Biography - Daniel Benjamin

Mr. Benjamin has a Bachelors degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) (www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/19/60minutes/main559476.shtml
and www.businessweek.com/1998/49/b3607011.htm) and a Masters degree from Kakatiya University. He has over fifteen years of experience providing Information Technology and Management education and consulting solutions in the public and private sectors. His clients include the White House, the U.S. Senate, the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Treasury (DoT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Department of Education (DoEd).

He is on the Executive board of the Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association (FISSEA). He is also on the Executive Committee of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIG on IT Education (SIGITE).

As the Department Chair of Information Technology at the American Public University System (APUS), he started the Information Technology Department. He proposed and architected a major restructuring of the single IT degree program, submitted a proposal request to change program offerings to HLC, hosted a focused HLC site visit, and launched the restructured program. The success of this restructuring is evidenced in the growth of student enrollment; the enrollment grew from around 700 students in 2006 to over 3,500 students today. The restructuring also enabled us to recruit strongly credentialed faculty and to increase the IT faculty pool grew from 15 to almost 35. Consequently, student satisfaction also soared. The Higher Learning Commission also approved his proposal for a gradate Information Technology degree program with concentrations in IT Project Management, Information Assurance and Security, and Digital Forensics.

He authored books on Java and Oracle that were published by Element-K Press (formerly Ziff-Davis) and McGraw-Hill/ Oracle Press. He made many winning presentations that have resulted in multi-million dollar contract awards. He developed IT curriculum for three universities using multi-tiered Learning Outcomes Assessment (LOA) Architectures.

He was instrumental in developing the implementation strategy for President Bush’s CFO Act of 1990. He also implemented a SCORM compliant, learning objects based e-Learning solution in support of President Clinton’s Distance Learning Initiative.

He established successful Information Technology, Business Process Reengineering, Technology, and Educational practices at various companies. Many of his practices were cited for excellence. His practices and contract awards realized over 25 Million dollars in revenues. His various roles included Vice-President, Chief Academic Officer (CAO), and Chief Technology Officer (CTO); he is currently the Chair of the Department of Information Technology at APUS.

He facilitated various management and Joint Application Design (JAD) workshops. He is a certified F.A.S.T. Facilitator and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is also an excellent instructor and uses humor effectively to communicate the principles of developing Information Technology and Management solutions.