PJ Fernandez

Courses Taught

2019 – Present - Simon Business School, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Project Management (OMG 416) (MBA Program) The study of the life cycle of a project. The student experiences first-hand the engagement of a project and the processes needed to deliver results. Topics include the management of requirements, integration, scope, schedule, budget, communication, risk, quality, human resources, stakeholders, procurement and closing of a project. Project management frameworks, best practices and capability maturity model for integration.

2016 – 2019 - Business Information Technology (BIT) Department, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech Database Technology for Business (BIT 4514) The study of relational database design and implementation for the support of business systems. The student goes through the journey of assessing business requirements, translating those into a cohesive relational database design, culminating in an implementation of a fully functional physical database. Topics include relational database theory, structured query language, relational database design, and implementation of database management systems, their security and management. The systems development life cycle and database life cycle. Business intelligence, data warehouses design as analytic tools and data mining techniques. Document databases, and current online data sources. * 2017 (SP and FA two sections), * 2018 (SP, SU and FA), * 2019 (SP, SU)

Project Management (BIT 4484) The study of the life cycle of a project. The student experiences first-hand the engagement of a project and the processes needed to deliver results. Topics include the management of requirements, integration, scope, schedule, budget, communication, risk, quality, human resources, stakeholders, procurement and closing of a project. Project management frameworks, best practices and capability maturity model for integration. * 2017 (SP two sections and FA), * 2018 (SP, SU and FA) * 2019 (SP)

Introduction to Business Analytics Modeling (BIT 2434)

The study of business operation’s decision support models. The student applies statistical techniques to data creating computer solutions to business models. Includes computer solution and analysis of transportation, routing, queueing, forecasting and other management problems using such techniques

Healthcare Data Management (BIT 5574 Graduate course) The study of healthcare information systems and process management. The student engages in the development of an automated healthcare system addressing current information needs. Topics covered healthcare data quality relevant to patient care and safety, healthcare regulations on quality and outcomes, electronic health records, care management systems, business intelligence, HIPAA, healthcare process improvement and relational database design. * 2019 (SU)

Research

Increasing Physical Activity and Safe Play Among Female Youth – A Longitudinal Study Purpose: Identify levels of activity participation, rates of attrition, and reasons for both participation and attrition for female youth in Pre-K through high school. (2019, Baker, Nottingham, Fernandez) Head Injury Among Female Youth – A Longitudinal Study Purpose: Identify repeated emergent visits caused by sports or play, rates of occurrence, and tracking across disparate information systems. (2019, Baker, Nottingham, Fernandez)