Directory : Faculty : Joshua Mindel

Joshua Mindel, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Information Systems

Joshua Mindel is a professor in the Information Systems department at San Francisco State University. He joined the SF State faculty in fall 2003. Mindel teaches in the graduate (EMBA, MBA, MSBA) and undergraduate business programs.

Mindel received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in an interdisciplinary department (engineering and public policy) where he focused on public policy and alternative market mechanisms for the telecommunications sector. A short summer stint at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complemented this study period.

For a dozen years prior to pursuing the Ph.D., Mindel worked in the U.S., Asia and Africa as a project manager and systems engineer on a number of large-scale information systems infrastructure projects with Digital Equipment Corporation Asia-Pacific; United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Vietnam; United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) West Africa in Liberia; Open Networks Inc. (start-up); The MITRE Corporation; Planning Research Corporation (PRC); and Virginia Polytechnic University and State University (Virginia Tech).

The UNDP work emphasized IT infrastructure for disaster management/relief at a time when Vietnam was undergoing a rapid socio-economic transformation. The UNICEF effort focused on information systems for emergency operations while Liberia was in the midst of a long, drawn out civil war.

Mindel also holds an M.S. degree in computer science and a B.S. Degree in engineering from Virginia Tech.

Mindel is increasingly interested in international ICT infrastructure, open source adoption practices pursued by organizations (for-profit, governmental, or non-profit) and developing economies, and e-learning tools.

Mindel is pursuing both research and practitioner excellence in this domain.