Dr. Schenita A. Floyd
University of North Texas
ADA - Advanced Data Analytics
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Education

PhD, University of North Texas, 2021.
Major: Information Science
Degree Specialization: Data Science
Dissertation Title: Artificial Intelligence in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment from the Perspective of Women Engineers in the United States
Certificate, George Washington University, 2001.
Major: Project Management
Degree Specialization: Project Management
Dissertation Title: NA
MBA, Southeastern University, 2000.
Major: Business
Degree Specialization: Finance
Dissertation Title: N/A
BS, Texas A&M University, 1997.
Major: Electrical Engineering
Degree Specialization: Control Systems and Telecommunications
Dissertation Title: NA

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. (January 16, 2022 – Present).
Adjunct Professor, Texas Christian University. (January 10, 2020 – May 13, 2022).
Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas at Dallas. (January 19, 2021 – December 17, 2021).
Professional
IT Project Manager, University of North Texas System. (August 1, 2015 – January 14, 2022).
Project Director, Fusemind. (January 10, 2010 – July 7, 2015).
Senior Project Manager, Fusemind. (February 10, 2007 – January 10, 2010).
Senior Project Manager, Bank of America. (January 10, 2005 – January 30, 2007).
Project Management Consultant, Ajilon Consulting. (January 10, 2004 – January 10, 2005).
Sales Support Program Manager, Sprint. (November 1, 2001 – January 4, 2004).
Project/Product Manager, Sprint. (January 10, 2000 – October 30, 2001).
Network Engineer, Sprint. (July 10, 1997 – January 10, 2000).

Licensures and Certifications

Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Council for Six Sigma Certification. (April 1, 2021 – Present).

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute. (January 22, 2002 – December 23, 2026).

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance. (June 1, 2020 – June 1, 2024).

Professional Memberships

Decision Sciences Institute. (September 6, 2023 – Present).

R Ladies. (May 2020 – Present).

BUILT International. (March 2020 – Present).

Association for Information Science and Technology. (January 2017 – Present).

Project Management Institute. (December 2001 – Present).

Student Affairs Committee, National Black MBA Association. (January 2001 – Present).

National Society of Black Engineers. (September 1992 – Present).

Development Activities Attended

Conference Attendance,"Women in Tech Summit," Alliance of Technology and Women, Irving, Texas, United States of America. (April 11, 2024 – April 11, 2024).

Conference Attendance,"10th Texas Universities Educational Statistics and Psychometrics (TUESAP X) conference," Stata, Cambium Assessment, and the Department of Educational Psychology at UNT, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (March 22, 2024 – March 22, 2024).

Workshop,"Faculty Grantsmanship Workshop," Division of Research and Innovation, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (December 13, 2023 – December 13, 2023).

Seminar,"Dallas Cyber Security Summit Nov 23," Cyber Summit USA, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (November 10, 2023 – November 10, 2023).

Seminar,"University AI Collaboration Symposium," UNT-UTA-UTD-SMU + TRA, Frisco, TX, United States of America. (September 29, 2023 – September 29, 2023).

Seminar,"PMI Academic Offerings for Higher Education Institutions," Project Management Institute, Online, Online, United States of America. (September 13, 2023 – September 13, 2023).

Seminar,"Dallas Cyber Security Summit May 23," Cyber Summit USA, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (May 2, 2023 – May 2, 2023).

Conference Attendance,"North Texas 2023 Equity & Diversity Conference," UNT and Goldman Sachs, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (March 23, 2023 – March 23, 2023).

Conference Attendance,"The North Texas Tech Connect," Dallas/Fort Worth Area Chapter of SIM, Dallas, Texas, United States of America. (September 27, 2022 – September 27, 2022).

Conference Attendance,"2022 Grace Hopper Celebration - Online Sessions," AnitaB.org, Orlando, Florida, United States of America. (September 20, 2022 – September 23, 2022).

Other,"Extend the Reach and Impact of Your Ideas: Publishing with Harvard Business Review and HBP Education," Harvard Business Publishing and ProjectPhD, Remote, Remote, United States of America. (September 15, 2022 – September 15, 2022).

Workshop,"Strategies for Teaching Success," Project PhD, KPMG, and Bentley University, Waltham, MA, United States of America. (June 22, 2022 – June 24, 2022).

Conference Attendance,"Project Management Symposium," UTD, Dallas, Texas, United States of America. (May 17, 2022 – May 18, 2022).

