Meet the Business Management Faculty

Richard Bailey

Richard Bailey, is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He enjoys teaching tax and financial accounting courses. This is where he feels the students gain valuable, relevant education for their futures in the accounting profession. Richard's interest in teaching comes from teaching an undergraduate accounting course while he was in graduate school. His professional work experience is in public accounting with the firms of KPMG and Peat Marwick.

Having grown up in Canada, Richard loves the outdoors, backpacking, fishing, and travel, especially to Alaska. He and his wife Sandra have four grown children and two grandchildren.

Sandra Bailey

Sandra Bailey has taught a variety of courses at Oregon Tech. Sandra's favorite courses are Accounting courses but she also teaches Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior, and Business Presentations to name a few. She is particularly skilled at presentation design. It was her father who encouraged Sandra to teach. Helping students "write their story" is the thing she likes best about teaching.

Having once lived in Hawaii, Guatemala, and Canada, Sandra loves to travel. Sandra holds a BS in Accounting from Utah State University with a minor is Business Administration. She has a Master's in Education from Oregon State University.

Sharon Beaudry

Sharon Beaudry brings two decades of human resource experience to the Management Department at Oregon Tech. She previously held the position of Director of Human Resources at Colby-Sawyer College in NH and Philharmonic Center for the Arts in FL, and also worked in HR specialist roles in the areas of risk management, benefits and corporate training.

Sharon has been teaching since 2008 and her teaching and research interests include business and employment law, human resources, human capital efficiency, compensation and benefit design, data-driven decision-making and gamification. She also enjoys curriculum design and was the co-creator of the Leadership and HR Certificate programs at her prior institution. She has a B.S. degree from College of New Rochelle, a M.B.A. with a concentration in HR from Northcentral University, a Law degree from Northwestern CA University and is certified as a Senior Human Resources Professional.

When not teaching, Sharon enjoys working around her home and spending time with her family.

Don DaSaro

Don DaSaro graduated from the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and completed an MBA (Finance) at Marymount University in Virginia. Retired from a 41-year career with Caterpillar in marketing, sales operations, various management levels and human resources in Asia, Latin America and Washington DC. During his 28 year tenure in Asia, Don was responsible and participated in strategic planning, development and implementation for a number of Caterpillar dealers in SEAsia, India and China. In addition to management training and leadership development for the dealers and Caterpillar Asia. Foreign languages include Indonesian, Malaysian and some Spanish.

While in Washington, D.C., Don was an advisor on trade to various committees and business councils, including the U.S.-China Business Council, U.S.-Vietnam Business Council, Sustainability Forest Committee of the Smithsonian Organization (now called the Tropical Forest Foundation), the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on lifting the Vietnam Embargo and was part of the U.N.'s mine clearing effort on the ground in Cambodia. Don holds an international rank of 4th degree black belt and instructor in the World Tae Kwon Do Federation. Other interests including golf, hunting and reading.

Jeff Dickson

Jeff Dickson comes to the Management Department with a background in Health Informatics. After graduating from Oregon Tech with a B.S. in Management Information Systems and an M.B.A. from Southern Oregon University, Jeff worked as a Chief Information Officer in a medical practice. Jeff brings his industry experience back to Oregon Tech where he enjoys teaching students how the concepts learned in the classroom have practical applications in the workplace.

Fishing, hunting, and gardening are among the list of things Jeff loves doing.

Jared Emard

As a native Oregonian and OIT alumnus, Jared is excited to blend his love for teaching with his love for Southern Oregon. Since graduating from OIT, he has worked as a process improvement consultant, production manager, plant scheduler, & inventory controller. During his industry experience, Jared led or participated in multiple Kaizen initiatives, including 5S, inventory reduction, ISO 9000 recertification and Job Instruction Training.

Along with a background in construction, Jared has participated in multiple business startups and enjoys a broad perspective of business. As his alma mater, OIT holds a special place in Jared’s heart. He is passionate for the business program as well as the community.

Jared holds a MBA from Southern Oregon University where he received the highest ranking for the ETS Major Field Test recorded for the program. In his free time, you'll find Jared exploring Southern Oregon with his wife or tinkering away on home remodel projects.

