Dr. Heinze earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University and has taught at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level at institutions including SPC, California State University, Chico, Florida Atlantic University, and University of Tampa. He has a Bachelor of Science in Instructional Technology and an MBA in Management Information Systems from CSU, Chico.

Dr. Heinze has nearly 30 years of experience in industry as an instructional designer, learning consultant, corporate trainer, and web/graphic designer (Oracle, Simon & Schuster, Pittard Sullivan, NBC, TNT, etc.), including employment at TCT Technical Training, Agilent Technologies, and Ameriquest Mortgage. In 1999, he founded Design Salad with Siri co-creator Darren Haas.

Dr. Heinze has also worked in TV show development and pre-production, including writing dozens of episodes for Disney (including the international smash comedy Eena Meena Deeka), Nickelodeon, Cosmos-Maya, Omens Studios, and the NBA. Other pursuits include music production (releases on Sony, EMI-Parlophone, DJ International, Eternal Sunday, etc.), book and magazine illustration (Applewood Books, Arcadia Publishing, York Publishing, Videomaker Magazine, etc.) and three comic strips at The Orion, multiple winner of the National College Newspaper of the Year Award.

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Dr. Heinze teaches the CCIT Capstone course along with data science and cloud technologies courses. He was instrumental in creating the framework for the Cloud Technologies AS Degree Program used by Florida's State College System and developed SPC's BAS Data Science sub-plan.

His research interests include e-commerce, sustainability, and data analytics. His 2009 paper in the European Journal of Information Systems, "Why college graduates choose IT: a multi-theoretical perspective," is one of the seminal pieces on the topic and has been cited in the top journals in the world, including ISR and MISQ.