Maria Haigh Vitae

Maria Haigh, Ph.D.

EDUCATION:

Drexel University: College of Information Science and Technology
M.S. 1992-1994. Ph.D. June 2002
Dissertation: "Software Quality Revisited: Diverging Priorities Between Stakeholder Groups?"
Specialization: Information Systems Analysis and Evaluation (major)
Scholarly and Professional Communication (minor)
National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv: Faculty of Cybernetics,
1982 – 1987
B.S. (Red Diploma – Highest Honors) in Applied Mathematics with specialization in Computer Science

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

	FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR JANUARY 2007- JULY 2007 Lecture and Research in Computer Science Department of the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" Teaching two courses on social informatics and intellectual property issues.
	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE JANUARY 2004-CURRENT Teaching Electronic Information Retrieval Systems, Database Management Systems, Knowledge Management, Research Methods.
	VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, COLBY COLLEGE 2002 Database Management Systems Senior undergraduate course. Covered DBMS concepts and new trends; SQL, ERM, UML.
	ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR, COLLEGE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, DREXEL UNIVERSITY Introduction to Systems Analysis/Information Management Tools 16 sections, 1995-96 Taught for both graduate and undergraduate levels. Course covered broad-based introduction to computer hardware, software, telecommunications and information. Human Computer Interaction 7 sections, 1996-97 Taught for both graduate and undergraduate levels. Course topics included software design process, graphical interface layout and design, types and usage of interaction techniques and how to evaluate designs with users. Introduction to Database Management 3 sections, 1997-98 Graduate course. Covered DBMS concepts, relational algebra, SQL, ERM, development methodology. Internet Information Services 1 section, 1997 Graduate course for MLS students. Covered website design, implementation, and evaluation.
	TEACHING INTERESTS: Information Retrieval, User-Centered Design and Development of Information Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems Management, Data Base Management, Knowledge Management, Intellectual Property, Societies in transition, Research Methods.
	RESEARCH INTERESTS: Evaluation and interpretation of information system quality (quantitative and qualitative); Cultural differences in information system usage; Intellectual Property and piracy issues in Eastern Europe; Societies in transition.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

WHARTON EXECUTIVE MBA: IT CONSULTANT
Apr 1999 – Aug 2001

	Introduction of Wharton West: Rapid development of multiple on-line reception registration systems; created multi-media marketing presentation for new San Francisco site.
	Multiple On-Line Systems: Design and implementation of WEMBA Facebook – secure on-line, updateable, visual directory system. Enhancement/Integration of Wharton on-line application system to accommodate new Wharton West program.
	Advise & Consult on all IT policy and procurement issues; and on technological support of academic and administrative processes (teleconferencing, distance learning, on-line collaborative environment).
	Single Point of Contact for all IT needs and support issues in Executive MBA program, for 200 students and all program administrators.
	Database Development and enhancement – multifunctional system used to support administration of Students, Grades, Events, Sponsors and entire Admissions process.

WHARTON COMPUTING & IT PROGRAMMER/ANALYST
Dec 1997 - Apr 1999

	Wharton Career Development and Placement Department: Design and implementation of the fax server utility for processing MBA and University job descriptions
	MBA Admissions Department: Design and implementation of the data interface utility for MBA applications; integrating data from the third party systems into the Wharton MBA Admissions database.
	FAST Project: Database design, user interface design and prototyping for the large web based syllabus content creation/delivery application.

DREXEL COMPUTER CENTER
May 1992 – Jun 1994

Frontline support -- hardware and software for students, faculty. Macintosh, AppleTalk, Netware.Organized training workshops on Internet, HTML for faculty and staff (novel at time!)

UKRAINIAN LIBRARY, PHILADELPHIA: LIBRARY DIRECTOR
May 1993 – Jun 1996

Supervised staff of 15 volunteers; Reorganized multilingual collection; Designed on-line catalog system.

FREELANCE RADIO CORRESPONDENT (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/BBC World Service)
1991-97

Collected material, prepared on-air commentaries on various social and scientific issues.

TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER ongoing

Various, including technical and medical translations for the Ukrainian–American Medical Exchange program at Penn, other medical and literary translations.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

Maria Haigh, “The “Goodbye Petrovka” Plan: Moral Economy of File Sharing in Post‐Soviet Ukraine”, 2008 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Information Science (CAIS), online proceedings, http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2008/haigh_2008.pdf, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.

Maria Haigh, “Downloading Communism: File-Sharing as Samizdat in Ukraine” , LIBRI, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp.165-178, September 2007, online.

Maria Haigh, "Ideology of Library and Information Science Education in Ukraine", proceedings of the conference "Libraries And Information Resources In The Modern World Of Science, Culture, Education, And Business", Crimea, Sudak, Ukraine, 2007, online proceedings

Maria Haigh, "Divided by a Common Degree Program? Profiling Online and Face-to-Face Information Science Students", Education for Information, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 93-110, 2007, online.

Maria Haigh, “Escaping Lenin’s Library: Library and Information Science Education in Independent Ukraine”, The International Information and Library Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, pp. 72-79, June 2007, online.

Maria Haigh, June Verner, “Examining Stakeholder Priorities for Software Quality Attribute Requirements”, K. Cox, E. Dubois, Y. Pigneur, S. Bleistein, J. Verner, A. Davis, R., Wieringa, Eds, (2005), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Business Need and IT Alignment, UNSW Press, Sydney, ISBN: 0-7334-2276-4, pp.85-92 (online).

J. M. Verner, W. M. Evanco and M. Haigh, “Software Quality: Are All Stakeholders Views the Same?” Proceedings of ICSE Quality Workshop, eds. K. Marcal de Oliveira, A R Rocha, and K. C Weber, Orlando, May 25 pp. 22-25, 2002.

