 Ken Malone, Phd. 601.266.6067
Chair - Department of Economic and Workforce Development
Dr. Ken Malone serves as the Director of the
Lott Center and Chair of the Department of Economic and Workforce Development for The University of Southern Mississippi. He leads University driven economic development through the Southern Miss Innovation & Commercialization Park, technology entrepreneurship education, recruiting & starting-up high tech companies and renovating downtown Hattiesburg through the cultural arts. His responsibilities at Southern Miss have also included COO of the Gulf Coast campuses and Director of Business Ventures.
Prior to joining Southern Miss, Malone held positions with large specialty chemical companies ranging in responsibility from research, product development, finance, marketing, manufacturing, M&A and business management. He earned his doctorate of philosophy in polymer science from Southern Miss in 1991 and his BS in biochemistry from the University of Miami in 1986.
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Heather M. Annulis, Phd. 228.214.3344
Assistant Professor & Assistant Director of Workplace Learning and Performance Institute
Dr. Annulis serves as Director of the Workforce Training and Development master’s degree program and the WLPI’s Training and Development Certificate Program. Her research interests include competency model development and implementation, change readiness, and perceived organizational support. |
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Sunny Corral 601.266.5515
Director of Regional Innovation
Corral drives innovation to be Hattiesburg's favorite buzz word through the Pine Belt Innovators, and the South Mississippi Angel Network. |
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Cyndi Gaudet
Director of the Jack and Patti Phillips Workplace Learning and Performance Institute (WLPI) and Associate Professor of Workforce Training and Development
Dr. Gaudet directs the new Human Capital Development doctoral program at Southern Miss. She has served as principal investigator for WLPI research projects, including NASA’s National Workforce Education and Training Initiative and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Geospatial Technology Apprenticeship Program. Cyndi has presented professional papers at over 100 regional, national, and international conferences, and her research has been published in journals such as the HRD Quarterly, International Journal of Instructional Media,
NABTE Review, URISA Journal, and the Delta Pi Epsilon Journal.
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 Judith C. Giordan, Phd. 601.266.6067
Judith Giordan, who is currently on detail from the University of Southern Mississippi as a program director for NSF's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program.
Giordan has held executive and leadership positions in R&D and operations spanning a 20+ year career. Currently, Judy is Director at Ocean TOMO, LLC - a full service IP intensive intellectual capital merchant bank and Co- Founder and Managing Director at Aileron Partners - a strategic and human capital services provider to universities and to companies from start-ups to the Fortune 500. Judy is also a member of the Board of Advisors of several start-up companies and universities.
Previous executive and/or corporate officer positions include Co-Founder and Managing Partner 1EXECStreet, Vice President – International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc., Global Corporate Director of Research and Development; Vice-President Worldwide Research and Development for the Pepsi-Cola Company, the global beverage arm of PepsiCo, Inc., and Vice President Research and Development, Henkel Corporation, the North American operating unit of the Henkel Group. |
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Brent Hales, Phd. 601.266.6519
Professor
Hales manages the Masters in Economic Development, SMYEP, and several other innovative initatives. |
Chad Miller, Phd. 601.266.4004
Assistant Professor
Dr. Chad R. Miller is Assistant Professor in the University of Southern Mississippi Department of Economic and Workforce Development where he teaches and mentors students in the department's master's and doctoral programs, pursues a research agenda in innovation-based economic development, and through the Trent Lott National Center for Excellence in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship assists the southern Mississippi region with development of an innovation economy. |
Mark M. Miller, Phd. 601.266.6067
Professor of Economic Development & Geography
Ph.D. in Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona
Master's in International Management, American Graduate School of International Management (The Thunderbird School)
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Deidra Minor 601.266.5671
Program Director of Applied Technology
Minor is coordinating the new undergraduate program Applied Technology and I will also advise students within the program. |
Sherry Parker 601.266.6067
Budget and Curriculum Coordinator
Parker maintaisn the budgets for the department accounts, provides administrative support for the Department Chair, and acts as coordinator for student advisement and academic programming. |
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Brian Richard, Phd. 601.266.6122
Director of Economic Development Resource Center
Brian Richard has extensive experience in economic, fiscal and policy research. Brian is currently Director of Regional Analysis of the Trent Lott Center of Excellence for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship at Southern Miss. At the Lott Center, his work concentrates the impacts of economic development projects, local retail and industrial analysis, and research into the state of the southern Mississippi economy. He has also been named Assistant Director for Economic Development at USM’s Katrina Research Center.
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Bruce Waguespack
Assistant Professor
Waguespack is an assistant professor at the WLPI and teaches graduate courses in Human Capital Development (HCD) and Workforce Training & Development (WTD) degree programs.
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