJM.

Professional and Educational Interests:

• Electric power systems
• Stability of nonlinear networks
• Numerical methods
• Programming languages
• Scientific visualization
• Object-oriented theory and design
• Security of information systems

Education:

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000

Dr. Faisal Abdullah

Associate Professor of MIS and Information Security, Director of Master of Science in Information Security (MSIS) Program, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois.

Dr. Abdullah is an information security specialist and multi-disciplinary educator at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He brings to his students a working knowledge of wired and wireless networking, operating systems, forensic tools, e-discovery, intrusion detection and prevention systems, database security strategies, network and security protocols and cryptography algorithms. In addition, Dr. Abdullah has an understanding of regulations such as SOX, GLBA, HIPPA and FSGA and security frameworks like ISO 27000, NIST controls, and COBIT. He has assisted in development and maintenance organizational security policies, developed security solutions in support of security strategy, evaluated new and existing computing assets, and developed security awareness material. Dr. Abdullah has conducted security assessments, analyzed security requirements and coordinated inter-departmental teams and has an in-depth knowledge of quantitative, qualitative, and hybrid risk assessment procedures and disaster recovery planning.

Education:

• B.Com., University of Bombay, 1997
• MBA, Hawaii Pacific University, 2001
• D.Sc., Robert Morris University, 2005