1. DR. ERIK SHEFSKY
ASHE VI LLE , NC 2 8 7 0 4
E -MAI L: E SHE FSKY@Y AHOO. COM
( 828) 215-9182
PROFILE AND KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Virtual Adjunct Professor of Education Jones International University: Graduate level
faculty position with program, curriculum, and content development responsibilities
 14 years progressive experience as teacher, lecturer, trainer and content expert within
higher education, company and adult training including online settings
 2 College Department Head Posts: program design and content responsibilities for 20
Industrial Design and Technology, 12 Business and Entrepreneurship courses
 10 years diverse and progressive experience in management and project consulting
 6 HR and HPT organization projects and 4 adult community education classes
 5 years managing institutional team based education improvement projects and college
outreach programs involving city and state government administrations
 Managed 4 online faculty and student performance research internship projects
 Provide exceptional value and services to institutions, students, and company clients,
leading to diverse opportunities as faculty, administration and consultant
 2014 Dissertation of the year award: JIU Department of Education
 2014 JIU Society of Scholars, Dept. of Edu. Best Student Research Paper awardee.
 Creatively analytical thinker with an upbeat attitude and entrepreneurial resilience
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
 Communicating the complex dimensions of education, student teacher program
effectiveness, curriculum, attrition, participation and retention to all stakeholders
 Leveraging communication approaches, content, structure, culture, student teacher
oversight, and technology to enhance traditional and online digital learning experiences
 Strategic use of presentations and client support services, skillsets and tools
 Resolving student and teacher experience and program effectiveness issues
 Redesigning and meeting course, program and institutional accreditation standards
 Analyzing existing organizational culture, training, ethics, leadership and needs change
to enable transformational modeling and strategic goals forecasting with measures
 Identifying management, education and training solutions by applying HRD and HPT
based needs (OEMs), performance (BEMs), and evaluation (SMEs) assessments,
SIPOC Mapping and scenario modeling
 Evaluating and proposing creative organizational solutions based upon results of data
collection, cost benefit, market gap and risk profiling
 Creating and presenting planning, cost benefit analysis, evaluations, assessments and
market opportunity reports and proposals to clients
 Designing organizational change, training and development strategies to generate
significant cost and operational efficiency savings to stakeholders
 Collecting and preparing data for research containing online surveys, subject
interviews and archival datasets, large and small
 Developing and reporting study analysis, findings and results for qualitative,
quantitative, mixed study, and action research investigations

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 Research Software: SPSS, Excel, Power Point, Word, Endnote, Moodle, Black Board,
WebCT, Omni Suite, Mind Node, Curio, Timeline, Carland Ent. Excel Analysis
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
2014- Present Jones International al University
Virtual Adjunct Professor of Education
 Faculty position facilitating Masters level Graduate courses for the Department of Education
 Online Staff Consultant addressing the continued development of the Adult Education and
Leadership Doctoral Program
 Institutional quantitative research expert regarding online graduate student populations’
retention and attrition behaviors. Specialized Topic: Stop-outs
2008–Present BlueMountainConsultant.com Asheville, NC
Business, Entrepreneurial, Education, and Training Consultancy
 Identified and applied performance methodologies, implement clients’ strategic vision
 Executed staff teamwork development exercises: retention increases of 20-40%
 Coached entrepreneurs in management and culture using goal based modeling
resulting in ROI turnarounds of 15 – 200%
 Maintained and supported client relationships using stakeholder meetings, feedback
round tables, and carefully designed reporting presentations at all levels
 Facilitated organizational cohesion using iterative assessment and evaluation strategies
 Generated staff, operation and cultural insights through investigative techniques and
tools including ghosting, loss prevention, forensic accounting and competency based
performance analysis: ROI increases of 15-45% in 3-6 months
1998–2007 P/T – F/T Self Employed Pittsburgh, PA, Asheville, NC
Online and Hard Products Entrepreneur
 Created and maintained all facets of a unique hard line consumer retail manufacturing
distribution company with intellectual property (two design patents)
 Developer of three online websites in-house within a specialty retail events sales model
1996–1998 AIP Business Project and Development Consultant Pittsburgh, PA
Program Consultant and Team Leader
 Developed and implemented Business plans for innovative startups and company
turn-around as part of AIP, SBA and Score’s prominent regional consultant team
 Coordinated and managed Student Outreach Programs including IDT and metal arts
internship program, Pittsburgh Zoo project, 3 Rivers Arts Counsel Volunteers
 Spoke at numerous SBA, Score, regional trade and development events
1995–1998 Art Institute of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Program Department Head F/T Faculty FMA, IDT and Graphic Arts
 Assessed, re-developed, managed and taught the IDT Metal Arts program
 Managed continued development of various departmental operations, course content,
budgets (5K quarter), reports, curriculum assessments and performance measures for
30 courses across 3 departments (impacted 2400+ students annually)
 Maintained highest enrollment, retention and success rates within IDT department

