Dr. Ortinau is nationally and internationally recognized as an expert in continuous improvement practices, product/service quality, and customer satisfaction.
TAMPA, FL, April 05, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present David Joseph Ortinau, Ph.D., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Ortinau celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Professor emeritus of marketing at the University of South Florida (USF), Dr. Ortinau first began teaching at the university as an assistant professor in 1979. Reaching full professor status in 1995, he taught and mentored upper-level undergraduates in marketing and research and consumer behavior courses, as well as students in the marketing Ph.D. program. Prior to joining the faculty at USF, Dr. Ortinau taught at Louisiana State University and Illinois State University, beginning in 1973.
Dr. Ortinau is nationally and internationally recognized as an expert in continuous improvement practices, product/service quality, and customer satisfaction who was most recently responsible for investigating the "elusive concept of quality," which is the development of a scale measurement for quality and retail store positioning strategies. Other research interests have included attitude formations and perceptual differences within a services marketing framework, new feasible theoretical approaches of studying consumers' satisfaction and quality levels toward specific product/service categories, and behavioral investigations into students' choice and satisfaction levels of educational services, among other topics. His research has resulted in his authoring and co-authoring of dozens of peer-reviewed articles in such publications as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS), the Journal of Retailing (JR), the Journal of Business Research (JBR), and the Journal of Services Marketing (JSM) and others, and has also served on various editorial boards for a number of these journals. Furthermore, he has contributed to nearly a dozen textbooks, including "Marketing Research Essentials" and "Marketing Research: Within a Changing Information Environment."
Since 1979, Dr. Ortinau has made more than 225 presentations at professional academic meetings, including at Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) conferences, Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) conferences, American Marketing Association (AMA) conferences, and AMS-World Marketing Congresses, as well as many more at non-academic meetings. He has been involved as a chairman, panel member, and reviewer/judge for multiple conferences and has long been involved with many non-paid and paid consulting and partnership activities over the past near 40 years for various organizations and businesses.
A longstanding member of the AMS, the AMA, the SMA, and the Association for Consumer Research, among others, Dr. Ortinau has been honored countless times for his work. He most recently received the Harold W. Berkman Distinguished AMS Service Award in 2016 and the Outstanding Top 5% Editorial Reviewer Award for JAMS in 2016. Recognized with approximately 10 Outstanding Teaching Awards during his tenure in academia, Dr. Ortinau received $3,000 in grant money for 2017-2018 from the AMS/Harold & Muriel Berkman Charitable Foundation, Inc., to research "Data Fraud Behaviors within Conducting Marketing and Academic Research and the Consequential Impact on Data Quality and Creating Information and Managerial Strategies."
Dr. Ortinau holds a Bachelor of Science in management from Southern Illinois University, a Master of Science in business administration from Illinois State University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in marketing from Louisiana State University. Fully enjoying his retirement, he loves to play golf, work in his garden and read. He has been highlighted in over 40 editions of Who's Who, including Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's Who in Media and Communication.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, David Joseph Ortinau, Ph.D., has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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