Seneca College List of Experts

Charles Smedmor
Professor
Centre for Financial Services
Areas of Expertise:
Litigation: Analysis and estimation of damages from breaches of fiduciary duty, breaches of contract, shareholder disputes, business interruption and personal injury; passing of accounts and family law matters; estimation of economic damages including personal injury; critiques for defence counsel of reports by plaintiffs’ accountants.
Investigative: Fraud investigations include revenue diversions, secret commissions, parallel companies and theft of inventory; real estate investigations including breach of fiduciary duty, secret commissions and bid rigging;; due diligence and inward investment; financial and operational reviews of companies being considered for international investment.
Credentials: CA, CFE

Brian Broadway
Professor
School of Marketing and e-Business
Areas of Expertise: Direct and Interactive Marketing, Strategic Analysis
Credentials: MBA, 26 years as a direct marketing practitioner

Anthony Kalamut
Professor and Program Co-ordinator   
Creative Advertising
Areas of Expertise: advertising, branding, interactive advertising, advertising ethics, social networking, crowdsourcing, new media, creative direction in advertising and advertising creativity

Susan Varty
Professor
Faculty of Business
Areas of Expertise: Social Media in the Classroom, Social Media/Digital Strategy, Effective Communication for Business, Low-cost, no-cost marketing
Credentials: BA, BEd

Mark Jones
Chair
School of Creative Arts and Animation
Areas of Expertise: Digital Media, animation
Credentials: MA
 

Frank Foster
Professor
School of Business Management, CSP
Areas of Expertise: Sales training and consulting
President of Frank Foster and Associates

Jean-Paul Gedeon
Professor
Faculty of Business
Areas of Expertise: Education, Curricular Design, Public Sector Management, Strategic Planning, Public Sector Continuous Improvement Initiatives, Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, Governance
Credentials: MA, PhD

Dr. Terry James
Professor
School of Business Management
Areas of Expertise: Innovation, Small Business, Leadership, Knowledge Management, Customer Relationship Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Organizational Behavior
Credentials: D.M, M.Sc., BA, PMP
Published works: Author of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) book and published in various journals

Peter A. Miller
Professor
School of Business Management
Areas of Expertise: Entrepreneurship and small business-starting and growing; banker for 27 years, business coach for 9 years, business owner for 6 businesses, president of Golearn Business.com, business coach

Margaret Osborne
Professor
School of Business Management
Areas of Expertise: Internet governance, cybercrime, online fraud (particularly financial services, retail and e-government), e-marketing, online retail.
Credentials: MBA, BSc, former Director of CIRA - Canadian Internet Registration Authority, member Non-Commercial Users Constituency ICANN

Michael Pearl
Professor
School of Business Management
Areas of Expertise: Strategic management, marketing, entrepreneurship, business planning, retailing and customer relationship management.
Credentials: MBA, BBA, Managing Director of MSP Management Group

Terry Pruner
Professor, Faculty of Business, Centre for Financial Services
Areas of Expertise: applied leadership, marketing, customer relationship management, Customer Contact Centres, information technology, small business management, more than 25 years experience in managing corporate operations and consulting with Fortune 500 companies

Diane White
Professor
Centre for Human Resources
Areas of Expertise: human resources
Published Works: co-author of Cases in Human Resources Management

Iain Mcnab
Chair
School of Biological Sciences and Applied Chemistry
Areas of Expertise: Surface chemistry, molecular dynamics, molecular spectroscopy, ab-initio chemistry
Credentials include: DPhil, Chemistry; BSc, Chemical Physics

Rona Kaushansky
Professor
English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: Twenty years experience teaching ESL, business writing, report writing, essay writing, literature, interpersonal communication
Credentials: BEd, ECE, TESL

Karen Nolan
Professor
School of Early Childhood Education
Areas of Expertise: Early Childhood Education
Published works: co-author of Exceptional Children: Inclusion in Early Childhood Programs, Third Canadian Edition
 

