ROBERT (BOB) W. TIPPLE
Tel.: 240-684-2824 (W)
email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
PROFILE
Broad and diverse expertise as an educator, academic and practitioner. Currently Academic Director, Global Business & Public Policy and Marketing at the University of Maryland University College. Transitioned to academia following a successful 30 year career in the telecommunications and computing industries, culminating as a senior executive leading global product management, research and development teams.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Management, University of Maryland, University College (UMUC) 2006
Master in Distance Education, summa cum laude, UMUC 2009
Level II in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program 2003
Canadian Securities Course with Honors 2000
MBA (Finance) Ottawa University, Ontario, Canada 1981
B.Sc. (Hons), Electrical Engineering, Salford University, UK 1969
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
University of Maryland, University College – School of Undergraduate Studies 2004 - Current
Academic Director, Global Business & Public Policy and Marketing 2008 – Current
& Collegiate Professor
Program: Global Business & Public Policy (GBPP) (Major)
Marketing (Major)
Business Supply Chain Management (Minor)
Students: 400 Marketing & 300 GBPP majors
6000 student class enrollments per academic year
Faculty: appox. 100 adjunct faculty
Faculty Management: Collegiate and Adjunct Faculty hiring and staffing, mentoring, online and face to face class room evaluation, “best practices” training and faculty communication.
Student liaison: resolve complaints, establish virtual community forum, and advising on a needs basis.
Curriculum Management: Lead multiple course developments in Global Business, Marketing and Business Supply Chain Management. Revamped the assessment process across all courses.
One line, F2F Teaching: International Management; Global Marketing, International Finance, Business Ethics; Advanced Finance Academic Director, Marketing & Collegiate Professor 2006 - 2008
Assistant Academic Director: Global Business and Public Policy / Human Resources
& Associate Professor 2005-2006
Adjunct Associate Professor: Finance 2004
Teaching Assistant – Executive MBA program 2004
NORTEL NETWORKS, Ottawa, Canada 1974 – 2001
Professional achievements include Nortel Technology’s Manager of the Year award for consistent high quality, on time product delivery and exemplary people management and Nortel’s Technology Award for revitalization of Nortel’s DMS product line through leading the software reengineering and repartitioning 24 million lines of code.
Vice President, Public Carrier Networks 1992 – 2001
Led strategic direction, product marketing, development and project introduction of Nortel’s Public Carrier Network software and hardware products. This involved managing an annual budget of up to $120 million and a multidisciplinary team of up to 1000 professionals
Experience gained in the following areas:
Global Telecommunications Product Marketing and Development: Led multi-disciplinary product marketing and development teams to develop new market segments and address customer requirements with revenue generating product introductions in a multitude areas of the Global telecommunication market (North America – US, Canada, Mexico; South America – Brazil, Peru; Europe – UK, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey; Asia – China, Japan; Australia)
Global Multi-Site Project Management Successfully led large-scale and small-scale development teams with diverse cultures across multiple time zones. - Simultaneously led multi-disciplinary project teams of 5 to 300 professionals - Led multi-site development between teams in Ottawa, and application teams in Raleigh, North Carolina; Richardson,Texas; Maidenhead, England; and Paris, France
People Management - Led over 1000 professionals - Achieved 75% employee satisfaction rating, one of the highest within Nortel Networks
Financial Management Allocated, controlled and responsible for $120 million R&D budget to generate over $6 Billion of revenue.
Supply Chain Management - Reduced the development process from customer requirement to product introduction by over 50% through continuous improvement processes: plan, do, check, and act technometrics based approach.
- Introduced the Malcolm Baldridge framework.
- Achieved and maintained ISO compliance
Technology Management
Introduced innovative revenue generating products in a broad range of technologies, including:
- Global customer development, integration and delivery of 24 million lines of software.
- 24/7 Customer service technical resolution to 6000 telecommunication global switching products
- Fault Tolerant (Zero Downtime) multiprocessing computing systems
- OAM systems which reduced customer operating cost by 50%
Computing and Semiconductor IndustryPartnered with a number of computing and semiconductor companies to produce products in the Computing Platforms and Architectures, Real Time Operating Systems, One million gate ASICS and Telecommunication Technologies
Other Positions:
Director Switching Technology 1986 – 1992
Director Transmission Technology 1984 – 1986
Software Manager 1981 – 1984
Software Designer 1978 – 1981
Transmission Hardware Designer 1974 – 1978
Leigh Instrument, Ottawa, Canada 1972 - 1974
Hardware design engineer on Military (US & Canadian) Aircraft “Black Box” recorders.