Maria Sverstiuk, J.Verner, “Modeling Software Quality Through Organizational Position and Software Role: A Pilot Study”, 12th European Software Control and Metrics conference, London, England, April 2001.

Maria Sverstiuk, J.Verner, “Software Quality: What Is Really Important and Who Says So”, Nimes TIC 2000, International conference on Systems Engineering and Information and Communication Technology, Nimes, France, September 2000.(abstract online).

SERVICE PUBLICATIONS:

Maria Haigh, “Report on the Second Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems”, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25, vol.2 (April-June 2003), p. 76-79.

Maria Haigh, “Report on the 2002 Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology”, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25, vol.3 (July-September 2003), p. 78-81.

COMPETITIVELY REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS:

Maria Haigh, “The Goodbye Petrovka Plan: Internet Use and National Identity in Ukraine”, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 2008.

Maria Haigh, “The “Goodbye Petrovka” Plan: Moral Economy of File Sharing in Post‐Soviet Ukraine”, presentation at CAIS, Vancouver, Canada. June 2008

Maria Haigh, “Moral Economy of Intellectual Property in Post Soviet Ukraine”, presentation at UWM SOIS Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) “Thinking Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies” conference, May 2008.

Maria Haigh, "Cultural Interpretations of File-Sharing Technologies: the Case of Independent Ukraine", Social Informatics Pre-conference Research Symposia at ASIST, Milwaukee, October 2007

Maria Haigh, "Escaping Lenin’s Library: Ideologies of Information in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine", presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Montreal, October 11-13, 2007.

Maria Haigh, "Ideology of The Library and Information Science Education in Independent Ukraine", presentation at the Crimea 2007 conference, June 9-17, 2007, Sudak, Ukraine.

Maria Haigh, "Intellectual Property and Piracy Issues in Ukraine", international conference Gumanitarni Problemy Stanovlennia Suchasnoho Fakhivczia (8th International Conference for the Professionalization and Modernization of the Humanities and Social Sciences, March 22-23, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Maria Haigh, “Open Source and File Sharing as Samizdat”, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Vancouver, November 1-5, 2006.

Maria Haigh, “Downloading Communism: File-Sharing as Samizdat in Ukraine”, presented at the VI World Computer Law Conference, Edinburgh, September 2006.

Maria Haigh, “New Approach to Special Groups in Digital Environment: Cross-border Comparison”, ASIS&T SIG-USE workshop, Charlotte, NC, November 2005.

Maria Haigh, “Information Resource Sharing in Ukraine: From Total Control to File Sharing Freedom” Wisconsin Library Association Conference, 25th-28th October 2005, La Crosse, WI.

Maria Haigh, “Examining Stakeholder Priorities of Software Requirements”, REBNITA workshop, IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference, Paris, August 2005.

Maria Sverstiuk, “Modeling Software Quality Through Organizational Position and Software Role: A Pilot Study”, presented at the 12th European Software Control and Metrics conference, London, England, April 2001.

Maria Sverstiuk, “Software Quality: What Is Really Important and Who Says So”, presented at the Nimes TIC 2000, International conference on Systems Engineering and Information and Communication Technology, Nimes, France, September 2000.

Maria Sverstiuk, Il-Yeol Song & Howard White: "Research Reference Librarian Aid: Index Language and Expert System Shell," IST Award at the 1996 Scientific Research Symposium Sponsored by Drexel University Chapter of Sigma XI, May 30, 1996.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Maria Haigh, "Comparative Analysis of the American and Ukrainian Library Systems", keynote speaker at the seminar "Public Libraries as Community Centers" , June 4th, 2007, Donetsk, Ukraine.

Maria Haigh, "Library and Information Science Distance Education in the U.S.", keynote speaker at the seminar "Library Users and Services", June 6th, 2007, Mariupol, Ukraine.

Maria Haigh, "American and Ukrainian Library Systems: a Comparison", invited lecture at The Vernadsky Scientific National Library of Ukraine, May 18th, 2007, Kiev, Ukraine.

Maria Haigh, "Comparative Analysis of the American and Ukrainian Public Libraries", invited lecture at the Lesia Ukrainka Kiev Central Public Library, April 23rd, 2007, Kiev, Ukraine.

Maria Haigh, "Comparative Analysis of the American and Ukrainian Library Systems", Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 12, 2007.

Maria Haigh, "Copyright in Ukraine", lecture, seminar at the National University of Aviation in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 29, 2007.

Maria Haigh, "Intellectual Property and Piracy in Ukraine", lecture seminar at the Halyzckyj Instytut Chornovola in Ternopil, Ukraine, March 19, 2007.

Maria Haigh, “Contexts and Attributes of Software Quality”, University of Maryland, College Park, April 8th, 2003.

Maria Haigh “Software Quality: Will We Know When We See It?”, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March 25th, 2003.

Maria Haigh, Tom Haigh “Why Users Matter: Software Development and Soviet Architecture”, Colby College, April 2002.

Maria Sverstiuk, Il-Yeol Song: “Exploring New Methods for Database Applications Development: Applying Unified Modeling Language to the Database Menu Structures Design”, Research Symposium Sponsored by Drexel University Chapter of Sigma XI, May 19, 1998.

UWM and PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES SERVICE:

	Reviewer for the journal “Information & Software Technology”
	SOIS Diversity Committee
	SOIS Proficiency Committee
	UWM University Academic Policy Committee
	UWM University Milwaukee Idea + Quick Wins Committee
	Treasurer for the Wisconsin ASIS&T chapter
	ASIS&T SIG-IFP Chair-Elect for 2009.