The Webster Echo - SNHU School of Business May 2022

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“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going” – Jim Ryun

President's Good Steward Award Meet with Faculty

Dr. Lundy Lewis

Explore our program

Information Technology

Article of the Month

Dress to Success

Find a Job Summer Events Credits

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PRESIDENT'S GOOD STEWARD AWARD

Dr. Lowell C. Matthews

Prof. Organizational Leadership

A lot of the work in The Chandler Center involves meeting with faculty to get them interested and invested in community work. We try to help them see that students obtain critical thinking skills, increased cultural competency, and empathy from community work. We share examples of times when service-learning deepened student learning in a course. We share the resources we can offer and hope they'll be willing to join us.

We never had to have this meeting with Dr. Matthews. Instead of us convincing him, we were running to keep up as he shared his ideas. Chris infuses community into everything he touches, personally and professionally. From his personal work with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, to involving his courses in the Thomas O. Cash Memorial AIDS Walk, he asks students to think critically about their place in community and what it means to be an active citizen.

His leadership of the University Honors Program provides another example of his commitment to this work. He has infused community engagement into this program from the pre-college work students do to their thesis options as seniors. Additionally, he has taken the lead on Project AIM (Achieving Independence and Mobility), an initiative to reach incarcerated learners with a pathway to a college degree.

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Meet tHE Faculty

Dr. Lundy Lewis Hi! I'm Lundy Lewis. I am a professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems. I have been at SNHU for 19 years. Before that, I was a 10-year adjunct faculty at SNHU. I was an adjunct when the school was New Hampshire College.

Why I chose SNHU

Advice for students

I wanted to get experience in the industry to help me academically. It is well known that if professors have experience in the real world, they can bring that to the classroom. That’s why I went into the industry after I got my PhD and planned to work in the industry for 5 years, but I got caught up in the race and I ended up being in the industry for 15 years.

During that time, I was an adjunct professor in places like New Hampshire College, University of New Hampshire and some other universities nearby. Then it came time to go back into academia, so I looked around at the universities and I loved SNHU. We have a symbiotic relationship. I've contributed several things over the years to SNHU that have been worthwhile.

If there's any course that you take whose subject matter is like, catnip makes a cat go crazy with enjoyment and interest, then that would be something to stay in. I've never regretted sticking with logic and evolving with it throughout my career. So, find the courses that you like and major in that. In addition, it is also important to get a master’s degree. The best deal in the world is to get a job at a company that will pay for your master’s degree.

Why I became interested in my field My field is AI and robotics. I got interested in that before robots were around. In my undergraduate school, I took a course on formal logic. I loved doing proofs and trying to represent natural language in symbols, namely sentential and predicate logic, is sort of how the brain works, I can understand how the brain reasons by studying principles of logic. So that evolved into AI and robotics. So that's how I got interested in the field. I'm still hoping sometime before my career is over to teach a logic class. I taught a lot of logic classes as a lecturer when I was working on my Ph.D. so I want to do that again before my career is over.

Fun fact I teach robotics, AI, innovation, and digital music in the CIS department. I also have 37 US patents. I got most of those patents when I was in industry. I'm a musician. I've been a musician ever since I was about 12 when The Beatles came out. I have music in my blood and so I have been playing guitar and piano ever since. I'm always putting together a band. For example, the band here consists of professors in the School of Business. Some of us get together and play sometime. It's just fun saying yes, I have a band. We don't have a name yet, but we have a band, and we don't get together that often because of the pandemic. But nonetheless we are in a band!

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

In today's personal, business, and non-profit settings, information technology (IT) has become critical. IT is the use of computers and other electronic devices to receive, store, retrieve, send, and alter data in its most basic form. People can communicate more effectively and easily with the help of technology.

Typical p ositions include: Datab base Adm inistrato r Web/So ftware D eveloper System Analyst Informat ion Secu rity Analy Compute st r progra m mer Cloud A rchitect

tion Tips for Informa ents Technology Stud mmunication co g in p o el ev d n o Focus language skills. and programming s before class ic p to n o ch ar se Do re and give Attend Seminars presentations. ink concrete Be practical and th different ways. rent types of Explore into diffe technologies.

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ARTICLE OF THE MONTH

DRESS TO SUCCESS Business Attire

Dressing professionally has many benefits like helping you build confidence, showing self-care, maturity, attention to detail, and a clean image. It’s also a way to reflect your style and be creative.

Types of Dress Code

Companies usually set dress codes for their employees depending on the sector, for example, IT employees may use more casual clothing, while finance and law are required to use business professional or formal. The key is learning to distinguish each type of dress code and when its appropriate its use.

Casual: common everyday clothing like jeans and t-shirts. For an office make sure you wear appropriate casual clothing and avoid athleisure, pajamas, too tight or revealing clothes. Avoid wearing casuals when doing an interview, meeting clients, presentations, meetings, etc.

Business Casual: the most common dress code in many offices and school presentations, as it’s appropriate for most settings, especially if you’re unsure of the dress code. Includes button-down shirts, blazers, sweaters, polos, toned-down accessories, and styled hair.

Business Professional / Semiformal: this style is more conservative and traditional, usually what lawyers or accountants would wear for work, it includes business suits and ties, moderate heels, conservative dresses and skirts.

Formal: worn for “black tie” events like galas, usually happening after 6 p.m., includes tuxedos, matching ties, floor length gowns, and fancy jewelry.

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER INTERNSHIP (FALL 2022) As an intern, you will be matched to a manager and a mentor. You will have the opportunity to influence the evolution of Amazon technology and lead mission critical projects early in your career. Your design, code, and raw smarts will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges in the areas of distributed systems, data mining, automation, optimization, scalability, and security – just to name a few.

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MANCHESTER, NH

IT BUSINESS SYSTEM ANALYST If so, join MEMIC’s Information Technology Department as our next Business System Analyst. We need innovators like you to help us transform the company.

The IT Business System Analyst will analyze existing business processes and information systems and recommend modifications to meet the changing needs of the organization.

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Off-Campus

Check out these off-campus events for some Summer fun!

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Illusionist Rick Thomas Thomas has also been featured on numerous national television specials including the NBC series “The World’s Greatest Magic”, Masters of Illusion on the CW, MTV, FOX, TLC, Animal Planet, the History Channel and his own special on ABC. 7:30 PM, l The Rex Theatre, Manchester, NH

Live Comedy with Steve Scarfo

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His live comedy event features headliner, Steve Scarfo! Steve Scarfo is a more than 20 year veteran of the Boston Comedy Scene and was noticed by The Boston Globe at his first performance.

8:30 PM l Chunky's Cinema Pub, Manchester, NH

Sea Glass Art Creations Create colorful sea glass art simply by using an assortment of shells, colorful pebbles, sand, and of course sea glass. To participate please register at VisitNH.gov 8:00 PM l The Canvas Roadshow, Bedford, NH

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Credits - Vijaykrishna Akity Student Worker - Dr. Mike Tasto Interim Dean

- Irem Bat Graduate Assistant

- Dr. Leila Samii Associate Dean

- Hrushikesh Engineer Student Worker

- Dr. Lowell Matthews Organizational

- Alex Haddad

Leadership Professor

Student Worker

- Dr. Lundy Lewis

- Ju PI

Computer Information

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Systems Professor - Marian Roque Graduate Assistant - Yahia Sweidan Graduate Assistant

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