Carmen Morgan

Carmen has taught at Oregon Tech since 1989 in the areas of accounting and finance. Prior to that and during summers, she has worked in public accounting and in industry. Most recently, she has pursued training in the personal financial planning area and has recently taken and passed the Personal Financial Specialist (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) exam. She has an A.A.S. in Accounting and a B.S. in Industrial Management from Oregon Tech. She also has an MBA from Portland State University.

Carmen is an Oregon licensed Certified Public Accountant and also holds the Certified Management Accountant and Certified in Financial Management certifications. When not teaching, Carmen enjoys being outside, traveling with family and friends, and sports.

Hallie Neupert

A native Coloradan, Hallie Neupert brings her experience in economics to the Management Department at Oregon Tech. Hallie joined the faculty at Oregon Tech in 1999 by way of North Carolina State University where she partnered with USDA to analyze the cost effectiveness of corporate farming practices and their environmental impacts on local communities. Her graduate research included a similar study of the impacts of dairy farming practices on the Florida Everglades.

Hallie’s current teaching interests include social and behavioral economics, current issues in macroeconomic theory and policy, organizational behavior, and cross-cultural management. Hallie holds a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College and a M.S. in agricultural and natural resource economics from the University of Arizona. She also recently spent a year in Leiden, the Netherlands, studying leadership theory and strategy and competition at Webster University. In addition to her faculty position in the Management Department at Oregon Tech, Hallie is passionate about accreditation and assessment. She is a long-time member of Oregon Tech’s Assessment Commission, works closely with the NWCCU Steering Committee, and serves on IACBE’s Board of Directors, the Management Department’s accrediting agency.

When not teaching, Hallie enjoys spending time with her family in the garden or preparing a home cooked meal.

Pat Schaeffer

Pat Schaeffer joins the Management Department at Oregon Tech with 22 years of leadership and consulting in high-tech, health insurance and health care industries. He has most recently held the positions of Global Materials Director and Director of Lean Six Sigma at Seagate Technology, Business Process Director at UnitedHealth, and Lean Six Sigma Consultant for Sutter Health. His diverse professional background formerly includes consulting to Sony, DuPont, Apple, PeaceHealth, Oregon Medical Labs and Sutter Health.

His career includes experience internationally in Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and with European affiliates. He holds BS and MS degrees, and is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with teaching interests in operations management, business performance improvement and business research methods. He has taught adjunct in the California and Oregon state university systems, and is currently a full-time Professor in the Department of Management at Oregon Tech in Klamath Falls.

When not teaching, Pat enjoys playing guitar and guitar performance in all genres of music.

Kristy Weidman

Kristy Weidman has worked for Oregon Tech since 2007, first starting as an adjunct professor and then advancing to assistant professor where she now serves as the Program Director for the Marketing degree program. Kristy teaches marketing and management courses and has extensive experience in both the private and public sector working as a media buyer, creative designer, graphic artist, sales representative, copy editor, newsletter editor, videographer, script writer, volunteer coordinator, program coordinator, and public relations representative. Kristy holds a Master of Arts from Thomas Edison State University, a Bachelor of Science from Oregon Tech, a journalism and broadcast rating from the Defense Information School (DINFOS), a Marketing Strategy Certificate from Cornell University and a Digital Marketing Certificate from Cornell University. Kristy is a member of the American Marketing Association and is a competition judge.

Kristy likes to stay involved with her local community and is a board member with Discover Klamath (where she also serves as the marketing committee co-chair), serves on the Klamath County Tourism Grant Review committee and is an ex-officio board member with the Klamath Falls Downtown Association.

Kristy loves to travel and has been on two humanitarian trips abroad—one to Tanzania with Oregon Tech’s Engineers Without Borders and the other to Trinidad with Habitat for Humanity. Kristy thoroughly enjoys the outdoors & Klamath Falls. Her favorite activity is to take Mogley, her rambunctious Jack Russell terrier, on Hogsback for their daily hikes.

Dan Carrere

Dan Carrere has worked in the information security and networking field for over 25 years. He has developed and taught courses on information security for colleges and corporate training for the last 17 years. Dan provides advisory and design for enterprises relating to information security and core infrastructure. His research focuses on next generation firewalls, optical networking (DWDM, CWDM, MEF), community open access fiber networks, BSD Unix and Linux, and storage (especially SANs with ZFS). He enjoys designing security and networking appliances to perform under high load with high availability. Dan has authored peer reviewed journal articles, co-authored books, and has given invited talks on security and systems monitoring, Unix systems, and server infrastructure. He has a strong commitment to teaching students applied technologies that enable them in our ever-changing fields. Dan’s interests include spending time with his family while exploring the wilderness of the Northwest and being involved with music.

Grant Kirby

Grant Kirby, a 1987 Computer Science graduate of Oregon Tech, joined the Management faculty after 16 years working in the high-tech industry. His industry career included working as a Systems Engineer and a Product Marketing Engineer at Intel. Grant brings his expertise to the classroom for Information Technology and Operations Management degrees in Portland.

Grant loves teaching classes that engage the students in active participation. He says he enjoys seeing that "breakthrough" moment in the classroom. When not teaching, you can find Grant doing woodwork, landscaping or backpacking in the woods near his home. Grant holds an MBA from University of Oregon and a M.S. in Systems Science from Portland State University.

Tracey Coon

Tracey was born and raised in Oregon and is excited to join the Oregon Tech family after serving 14+ years in the Information Technology (IT) industry. Most recently, Tracey served as a Cyberspace Operations Officer in the Oregon Air National Guard and intends to continue serving as a traditional guardsman. Tracey holds a diverse technical background specializing in long-haul communications, life-cycle management, database administration, network management, and defensive cybersecurity operations. In 2012, Tracey took on a challenging position with Lockheed-Martin Mission Systems and Training to spearhead the overhaul of the Graduate Training Integration Management System directly supporting the sole F-15C fighter jet training facility for the U.S. Air Force.

After one year as an adjunct professor, Tracey accepted a full-time assistant professor position in the Management Department focusing on Management Information Systems majors and to assist in the development of Oregon Tech’s Cybersecurity degree program.

Tracey earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in IT with concentrations in network administration and information security. Also, he is qualified through the U.S. Air Force to perform network offensive and defensive cyberspace operations.

In his free time, Tracey enjoys music, trying new restaurants, and traveling with his wife and two boys.

Lindy Stewart

Lindy Stewart is an Assistant Professor in Information Technology and Health Informatics with industry, business and college level teaching experience. After graduating from Oregon Institute of Technology with a BS in Information Technology, Health Informations Option, she earned a Master's of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems with a Concentration in Health Informatics from Boston University.

Upon observing the rapid changes in healthcare information technology, she became greatly interested in teaching college full-time in order to help others gain the knowledge and skills needed to obtain employment within the healthcare industry. Lindy enjoys teaching courses in database design and development, analytics and health informatics. Her approach is to provide a hands-on learning environment to enhance student growth, skills and confidence. Her interest in instructing for higher education institutions is due to her belief that education is the cornerstone to enhancing a person's knowledge and confidence which can increase individual and industry achievements which she believes ultimately can improve social and community welfare.

Maureen Sevigny

Maureen Sevigny joined the Management Department at Oregon Tech in 1995 after completing her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Maryland. Maureen was instrumental in developing Oregon Tech’s BAS in Technology and Management degree which helps students with technical associate degrees complete a bachelor's degree. She holds a BA in history from Barnard College, an MBA from New York University and she also completed a year of graduate coursework in city and regional planning at Clemson University. Following her MBA, Maureen worked as a management trainee at Citibank and as a commodity research manager for M&M/Mars candies forecasting commodity prices. She has also worked in transportation consulting for Cambridge Systematics in Washington, DC and as a consultant in home performance upgrades for Pacific Northwest National Laboratories.

An avid long-distance bicyclist, Maureen served as a member of the Governor-appointed Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee from 2005-2013. When not teaching, enjoys cycling, cooking, and helping local communities improve their bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.