Electrical Musical Instruments (EMI), London England 1969 - 1972
Hardware design engineer on Military Radar Systems
Courses Taught
BMGT392 International Management
BMGT496 Business Ethics
FINC 330 Business Finance
FINC 430 Financial Management
FINC 460 International Finance
MRKT 310 Marketing Principles and Organization
MRKT454 Global Marketing
Tel.: 240-684-2824 (W)
email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
PROFILE
Broad and diverse expertise as an educator, academic and practitioner. Currently Academic Director, Global Business & Public Policy and Marketing at the University of Maryland University College. Transitioned to academia following a successful 30 year career in the telecommunications and computing industries, culminating as a senior executive leading global product management, research and development teams.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Management, University of Maryland, University College (UMUC) 2006
Master in Distance Education, summa cum laude, UMUC 2009
Level II in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program 2003
Canadian Securities Course with Honors 2000
MBA (Finance) Ottawa University, Ontario, Canada 1981
B.Sc. (Hons), Electrical Engineering, Salford University, UK 1969
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
University of Maryland, University College – School of Undergraduate Studies 2004 - Current
Academic Director, Global Business & Public Policy and Marketing 2008 – Current
& Collegiate Professor
Program: Global Business & Public Policy (GBPP) (Major)
Marketing (Major)
Business Supply Chain Management (Minor)
Students: 400 Marketing & 300 GBPP majors
6000 student class enrollments per academic year
Faculty: appox. 100 adjunct faculty
Faculty Management: Collegiate and Adjunct Faculty hiring and staffing, mentoring, online and face to face class room evaluation, “best practices” training and faculty communication.
Student liaison: resolve complaints, establish virtual community forum, and advising on a needs basis.
Curriculum Management: Lead multiple course developments in Global Business, Marketing and Business Supply Chain Management. Revamped the assessment process across all courses.
One line, F2F Teaching: International Management; Global Marketing, International Finance, Business Ethics; Advanced Finance Academic Director, Marketing & Collegiate Professor 2006 - 2008
Assistant Academic Director: Global Business and Public Policy / Human Resources
& Associate Professor 2005-2006
Adjunct Associate Professor: Finance 2004
Teaching Assistant – Executive MBA program 2004
NORTEL NETWORKS, Ottawa, Canada 1974 – 2001
Professional achievements include Nortel Technology’s Manager of the Year award for consistent high quality, on time product delivery and exemplary people management and Nortel’s Technology Award for revitalization of Nortel’s DMS product line through leading the software reengineering and repartitioning 24 million lines of code.
Vice President, Public Carrier Networks 1992 – 2001
Led strategic direction, product marketing, development and project introduction of Nortel’s Public Carrier Network software and hardware products. This involved managing an annual budget of up to $120 million and a multidisciplinary team of up to 1000 professionals
Experience gained in the following areas:
Global Telecommunications Product Marketing and Development: Led multi-disciplinary product marketing and development teams to develop new market segments and address customer requirements with revenue generating product introductions in a multitude areas of the Global telecommunication market (North America – US, Canada, Mexico; South America – Brazil, Peru; Europe – UK, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey; Asia – China, Japan; Australia)
Global Multi-Site Project Management Successfully led large-scale and small-scale development teams with diverse cultures across multiple time zones. - Simultaneously led multi-disciplinary project teams of 5 to 300 professionals - Led multi-site development between teams in Ottawa, and application teams in Raleigh, North Carolina; Richardson,Texas; Maidenhead, England; and Paris, France
People Management - Led over 1000 professionals - Achieved 75% employee satisfaction rating, one of the highest within Nortel Networks
Financial Management Allocated, controlled and responsible for $120 million R&D budget to generate over $6 Billion of revenue.
Supply Chain Management - Reduced the development process from customer requirement to product introduction by over 50% through continuous improvement processes: plan, do, check, and act technometrics based approach.
- Introduced the Malcolm Baldridge framework.
- Achieved and maintained ISO compliance
Technology Management
Introduced innovative revenue generating products in a broad range of technologies, including:
- Global customer development, integration and delivery of 24 million lines of software.
- 24/7 Customer service technical resolution to 6000 telecommunication global switching products
- Fault Tolerant (Zero Downtime) multiprocessing computing systems
- OAM systems which reduced customer operating cost by 50%
Computing and Semiconductor IndustryPartnered with a number of computing and semiconductor companies to produce products in the Computing Platforms and Architectures, Real Time Operating Systems, One million gate ASICS and Telecommunication Technologies
Other Positions:
Director Switching Technology 1986 – 1992
Director Transmission Technology 1984 – 1986
Software Manager 1981 – 1984
Software Designer 1978 – 1981
Transmission Hardware Designer 1974 – 1978
Leigh Instrument, Ottawa, Canada 1972 - 1974
Hardware design engineer on Military (US & Canadian) Aircraft “Black Box” recorders.
Electrical Musical Instruments (EMI), London England 1969 - 1972
Hardware design engineer on Military Radar Systems
Courses Taught
BMGT392 International Management
BMGT496 Business Ethics
FINC 330 Business Finance
FINC 430 Financial Management
FINC 460 International Finance
MRKT 310 Marketing Principles and Organization
MRKT454 Global Marketing
