He teaches graduate class in strategic management of IT and data mining. He has a PhD in MIS from the University of Arizona. He has published over forty articles in top scientific journals and conferences in the areas of decision support systems, eBusinesss, collaborative tools and methods, and information systems requirements elicitation. His research has been cited over 1200 times. Dr. Dean has consulted with VMWare, Glidewell Dental, DELL, IBM, Lockheed-Martin Corporation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and others. He resides in Springville Utah. He is married with 6 children, whose ages range from 13 to 23.