Tim G. Richardson
Professor
School of Media and Marketing
Areas of Expertise: domain name issues; Search Engines, ranking high, Google issues; security, hacking, viruses, phishing, DNS attacks; identity theft, privacy issues, computer crime; mobile commerce, GPS; virtual reality e-commerce; viral marketing; web cams; online communities; e-commerce payment systems; online branding; dot.com failures; e-commerce business models; Internet benefits and limitations
Credentials: B.A (Hons), B.Ed., M.Ed
Published works: Author of 3 e-commerce books published by Thomson Nelson

Trevor Owen
Professor
School of English & Liberal Studies
Founder and Program Director, Writers in Electronic Residence Program (WiER)
Areas of Expertise: English education, Teacher education, Online learning
Credentials: B.F.A., B.Ed., M.A. (Education)
Awards: The Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teacher Award, Canadian Teachers' Federation/Hilroy Foundation Teacher Research on Literacy Award, Maclean's magazine's "Honour Roll"

William Humber
Director of Eco-Seneca Initiatives
Areas of Expertise: Urban Environment - particular emphasis on water issues, sustainable communities, and neighbourhood design
Credentials: member international and Canada-wide college committees on sustainability; speaker on energy and sustainability topics in Estonia, UK, US, Canada; member of Ontario Environment Ministry external management committee to select corporate environmental leaders
Published Works: 2 relevant books on small town issues and planning

Dale Peers
Professor, Program Co-ordinator and Costume Co-ordinator
School of Fashion
Areas of Expertise: fashion history, psychology of fashion, Fashion Resource Centre
Credentials: Museum Studies Diploma
Published works: Author of A Retailer's Guide to Fragrance

James Cullingham
Professor
School of Media and Marketing
Areas of Expertise: Documentary filmmaking, 20 years experience as an independent and network producer/writer/director, Former story consultant on the feature documentary film Festival Express

Eleonore Northam
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies, Faculty of Business
Areas of Expertise: film studies; Film Programmer for the School of English and Liberal Studies; created and teaches Introduction to Film Studies, From Story to Screen and Social and Political Issues in Film, attendee 23 consecutive years Toronto International Film Festival.

Garry W. G. Clement
Part-time faculty
Centre for Financial Services
Areas of Expertise: Anti-money laundering, white collar crime, organized crime, interviewing techniques
Credentials: Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE Life Member), Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (AMLP)

Samky Mak
Industry Director, Financial Institutions, Centre for Financial Services
COO of Seneca’s Canadian Institute for Financial Crime Analysis
Areas of Expertise: Compliance, Risk Management, Fraud, Financial/White Collar Crime

Sam Albanese
Program Co-ordinator
Financial Services Practitioner (FSP) and Property & Casualty (PNC) program
Insurance Industry Director
Areas of Expertise: Life Insurance, Property & Casualty Insurance, Mutual Funds, Sales and Marketing of Financial Products
Credentials: CFP,CLU, ChFC, FLMI, TEP

Anne Chun
Professor, School of Accounting and Financial Services
Areas of Expertise: Financial planning
Published Works: co-author of Planning Your Financial Future - A Guide for Canadians

Brenda Hiscock
Instructor, School of Accounting and Financial Services
Areas of Expertise: a full-time Independent Financial Security Advisor, financial planning, retirement and estate planning, living benefits (i.e. critical illness insurance, long term care insurance), investments and banking, adult education, sales skills training
Credentials: RHU Designation (Living Benefits Specialist)

Michele Roberts
Instructor, Centre for Financial Services
Areas of Expertise: Property and casualty insurance
Credentials: FCIP

Mary Savona
Professor
School of Accounting and Financial Services
Areas of Expertise: financial services, mutual funds, investment information

Rohan Singh
Professor
Centre for Financial Services
Areas of Expertise: mutual fund licensing courses, financial services, corporate markets
Credentials: MBA, FLMI

Derek Gruchy
Program Co-ordinator
Fire Protection Engineering Technology 2 and 3 year diploma programs
Areas of Expertise: Human Behaviour in Fire Emergencies and Fire Dynamics
Credentials: B.Eng, M.Sc in Fire Protection Engineering

