Art Thomas

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ART THOMAS

Art is the Executive Director, Office of Microcredentials, College of Professional Studies, Syracuse University (SU). He started teaching at SU in 2001, becoming a full-time Professor of Practice in 2009. A specialist in Project Management, Art co-authored the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) Official Cert Guide, published by Pearson Education in 2023, and he directs the Project Management degree programs at the College.Since 2012, Art has directed the iConsult Collaborative at Syracuse University, an experiential learning program where university students are engaged with client organizations in a diverse portfolio of information-related projects. The Collaborative is featured as one of eleven global case studies in the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education Analytical Report on Community-Based Learning in Higher Education (2025). Prior to his current role, Art had been the Associate Dean for Career Services and Experiential Learning at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (the iSchool), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the Director of the Master’s Degree programs in Information Management (IM) and Telecommunications and Network Management (TNM), all at the iSchool. From 20••••13, he was also the Director of the Upstate Health Research Network, a consortium of universities that established statistical methods for nationwide out-of-network health insurance reimbursement benchmarks. Before 2010, Art served on the SU/J.P. Morgan Partnership Curriculum Project Team.Positions on the IT side of his multifaceted career have ranged from Programmer to Chief Information Officer, and on the Education side, from Trainer to Chief Learning Officer. With over three decades of added consulting experience in Manufacturing, Finance, Education and Government, his contracts have taken him from the USA to Europe and the Middle East, where he led two projects for the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman. As CEO of IT Consultancy Counterpoint Holdings, L.L.C, he also assisted more than 20 public school districts with strategic IT transformation throughout Central New York State. A lifelong advocate for accessibility, he is Chair of the Board of Directors of Gliding Stars, a charity operating in upstate New York that provides differently-abled people of all ages recreational opportunities through lessons in adaptive ice skating.Specialties: Executive Ed, Project Management, IT Management, Network Infrastructure, Instructional Design, Curriculum Management, Training, Microcredentials