Dustin Ormond, PhD
Dustin Ormond, PhD
Associate Professor
Heider College of Business
Academic Appointments
Department
- Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics
Position
- Associate Professor
Biography
Dr. Dustin Ormond joined Creighton University in 2014 and is now an associate professor of business intelligence and analytics in the Heider College of Business. He completed his Ph.D. in Information Systems at Mississippi State University. He received both his bachelor's degree in information systems and his master's degree of information systems management from Brigham Young University. During his tenure at Creighton, he has taught management information systems, database, and cybersecurity courses. Dr. Ormond has won numerous teaching awards including the Creighton Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year, the Heider College of Business Undergraduate Faculty Member of the Year, the Heider College of Business Graduate Faculty Member of the Year, and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Teaching Achievement.
Dr. Ormond’s research interests include behavioral cybersecurity, specifically looking at how emotions, rationalizations, curiosity, and boredom impact cybersecurity behaviors. He has published numerous times in leading journals in his field for which he has won several Atta Billy Awards for Outstanding Scholarship from the Heider College of Business.
Dr. Ormond has engaged in many service opportunities at Creighton, such as serving on both college and university committees. His greatest service highlight is to be part of The BlueBox Project. The BlueBox is a mini-computer developed to bring education to rural communities without the need for Internet. This project has led to the development of one of the first academic service learning courses in the college of business which involves taking students to the Dominican Republic and delivering and instructing on how to use the BlueBoxes. Additionally, Dr. Ormond was able to use his sabbatical to further this project in South Africa. Dr. Ormond has received several Cahill Awards of Excellence from the Heider College of Business recognizing his dedicated service both to the university and global communities outside the university.
His prior work experience includes developing databases, supporting customers, consulting, and managing data centers. His technical skills include PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Java, VBA, Clarion, MySQL, Oracle/SQL, PL/SQL, Flex, Python, Windows, Mac, UNIX, Power Shell scripting, network design, network troubleshooting, server configuration, and UML modeling.
Besides research, teaching, and other responsibilities, Dr. Ormond enjoys being a husband, father to five children, outdoors enthusiast, and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dr. Ormond enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, running, hiking, biking, and any other sport. Additionally, for one of his hobbies, he collects and plays board games with over 150 board games.
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Ormond’s research interests include behavioral cybersecurity, specifically looking at how emotions, rationalizations, curiosity, and boredom impact cybersecurity behaviors. He has published numerous times in leading journals in his field for which he has won several Atta Billy Awards for Outstanding Scholarship from the Heider College of Business.
Dr. Ormond has engaged in many service opportunities at Creighton, such as serving on both college and university committees. His greatest service highlight is to be part of The BlueBox Project. The BlueBox is a mini-computer developed to bring education to rural communities without the need for Internet. This project has led to the development of one of the first academic service learning courses in the college of business which involves taking students to the Dominican Republic and delivering and instructing on how to use the BlueBoxes. Additionally, Dr. Ormond was able to use his sabbatical to further this project in South Africa. Dr. Ormond has received several Cahill Awards of Excellence from the Heider College of Business recognizing his dedicated service both to the university and global communities outside the university.
His prior work experience includes developing databases, supporting customers, consulting, and managing data centers. His technical skills include PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Java, VBA, Clarion, MySQL, Oracle/SQL, PL/SQL, Flex, Python, Windows, Mac, UNIX, Power Shell scripting, network design, network troubleshooting, server configuration, and UML modeling.
Besides research, teaching, and other responsibilities, Dr. Ormond enjoys being a husband, father to five children, outdoors enthusiast, and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dr. Ormond enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, running, hiking, biking, and any other sport. Additionally, for one of his hobbies, he collects and plays board games with over 150 board games.
Curriculum Vitae
Publications and Presentations
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Research and Scholarship
Research and Scholarship Interests
- Behavioral Information Security
- Security Threats and Responses
- Affective Computing
- Normalization
- Self-determination
- Deception
Current Research Projects
- Behavioral Information Security
- Security Threats and Responses
- Affective Computing
- Normalization
- Self-determination
- Deception
Awards and Honors
- 2023 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Teaching Achievement, Creighton Students Union, 2023
- Undergraduate Faculty Member of the Year (2021-2022), Heider College of Business & Heider Business Senate , 2022
- Cahill Award of Excellence (2021-2022), Heider College of Business, 2022
- Creighton Atta Billy Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2021-2022), Heider College of Business, 2022
- Creighton Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year (2021-2022), Beta Gamma Sigma, 2022
- Nominated for 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Award Memorial Award for Teaching Achievement, Creighton Students Union, 2021
- Creighton Atta Billy Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2020-2021), Heider College of Business, 2021
- Website Development, 2020
- Graduate Business Faculty Member of the Year (2018-2019), Heider College of Business, 2019
- Creighton Atta Billy Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2018-2019), Heider College of Business, 2019
- Cahill Award of Excellence (2018-2019), Heider College of Business, 2019
- Highlight at the AACSB’s Innovations that Inspire Challenge, AACSB, 2019
- Nomination for the AACSB’s Innovations That Inspire Challenge, Heider College of Business, 2018
- Creighton Atta Billy Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2017-2018), Heider College of Business, 2018
- Cahill Award of Excellence (2017-2018), Heider College of Business, 2018
- Nominated for Faculty Member of the Year (2017-2018), Heider College of Business & Heider Business Senate , 2018
- Lexis of Omaha Faculty Member of the Game, Student Athlete, 2018
- Nominated for Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year (2016-2017), Beta Gamma Sigma, 2017
- Nominated for Undergraduate Faculty Member of the Year (2016-2017), Heider College of Business & Heider Business Senate , 2017
- Nominated for Undergraduate Faculty Member of the Year (2015-2016), Heider College of Business & Heider Business Senate , 2016
- Undergraduate Faculty Member of the Year (2014-2015), Heider College of Business & Heider Business Senate, 2015
- Scholarship for Service, CyberCorps, 2013
- Nominated for Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper, NSA, 2013