Anthony H. Van Odyk
Industry Coordinator
School Fire Protection
Areas of Expertise: 33 Years in Fire Protection, Special Extinguishing and Security Systems, 17 Years Fire Protection Professor & Trainer
Credentials: B. E. Sc. Electrical and Electronics, Professional Engineer - Professional Engineers Ontario, Professional Member - Society of Fire Protection Engineers

Caroline Grammer
Professor
Social Service Worker - Gerontology program
Areas of Expertise: Gerontology, social service, human development issues
Credentials: MSW, RSW

Debbie Bleier-Waters
Manager, Work on Track
Counselling - Disability Health Services
Areas of Expertise: specialist in mental health and workplace preparation, extensive psychosocial rehabilitation experience and practitioner, international conference presenter and Boston University
Credentials: M.Ed

Veronica Utton
Part-time faculty
Centre for Human Resources
Areas of Expertise: Human Resources Generalist, more than 23 years of senior Human Resources experience, Board Member on the Human Resources Council for the Non Profit Sector
Credentials: CHRP, BA

Tim G. Richardson,
Professor
School of Marketing and eBusiness
Areas of Expertise: Canada-Japan issues; Canada-Asia trade (Chine, Korea, Philippines); Caribbean issues; federal government, Dept. of Foreign Affairs issues re: embassies and consulates; globalization; sustainable development; trade associations; auto industry; agriculture; competitor intelligence; business ethics in trade; risk and threat assessment; political risk and contingency planning; military and security issues in int'l business; weather extremes effecting trade; cross-cultural understanding; Canadian dollar issues; NGOs. IMF, WTO, NAFTA, World Bank, OECD
Credentials: B.A (Hons), B.Ed., M.Ed
Published works: Author of International Business Management published by Thomson Nelson

Patricia Singh
Professor
School of International Business
Published Works: Canadian Currents, Oxford University Press, 1995

Jack Burman
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies, Faculty of Business
Areas of Expertise: communication in Commercial Aviation, approximately 20 years of designing and delivering communications courses to students in Aviation and Flight Technology, college English
Credentials: Ph.D

Marina Engelking
Professor
English Language Institute
Areas of Expertise: Second Language Development; Intercutural Communications & Intercultural Competency
Credentials: MA
Published Works: Co-author of Breakthroughs Advanced English Program - Advanced ESL text (1st and 2nd Ed); co-author of Education for All: Strategies for Teaching Business in the Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classroom, 2006; Co-author of ESL Intermediate Text

Ricki Heller
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: college English, more than 20 years' experience teaching basic communications, essay-writing and literature
Credentials: PhD, RHN
Published Works: Author of Respond in Writing, articles and written pieces have also appeared in publications such as Canadian Living magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, Stitches, and Hi-Fi Plus.

Gloria McPherson
Professor
English Language Institute
Areas of Expertise: TESL Training, Canadian Language Benchmarks, Intercultural Communication, On-line Learning, Culture in On-line Learning, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Curriculum planning and implementation
Published Works: co-author of Breakthroughs 2e- An Integrated Advanced English Program (2008), co-author of Education for All: Strategies for Teaching Business in the Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classroom (2006)

Sharon Winstanley
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: sentence structure, academic writing
Published Works: co-author of College Writing Skills with Readings (Fourth Edition); English Skills with Readings (2003, Third Edition); Sentence Skills (1997); Readers' Choice (Second Edition)

JoAnn Kurtz
Curriculum Co-ordinator
School of Legal and Public Administration
Areas of Expertise: legal and public administration, real estate law, family law
Published Works: co-author of:
Buying, Owning and Selling a Home in Canada (Second Edition),
Make It Legal: What Every Canadian Entrepreneur Needs to Know About the Law, 1998
Facing a Death in the Family, 1999
Canadian Tort Law in a Nutshell (Second Edition), 2005
Residential Real Estate Transactions (Second Edition), 2005
Wills and Estates for Canadians for Dummies, 2000
Canadian Small Business Kit for Dummies
Family Law Practice and Procedure (Second Edition)
Legal Research: Step by Step
 
David Model
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: American foreign policy, international law, countries affected by foreign policy.
Published works: Published five books on the subject, contributor to OPED News, Counterpunch, Straighgoods, and Z magazine. 

