William White McDonald Family Distinguished Faculty FellowDirector, Management Information Systems Program and
The Aging Infrastructure Systems Center of Excellence.
Office: 356 Alston 205/348-8909
106 Bevill Research Building 205/348-5525
dhale@cba.ua.edu
Specialty Areas
The creation of a cross-industry integrated body of knowledge for aging infrastructure systems command and control systems. Support areas include crisis mitigation and response, decision support, enterprise integration, knowledge management, collaborative human-computer problem-solving systems, economics, risk and reliability, and systems development and delivery.
Education
University of Wisconsin-Parkside (B.A.)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Ph.D.)
Honors, Achievements and Affiliations
Dr. Hale's research has resulted in over 50 scholarly and IS professional publications in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Hale's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Transportation,U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Accenture, Alabama Department of Transportation, Computer Sciences Corporation, the KPMG Peat Marwick Research Foundation, Procter and Gamble, Sterling Software, Texas Instruments, and the University TransportationCenters of Alabama. He has consulted for Acuity, AT&T, Tenneco, EDS, Exxon-Mobil,FedEx, Georgia-Pacific, Home Depot, Procter and Gamble, Rohm and Haas, Sterling Software, and Texas Instruments.
Dr. Hale was honored by The University of Alabama in 2001 by being named the University’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor and in 2002 his faculty colleagues in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration presented him with the Thomas Moore Endowed Undergraduate Teaching Award. In addition to directing the State’s Information Technology Workforce Resource Center, Dr. Hale currently serves on the State of Alabama’s Infrastructure Commission and the Governor’s Blackbelt Taskforce, and the State’s Information Technology Workforce Development ResourceCenter.