Directory:Victor Berlin

Victor Berlin
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Dr. Victor Berlin is an educator specializing in Information Security, and the President of the University of Fairfax[1]. His standard biography states that he earned a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. from Cornell University. Dr. Berlin has published in the IIEEE Transaction on Engineering Management, Management Science, and Decision Sciences. At the University of Fairfax, under Dr. Berlin’s guidance, senior IT and information security profesionals have been able to advance their careers in the public and private sectors.

By focusing on information security and information assurance policy level problems, the University of Fairfax senior professional students have applied field research methods to addressing issues such as:

• Identity theft prevention
• FISMA Compliance
• Sarbanes Oxely Compliance
• Certification and Accreditation of Information System
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Utilization of ISSE in the System Acquistion Process

These students have been guided by faculty who are leading practitioners in the information security field. These practitioners hold leadership postions within the public and private sectors. They bring to the class room their expertise and knowledge of current technical, threat and regulatory/compliance trends. As a result, students can rapidly transfer what they learn to problems they must solve on their jobs. The University of Fairfax doctoral students have benefited from an innovative dissertation process which as resulted in a 90% retention of “ABD” students. This retention level exceeds the national average by 300%.

Dr. Berlin’s 30 years of experience in the federal sector and higher education has enabled him to provide the guidance necessary for the accomplishments of the University of Fairfax. Prior to becoming president of the University of Fairfax Dr. Berlin has served on the faculty of the graduate school of management at Boston College, as Chief of Experimental Methods in the Experimental Technology Incentives Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as Director of the Center of IT Education at Anteon Corporation a(now GDIT) and on the faculty of the Keller Graduate School of Management. In addition he served in executive or acacdemic adminsitrative positions at General Communications, Potomac College and Rockwell University.

At the Boston College Graduate School of Management, Dr. Berlin introduced a project driven curriculum for MBA students in the Production and Operations Management course. MBA students in this course formed small consulting teams of 5 students. These teams identified and secured “client” organizations facing operations management challenges. These teams utilized the operations management tools to create proposals and ultimately solutions for their clients.

In 1996 Anteon International Corporation recruited Dr. Berlin to become the Director for the Center for IT Education. Fairfax, Virginia The Center for IT Education provided courses Oracle Software Development and JAVA Development for technical professionals. In 2000 Anteon executives decided to establish Rockwell University to offer master's degrees in e-commerce. The State of Virginia approved Rockwell University to enroll students in November 2000, but in June 2001, before any students enrolled Anteon sold Rockwell University to Pinnacle Software Solutions, a technology training company. Dr. Berlin remained with Rockwell until December 2001.

At the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Experimental Technology Incentives Program, Dr. Berlin headed a unit charged with the responsibility for facilitating regulatory and procurement agencies in the federal government to undertake policy experiments to test new regulatory and procurement policies. The objective of this program was to assess potential impacts of anticipated policy developments on technological change in the private sector. Dr. Berlin recruited a staff of doctoral candidates who assisted in the development of these projects while they completed their dissertations at Northwestern University. With this group of doctoral students Dr. Berlin began to develop the dissertation model that evolved in the the University of Fairfax dissertation model. These doctoral students used policy experiments for federal agencies as the topics for their dissertations. These agencies include DOC, FERC and EPA.

In the 1990s, the Maryland High refused to permit non-traditional institutions such as Strayer, Walden University, the University of Phoenix and DETC accredited schools to operate in the State of Maryland. Potomac College was the first new institution, a non-traditional college, to be approved over the objections of many of the regulators and existing institution. In 1996, the Maryland Higher Education Commission utilized research provided by Dr. Berlin in developing standards for distance education.

In 1991, Potomac College, an independent, non-profit institution (501.c.3) in Rockville, Maryland, began offering working adult learners with two years of college the opportunity to complete bachelor's degrees in management or microcomputer systems management. As president of Potomac College, Dr. Berlin guided the institution to national accreditation within its first two years of operation despite conflicts over its innovative curriculum with the Maryland Higher Education Commission. The College had received the support of over 250 employers.

The curriculum of Potomac College, based on a nationwide study of adult learners conducted by the College Board, enabled working adult learners to complete projects at their jobs that would immediately apply what they were learning in their college courses. These working adult students would take one course in a six week term and would complete one practicum project applying the learning acquired in their college course. These students were guided by their professor in class, a practicum faculty mentor, and a work place mentor. Employers such as General Electric Information Services, Bechtel, and Bell Atlantic supported employees attending Potomac College and reaped the benefits of the practicum projects completed on the job by their “employee students”.

In 1995, Potomac College was approved by the District of Columbia as an accredited institution of higher education and the main campus of the College was relocated to the District of Columbia because of the lack of support from MHEC. At the time of its relocation, the College was divested and acquired by a private group of investors and converted to a “for profit” institution. Potomac College continues to operate to this day and has obtained a second accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

General Communications, Inc. (GCI), also located in Rockville was guided by president Florence Tate. Dr. Berlin served in a management capacity at GCI prior to becoming president of Potomac College in 1991. GCI was an accredited technical instituteoffering micro-computer certificate programs. The certificate programs at GCI were articulated with associate degree programs at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. GCI was recognized by the US Department of Education as a model school and a video depicting its accomplishments was produced by the U.S. Department of Education. In addition, the Maryland Higher Education Loan Corporation recognized and adopted the Student Loan Default Preventio Program created and implemented by GCI. The graduates of GCI were hired by employers throughout the DC metro area including NIH, the US Departmente of Health and Human Services, and DOD. Finally, GCI underwent standard audits by the US Department of Education and repeatedly found to be in full compliance with Title IV regulations In 1998 Berlin headed the training division at Anteon International Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia, providing courses in computer programming for technical professionals. In 2000 he persuaded Anteon executives to establish Rockwell University to offer master's degrees in e-commerce. Rockwell was approved to enroll students in November 2000, but in June 2001, before any students enrolled it was sold to Pinnacle Software Solutions, a technology training company. Berlin remained with Rockwell until December 2001.

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