Angus Cleghorn
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: Modern and Contemporary Poetry (in particular American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens), Modern and Contemporary Literature
Credentials: PhD
Published works: author of Wallace Stevens’ Poetics: The Neglected Rhetoric, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000; editor of The Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin; frequent speaker at the American Literature Association conference.

Enid Gossin
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: essay writing, grammar and the craft of writing
Published Works: co-author of Writing Paragraphs and Essays - Integrating Reading, Writing and Grammar Skills (1995), co-author of The Prentice Hall Guide for Student Writers (2002)

Carmelo Topiano
Professor, School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: Victorian and Modernist Literature (religious/metaphysical poetry), the reading Subject (The readers as the purveyor of meaning); academic writing.
Credentials: MA, B.Ed, BA

Mark Jones
Chair
School of Creative Arts and Animation
Areas of Expertise: Digital Media, culture and technology, internet culture
Credentials: MA

Suzanne Price
Program Coordinator
Pre-Media/Media Fundamentals Program in the School of Communication Arts
Areas of Expertise: Certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® , (MBTI ®) Consultant and Facilitator and Certified True Colors® Consultant and Facilitator, Certified Consultant and Facilitator in Personality Dimensions ®

Linda Moroziuk
Professor
School of Creative Arts and Animation
Areas of Expertise: International touring, commercial licensing for TV and film, song writing
Awards: Billboard, Songwriter Universe, The Great American Song Contest, The Dallas Songwriter's Association, The UK Singer Songwriter Awards

James Cullingham
Professor
School of Media and Marketing
Areas of Expertise: Rock 'n' Roll
Published works: Author of numerous articles for The Globe and Mail, MOJO and other publications.

Ricki Heller
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: Nutrition, holistic health, alternative medicine, owned a successful organic bakery, Bake it Healthy
Credentials: PhD, RHN
Published Works: Author of healthy dessert cookbook, Sweet Freedom: Desserts You'll Love without Wheat, Eggs, Dairy or Refined Sugar. Also author of the food blog Diet, Dessert and Dogs, which receives more than 50,000 visits per month and was nominated for Best Food Blog--Writing in the Well-Fed Network's Food Blog Awards for 2008.

Ola Cholkan
Professor, School of Business Management
Areas of Expertise: Microsoft Excel
Published Works: Microsoft Excel Exercises, Orden Management, 2004

Robert Neilly
Part-time Faculty
School of Fashion
Virtual Assistant
Areas of Expertise: Computer technology and software, particularly Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, Virtual Assistants
Credentials: Webmaster designation from Seneca College, trained as a Virtual Assistant through assistu.com, has taught at Seneca College for 19 years

Jack Burman
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies, Faculty of Business
Areas of Expertise: 30 years experience in fine art photography, works in the Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Credentials: PhD

Ron Erwin
Professor
School of Creative Arts and Animation
Areas of Expertise: 17 years in photography and digital imaging business, 10 years experience as college professor, conducted workshops and presentations for Country Images Camera Club, Toronto Guild for Photographic Art, The Orchid Festival, Tobermory, Core Digital Pictures and Toronto Camera Club
Published works: Author/Photographer: Our Canada: "Land of the Canadian Shield"; Seasons articles include " Last of the Giants: Capturing a Rare Breed: Ontario's Old-growth Forest," " Winging It: The Perils, Pitfalls and Promise of Raptor Rehabilitation" (co-authored with Lori Erwin).
Books:
Bertelsmann, Calypso Publishing, Federation of Ontario Naturalists,
Houghton Mifflin, Hugh Lauter Levin, McDougal Littell, McGraw-Hill
Ryerson, Pearson Education Canada, Postcard Factory, Statistics Canada,
W.W. Norton.

