Michael V. Mannino received a B.B.A. degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1978 and an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree both from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has served on the faculty in the department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Florida from 1983 to 1985, the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the University of Texas at Austin from 1985 to 1991, and the Department of Management Science at the University of Washington from 1991 to 1997.  He was also a visiting professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Postech in Pohang, Korea in 2004. He is currently an associate professor in the Business School at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. In addition, he is the co-director of the CSIS Ph.D. Program, a joint program with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Dr. Mannino has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. His courses emphasize a solid grasp of fundamental concepts and skills to prepare the student for applied work and more advanced training. He has taught courses on database management (beginning and advanced), systems analysis, web development, object oriented computing, business programming, and data mining. He has developed online courses in database management and web development. He is the author of Database Design, Application Development, and Administration and Integrated Access Labs for Database Design, Application Development, and Administration both published by Irwin McGraw-Hill. The third edition of the textbook was published in December 2005.

Dr. Mannino conducts research in the areas of management of information technology, knowledge-based systems, and database management. He has published 29 refereed journal articles and 29 refereed conference articles on subjects in sequential decision making, data warehouse operations, database design, query optimization, data dictionary systems, model management, and object oriented databases. His articles have appeared in major information systems journals including Information Systems Research, ORSA Journal on Computing, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys, MIS Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems, and Journal of Management Information Systems. IBM Corporation and Unify Corporation have supported his research.

In the last few years, Dr. Mannino began a new research area on the compensation aspects of public employee pensions. He has recently completed an initial study on implicit compensation for career employees receiving retirement benefits through the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association.

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