Workshop,"FIRSTS Symposium," College of Science, Denton, TX, United States of America. (May 6, 2022 – May 6, 2022).

Conference Attendance,"UNT Equity & Diversity Conference," Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access, Denton, TX, United States of America. (March 23, 2022 – March 23, 2022).

Workshop,"Faculty Search Committee Training: Diverse Pools, Nondiscrimination, and jobs.untsystem.edu," UNT Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access, Denton, TX, United States of America. (March 18, 2022 – March 18, 2022).

Seminar,"Dallas Cyber Security Summit 22," Cyber Summit USA, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (March 11, 2022 – March 11, 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
ADTA 5240, Harvesting, Storing and Retrieving Data, 6 courses.
ADTA 5240A, Fundamentals of Data Engineering, 1 course.
ADTA 5340, Discovery and Learning with Big Data, 7 courses.
ADTA 5340A, Exploring Machine Learning and AI, 1 course.
ADTA 5340B, Exploratory Data Analysis, Visualization, & Supervised Machine Learning, 1 course.
ADTA 5810, Managing Analytics Projects, 1 course.
ADTA 5840, Agile Frameworks for Analytics, 1 course.
ADTA 5900, Special Problems, 1 course.
IPAC 4240, Principles of Data Structures, Harvesting and Wrangling, 2 courses.
IPAC 4340, Methods for Discovery and Learning from Data, 5 courses.

Teaching at Other Institutions

Texas Christian University, Business in Society, BUSI 10153, Spring 2022.

Texas Christian University, Business in Society, BUSI 10153, Fall 2021.

University of North Texas at Dallas, Introduction to Computer Networks, CSCE 3530, Fall 2021.

Texas Christian University, Business in Society, BUSI 10153, Spring 2021.

University of North Texas at Dallas, Human Computer Interface, CSCE 3220, Spring 2021.

University of North Texas at Dallas, IT Project Management, CSCE 3055, Spring 2021.

Texas Christian University, Business in Society, BUSI 10153, Fall 2020.

Directed Student Learning

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member,"Collaborative information behavior of agile teams during new product development," Information Science. (February 29, 2024 – November 1, 2024).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member,"AI Ethical Issues on Web Search Results," Information Science. (August 9, 2022 – September 1, 2024).

Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader,"AI Ethical Issues on Web Search Results," Information Science. (August 21, 2023 – January 31, 2024).

Awards and Honors

Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program, UNT. (August 2016 – May 2017).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Journal Article
Saavedra, C., Floyd, S., Mohammad, M., Ivester, R. (2022). From PMO to APO: The Transformation of a Project Management Team. PM World Journal. 11(6), 1-17. https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pmwj118-Jun2022-Saavedra-et-al-from-pmo-to-apo-transformation-of-pm-team.pdf
Floyd, S. (2021). Assessing African American Women Engineers’ Workplace Sentiment within the AI Field. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion. (5:5), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v5i5.34765
Floyd, S. (2016). Do machines hold a key to business success. PM World Journal. 5(10), 1-10. https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/pmwj51-Oct2016-Floyd-machines-hold-key-to-business-success-second-edition.pdf

Presentations Given

Oral Presentation

Floyd, S. A. (Author & Presenter), National Society of Black Engineers National Convention, AI Basics, NSBE, Kansas City, MO, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Floyd, S. A. (Author & Presenter), National Society of Black Engineers Professional Development Conference, Is your AI Ethical?, NSBE, Miami, FL, United States of America. (2022 – 2022).

Saavedra, C. (Author & Presenter), Floyd, S. A. (Author & Presenter), Mobashirin, M. (Author & Presenter), Ivester, R. (Author & Presenter), 14th Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium, From PMO to APO: The Transformation of a Project Management Team, PMI Dallas & UTD, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2022 – 2022).

Floyd, S. (Author & Presenter), National Association of African America Studies National Conference, Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Technologies on African American Women Engineers., Addison, TX, United States of America. (2020 – 2020).

Floyd, S. (Author & Presenter), 2019 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Explainable Robotic Systems for the Knowledge Worker, AIS, Cancun, Mexico, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Floyd, S. (Author & Presenter), International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics, Identifying Variables that Improve Communication with Bots, Houston, TX, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Turner, J. (Author & Presenter), Floyd, S. B. (Author & Presenter), 2017 AHRD International Research Conference, Multilevel theories: Development, testing, and interpreting, AHRD, San Antonio, TX, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Paper

Floyd, S. (Author & Presenter), Atolagbe, A. (Author & Presenter), iConference, Diversifying the Next Generation of Project Managers: Skills Project Managers Must Have in the Digital Age, Boras, Sweden - Online, United States of America. (2020 – 2020).