Syed Hussain
Professor
School of Public Safety and Police Studies
Areas of Expertise: Terrorism studies, counterterrorism, crime analysis, policing, quantitative analysis
Credentials: PhD in Criminology

James Cullingham
Professor
School of Media and Marketing 
Areas of Expertise: Former CBC journalist covered elections, referenda and constitutional talks from 1982 until 2000

Marc Menard
Professor
Faculty of Business, School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: Political science, Canadian politics, economic issues
Credentials: Seneca College Adult Education Certificate; Canadian Securities Course; MA, International Politics; Honours B. A., Political Science

Mark Leavens
Professor,  Real Property Administration Program
Areas of Expertise: property assessment /valuation, six years with Municipal Property Assessment Corporation
Associations/Committees:  Institute of Municipal Assessors, served on committees for Policy and Legislation and Education
Speaking Engagements/Seminars: Shenyoung, China -  Assessment Valuation Techniques, International Property Tax Institute - Education in Assessment, Saskatchewan Assessment Appraisers’ Association - Defense of Multiple Regression Produced Assessment Values, City of Calgary - Real Property Valuation, Appraisal Institute of Canada - Real Property Assessment, University of Regina (National Summer Institute) - Tracking Crime Statistics using GIS and MRA
Credentials: A.I.M.A.
Published works: Television: Recurring role on Debbie Travis’s Income Property on HGTV discussing effect of home renovations on property values
Featured columnist: For Canadian Real Estate Magazine

Cindy Chisvin, M. Ed
Professor
School of English and Liberal Studies
Areas of Expertise: Psychology, Parenting Educator, Individual and Relationship Counseling
Credentials: M.Ed, 25 years in private counseling practice, custody mediation credentials
 

Chris Derventzis
Areas of Expertise: Networks (wired/wireless, routing/switching, commercial/industrial applications)
Credentials: CCNA certification

Mike Gadsden
Professor, School of Biological Sciences and Applied Chemistry
Areas of Expertise: Molecular Biology/Biotechnology/Science Education
Credentials: Involved as a consultant and workshop organizer/speaker with several Science Education outreach organizations, such as Bioscience Education Canada.
Credentials: B.Sc., B.Ed., Ph.D.
Research: Cloning genes associated with DNA metabolism and attempting to identify novel chemotherapeutic sites.

Chris Rodgers
Areas of Expertise: Communications Systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Transmission Lines and High Frequency, Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwaves, Lasers and Fiber Optics, Automated Test and Measurement
Credentials: B. Eng, P.Eng

Geert (George) Vandebelt
Areas of expertise: Microcontroller Applications and Digital Design
Credentials: Member of PEO

Chris Tyler
Professor
Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT), School of Computer Studies
Industrial Research Chair for College in Open Source and Emerging Technologies
Areas of Expertise: Open Source Software, Internet technologies, Linux, X Window System, Founder of TeachingOpenSource.org
Published works: Author of: " Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution" and " X Power Tools," Ongoing contributor and former board member of Fedora Project Member of X.org

Goran Svenk
Areas of Expertise: Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Visual Basic .NET Framework
Published Works: Author of Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ for Engineering and Technology

Evan Weaver
Chair
School of Information and Communication Technology 
Areas of Expertise: Open source, game programming, software development
Credentials: Game programming and open source research on topics including Haptic Joystick Benchmarking, Motionview mo-cap data processing software
Published Works: In-house published books on programming

William Humber
Director
Office of Eco Seneca Initiatives
Areas of expertise: Canadian Sports History - any era, including baseball, bicycling, and winter sports
Published Works: The Baseball Book and Trophy (1993), The Kid's Soccer Book (1994), All I Thought About was Baseball (with John St. James, 1996),
Bowmanville: A Small Town at the Edge (1997), A Sporting Chance: Achievements of African-Canadian Athletes (2004), Diamonds of the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada, Let's Play Ball, Central School (Bowmanville) History, Freewheeling: The Story of Bicycling in Canada, Cheering for the Home Team
 

Dean Boukydis
Professor
School of Tourism
Areas of Expertise: niche and sustainable/ experiential tourism, volunteerism and hospitality trends
Credentials: Owner of two niche travel companies and director special projects North America for i-to-I travel U.K.
Published Works: co-author of Professional Travel Counseling (Fifth Edition), Passport: Introduction to the Tourism Industry (Fourth Canadian Edition)