H. Dixon Wilcox

School of Business Administration

University of South Carolina - Aiken

 

 

 

Home:  7 Canal Ct.                 

Columbia, SC 29210

Office: (803) 641-3655

Home:  (803) 561-9638

Office: School of Business Administration

University of South Carolina at Aiken

471 University Parkway

Aiken, SC  29801        

Email:  dixonw@usca.edu

           

                                                           

 

 


Research Interests

Social Network Analysis of IS

Organizational Impact of IT

Communities of Practice

Knowledge Management

Strategic IS/EC

 

Teaching Interests

            Telecommunications

Database Management

IS Strategy

Electronic Commerce

 

Education

            Ph.D.   Management Information Systems (ABD)                      Current

            The Moore School of Business

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

 

M.S.    Computer Information Systems                                      December 1993

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

 

B.S.     Business & Computer Science                                       May 1986

Newberry College, Newberry, SC

 

 

 


Refereed Journal Articles

R. Pennington, H.D. Wilcox and V. Grover "The Role of System Trust in B2C Transactions,"  Forthcoming in Journal of Management Information Systems.

 

H.D. Wilcox, K. Chang, and V. Grover, "Valuation of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Telecommunications Industry: a study on diversification and firm size," Information and Management, (38:7), 2001, pp. 459-471.

 

Papers under review

G. Hackbarth, W. Kettinger and D. Wilcox, “Net-Enabled Organizational Transformation,” submitted to European Journal of Information Systems, May 2002.

 

 

Refereed Proceedings

W. R. Sandberg and H. D. Wilcox “Opportunity Recognition and Disruptive Technology: The U.S. locomotive industry from 1920 to 1940.” Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2002, Boulder, Colorado, June 2002.

 

K. Chang and D. Wilcox, "The Impact of Diversification and Firm Size on the Valuation of Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry," In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute, Charlotte, NC. February 2001, pp. 337-339.

 

Conference Presentations

W. R. Sandberg and D. Wilcox “Opportunity Recognition and Responses to Disruptive Technology: The U.S. locomotive industry from 1940 to 1960.” 2003 Babson/Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference, June 5th – 7th, 2003.

 

Research in Progress

With G. Hackbarth and W. Kettinger, “Building Synergy Between IS Research and IS Education”

 

With K. Chang and J. Teng, “An Analysis of Data Warehousing Management Practices”

 

 

 


Teaching Experience

 

 

Course

Title

Dates Taught

University of South Carolina, Columbia

MGSC 190

Computer Information Systems in Business

Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999

University of South Carolina at Aiken

ABUS 390

Management Information Systems

Fall 2001 – Fall 2003

ABUS 290

Decision Support Systems for Small Business

Fall 2003

ACSC 102

Computer Applications & Programming

Fall 2001 - Spring 2003

 

University of South Carolina, Columbia

Graduate Teaching Assistant for the following courses:

MGSC 796

Information Systems

Fall 1997

MGSC 890 & MGSC 494

Telecommunications

Spring 1998

MIBS 701

Foundations of International Business (IS component)

Fall 98, Summer 99, Fall 99

MGSC 798

Strategic Information Management 

Spr 99, Spr 00, Spr 01

 

 

 

 


Industry Work Experience

 

Consultec, Inc., Atlanta, GA and Santa Fe, NM            July 1994 - August 1997

Business Support Analyst (4/95 to 8/97)

New Mexico Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) Fiscal Agent Contract

Responsible as the primary contact for several functional areas of the New Mexico Human Services Department Medical Assistance Division (MAD) business offices.  Provide technical assistance to and functioned as liaison between the State MAD office and the Consultec systems support staff in Atlanta.  Produced ad hoc reports and provide assistance with research activities for the State areas supported.  Participated in requirements analysis for new system development efforts using SEER HPS structured development methodology.  Responsible for training and assistance to State personnel in the use of FOCUS EIS and other PC based products.  Participated in the development of an Executive Information System using FOCUS for Windows, FOCUS EIS, and Sybase.  Responsible for the technical support of financial processing for the business areas of both the New Mexico Consultec staff and the State MAD staff.

 

Systems Consultant (7/94 - 4/95)

West Virginia Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) Fiscal Agent Contract

Responsible for analysis, design, and development of system changes and enhancements to the MMIS - a COBOL/VSAM based system consisting 1000 programs, 250 online/750 batch.  This system performed the processing of 1.1 million claims monthly for over 800,000 recipients.  This system involved all areas of Medicaid activities and programs.  Responsible for the conversion to and implementation of a new Pharmacy point-of-service subsystem.

 

Confederation Life Insurance Co., Atlanta, GA         February 1991 - July 1994

Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for analysis, design, and development of several group insurance related systems.  Used STRADIS structured methodology for application development.  System support included major and minor enhancements, system maintenance, and developing new screens and reports utilizing COBOL, COBOL II, IMS, JCL, CICS, and VSAM.  Applications developed or supported include:

·                     GRADS (Group Administration System) - a COBOL/IMS based system consisting of 500 programs, 250 on-line/250 batch, and 4000 policies.

·                     GEARS (Group Experience Analysis System) - a COBOL/IMS/VSAM based subsystem consisting of 40 programs.

·                     LCS (Life Claims System) - a COBOL/VSAM based system consisting of 40 programs.

These systems involve a wide variety of group insurance business functions including policy administration, agency functions, and accounting.  Also participated in the analysis and design phase for a LAN based marketing and sales reporting system.            Other systems supported included Long Term Disability administration, Flexible Benefits Administration, and Bank Reconciliation

 

ACE Mailing Services, Inc., Smyrna, GA                  January 1990 - February 1991

Production Programmer Analyst

Responsible for detailed analysis and programming of projects to create mailing labels and letters for customers.  This project was managed from inception through production and involved operations support, data validity checking, data conversion, file management, and quality control.  Performed programming functions on an IBM 4381 with VSE/SP utilizing COBOL, RPG II, Assembler, and JCL.  Interacted with sales personnel and Customer Support Representatives to define project requirements and procedures.

 

U.S. Navy                                                                   April 1987 - July 1989

Division Officer, U.S.S. Harold E. Holt (FF-1074), Pearl Harbor, HI

March 1988 to July 1989

 

Student, Surface Warfare Officer School, Newport, RI.

November 1987 to February 1988

GPA: 3.76

 

Assistant Operations Officer, Destroyer Squadron 25, Pearl Harbor, HI

August 1987 to November 1987

 

Student, Officer Candidate School, Newport, RI.

April 1987 to July 1987

GPA: 3.42

 

Professional Affiliations

            Association of Computing Machinery

            Association of Information Systems

            Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences