Pamela Thompson
Assoc Prof Catawba College Business-IS CS
Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPamela Thompson is an associate professor and entrepreneur with nine years of professional experience blending academic leadership, hands-on software development, and startup initiative. She teaches and designs curricula in business, information systems, and computer science while directing graduate data mining and big data courses that emphasize real-world projects, CRISP-DM practice, and cloud-based pipelines. Pamela specializes in data analytics, knowledge discovery, and data-driven decision making, and has led campus-wide experiential learning programs, a business plan contest, and a student-built Salesforce CRM. As Interim Dean she connected academic strategy to fundraising, new degree programs, and industry partnerships, and as CEO of I Promise Project she applies tech and social engagement to behavior-change initiatives. Comfortable across R, Python, SQL, GCP, and IoT stacks, she pairs rigorous PhD-level research training with a knack for translating technical methods into actionable results for students and organizations.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computing and Informatics (Computer Science), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computing and Informatics (Computer Science) at University of North Carolina at CharlotteMBA IT, MBA IT at James Madison UniversityGithub contributions (5)
AKDDResearch/Shark-Attack
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
plthomps/CIS-3902-Data-Mining
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Introductory Data Mining Class
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
data-analysispythondataminingdata-science
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