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(60% retention improvement within 6 months, M.A. Graduates employment 80%)
(100% retention and employment rates for intern M.A. program graduates)
1992-1994 Fleet Financial Real Estate Services Pittsburgh, PA
District Development Manager, Trainer, and Mortgage Broker
 Developed new markets with a performance based real estate training model
 Generated 1.3 million dollars (loan average 56k) in first 8 months, with consistent
quarterly incremental growth as a Financial Advisor - Mortgage Broker
 Active consultant, speaker, and network presenter to regional real-estate associations,
brokers, and property developers. Taught field best practices and strategies for urban
re-development programs within City of Pittsburgh and vicinity.
EDUCATION
2011–2014 Jones International University Centennial, CO
 Ed.D, Doctorate of Education GPA: 4.0 Awarded Edu. Dissertation of the Year
 Chair and Mentors: Dr. Hank Payne, Director of Training and Education, OSHA
 Dr. Roy Sutton, Dean of Education, JIU
 Program research focus - Stop-outs: Student retention & attrition assessments,
quantitative participation and completion analysis
 Internships: JIU, Carland University, Carland Academy
2005–2006 Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC
 M.E., Masters of Entrepreneurship GPA: 3.9
 Mentors: Drs. Jim JoAnn Carland: USASBE Awardee Entrepreneurship Program
1979–1981 SUNY Binghamton University Binghamton, NY
 B.S., Business Administration & Management GPA:3.0 Minor: Accounting
 Internship with SBA and SCORE
PUBLICATIONS
 Shefsky, E. (2014). Online university stop-out correlations: A quantitative parametric study
investigating master's level graduate student demographic factors impacting retention behavior.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. Retrieved from:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1549977506?accountid=34526. (1549977506)
 Shefsky, E. & Sutton, R. (2014), What is a Stop-out? Redefining the Term in Order to
Identify Online Students, JIU Virtual Research Conference, Retrieved from:
http://www.jiu.edu/student-services/academic-resources/society-scholars/jiu-virtual-
research-conference/student/schoo-0
 Shefsky, E. & Sutton, R. (2015). Stop-outs: A new Variable in Retaining Online Student,
Article Accepted ISITE Conference 2015, Las Vegas (est. Publication and
Presentation Date, 03/2/2015).

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QUALIFIED COURSE EXPERIENCE AND OFFERINGS
Department of Education
 College Success: Student Mentoring and Teacher Training Programs
 Assessment Planning, Needs, and Analysis with Content and Curriculum Expertise
 Assessment of Learning Programs and Instructional Delivery Methods (IT)
 Leadership in Higher Education: Motivation, Change Measures and Assessments
 Doctoral Research Foundations: Study Development and the Literature Review
 Research Methodology: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods
 Survey Development and Implementation: Quantitative and Qualitative
 Research Instrumentation: Development and Implementation
 Graduate Level Data Collection: Treatments, Reporting, and Analysis
 Educational Trend Forecasting, Leading Change, Leadership and Ethics
 Academic Writing (APA Standards) and Peer Review Skills Development
 Software: Microsoft Office, SPSS, WebEx, Moodle, Blackboard and Proprietary IT
Department of Business and Entrepreneurship
 Intro. to Business, Principles of Business Management, Marketing,
 Intro. to Micro and Macroeconomics, Accounting 1+2, Risk Assessments
 Business Communication, Website Development, Project Mangement
 Product and Intellectual Property Development, Industrial Design Technologies
 Student Professional Development: Program Execution and Administration
 Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Competition and Market Evaluation Processes
 Entrepreneurial Based New Venture Modeling, E-Commerce, Cash Flow Analysis
 Forensic Accounting Methodology, Carland Entrepreneurial Model w/software
 Innovation, Cost Analysis and Profitability, Crisis Turn Around Methodology
 I have the blessings of Drs. Jim and JoAnn Carland, who fulfilled the 3 year JIU
Doctoral program requirement of sponsoring University Mentors, to teach their award
winning USASBE Entrepreneurial program in full with the Ent. Carland Model, as
developed and implemented at both Western Carolina University and Carland
University, schools of exceptional Entrepreneurial history and scholarship.
 Additional Teaching Experience: Company representation and retail sales. Trade
skills including fine metal arts, welding, lost wax casting, stone setting, repairs,
gemology, graphic arts, art history, sculpting, painting, color theory and modeling.
 Forty years of internal and external martial arts mastery (including weapons) and a
twenty-year proprietarily developed (college level) student personal safety program.