He holds a Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Georgia and a master of science in management and a bachelor of electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. He has over 18 years of professional experience in consulting and project management. His research deals with the processes of coordinating and IS governance, the creation and ongoing use of IS, information security, and applying the critical realism research paradigm in IS research. His research appears in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Government Information Quarterly, and the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing.