Mary Burns Bio

Mary Burns is an instructor for Database, Data Warehousing, Data Communications and Systems Analysis and Design (IS/DS) courses at the Sarasota campus.  She has taught these topics at the undergraduate and graduate levels at USF and at Texas Tech for ten years.  At Texas Tech, she helped to develop a Master's program in Data Communications Technology.

Prior to her academic experience, Ms. Burns worked for over ten years in a variety of management positions in Information Systems and Control at Progressive Insurance and Rohm and Haas.  Her last position at Progressive Insurance was as Director of Financial Systems Architecture.

She received her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her MS in Information Systems is from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  Her undergraduate degree in Mathematics/Computer Science is from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

She is originally from Rhode Island.  Her outside interests include sailing and bicycling.