PHILIP J. HIPPENSTEEL

Education

Doctorate of Education

Dissertation topic: a study of the financing of guest students through financial aid at HACC based on the economics theory of Leontief’s input-output model.

University of Pennsylvania

1984

Master of Science, Mathematics

Concentration in topology with a master’s thesis on syntopogenous spaces.

University of Delaware

1968

Bachelors of Science in Education, Mathematics / Physics

Shippensburg University

1964

 

Consulting Activities

Serving as technical consultant to a wide range of clients including schools, government agencies, and manufacturing firms. Clients located throughout the U.S. and Canada. Providing support in communications network design, specification, troubleshooting and training.

Providing advanced networking classes to Network World Magazine as a subcontractor.

Managing a consulting firm that provides subcontracting services to other network integration firms.

Preparing technical monographs of advance network technology topics for a national marketing campaign.

Providing invited presentations and classes at all four major national trade conferences: Supercom, Network +Interop(Las Vegas), Network +Interop(Atlanta) and Comnet (Washington, D.).

 

Previous Professional Activities

Provided consultation to Pennsylvania Department of Transportation on APPRAS application. Provided a complete audit of physical network to eliminate it as a cause of severe performance problem. Provided sniffer protocol analysis to point to slowness in an application server that ultimately was determined to be the source of the problem.

Prepared an annual series of laboratory experiences on network protocols for the International Communications Association Meeting to be held this summer at the University of Colorado / Boulder.

Developed a series of business training seminars about networks and communications technologies that generated approximately $1.25 million dollars in revenue for a community college. The seminars covered topics in telecommunications, data communications and networking. Several community colleges and four-year universities, including Penn State, offered these classes.

Developed and co-developed a series of classes on network infrastructure components such as fiber optics and twisted pair along with AMP Incorporated (now Tyco Electronics). These classes have been offered on an international basis for AMP installers and customers.

Acted as statewide technical advisor to the BuildPEN project that was associated with the Link-to-Learn initiative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Acted as a technical, sales, and development consultant to a major manufacturer on the development of a new product that provides video transport over twisted pair cabling.

Acted as consultant to manufacturers who were developing an IP telephones.

Provided consulting services to a manufacturer of test equipment on the design and development of a several hand-held protocol analyzer and a network probe to be used in troubleshooting networks.

 

 

Management Experience

President

Provide leadership to a group of contractors who provide consulting services to government, education, and industry.

Phil Hippensteel Associates, Inc.

1995-present

Associate Dean of Computer Services

Overall responsibility for voice, data, and video system on campus of 10,000+ students. Supervised the design and installation of a new campus infrastructure of wiring and fiber optics that was featured in an IBM publication.

Harrisburg Area Community College

1984-89

Assistant Dean of Mathematics, Engineering and Technology

Management of a department of twenty-eight full-time, and sixty part-time faculty.

Harrisburg Area Community College

1981-84

 

 

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor/ Information Systems

Teaching senior and graduate level courses in information systems, telecommunications and networking. Introduced three new graduate classes: network security, network protocols and wireless networks.

Pennsylvania State University/Harrisburg

2001-

Senior Professor

Taught entire spectrum of mathematics classes from algebra to calculus, logic, linear algebra, and statistics. Consistent excellent student and administrative evaluations. Winner of NISOD outstanding teaching award in 1999.

Harrisburg Area Community College

1968-1999

Coordinator of Systems and Communications

Developed and taught a wide range of network and communications technology seminars on topics that included telecommunications, data communications, protocols, fiber optics, and network security.

Harrisburg Area Community College

1989-96

Adjunct Professor

Pennsylvania State University/Harrisburg

1972-78, 1998-2001

 

 

 

 

 

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