Cindy McClure

Academic Credentials

NCIDQ, ASID, MCR, CKD, GCP

Bio

Cindy brings 30+ years of practice experience to the classroom. She has multiple design awards to her name, has been published and featured in a variety of media outlets, and remains active within the industry, speaking at conferences and serving on multiple association boards

Teaching Areas

Interior Design

Research Interests

In-Person vs. Online Teaching of Interior Design

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Lisa M Shine

Academic Credentials

Marymount University, BSN (2014), Marymount University, MSN, (2020), ANCC, FNP-BC

Bio

Lisa is a nursing instructor for the Malek School for Health Professions. She is a two-time graduate of Marymount University and she is board certified by ANCC.

Her background is in emergency nursing and urgent care medicine. After completion of her BSN (2014), she spent 7 years working in a level 1 burn/trauma center in Washington, DC. She finished her MSN in 2020 and transitioned to urgent care in 2021 as a nurse practitioner. Here she manages care for pediatric and adult patients.

As a born and bred ER nurse, she is interested in: disaster management, advocating for underserved populations, and healthcare access for all. She is also focused on building strong foundational knowledge within students in order to prepare them to build their own identity within a dynamic profession.

Teaching Areas

Nursing

Research Interests

  • Emergency Nursing
  • Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases
  • Autoimmune Disorder
  • Healthcare advocacy

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Dr. Joseph A. Pisani

Academic Credentials

Educational Leadership

Bio

Dr. Joseph Pisani joined the Marymount University faculty in 2021 as a Lead Doctoral Faculty Mentor. Dr. Pisani’s academic experience includes serving as a Senior Dissertation Chair for Grand Canyon University and Liberty University as a Student Teaching Adjunct Faculty, in the School of Graduate Education. For the past 28 years, Dr. Pisani has worked in P-12 public education. He has served as a Social Studies and Career and Technical Education teacher. For the past 18 years, Dr. Pisani has served as a secondary administrator, and 15 years as a high school principal in both New York and Virginia.

Dr. Pisani graduated from Capella University with his PhD in 2008 with a primary emphasis in Education Leadership and Technology. Dr. Pisani’s graduate degree is in Elementary and Secondary Education from Dowling College and earned a postgraduate degree in School District Administration. His first undergraduate degree in History and Political Science is from SUNY @ Stony Brook and his second undergraduate degree in Business Administration is from Dowling College. Dr. Pisani’s research interests are focused on transition challenges for students from middle school to high school and leadership development and methodology. Dr. Pisani is currently authoring a book on shared leadership and the value of stakeholder voice. He is an active member of Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals and National Association of Secondary School Principals.

PhD – Capella University,
Educational Leadership
February 2008

Dissertation: Student, Parent, and Teacher Attitudes towards the Importance of Transition Practices in the Implementation of the (Actual) Activities

PG – Dowling College,
School District Administration
May 2002

MS – Dowling College,
Secondary and Elementary Education
May 1992
Permanent Certifications (VA & NY):
Social Studies 7-12
Business Education 7-12
Elementary Education N-6

BBA – Dowling College,
Bachelor of Business Administration
December 1990
Finance and Economics

Teaching Areas

College of Health and Education

Research Interests

Leaderships

Publications

Dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2008) Student, Parent, and Teacher Attitudes towards the Importance of Transition Practices in the Implementation of the (Actual) Activities […]

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Hector M. Raya

Academic Credentials

M.S., CSCS, USAW

Bio

Hector Raya joins the Marymount Athletic Staff as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach in the Fall of 2021. Raya came to Marymount from Mount St. Mary’s University where he spent three years working as a S&C coach for the Mountaineers.

While at the Mount, Raya worked with 14 Division I varsity teams. During his time at the Mount he worked specifically with Women’s Basketball, Men’s Lacrosse, Women’s Soccer, Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving, Women’s Bowling, Women’s Rugby, and Men’s and Women’s Water Polo.