Poster

Orhan, Z. (Author & Presenter), Floyd, S. (Author & Presenter), Philpot, D. R. (Author & Presenter), UNT Research Day, To Advise or Not to Advise, that is the Question: Guidance Reimagined by Harnessing AI for Universal Access to Expertise, The Division of Research and Innovation, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Sharing Session

Floyd, S. A. (Presenter), ADTA Staff Meeting, Teaching Strategies for Success, ADTA, UNT - Hickory Hall, United States of America. (2022 – 2022).

Media Contributions

Internet
"New Faculty Spotlight," UNT College of Science Website. (July 15, 2022).

Awards and Honors

Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship, Grace Hopper. (October 2021 – October 2021).

Harvard Business School Rising Scholar, Harvard Business School. (October 20, 2021 – October 23, 2021).

Best Poster Award, ALISE. (September 2021 – September 2021).

NSBE APEX Scholar, NSBE. (January 2021 – August 2021).

NSBE APEX Scholar, NSBE. (January 2020 – December 2020).

ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium, ASIS&T. (October 2020 – October 2020).

NSBE APEX Scholar, NSBE. (January 2019 – December 2019).

University of North Texas Schamber Writing Scholarship, University of North Texas College of Information. (May 2019 – July 2019).

Best Poster Award, University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. (May 2019 – May 2019).

NSBE APEX Scholar, NSBE. (January 2017 – August 2017).

Service

University Service

Faculty Mentor, ADTA. (August 31, 2023 – Present).

Committee Chair, Academic Affairs Committee. (December 20, 2023 – December 31, 2024).

Other, ADTA 5240 Course Coordinator. (October 1, 2023 – December 16, 2024).

Committee Chair, Black Faculty Network. (July 26, 2023 – July 26, 2024).

Faculty Mentor, 2023-2024 Undergraduate Research Fellowships (URF). (July 31, 2023 – March 31, 2024).

Guest Speaker, Spring New Faculty Orientation - Panelist. (November 30, 2023 – January 10, 2024).

Attendee, Graduation, Toulouse Graduate School Graduation Assistance 2023. (December 17, 2023 – December 17, 2023).

Committee Member, Search Committee. (March 24, 2023 – August 31, 2023).

Guest Speaker, Exploring Graduate School Week - EGSW Spotlight on Analytics Panelists. (July 26, 2023 – September 26, 2022).

Committee Member, ADTA. (March 5, 2023 – May 23, 2023).

Committee Member, Academic Integrity Faculty Appeal Committee. (February 28, 2023 – March 6, 2023).

Committee Member, Annual Evaluation Committee. (February 14, 2023 – February 21, 2023).

Member, Project Manage Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Grant. (January 18, 2022 – January 20, 2023).

Attendee, Graduation, Toulouse Graduate School Graduation Assistance 2022. (December 18, 2022 – December 18, 2022).

Guest Speaker, Office of Admission - Preview Day. (November 19, 2022 – November 19, 2022).

Conference-Related, Recruitment at North Texas Tech Connect Conference. (September 27, 2022).

Committee Member, Search Committee. (January 18, 2022 – March 23, 2022).

Professional Service

Committee Member, National Black MBA Association - DFW Chapter, Dallas, TX. (February 1, 2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, Association for Information Science and Technology, Dallas, TX. (April 10, 2024 – April 19, 2024).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, Association for Information Science and Technology, Dallas, TX. (April 21, 2023 – April 26, 2023).

Other, Society of Women Engineers, Dallas, TX. (April 14, 2023 – April 20, 2023).

Other, Society of Women Engineers, Dallas, TX. (February 14, 2023 – February 22, 2023).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Black Ambition, Dallas, TX. (July 1, 2022 – September 30, 2022).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, Association for Information Science and Technology, Dallas, TX. (May 1, 2022 – May 1, 2022).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, Association for Information Science and Technology, Dallas, TX. (May 2021 – May 2021).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, International Conference on Knowledge Management, Denton, TX. (June 2020 – July 2020).

Public Service

Member, Dallas CASA, Dallas, TX. (June 2002 – Present).

Guest Speaker, NAF Academy of Engineering students at Skyline High School, Dallas, Texas. (April 10, 2023 – April 15, 2023).