Doyt Perry is an Associate Professor of Informatics at Muskingum University who brings both academic and industrial experience to his role in the MISST program. He joined the faculty of Muskingum University in 2001 after working for sixteen years at Bell Laboratories as an architect, designer and developer of telecommunications software. He spent two years on the staff of Lucent Technologies Systems Architecture Review Board that developed an industry best practice for improving the success of large, complex software projects through early identification of technical and organizational problems.

His career-long interests focus on leveraging people, processes and technology to improve software development. Those interests include software engineering methodologies, the design, implementation and certification of effective software development processes, the use of semi-formal modeling techniques and code generation to produce software, and software reuse.

Dr. Perry received a PhD in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, where he also taught as a Senior Lecturer. He has served on the faculty of the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, and Denison University.

Richard D. Reichard joined the faculty of Muskingum University in 2004. He brings to his teaching 16 years of professional business and software engineering experience at Bell Laboratories. His work at Bell Laboratories included the development of routing algorithms for packet switched signaling networks, leading numerous software development projects, the development of quality management plans, the management of an international technical support team for wireless telecommunications products, and 3 years of overseas experience, living and working in Asia and Europe.

Richard Reichard has taught a broad set of Computer Science courses and continues to upgrade his teaching skills to incorporate action learning techniques. Richard Reichard has earned a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Information Systems Management degree from DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Business, as well as being a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Mary Kaufmann serves as Assistant Professor of Informatics and program manager for the Master of Information Strategy, Systems and Technology. Mary brings over two decades of experience, leading teams, implementing new technology, leading management development, strategic design and implementation with Ameritech (now AT&T) and the Longaberger Company.

She is a 1987 graduate of Muskingum University with a double major in Computer Science and Business. She completed an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College in 1990 and graduated in 2008 with a Master of Divinity from Ashland Theological Seminary. She also contributed to a book written in Association with the Sandberg Leadership Center called Leadership Character, which was published in 2002.