Prior to the Mount, Raya completed a stint at Shippensburg University where he assisted with 16 Division II varsity teams.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science from Shippensburg University and earned his Master’s in Sports Management from Mount St. Mary’s University. Raya is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and a USAW Sports Performance Coach.

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Josh Edgar

Academic Credentials

B.Sc., Marymount University
M.Sc., University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Cloud Practitioner
CompTIA Cloud+ Certified
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM)

Bio

Professor Edgar is delighted to rejoin the Marymount community as a member of the adjunct faculty, having received his Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree from Marymount prior to the destruction of the old “Blue Goose.” Once a Saint, Always a Saint!

Since 2015, Professor Edgar has been providing IT consulting services to public- and private-sector clients through his primary position as a Manager of Cyber & Strategic Risk at Deloitte, a world-renowned consulting and risk advisory firm. Professor Edgar specializes in architecting, delivering and managing the operations of cyber-forward enterprise cloud solutions, helping large organizations adopt cloud capabilities that increase their productivity and system reliability while emphasizing the need for strict cybersecurity guardrails. While previously at McLean-based Booz Allen Hamilton, Professor Edgar proudly supported the HealthCare.gov systems integrator effort, where he was one of the leaders tasked with migrating the federal health insurance marketplace into Amazon Web Services (AWS), facilitating better access to health care for tens of millions of Americans.

Professor Edgar holds numerous certifications from leaders in the cloud computing industry and is passionate about sharing his experience using cloud technologies so that Marymount graduates can leverage this knowledge to create value in organizations of any size. He teaches remotely from Plano, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Ashley, and their two children. The Edgars are parishioners at The Catholic Community of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Plano, where Professor Edgar volunteers as a blackjack and craps dealer for a parish scholarship fund. When he is not consulting, teaching or spending time with his family, Professor Edgar is either playing piano, flying a Cessna 172, or learning more about the cloud.

Teaching Areas

  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Security
  • Systems Administration
  • DevOps Engineering

Research Interests

  • Cloud Computing
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Web Development
  • Making technology more affordable and accessible to all populations

 

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John Jamison

Academic Credentials

PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

MPhil, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

MA, Iowa State University

BA, Humboldt State University

Bio

John joined the Marymount faculty in 2021. Prior to Marymount, he’s taught in universities in the US and Asia. John spent over 12 years working in corporate communication and human resources serving banking, technology, manufacturing, and nonprofit sectors. John worked in China for 25 years before coming home to the US to join the Marymount faculty.

Research Interests

Organizational behavior; Corporate communication; Employee wellbeing; Judgement and decision making

Publications

Jamison, J. (2021). Is this the burnout we’re looking for? Testing the affective and cognitive states of employee burnout. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 12809. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.12809abstract

Jamison, J., Yay, T., & Feldman, G. (2020). Action-inaction asymmetries in moral scenarios: Replication of the omission bias examining morality and blame with extensions linking to causality, intent, and regret. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 89, 103977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.103977

Jamison, J. (2019). Narrative means to engagement ends: Dispositional creativity’s role in moderating employee burnout. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019, 18408. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.18408abstract

Jamison, J. (2019). Meet the communication executive of the digital age: What business leaders expect from communication functions and agencies [White Paper]. International Association of Business Communication.

Choi, Y., Chao, M., & Jamison, J. (2018). The effects of autonomy and growth mindset on burnout: The questions of whether, when, and how. 30th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, US.

Huai, M., Mao, K., Zhang, L., & Jamison, J. (2018). When safety / efficacy is more important in predicting employee voice? A meta-analysis on the moderating effects of cultural factors and voice types. The Bi-annual Conference of the International Association for Chinese Management Research, Wuhan, China.

Jamison, J. (2017). The transformation of internal communication in the digital century. The International Academy of Business Communication Hong Kong Symposium on China, Hong Kong, China.

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Youree Kim

Academic Credentials

Ph.D. University of Connecticut

Teaching Areas

Financial Accounting, Auditing

Research Interests

Auditing, Financial Disclosure, Financial Reporting Quality, Corporate Governance

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