Zaheeruddin Asif

Assistant Professor, Center for Computer Studies

Institute of Business Administration

Areas of Interest:

Philosophy of Computer Mediated Communication, Coordination, Deliberative Communication, Open Source, and Social Software
Specialization in Online Communities of Practice

Teaching at IBA since 1991.

Educational Qualifications:

2008 Ph.D. in MIS from Temple University, Philadelphia

Certificate of Achievement, Fall 2007

Academic Excellence Citation, Spring 2004

1989 Master of Business Administration

Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan

1988 Postgraduate Diploma in Systems Analysis & Design

Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan

1986 Bachelor of Science

F.G. Sir Syed College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Emphasis: Mathematics and Physics

Summary of Teaching Experience:

2001 – 2008 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Taught the following subjects:

· Management Information Systems (MIS130)

· Java Programming Language (MIS081)

· Information Security (MIS950)

1991 – 2000 Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan

Assistant Professor: Taught the following subjects

· Systems Analysis and Design

· Management Information Systems

· Database Management

· Programming Language RPG II

· Programming Language Visual Basic

· Information Systems Management

· Computer Applications to Business

· Computer Concepts

· Business Mathematics

Summary of Non-teaching Experience:

2001 – 2008 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

· Developed a completely revised website for the department of Carrier and Technical Education, Temple University

· Developed MIS Contact database for Fox School of Business and Management.

· Research team member for the projects of Technology Adoption for IPv6, IT evaluation, and Systems representation.

· Worked on Temple web-based Peer Review system, added functionality using ASP.

· Team member virtual communities research project sponsored by Aventis Behring.

· Developed a serial communications interface and test bench for TI S2000 RFID reader using Visual Basic 6.

· Developed layered VLS ERDs for Fish-eye diagrams research using Viso.

· Developed applications in PHP, MySQL, ASP.net, Visual Basic 6, MS Access, UML, HTML, Frontpage, and Dreamweaver

1991 – 2000 Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan

Assistant Professor: Responsibilities included teaching, counseling, consulting and research. Advising students undertaking systems development projects, coordinating, and evaluating these projects. Managing computer systems including AS/400, and Windows NT based systems. Planning hardware, software and network requirements for Center for Computer Studies.

Project Manager NETS. (National Education Testing Service, similar to ETS, USA).

My responsibilities included systems development, project management, evaluating technical and financial feasibilities. Also training of staff, planning and organizing field tests for up to 10,000 students at the same time at different locations. Liaison with the Ministry of Education for nationwide implementation of the scheme.

Project Manager for POF Enterprise Integration. The project involved requirements specification for the enterprise integration of POF (a large defense equipment manufacturing firm, having over 30,000 employees). The objective was to implement fully integrated ERP system in a network of fourteen geographically dispersed factories.

1990 –1991 IBM World Trade Corporation, Karachi, Pakistan

Marketing Apprentice. Successfully connected for the first time in Pakistan, NBP S/36 to LAN 3270 ‘TRUE’ Remote Gateway. Supported Banking Sector team.

Selected Publications

Asif, Z. and H. K. Klein (2008). "Open and Free Deliberation: A Prerequisite for Positive Design" Information and Organization, (Special Issue) 2008

Asif, Z. and H. K. Klein (2007). "The Importance of Deliberative Inquiry for IS Research" 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, CO.

Asif, Z. and D. Schuff (2006). "A process-based framework for assessing IT value". Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems, Omaha, NE.

Asif, Z. and H. K. Klein (2005). "Designing Spaces for Constructive Inquiry in Organizations" Design Workshop 2005: Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Asif, Z. (2005). “Online Deliberative Communications” Invited Talk Presented at the State University of New York, Binghamton, NY. Sept. 2005

Asif, Z. and M. Mandviwalla (2005). "Integrating the Supply Chain with RFID: A Technical and Business Analysis." Communications of the AIS, (15)24.

Asif, Z. and H. K. Klein (2004). "ITC Support for Deliberative Communications: A significant gap in IS research?" ICIS 2004: Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) Workshop, Washington, DC.