Dr. Heinze earned his PhD at Florida Atlantic University and his MBA and Bachelor's Degree at California State University, Chico. He has been teaching business and IT courses for over 20 years and developed SPC's upper division data science subplan and the State of Florida's State College curriculum guideline for cloud technologies. In addition to his years of teaching, he worked as an instructional designer for Silicon Valley’s TCT Technical Training where he received Designer of the Quarter and Employee of the Quarter awards; after that, he worked as a corporate trainer and project manager for Ameriquest Mortgage, running training projects for the corporate intranet, Lotus Notes, and a contact management system. He later worked for Agilent Technologies as a remote contractor creating web-based training modules. Dr. Heinze has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, and writer (cartoons and music) with clients and distributors including Disney, Nickelodeon, NBC, TNT, Simon & Schuster, Oracle, The NBA, Parlophone, Sony Music, Decibel Records, and more. In 1999 he founded a web design business with Siri co-founder Darren Haas. His 2009 European Journal of Information Systems publication "Why college undergraduates choose IT: a multi-theoretical Perspective" is one of the seminal pieces on IT career choice and was nominated for Paper of the Year at PACIS.