The virtual meeting guidebook (ePub)

Dr. Macedonio Alanis is a Full Professor of Management Information Systems at Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey, Mexico. For over 25 years, he has been teaching face-to-face and distance learning graduate and undergraduate level courses in the areas of technology management, e-commerce, IT strategy, and e-government. Some of his classes, using distance learning, are attended, live, by nearly 1000 students in nine Latin American countries. He also designed and taught on a dual degree program on IT Management between ITESM and Carnegie Mellon University and worked on a specialization program in project management between ITESM and Stanford University.



Dr. Alanis is a member of the Academic Senate of Tecnologico de Monterrey. He has worked in the design of graduate and undergraduate programs in universities in the United States, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Mexico.



In the private sector, Dr. Alanis has been the manager of administration and finance of Neoris, an IT company of the multinational CEMEX (NYSE:CX). He has worked for IBM and is part of the Cutter Consortium's group of expert consultants.



In the public sector, he worked as Director of Information Technology (CIO) for the Government of the State of Nuevo Leon. He participated in the definition of Mexico's national IT policies.



Dr. Alanis has written more than 120 papers, book chapters, and conferences. He received the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship and was elected to occupy the Americas Chair on the board of directors of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).



Dr. Alanis holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration on Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota. He obtained a Master of Sciences in Computer Science (ScM) from Brown University, and a BSc in Computer Science from Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey, Mexico.